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Jan.21.2011
FADE IN: When I saw this week's Red Room Topic: "My Favorite Movie From A Book..." I just had to write about my ongoing love affair with books into film and adaptations; this is a theme that resonates with me. To say that I am continually inspired and influenced, and sometimes...
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Jul.22.2009
I am featured in this month's issue of Mystery Readers International. The article focuses on Los Angeles Mysteries. Check it out at:
http://www.mysteryreaders.org/Issues/Losangeles1.html
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Oct.25.2008
I am please to announce that actor Michael Madsen will play the lead character, James DeRossa, from my mystery novel Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse. I'm in discussions with studios at this time and rewriting the original script.
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Aug.24.2008
Remember the Stanley Kramer classic: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Spencer Tracy and all those crazy motorist chasing the Smiler's money buried under the "Big W?" Well, it's still a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World... I came across a recent article by the Associated Press that read: Buried Loot...
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Aug.13.2008
An excellent mystery novel for fans of the genre
The natural jump from undertaking to crime? "Deathryde: Rebel without a Corpse" is a gripping mystery about James DeRossa, who leaves his father's funeral home business to embark on a scam that could net him upwards of twenty-five...
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Jul.10.2008
If you have a taste for slambang satire that plays games with the names of dead celebrities from James Dean to Barbara Stanwyck and a hearse driver with the marvelous name of Coffin Joe, Michael P. Naughton's Deathryde: Rebel without a Corpse (Gilded Hearse Press, $12.95, 183 pages), is your kind...
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Jul.05.2008
In Stephen King’s book, On Writing – A Memoir of the Craft, he talks about filtering out distractions and creating your own universe while writing. King said he likes to work to loud music -- hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns ‘n Roses and Metallica and how music is another way of “shutting the door...
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May.18.2008
Question: You said you wrote this story originally as a script before HBO’s Six Feet Under and pitched the idea around Hollywood. Explain what happened and why you shelved the story?
Michael P. Naughton: Call it Jungian synchronicity, collective unconsciousness or just plain old coincidence— or...
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"The trick to good writing is to keep Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story." M. Naughton”
—myself... it's original
About Michael
I was born in Detroit, that's how I first got hooked on Elmore Leonard. I am also a professional musician and screenwriter. I had done corporate sales and author events for years at Borders and went on to publish actor Michael Madsen's poetry and photography...
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