Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Write what you know. That shopworn idiom has served many an author well, launching the prolific careers of modern-day novelists such as John Grisham, who pivoted from law and legislature to pen The Firm, and Agatha Christie, who grew up hooked on Sherlock Holmes, and whose 78 crime novels […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Ciaran Byrne has travelled a great distance from the Northern Ireland of his childhood to New York City, where he lives today, but that doesn’t mean the builder-turned-actor has forgotten his homeland, or dismissed the tanks and guns and bloodshed as a dreamlike series of unfortunate events, or chalked […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | The creative team at Mailer Tuchman Media is on a roll. Fresh off the success of its 2020 psychological thriller DieRy, starring the resplendent Claudia Maree Mailer as social media influencer Marie Clark, MTM continues tapping into the post-Millennial zeitgeist with a series of projects that are at once […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | In 1965, Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) stepped into Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria and fell in love in The Sound of Music. Fifty-five years later, Garrett Marcantel and two others hope to do the same in 12 Dates of Christmas, streaming now on HBO Max. Marcantel, who is […]

Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Lauren Swickard just saved Christmas. In a year that has seen Broadway shuttered, Wimbledon cancelled, and the Tokyo Olympics postponed, the last thing any of us needed was a Christmas season without fresh, high-quality, feel-good Christmas content to consume. Swickard, the multihyphenate powerhouse behind A California Christmas, has delivered […]