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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am a versatile, reliable author, editor, and journalist who specializes in pop culture, media, and entertainment news. I also work with publishers, agents, authors, and experts from many fields as a ghostwriter, book doctor, collaborator, and editor. While pop culture is my forte as a solo writer, I cover a wide range of genres as a collaborator, including memoirs, biography, history, politics, business, leadership and achievement, investigative journalism, self-help and personal growth.
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- www.edrobertson.com
www.doctorrerun.com
www.tvconfidential.net
- About Me:
- I’ve had six books published, including two books on the career of actor James Garner and a behind-the-scenes history of The Fugitive. I also write for The Wave Magazine, Media Life Magazine and other media venues. In addition, I co-host TV Confidential, a bi-weekly radio program that takes listeners behind the scenes of television and the entertainment industry in general.
I have also collaborated on a number of books, including Voice of Reason by National Radio Hall of Fame nominee Ronn Owens; The Ethics of Star Trek, which I co-authored with Indiana State University professor Judith Barad; and KEEP ON KEEPING ON, a memoir that I co-wrote with Jean Davis. In addition, my work appears in such titles as the New York Times bestselling anthology Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul.
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- http://edsweb.wordpress.com, blog.tvconfidential.net
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"The Simpsons" Turn 20
I had the pleasure of speaking with E! Online correspondent Joal Ryan for a piece she wrote on Sunday’s season premiere of The Simpsons. The episode launches the show’s 20th season on television, matching Gunsmoke as the longest running prime time series in American TV history. Click here to read the story:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b31233__lt_i_gt_The_Simpsons_lt__i_gt__Get_Into_Dodge_.html
Ed Robertson
Freelance Entertainment Journalist
Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
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Ed Robertson
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Co-Host, TV CONFIDENTIAL
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Posted on September 26, 2008 at 9:00pm —
Books currently on my nightstand
I write a lot of nonfiction, so I tend to read a lot of nonfiction — and since I do a radio program on television, many of the books I read these days are ones written by my guests, in preparation for the show. Among the books currently on my nightstand are:
Pete Duel: A Biography
Best known for playing Hannibal Heyes on the 1970s Western series Alias Smith and Jones, Pete Duel was a talented but troubled young actor who took his life at the height of his celebrity. What makes this book stand a… Continue
Pete Duel: A Biography
Best known for playing Hannibal Heyes on the 1970s Western series Alias Smith and Jones, Pete Duel was a talented but troubled young actor who took his life at the height of his celebrity. What makes this book stand a… Continue
Posted on September 13, 2008 at 12:30pm —
2008 Fall TV preview
Less is more on TV this season, at least when it comes to new shows. That’s because most of the shows starting up this fall really aren’t “new” at all.
There are only 18 bona fide “new” scripted series premiering this year (last year, there were almost 30). Some aren’t so much new as they are adaptations of popular overseas shows (the networks call this “reimagining”). The NBC sitcom Kath & Kim, based on an Australian comedy of the same name, falls in this category, as do Eleventh Hour and… Continue
There are only 18 bona fide “new” scripted series premiering this year (last year, there were almost 30). Some aren’t so much new as they are adaptations of popular overseas shows (the networks call this “reimagining”). The NBC sitcom Kath & Kim, based on an Australian comedy of the same name, falls in this category, as do Eleventh Hour and… Continue
Posted on August 29, 2008 at 12:30pm —
Brian Copeland stands his ground in "Not a Genuine Black Man"
Brian Copeland is one of the top voices on KGO radio, but he also knows his television. When he first developed Not a Genuine Black Man—his riveting one-man show about growing up black in San Leandro in the early 1970s, at a time when the East Bay suburb was notoriously 99.9 percent white and determined to keep it that way—he set out to capture the style of All in the Family, Good Times, Maude and other groundbreaking comedies produced by Norman Lear, where the audience finds themselves laughing… Continue
Posted on August 15, 2008 at 12:30pm —
Remembering George Carlin on Share-a-Vision Radio
In case you missed it, we paid tribute to the late George Carlin during the July 10 edition of Talking Television on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org. Besides playing a brief clip in which Carlin performed his classic routine on the differences between football and baseball, we discussed his skillful use of the English language, his biting commentaries on American culture, and… Continue
Posted on July 20, 2008 at 4:29pm —
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. I am writing because my debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available, and I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your comments on some of the book review sites like amazon.com. If you're interested, I'd be glad to send you an e-book version of the book. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
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When I'm not at work I'm going to have to check out your page. Thanks for the add yourself, and enjoy your week.
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