So, I changed course, got a book on scriptwriting and some teleplays and started studying writing for TV and the screen. I was helping out at a magazine and asked someone there ‘what kind of writing pays really well?’ The person told me TV writing. I made money, but not what I was looking for. I had visions of a big payday, of making a fabulous living as a novelist. I wrote the horror novel, Child’s Play while I was still in grad school, and was lucky enough to sell it right after I graduated. In college, I wrote magazine short fiction and articles, but I’d always wanted to be a novelist/playwright. Can you tell us how that happened?Īctually, I didn’t start out as a screenwriter, but screen and TV is the writing in my career I am most known for. But you’ve done just the opposite and moved from writing for movies and TV to being a novelist. I’ve heard some aspiring screenwriters say that writing a novel is a great foot in the door for becoming a screenwriter.
Van Lowe today as he discusses his life and his writing.ġ. There’s a lot of great stuff there for readers, but especially for other writers.) Check it out, and then take my advice and check out his terrific blog, and sign-up for his newsletters. (NOTE: I don’t often-okay, ever- do this, but I’m printing his expanded bio below the review. Top that with great writing in a genre I aspire to, and genuinely engaging presence, and that brings us to today’s post. Van Lowe’s list of accomplishments is stunning enough. But what They never mentioned was that I’d get to meet an incredible, exciting, mind-messing group of people I’d never have a chance to encounter any other way. I started this blog because They said I’d need it if I wanted to be a writer. Episiotomies.)īut every once in a while, the things They don’t tell you are actually the best ones.
This actually won’t hurt me more than it hurts you. With the exception of a few Scottish boys who have the legs for it, plaid is almost always a bad choice. (Nobody in the history of the world ever actually cut off the bottom of that ugly bridesmaid dress and wore it to parties later.
One of the things I’ve noticed about life is that there are a lot of things They don’t tell you. His Best Selling novels, “Boyfriend From Hell,” “Earth Angel,” “Heaven Sent,” and “Falling” are the four books in the Falling Angels Saga.Į lives in Beverly Hills California with his spouse, a werewolf, several zombies and a fairy godmother who grants him wishes from time-to-time. His first YA Paranormal novel, “Never Slow Dance With A Zombie,” was a selection of The Scholastic Book Club, and a nominee for an American Library Association Award. Van Lowe is an author, television writer/producer who has worked on such TV shows as “The Cosby Show,” “Even Stevens,” and “Homeboys In Outer Space.” He has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Academy Award.
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