This is an excerpt from my e-book How to Come Up With All Those Words: A Practical Guide to Writing a Successful Nonfiction Book, from Conception to Publication. My mom likes to brag about me to her friends, as moms do. She recently recommended one of my books to a...
This is an excerpt from my e-book How to Come Up With All Those Words: A Practical Guide to Writing a Successful Nonfiction Book, from Conception to Publication. My mom likes to brag about me to her friends, as moms do. She recently recommended one of my books to a new friend. After the friend finished reading the book, she asked my mom, incredulously, “How does she come up with all of those words?” I take this as the highest of compliments. To be honest, sometimes I haven’t been sure how I...
The writers and producers of Seinfeld knew they'd reached a turning point in the show when they made "The Junior Mint," the 20th episode of season 4. They'd gone from a show no one watched to a show everyone watched in earlier seasons; with "The Junior Mint," they had...
If you're interested in a career as an author, you'll hear a lot of advice like, "Getting published isn't the point," or, "Don't chase market trends just to make money." Those are totally true ... sort-of. I do believe you have to be passionate about the book you're...
I'm blogging the best episodes of the shows I've written books about—The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld—since they're both available in their entirety for streaming on Hulu. Seinfeld is a surprisingly slow starter that doesn't hit its stride until the brilliant,...
Now that you can watch all of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Hulu, I'll occasionally be sharing some of my favorites here, in case you want to skip around to some of the highlights or want a prompt for a rewatch. If you do watch on Hulu, you're likely to start at the...
I'm thrilled to announce that my next book (after Pop Star Goddesses) will be When Women Invented Television, a narrative history of the pivotal early days of TV when women reigned for a brief, shining few years. Here's the official deal announcement from Harper...
The New Jersey Devils will give away Puddy bobbleheads to the first 9,000 fans who come to the February 19 game. It's part of a 1990s theme night, so there's a slightly better chance of fans of a certain age showing up and getting the Seinfeld joke about Elaine's...
For my next project, I'm taking a break from my usual TV history to indulge a passion of mine: female pop stars and their otherworldly qualities. Pop Star Goddesses will be, according to the official announcement, "an illustrated guide to calling upon the power of...
First we got a Stella Artois Super Bowl ad featuring Sarah Jessica Parker in the role of Carrie Bradshaw, eschewing her signature Cosmopolitan to order the beer instead. (Cue the fan fic shipping Carrie Bradshaw and The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Hey, he's not that...
A book brought my dad back from the dead, to tell me things he never could have told me while alive. Here is what happened. While touring for my book Seinfeldia, I appeared at the Broward Public Library Foundation’s annual Literary Feast fundraiser, which features a...
First there was Wale, now there's Grindfeld. Ten years after rapper Wale dropped the Seinfeld-themed Mixtape About Nothing, a metal band called Grindfeld is releasing its 5 Songs About Nothing EP. The first single, "The Contest," is out now.