The work goes on. Getting the script book out in the fall was the plan, but it has stubbornly managed to not be complete. Oh well, monthly updates will happen here until it’s all done and I can provide a definite release date.
Been working a lot on one section in particular, and it will be a big step toward being done when that part is completed. I’ll be back in December, and let’s close this post with a great live performance by Rush of one of their best songs:
Surfacing just briefly to say that I’m plugging away at the script book right now … will have more to say on that next month.
Meanwhile, courtesy of Talk Talk, here’s some advice that never fades:
Since we’re already going into February June, here’s an update. I’m working, and shall be for a while, on the Phil Tucker script book (which is on for this fall). I’ll surface and have more to say about that in a couple months. Stay tuned …
During this now closing year of 2023, I’ve had the honor of writing blog pieces for Film Masters. This is a recently formed company that is getting some great classic monster releases out there on Blu Ray. I can’t think of a better way to close out the year here and look forward to 2024 than by mentioning them, and here’s a piece I wrote for their blog about Christmas ghost movies.
Everything intended for 2023 is shifting into this impending year of 2024. Expect some updates on the Phil Tucker script book along the way to a publication later in the year. And new fiction projects are on the way. Will be back in February … best wishes to all for a wonderful New Year!
And I’ve been absent from here for a while. Probably my longest absence, in fact. Been having a year of what expert writer Dean Wesley Smith calls “life rolls,” and the old schedule has been thrown seriously out of alignment. Some bloggers have streaks, and lately my blogging streak has been absences.
Anyway, onward …
These three posts will be it for this year. A lot of stuff going on behind the scenes, and I’ll be back in January. And, specifically:
Stay tuned …
In July of last year I announced the upcoming print debut of the script from Phil Tucker’s lost film Space Jockey. Intended for this fall, the project hasn’t moved along as quickly as intended, so this is the inevitable production delay. But this time next year is now the projected release date and there will be more to share along the way.
See you in 2022, and stay tuned …
Been away too long as is often the case, but back with my third novel Attack Therapy, which is also the third part of my ongoing Maize Noir crime fiction series.
A lot of writing stuff is on the way for 2021, including at least two more novels and of course, the script book for Phil Tucker’s Space Jockey later this year.
For now, here’s the Attack Therapy cover and a little sample. Back with more writing stuff in February …
“I’ll put my money where my mouth is,” Val whispered. He switched on a tiny flashlight and kept it focused, barely angled forward on the floor.
His lithe form traveled invisibly past Tim’s chair and one side of Marcus, extinguishing the light as soon as he reached the door.
He put one hand gently on the lever and silently turned it. Then, almost embracing the door to keep it steady, he slowly leaned it open and stepped outside.
Tim felt a cool rush of air flow inwards, knowing well the stuffiness of his own office and then relief at the change in pressure.
It only lasted a second, long enough for Marcus to see the pale light outside frame Val in the doorway as a tall shadow grabbed him and pulled him down, slamming the door shut again.
Copyright 2020 Anders Runestad
It is my privilege and my pleasure to make a huge announcement.
The script for Phil Tucker’s lost film Space Jockey has been discovered, thanks to a copy of it kept by an original cast member. The film remains lost to the best of my knowledge, but Tucker’s script for his lost film has surfaced.
In September 2019, I was contacted by Tok Thompson, professor of Anthropology and Communication at the University of Southern California. Tok’s mother Donnis Stark Thompson, recently departed, had lived a full and fascinating life that included an early stint as an actress. And when Phil Tucker shot the lost film in Fairbanks, Alaska during the late summer of 1953, she was part of the cast. Years later among his mother’s belongings, Tok’s family discovered her copy of the Space Jockey script. Contacting film journalist Phil Hall, Tok was advised to contact me about the script because of my Phil Tucker book I Cannot, Yet I Must.
Thanks to Tok graciously sharing the script, I’ve been able to read it and, thanks to the copyright research of Elias Savada, it’s been confirmed that Tucker’s script was never copyrighted or renewed. As the script is public domain, I am pleased to say that it will be published in the year 2021. Also, there are hopes of performing it in some manner.
As this project is in development and ongoing, I’ll have more to post as the year keeps rolling on, with a publication date to be narrowed down and announced later. I hope that everyone out there who is a fan of Robot Monster, Phil Tucker’s movies, and cult cinema in general is as excited about this project as I am, and I look forward to you being able to experience this lost original script by Phil Tucker.
Stay tuned!
This is my second suspense novel, with the third coming soon. Enjoy an excerpt below, and click here to get the rest:
Every inch of glass from the rear panel was obliterated into a not very fine powder coating.
He shook as he turned around, desperate for any hint of where the blast came from.
There was another squeal and the rumble of acceleration.
And Brad had no time to fear or to even think.
