Pretty much everything, except country or classical.
Movies
The Shawshank Redemption, As Good As It Gets, Wonder Boys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and many, many more, including anything with Al Pacino. I have a collection of 1400 or so.
Television
Weeds, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, CSI, ER, Law and Order (All three), and a lot of old shows like Quincy, Columbo, Cannon, Everwood, Roseanne, Home Improvement, Maude, The Golden Girls, All In The Family, Freaks and Geeks, Cannon, and Remington Steele.
Books
Too many to list. Anything by John Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Robin Cook, and Dan Brown (Just to name a few).
I've written the first and second novels in my Trevor Samuels Mystery series.
"The Back of My Mind" is the first novel in the series. Trevor Samuels, an investigator with fifteen years experience, is commissioned to investigate three arson losses. After numerous leads fail to generate any suspects, he suddenly gets a break in the form of fifteen-year-old Goth boy named Jesse. Jesse is heavily involved in the contraband cigarette market and he exposes Trevor to this seedy underworld. While trying to determine if the arsons are related to the contraband cigarette market, Trevor uncovers greed, murder and corruption among the people he respects most. Join Trevor as he investigates the most difficult case of his career, a case that will either make his career or haunt him for the remainder of his life.
A second publisher has contacted me about publishing "The Back of My Mind," and I am awaiting there terms prior to deciding which publisher I will sign with. The novel should be published in October 2008.
I just finished writing "PAIN," the second Trevor Samuels Mystery. Warren Pyke and Martin Michaels have a plan that can't fail, or so they think. People claim fake injuries as a result of staged car accidents all the time, so why shouldn't they get their piece? Enter Trevor Samuels, a veteran detective hired to investigate their claims. Trevor thinks it's a routine "get rich quick" scheme...until things get complicated. When a chop shop and a couple of car thieves get involved, Trevor quickly discovers that things are not as they appear, and if he doesn't act quickly, he too will enter a world of PAIN!
"PAIN" should be published shortly after "The Back of My Mind."
My novels are unique in that reader participation is encouraged! A question is asked at the end of each novel, and it's up to you, the reader, to decide whether or not a character or team of characters make it into subsequent novels in the series. I intended on incorporating the winning vote from "The Back of My Mind" in the second novel, but the second novel may be published shortly after the first.
To solve this problem, I've decided to incorporate the winning vote resulting from "The Back of My Mind" reader participation section into volume three of the series (which has yet to be written). The most popular vote from the reader participation section of "PAIN" will be written into the fourth volume.
Please see the reader participation section on my website (www.geocities.com/samuelstrevor/index) for full details.
The first few chapters of both novels are also on the site.
Please feel free to leave me a comment, they are appreciated!
Who I'd like to meet: Authors, readers, literary agents, screenplay writers, producers. Basically any and all junkies for the printed word.
Waiting for the proof of your first novel? What a thrill! When mine (finally) arrived, my hands were shaking so hard from excitement I had trouble turning the pages.
Hey There! How was your summer. I can’t believe it’s September can you? What’s new and exciting in your neck of the woods? Wishing you a prosperous fall. Talk to you soon.
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