Category Archives: Continuum Books

New Paula Peril Flick Crystalizes on the Web

March 25th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing,

As mentioned a few weeks ago, the latest fan film-inspired opus from Atlantis Studios, Paula Peril and the Mystery of the Crystal Falcon, hit the web last week. What does “fan film-inspired” mean? Well, comic book creator James Watson was looking for a new way to publicize his character when realized that fan filmmakers were [...]

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Fan Cinema Today live TODAY on WBAI

March 20th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Writing, , science fiction

Hey, I’ll be appearing this afternoon at 2PM on New York’s WBAI-NY / 99.5 FM. The show is “NonFiction,” hosted by Harry Allen, The Media Assassin. If you don’t live in range of WBAI, you can listen through their web site at www.wbai.org, and they also archive shows for 90 days at http://archive.wbai.org/allshows.php. function change_color(input, [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Gets A High Five From SciFi

March 9th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Contest, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Sci-Fi Channel, Watchmen, Writing

SciFi Channel is fun to watch, but I’ve always been partial to their magazine, the imaginitively titled SciFi Magazine: The Official Magazine of The SciFi Channel. Like many publications based primarily around movies and TV, it follows what’s hot at the moment, but it nonetheless keeps the fan’s point-of-view in mind, and always calls- a [...]

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Homemade Hollywood is Up for a Rondo Award!

February 18th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Contest, Continuum Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Publishing, Review, TV, Writing

Homemade Hollywood, my tome on the history of fan films, has been nominated for a Rondo Award for “Best Book of 2008!” There is a lot of intriguing stuff nominated this year, and to be honest, I don’t expect to win, but I’ll still give it try. If you enjoyed the book, please take a [...]

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Fan Film Podcast, Spout.Com Turn Tables on Clive

January 14th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Superheroes, Writing

I’ve interviewed plenty of people here on Fan Cinema Today about their fan films, even more of them for my fan film book, Homemade Hollywood, and heck, I also interview folks for my day job. So it was a weird—and fun—experience to be on the other side o’ the mic for once (or twice!) when [...]

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Give (Or Get) Homemade Hollywood For Xmas

December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Star Wars, Superheroes, Writing

So I wrote this book, right? The one I’ve been plugging on my blog forever, Homemade Hollywood. It’s available online, but the tome is rolling into stores slowly. Borders may have copies (click here to check availability at your local store), and Barnes & Noble is putting it on shelves the week after Christmas, around [...]

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Homemade Hollywood FINALLY on Amazon!!!

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, TV, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing,

It’s taken forever, but my book about fan films, Homemade Hollywood, is finally on Amazon for real!! There was a place-holder page on there forever–well, NO MORE. The book is FINALLY available on Amazon—and it’s $13 and change, not $85 as noted elsewhere. What a freakin’ relief. For those who aren’t familiar with it, here’s [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Birth Announcement

November 21st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing

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FCT Hosts Fan Films, Debuts Homemade Hollywood Book at New England Fan Experience This Weekend!

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Star Wars, Superheroes

I’ve been doing a lot of roadtrips recently to promote my new book, Homemade Hollywood, and this weekend ain’t no exception. I’ll be hosting not one but two programs about fan films at the New England Fan Experience, a pretty wild convention in Cambridge, MA that starts today and runs through Sunday. I’ll also finally [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Ready To Roll!

November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing

Remember that little book I’ve mentioned only about a billion times? Perhaps you recall how I kept saying it was coming out, month after month…and then it didn’t? Well, the latest news from my publisher, Continuum, is that Homemade Hollywood rolls off the presses on November 14! From there, it gets shipped out to book [...]

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