Work in progress:

My next books are Triangulation and Stinger.

Books 4 and 5 in The Breaker series.

Set in the year 2001, the story continues from Mall Maze.

Themes:

Crime, detective, hardboiled, heist, murder, narcissism, narcissistic abuse, neo-noir, psychopath, sociopath, thriller, vigilante.

 

A percentage from book sales is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

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The Breaker is an on-going series.

I’m outlining other stand-alone thriller novels.

Several coffee table books on my photography and my wife’s artwork.

A humorous book, based on the antics of our crazy pet Ragdoll cat, entitled: It’s That F****** Cat Again!

Here’s a GIF I made of our cat, settling down for another of his daily naps:

On this day in movie history - Honeyland (2019):

Honeyland

a documentary directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov,

written by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov,

was released at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States on January 28, 2019.
Music by Foltin.

Cast:

Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam, Mustafa Sam, Muzafer Sam, Veli Sam, Ali Sam, Alit Sam, Gamze Sam, Ljutvish Sam, Safet Javorovac.

On this day in television history - Justified (2014):

Justified

Season 5. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Over the Mountain.

Released January 28, 2014.

Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, James Le Gros, Edi Gathegi, David Meunier, Sam Anderson, A.J. Buckley, Rick Gomez, Shashawnee Hall, Damon Herriman, Jacob Lofland, Will Sasso, Amy Smart, Danny Strong, Karolina Wydra, Mickey Jones, William Gregory Lee, Justin Welborn, Mandy Levin, Max Rose, Arriane Alexander, Aubrey Wood, Laura Niemi, Lisa Pevc.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2005)

Star Trek: Discovery (2018)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 2. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Unnatural Selection.

Released January 28, 1989.

Directed by Paul Lynch.

Written by John Mason, Mike Gray, Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Diana Muldaur, Patricia Smith, Colm Meaney, J. Patrick McNamara, Scott Trost, Majel Barrett, George Baxter-Holder, James G. Becker, Michael Braveheart, Cibby Danyla, Larry Guthrie, Nora Leonhardt, Scott Leva, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Ronald Merritt, Lydia Nielsen.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 4. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Babel One.

Released January 28, 2005.

Directed by David Straiton.

Written by Michael/Mike Sussman, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jeffrey Combs, Lee Arenberg, Molly Brink, J. Michael Flynn, Brian Thompson, Kevin Brief, Jermaine Soto, Alexandrea Ortiz, Geneviere Anderson, Solomon Burke Jr., Nathan Effron, Yuri Elvin, Glen Hambly, John Jurgens, Kim Robert Koscki, Andrew Macbeth, James McElroy, Dorenda Moore, Melissa O'Keeffe, Guy Richardson, Pablo Soriano, Ator Tamras, Chris Torres, Wanda Ray Willis.

Star Trek: Discovery

Season 1. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: What’s Past Is Prologue.

Released January 28, 2018.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Ted Sullivan, Bo Yeon Kim, Erika Lippoldt, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Yeoh, Rekha Sharma, Emily Coutts, Jeremy Crittenden, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Sara Mitich, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julie St-Louis.

On this day in movie history - The Unfaithful (1947):

The Unfaithful

directed by Vincent Sherman,

written by David Goodis and James Gunn,

based on the 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham,

was released in the United States on January 28, 1947.
Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:

Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jerome Cowan, Steven Geray, John Hoyt, Peggy Knudsen, Marta Mitrovich, Douglas Kennedy, Claire Meade, Frances Morris, Jane Harker, Heinie Conklin, Jack Mower, Leo White.

On this day in movie history - Phantom Lady (1944 movie & novel):

Phantom Lady

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld,

based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on January 28, 1944.
Music by Hans J. Salter.

Cast:

Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm, Elisha Cook, Jr., Andrew Tombes, Regis Toomey, Joseph Crehan, Doris Lloyd, Virginia Brissac, Milburn Stone.

Recommended reading:

Phantom Lady

By Cornell Woolrich.

Published by Renaissance Literary & Talent.
First published 1942.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1950369781
ISBN-13: 978-1950369782

Description:

Phantom lady, I was with you for six hours last night, but I can't remember what you look like, or what you wore—except for that large orange hat. We sat shoulder to shoulder at a little bar in the east Fifties. We ate dinner together, saw a Broadway show together, shared a cab together.

The bartender, the waiter, the usher, the cab driver—none of them remembers you. The police say I was home strangling my wife at the moment I met you.

You are the only one who can prove my story—but I don't know your name, or where you live. And I can't search for you from a jail cell....

After spending a night on the town with a mysterious woman, a man arrives home to find his wife strangled to death. Now, the only way to prove his innocence and confirm his alibi is to track down the "Phantom Lady" he was with all night.

“Cornell Woolrich deserves to be discovered and rediscovered by each generation." – Ray Bradbury.

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "Pulp-Fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full-length novels. One of his most famous stories is It Had to be Murder which was adapted into the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954. Check out the countless other Woolrich Novels, Novellas and Short Stories, also available as EBooks, from the Estate of Cornell Woolrich and Renaissance Literary & Talent!

Born on this day – Susan Buckner:

Susan Buckner

Actress

January 28, 1952 – May 2, 2024

Credits:

1 vs. 100 (2007); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Behind Closed Doors (2018); Behind the Music (2001); Bobby Vinton's Rock 'n Rollers (1978); Deadly Blessing (1981); Grease (1978); Grease 20th Anniversary Re-Release Party (1998); Grease Day USA (1978); Hollywood and Beyond with Steven Brittingham (2021); Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989); Police Woman (1976); Return Engagement (1978); Secrets Revealed: An Interiew with Susan Buckner (2013); Starsky and Hutch (1978); Switch (1977); The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976–1977); The Dean Martin Show (1973); The First Nudie Musical (1976); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977–1978); The Love Boat (1979); VH-1 Where Are They Now? (2002); When the Whistle Blows (1980).