Scott D. Parker: Storyteller

What do you think about book descriptions? When someone asks us what our book is about, some of us are hamstrung. Having lived with the book...

When you're a writer, you always notice structure in a story, no matter the medium. Not sure why the wife and I never started watching...

I had seen the promos for Fox’s PRODIGAL SON back in 2019 and my eyes slid off it. “What if Hannibal Lector had a son and they solved my...

Friday night is movie night at the Parker house. Last Friday, the wife selected the film: a brand-new movie released on Hulu called Palm S...

I'm working on the manuscript of my latest novel. It's a 94,000-word book that I'm pretty jazzed about. I spent June reading and...

Sometimes, washing the dishes can lead to a book purchase. Oh, is that just me? Shrug. It still happened. My wife's a great cook so sh...

I read Jeff Pierce’s wonderful blog, The Rap Sheet, everyday. Y’all read that, don’t you? I mean, he’s nothing less that one of the most com...

I'd like to call your attention to an article by John Gruber over at Daring Fireball as an example of the reach of living history. Earli...

There's a moment in The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Killed America's 16th President - and Why It Failed where the Presi...

[In lieu of the post I was going to write, I'm going to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of a comic book legend. Dennis O...

Since most of us are still spending most of our time at home, I thought I'd pass along a new-to-me TV series: Hinterland. My wife di...