Scott D. Parker: Storyteller

One Gen X writer examining life, liberty, and the pursuit of pop culture

Pages - Menu

  • Home
  • Books
  • Social Media
  • About the Author

Social Media

Here is where you can find me:
  • Official Author Website
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

About Me

My photo
Scott D. Parker
With a childhood in the 1970s and 1980s, I know what it's like to have three TV networks, one superhero movie, and a little film called Star Wars. I now revel in the plethora of pop culture goodness of the 21st Century. I write about it all, including a career as an independent author and publisher.
View my complete profile

Search This Blog

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2021 (48)
    • ▼  October (3)
      • What’s It Like Co-Authoring a Book?
      • Now Available: Cash Laramie and the Sundown Expres...
      • The Challenging Season 1 of Tin Star
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2020 (75)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (13)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ►  2019 (227)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (38)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (19)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  June (13)
    • ►  May (32)
    • ►  April (31)
    • ►  March (29)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2018 (58)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (13)
  • ►  2017 (61)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (13)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2016 (37)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2015 (56)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (31)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (5)
  • ►  2014 (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2013 (7)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (2)
  • ►  2012 (17)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2011 (78)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (5)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (13)
  • ►  2010 (129)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (9)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (16)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (13)
  • ►  2009 (201)
    • ►  December (15)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (17)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (14)
    • ►  June (22)
    • ►  May (17)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (19)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ►  2008 (248)
    • ►  December (24)
    • ►  November (22)
    • ►  October (34)
    • ►  September (25)
    • ►  August (46)
    • ►  July (32)
    • ►  June (21)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (17)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2007 (28)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (10)
    • ►  May (4)

Popular Posts

  • Ignore the Scoreboard: A Writing Process
    The NFL season kicked off on Thursday of this week, but I was already prepared because of Peter King. For many years now, a NFL weekend is n...
  • Book Review: The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Tell the truth: if you go see the new Sherlock Holmes movie today and Robert Downey, Jr., appears in only half the film, you’d demand your m...
  • Before We Die: Season 2 Review
    One of the standard guiding principles for second seasons of TV shows is the same but bigger. That principle is alive and well in season two...
  • Chicago 18 at 35
    For any fan, there is always the first, that one special album, and Chicago 18 is the one for me.   My Journey to Chicago 18   I was...
  • Forgotten Music: Apparat Organ Quartet
    (For other forgotten albums and books, head on over to Patti Abbott's blog .) Eight years ago, I caught an episode of PBS’ “Frontline” ...
  • A Sign of a Well-Read Book
    Do you ever read your books this way? My grandfather used to hold his books that way. I remember, even as a boy, cringing at bending th...
  • Forgotten Books: Gotham by Gaslight by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola
    (My latest contribution to Patti Abbott’s Forgotten Book Fridays. Head on over to her blog for the complete list.) Being first has its adv...
  • Movie Review: Foyle's War: Fifty Ships
    (In place of my usual book review, a review about a splendid little mystery.) I watched a DVD movie over the weekend and I didn’t realize G...
  • Now Available: Cash Laramie and the Sundown Express featuring Calvin Carter
    Exciting news! The first Calvin Carter team-up has arrived. With the publication of Cash Laramie and the Sundown Express , Carter steps into...
  • The Challenging Season 1 of Tin Star
    It’s probably just me. The wife and I finished up season 1 of Tin Star, the BBC show, created by Rowan Joffé. All three seasons are now avai...

Categories

1920s 1930s 1940 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970 1970s 1971 1980 1980s 1990 1990s 2000s 2010 2021 70s SF A Bowie Celebration A Christmas Carol Ace Frehley Acting Adventure fiction Adventure Week advertising Agatha Christie Alex Ross Alice Cooper always learning Amanda Shires Amazon American Authors Andy Carpenter Andy Weir Animation Anniversaries Anthony Bourdain antiques Apollo 13 Aquaman audiobooks Author interviews Author reading Authors Avengers Awards Back to the Future Batman Batman 1989 Batman Beyond Batman Day Batman movies BBC Beach reads Ben Affleck Benjamin Wade Bill Champlin Bill Crider Bill Finger Biography Blog Blogs Blood and Treasure Bloodline Blue Willow Bookshop Bob Kane book review Book Review Club Books Books from Childhood Bosch Brad Meltzer Bradford Scott Brian Daley Brian O'Halloran British mysteries Broadchurch Bronze Age Bruce Springsteen Bruce Willis Business Calvin Carter Canon Career Carole King Cartoons Cash Laramie Castle Cereal characters Charles Dickens Chasing Amy Chicago Chicago 13 Chicago XIV Childhood Children's book; Christmas Christopher McQuarrie Chuck E. Cheese Civil War Clive Cussler co-authoring co-writing Cold Case Comedic mysteries comedy Comic book history Comic books Comicpalooza Contests Conventions Coronavirus country music cozies cozy Cozy College cozy mystery Creativity Crime fiction Criminal Element Criminal Elements Critique groups CSI: Miami D-Day Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Danny Elfman Dark Matter Dashiell Hammett David Bowie David Rosenfelt David Tennant Dawayne Johnson Day Job DC Comics DC Movies Dean Wesley Smith Def Leppard Dennis O'Neil Derek Storm Descriptions Detective Fiction Direct selling Do Some Damage Doc Savage Documentary Donovan and McCall Dublin Murders e-reading E-zines; ebooks Ed McBain Edgar Rice Burroughs Elementary Empire Strikes Back Erle Stanley Gardner Espionage events Facebook Fandom fantasy fanzine Fast and Furious First novels fitness Flash fiction Food Foods From Childhood Forgotten Books Forgotten Music Frank Gruber Free Comic Book Day Friday's Forgotten Books Fun Writing Gaming Genesis GenX George Clooney George Lucas Glam rock Godzilla Golden Age of Detective Fiction Gordon Gordon Gardner Graphic novels Gregg Hurwitz Gregory Quist Grimm Growing up hair metal Halestorm Half Price Books Halloween Hard Case Crime hardboiled Harlan Ellison Harrison Ford Harry Truman Heights Theater Hero's Journey HFD historical fiction History Horror Houston Houston music Houston Strong Houston Texans Haiku Houston-con HPD Humor Hurricane Harvey Idris Elba iFly independent bookstores Indiana Jones Indie Authors Inspiration Interview iOS Isaac Bell James Bond James Patterson James Reasoner Jason Isbell Jason Lee Jason Mews Jason Scheff Jason Stratham Jaws Jazz Jeff Anderson Jerry Ordway Jim Carrey Joey Lauren Adams John D. MacDonald John Prine John Williams Jonah Hex Jordan Peele Jumping the Shark Junction City Justice in H-Town Justin Timberlake Keanu Reeves Keller Kevin Smith King Kong KISS Kristine Kathryn Rusch Legacy rock Len Wein Leslie Scott Lester Dent Lillian Saxton Links of the Week Literary fiction Live Music Lone Ranger Longarm Magazines Magnum PI Main Street Theater Marc Bernardin Mark Hamill Marketing Marshall Rogers Marvel Comics Marvel Movies Masters of the Universe Matt Damon Maxwell Grant Meat Loaf Memes Memoirs Memorabilia Mercury Men Michael Buble Michael Connelly Michael Crichton Michael Keaton Michael Uslan Midland mindful reading mindfulness Mission Impossible Movie review Movie serials Movie/Music Mondays Movies Movies From Childhood Movies of August Muppets Murder by the Book Music Musicals My fiction Mystery Inc. NaNoWriMo NASA Nathan Fillion Needle Mag Netflix New Release News Nick and Nora Nikki Heat NNWM non-fiction Nordic crime drama Nostalgia not Novel novelization novellas Olivia Colman One Desire online bookstore Online fiction Orphan X outlining Overlooked Movies P.D. James Paul Dini Payhip Perfect Plan Perry Mason Peter Cetera PIs Pixar Planet of the Apes Plotting Podcasting Podcasts police procedurals politics Pop Culture Presidents Productivity Proofing Published Publishers Publishing Pulp Authors Pulp Fiction Pulp heroes Pulp Westerns Quadrant Fiction Studio Queen Railroads Ralph Garman Reading Reading habits Reagan Browne Records REO Speedwagon Reruns Research Resolutions Retro Revising Rian Johnson Richard Castle Robert Lamm Robin Williams Rod Serling Rosario Dawson Routines Russell Crowe Ryan Gosling Sandman Saturday morning cartoons Scooby Doo Scott Snyder Scrubs serial killers SF SF Safari Shane Black Shazam Sherlock Holmes Shopify short stories Short story reviews Six word story Soundtracks Space opera Spider-Man Sports Stana Katic Star Trek Star WAr Star Wars Starlog steampunk Stephen King Steve Englehart Steven Spielberg Sting Storytelling Stranger Things Submissions in 2010 Summer 2020 Summer books Summer movies Summer of 1989 Summer reading Summer TV Summer writing Supergirl Superman Tabor Evans Tarzan tech for writers Technology Terry Kath Tesla Texana Texas The Brady Bunch The Empire Strikes Back The Flash The Haunting of Bly Manor The Haunting of Hill House The Killing The Last Jedi The Matrix The Monkees The Music of 1999 The Rise of Skywalker The Rockford Files The Shadow The Thin Man The Twilight Zone The X-Files theater Theme Songs Theodore Tinsley Thrillers Tim Burton Time travel Tom Cruise Tommy Lee Jones Toys From Childhood Traditional mysteries trains Travel Travis McGee Treason at Hanford Treasury editions Triple Action Western TV TV Shows TV Theme songs Two Sentence Tuesday Unforgotten Val Kilmer Vanessa Kirby Video Vinyl virtual bookstores Walt Slade Walter Gibson weird fiction Western Comics Western Fictioneers Western Movies Western Music Westerns Whitesnake whodunits Wild West Monday Wolfmother Wonder Woman word counts World War II Writing Writing life Writing process Writing Stats Writing style Year of an Indie Writer Year's Best YouTube Zachary Levi
Copyright by Scott D. Parker. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.