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Summer is coming to an end. Autumn begins to rear its lovely head (it’s my favorite time of year). But there is still time for one last dip in the ocean of summer before it all goes away for another year! So come on in the water, everyone!  Chrissie Watkins about to make the biggest mistake of her life & one of the greatest decisions in the history of the movies.** This week’s issue contains: The Girl In the Basement – Novel Update Sunday Nights With Walt 5th Anniversary Celebration The Latest on Before Noon Looking Ahead to 2023 – American Kids and Plymouth Undead If you want to be added to the email list, please DM me! The Girl In the Basement – Novel Update Most of my creative efforts this summer have been spent completing the novel version of this horror screenplay. Progress has been steady over the past two months and I am pretty happy with the results. As of today, I am 161 pages in (about 2/3s through) with a goal of completing it around Labor Day. Still planning to have it out as an eBook this October. Check back for further updates. And if you would like to join the Girl In the Basement email list and receive daily updates on my progress, just email me or reply in the comments section below.  Sunday Nights With Walt -5th Anniversary Celebration Hard to believe but this November marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of Sunday Nights With Walt by Theme Park Press. I have a number of things planned to celebrate this occasion and raise awareness of the book and its subject matter on social media and across the internet. I will keep you apprised of those as well.  And if you haven’t picked up your copy of Sunday Night With Walt: Everything I Know I Learned From “The Wonderful World of Disney” then click here. It makes a wonderful gift for the baby boomer in your life. Or for anyone who wants to learn more about this influential TV show. The Latest on Before Noon Before Noon didn’t make the cut last month at the Fan Fiction & Screenplay Festival. I was massively disappointed by this but nothing to do but soldier on, right? I am still trying to figure out how to spread the word on this project. I have been doing a lot of research but, apparently, marketing fan fiction is something people don’t do much of so I rather feel like I am reinventing the wheel here. Too bad because I think it is one of the loveliest things I have ever written.  Don’t know about Before Noon? Learn more about this work of fan fiction here: What is "before noon"? - Richard Rothrock And if you would still like to read it then please email me. Looking Ahead to 2023 – American Kids and Plymouth Undead Following up on my post earlier this month “Life In The Key of 60” I have put together my release schedule for the next several years. For 2023 I am aiming to get two projects out and into your hands. American Kids will finally arrive next May – 40 years after the summer which inspired the story. This is Volume 2 of my Paul Ruddick Chronicles trilogy. It tells the story of college age workers who spend the summer working and partying and bonding at a midwestern amusement park. They had hoped to put off growing up for a few more months only to discover that Life has other plans in store for them.  Then next October will come Plymouth Undead, an unconventional horror take on the first Thanksgiving. We find the Pilgrims and their indigenous neighbors battling an unexpected Old World curse that the white settlers have unintentionally let loose on wild America. Looking forward to both of these.  Poster by Ben Rothrock Summer Blockbusters This summer on Facebook, I have been profiling the summer blockbuster movies that influenced my life. If you are not on Facebook, you can view the whole thing here: SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE - Richard Rothrock It has proven popular enough that I am going to continue it into the Fall. Starting next Friday Sep 2, I will be profiling my Top 5 favorite football movies followed in October by my Top 5 favorite horror movies. Be sure to check them out! What happened to “How The CBS Late Movie Expanded My World & Changed My Life”? I know I have been promising this entry for most of the summer and I have actually worked on a BUNCH of it but it has turned out to be something longer than a normal blog entry. Not to mention that several of the movies I discuss have reappeared in the past couple of weeks so I am rewatching them (some for the first time since that summer of 1976) and figuring out a way to do this as a series of posts later on. Thank you for your patience!  So that is about all from here. How has your summer gone?
Back on September 6! Richard **If you haven’t heard, Jaws (1975) will be back in theaters everywhere (including IMAX) beginning next Friday, Sep 2. If you haven’t seen it on the big screen, please consider checking it out! (3300) JAWS | Official Trailer | Experience It In IMAX® - YouTube Please feel free to share this! If you no longer want to receive this newsletter, just let me know and I will remove you from the list.
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