by Mary | Sep 15, 2017 | An Unremembered Life, DOC, Just for fun!, THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie, THE SPARROW on AMC
I’ve been in lock-down for the past three months: finishing the first complete draft of Unremembered Lives, doing the first five editing passes through the manuscript, sending it out for comments, re-editing, fixing errors, filling in, filling out,...
by Mary | Jun 14, 2017 | DOC, Natural History of a Novel, THE SPARROW, Unremembered Lives, Writer Tech
A week ago, I got to the final scene of my work-in-progress. It is complete, which is to say, it’s got a coherent plot with a beginning, a middle, and an end. My elevator pitch for Unremembered Lives is “a Romeo and Juliet story set against the backdrop of...
by Mary | May 3, 2017 | DOC, DOC on HBO, EPITAPH, THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie, THE SPARROW on AMC, WYATT
Last summer, I signed an option with PalmStar Productions for a screen adaptation of Doc and Epitaph. So much time had gone by with no news, I was starting to wonder if they’d dropped the project, but yesterday an announcement appeared in a number of outlets, so...
by Mary | Aug 26, 2016 | THE SPARROW
By now you’ve probably heard that astronomers have announced the existence of “Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri.” As in any scientific discovery, there are a lot of caveats and careful hedging of the announcement, but this appears...
by Mary | Sep 5, 2014 | Children of God, THE SPARROW
JESUITS IN SPACE AND IN THE VATICAN by Mary Doria Russell was originally published in September-October 2014 issue of Health Progress, the journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. Old joke. A Franciscan, a Dominican and a Jesuit are...
by Mary | Aug 28, 2014 | THE SPARROW
This morning’s news about Brad and Angie getting married made me smile. I still feel a little proprietary about them. For a few years, Brad Pitt was attached to play the lead in a Warner Brothers production of The Sparrow. He was, reportedly, passionate about...
