No Pain, No Gain On My First Election Night
I have always loved election nights, though my first one began with a whimper. Frank Conniff Jr. with Tippy during the Congressional campaign of Frank Conniff Sr. in 1964. My father, Frank Conniff, [...]
CON GAMES: Saints Be Praised
CON GAMES: SAINTS BE PRAISED By Michael Conniff Copyright (C) 2020 All Rights Reserved Time to break my favorite rules for writing fiction: never complain, never explain. This is the exception to those rules. [...]
LIVES OF THE SAINTS: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
LIVES OF THE SAINTS By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved Wendy K. Marks Yankee Doodle Sweetheart Former pom-pom girl Wendy Marks, 44, was a Yankee Doodle Sweetheart literally born on [...]
WRITE GOOD! How To Write a Screenplay Like Keyser Soze
Everybody knows Keyser Soze. He’s the Turkish crime lord from The Usual Suspects, the classic noir directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. McQuarrie went on to write a raft of terrific scripts [...]
CON GAMES: I’m Proud To Be An American From New York
By Michael Conniff I awoke this morning feeling like I’ve never felt before about being an American—and a New Yorker, in that order—and I wanted to share why I feel so proud. Oh say [...]
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: A Short Story by Michael Conniff
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2018 All Rights Reserved All that Clay and me had asked for was justice for all, but there was no justice in the suburbs, not [...]
CON GAMES: Where Have You Gone, Rick Pitino?
Sports were in the air everywhere when I was a kid. My family lived on Stratton Road in New Rochelle, New York, for five years in the 1960s, next door to Claude Harmon, the golf [...]
From The Year 2005: The World According To Blogs
From The Year 2005: The World According To Blogs Blogs are going to get you and don't think they won't. A new form of informal, personal publishing that started out as online journaling is emerging [...]
Warming Up To A Novel Called CLIMATA
If you are a novelist, or a writer of any kind of fiction, ideas can arrive without making a sound—if you only have ears (or hearing aids) to hear. Take my new Young Adult novel, [...]
CLIMATA: A Novel Excerpt by Michael Conniff
CLIMATA Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved First Chapter By Michael Conniff Madagascar The first time she walked on water they called her a saint. The second time they called her God—had she been [...]