In Top Gun, after Goose dies, Maverick won’t engage. Viper’s answer: “Keep sending him up.”

Here’s my version.

In 2019 I sold Beatrice Clover, the story that later became my novel The Clover Experiment, to Blumhouse and developed it at ABC with John Ridley, the Academy Award–winning writer of 12 Years a Slave. In March 2020 I pitched it to HBO and Netflix. Then COVID hit and all that went away.

For the next five years I committed myself to being an author. I kept writing scripts the whole time, but I never pitched them or sent the drafts around.

Now I’m taking my first two pieces of original writing to market in years. I’m equal parts excitement and nerves.

One of them is a horror movie inspired by a ghost story a counselor told me long ago at Camp Winaukee in New Hampshire. And before anyone reads it, I’m doing what the Coen brothers did for Blood Simple.

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Eddie Ankin. Book 6, The Shield, is out. So is the Books 1–6 box set.

P.S. Operation Showbiz, a free Eddie Ankin story, is waiting for you at eliceisland.com/showbiz.

Talk soon,
Jeremy

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