Pseudonymous Bosch

Charleston, we’re back! is Nov 10&11 with yours truly and so many more. (Thanks & for the push)

My first Pride. In Paris. I was 19. And afraid to talk to anyone except my friend (pictured w/ me next frame a year earlier). I held onto this pin for years, thinking that one day when my French was good enough I’d call the Minitel chat line. 🌈

As the child of 2 screenwriters, I was basically raised in the & joined right out of college (thks to a nepotistic screenwriting deal) the way another boy might join his dad in the pipe layers union. The guild provided healthcare throughout my childhood just as the somewhat more benign deal structures of the era allowed my parents to live upper middle class lifestyles and put their kids thru college. These days, the guild still provides excellent healthcare for my parents as well pensions. My family owes a lot to the . When I was young, I wrote a story for the WGA Journal about spec script sales & how they changed the status of writers. For the worse, I concluded, because they made writers gamblers rather than workers. (See www.pseudonymousbosch.com/power) I quoted Fitzgerald on a studio executive: “He wished that writers could be dispensed with altogether” & I joked that this would require “a divine or robotic force.” Well, now we’ve got AI—one of several existential threats that the WGA is fighting over. “Once there were screenwriters. Now there are screenplays.” I thought the last line of my piece was hyperbole. 30 yrs later, it’s that much closer to truth. Support the strike. Solidarity forever!  

The 2023 Storyball Story featuring my cohost illustrator our brave authors .lerner

Hey look it’s Raphael Simon at again—go give him a piece of my mind! This Saturday at Santa Monica High School. More info on the YW website.

Euclid Ave rolled out the red carpet today…for some guy named Raphael Simon!? Well we had them tear that poster down right quick! To make matters worse people seemed think all the art was by

Digging out some of the old toys to do a school visit with pang tomorrow

Just signed books at the littlest (and best) new children’s bookshop in Tucson Visit soon and say hi to Hipatia for me!

Reposting for inspiration

Charleston, did you miss me?

Who says books are for inside?

Me. Late 80s. With my pink triangle pin. Around the first time I first came out of the closet. Never forget—you get to say who you are.

Charleston! Heading back after too many yrs away to eat some grits and see some friends