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ITW Interview: THE SECOND SON
The Second Son by Martin Jay Weiss × Twin brothers Ethan and Jack Stone have built the ultimate transparency app—Stalker—and it’s going to make them rich. But when Ethan’s girlfriend dumps him and his brother bails for their biggest competitor, Ethan is convinced they ran off together. He uses Stalker to find out, tracking them […]
New York Journal of Books
A debut thriller is always an adventure—has the author been secretly practicing the craft of tight, suspenseful writing, so that the plot will make sense, the pace will force the pages to turn, and the characters will be memorable? Or will there be small gaps in means and motive and opportunity, or flaws in dialogue, […]
Writer Types Podcast
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Podcast with David Rocklin
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Podcast with Dan Vining
Dan Vining is the author of NightSun. He was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford and taught there. Previously, he was a newspaper reporter, a writer and editor at Rolling Stone as well as a screenwriter and Senior Lecturer at the American Film Institute Conservatory. He is the author of The Quick and The […]
Rare Bird Acquires Weiss Thrillers
Los Angeles, California – Los Angeles, California – Two new thrillers by Martin Jay Weiss, THE SECOND SON, in which twin brothers create the ultimate stalker app, and FLAMINGO COAST, where a former IRS agent discovers a Caribbean community that shelters some of the most wanted white-collar fugitives in the world, sold to Tyson Cornell at Rare Bird […]
Hollywonk: Author Interview
A Different Kind of Alchemy: From Amazon Studios Development Slate Script to Novel – by Stephanie Reid-Simons This is the story of The Alchemist Agenda, written by Martin Jay Weiss, one of the first projects added to the Amazon Studios Movie Development Slate. We asked Marty, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, about the evolution […]
Amazon Acquires Alchemist
Amazon Studios has optioned Martin Jay Weiss’s The Alchemist Agenda for their active development slate where they have a first look deal with Warner Brothers. Amazon.com, the online book merchants turned Internet visionaries, launched of a new kind of movie studio to broaden the scope of finding and developing great stories. “We’re eager to get […]
Hollywonk: Filmmaker Interview
Hollywonk: Why did you make this Motion Comic? Martin Jay Weiss: Amazon Studios maintained that test movies should be an important step to more easily ascertain strengths and weaknesses of a story and help determine when projects are ready for production. So making the Motion Comic was an opportunity to use my filmmaking background to demonstrate […]