https://dan-bronson.com/tags/rants/Recent content in Rants on Dan Bronson — Author, ScreenwriterHugoen-usTue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/publishing-today/Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/publishing-today/<p>Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when…</p> <p>…publishers were privately owned and committed to finding and nurturing new talent.</p> <p>…the days when aspiring writers could submit unsolicited manuscripts by tossing them through the open transom above a publisher’s office door and get both a reading and a response.</p> <p>…the days when publishers often signed writers expecting to lose money on their first two or three books but so believing in their talent that they were willing to take the loss until the reading public discovered them and their work.</p>https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-casting-couch-then-now/Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-casting-couch-then-now/<p><em>I thought the best way to introduce something new–this website–might be to begin with something old–a blog I wrote several years ago. It concerns a long-standing Hollywood tradition: the casting couch, a piece of furniture still in use today but one which achieved its peak of popularity in the heyday of the studios. In fact, at that point in time, the couch was, in many ways, the measure of a man–his success, his wealth, his power. It was a mandatory item in the office furnishings of virtually every studio head in TinselTown, and it plays a major role in my upcoming novel, Someone To Watch Over Me, a book that confirms the timeworn but true adage, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”</em></p>