Author: SR Staley

SR Staley has one more than 11 literary awards for his fiction and nonfiction writing. He is on the full-time faculty of the College and Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University as well as a film critic and research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. His award-winning Pirate of Panther Bay series (syppublishing.com) has won awards in historical fiction, mainstream & literary fiction, young adult fiction, and reached the finals in women's fiction. His most recent book is "The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution" due out in April 2020 (Routledge).

Review: La La Land entertains with music, dance, and substance

The contemporary romantic dance musical La La Land continues to post strong earnings at the…

Characters development, Film Reviews, Films, writing and storytelling Damien Chazelle, emma stone, film reviews, La La Land, musical, ryan gosling

Five life lessons inspired by sexual assault survivors

Most of the sexual assault survivors I have come to know in the process of…

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How to fix Jack Reacher

I recently saw the Tom Cruise action film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The movie…

Books, Characters development, Film Reviews, Films, Keys to Success character development, film critique, film reviews, jack reacher, storytelling, tom cruise

The art of visual storytelling: Deepwater Horizon

The action film Deepwater Horizon has a lot of elements that make it one of…

Characters development, Film Reviews, Films, writing and storytelling character development, Deepwater Horizon, inciting incident, Mark Wahlberg, plot points, storytelling, visual storytelling

Isabella and Tortuga Bay close out 2016 with a boom!

The year 2016 will be logged as one of the most successful in my writing…

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Isabella and Tortuga Bay take home three awards at RPLA 2016!

Isabella, Jean-Michel, and Juan Carlos did well in Orlando at the Royal Palm Literary Awards…

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4 ways Trump’s “locker room talk” leads to campus sexual assault

Video tapes of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump demeaning women and bragging about sexually assaulting…

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College rape and the power of words on a bathroom door

I still remember the day my business manager came into my office and said “you…

Campus Sexual Assault, Inspiration, Sexual Assault, Unsafe On Any Campus campus rape, college sexual assault, rape, Ruth Krug, Unsafe On Any Campus

Unsafe On Any Campus? heads to Barnes & Noble!

Unsafe On Any Campus? has been accepted into the Barnes & Noble system, which greatly facilitates…

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Jason Bourne and visual storytelling

I once read in a book on writing screenplays that movies are 80% visual, and…

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