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…

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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…

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The art of visual storytelling: Deepwater Horizon

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

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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…

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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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