Plotpoints Podcast Episode 238, 2022.08.26
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SCRIPTWRITING TALK AND MORE!
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Mark Sevi and Guests
Show Notes August 26, 2022 Episode #238
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00:00:00 INTRO
Podcast Theme by Mark Sevi
MARK IS JOINED BY AUTHORS MADDIE MARGARITA AND LORENZO PORRICELLI
MADDIE’S BIO:
Maddie Margarita is the host of Lit Up! OC –a popular monthly writer’s salon in Southern California, The Southern California Writers Association Hump Day Book Tour, and Character Floss the Podcast.
She is also a Teaching Artist at the Muzeo Museum & Cultural Center in Anaheim, CA.
Maddie also serves on the Board of the Southern California Writer’s Association and Sisters- in-Crime Orange County. Her short stories can be found in “It’s All In The Story, California” an anthology of short fiction.
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/madeline.tighemargarita
LORENZO’S BIO:
Lorenzo has worked in the movie business for many years.
While Lorenzo has many notable accomplishments and awards for his work in Hollywood with studios and stars, he considers his efforts in civil rights and education through his work to be his biggest achievement.
Lorenzo is a published author with Simon & Schuster, president of Gun Hill Road Productions, as well as president of the Southern California Writers Association, and a Co-Founder of the Orange County Screenwriters Association.
Through Southern California Writers Association, Lorenzo has worked to bring writers from Ray Bradbury to Matt Quirk to Orange County for more than twenty years and has helped many writers to be inspired and complete novels and have them published. At SCWA, Lorenzo was a publisher of It’s All in the Story, an anthology of short stories. He is also an executive producer of SCWA YouTube channel offerings for writers.
Lorenzo has opened many of the world’s largest theatres and has used those opportunities to build community programs which provided free movies to the disabled in every community served. He also originated and constructed scholarship programs which have given many disadvantaged youth in six cities the opportunity to attend college. He worked to create an alternative education high school system in Lansing, Michigan that has become modeled around the world.
Lorenzo is known as a showman, and a major movie studio labeled him, “Lorenzo the Legend.” He was honored by Israel and named an Honorary Ambassador..
LINKS:
Website: www.southerncalwriters.org
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-porricelli-84a5599/
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MARK SEVI BIO:
Mark Sevi is a professional screenwriter and producer, and screenwriting teacher. He has sold 34 scripts, 20 made into films. He teaches scriptwriting in Southern California. He is also founder of the Orange County Screenwriters Association.
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Christopher Stires is a novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter living in Southern CA.
He has four novels currently in print. PALADIN’S JOURNEY, REBEL NATION, DARK LEGEND, and THE INHERITANCE (Winner of the 2003 Dream Realm Award for Horror) are available from Zumaya Publications (http://www.zumayapublications.com/). PALADIN’S JOURNEY: SABIAN (the sequel to PALADIN’S JOURNEY) will soon be released by Zumaya.
STARBEAST (a reprint/retitle of TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE BEAST) will soon be released by World Castle Publishing (http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com/home.html). He has had more than 70 short stories and articles appear in publications in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
With co-writer, Mark Sevi, he has had one screenplay optioned. He is a member of Facebook and Goodreads.
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