Win Blevins' "Stone Song"

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Win Blevins' many books include the novel Stone Song (which won the Spur award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers award for fiction), three volumes of informal history, a volume of natural history, and a dictionary. He has also sold several screenplays and countless short stories and magazine and newspaper articles.

Here he shares a few thoughts on casting cinematic adaptations of his work:

If they make my book into a movie, they can use anyone they damn well please. One book was extraordinarily close to being made, directed by John Milius, with Clint Eastwood, got into pre-production and two months from shoot date and delayed. Never happened. Have been hired to write seven screenplays, nothing happened. Writing for movies is iffy enough--writing for particular actors approaches madness.

Visit Win Blevins' website and the blog for his alter ego, author Caleb Fox.

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