500 Words and the Fediverse

Hi, Lee Schneider here. I'm going to be posting my newsletter on Bluesky, using the offprint.app.

500 Words has been around since the early days of The Huffington Post, when I wrote a regular column called 500 Words on Thursday. It was an essay that I published every Thursday. I didn't work too hard on that title! But the essays were popular.

500 Words here on offprint and Bluesky will feature email-sized mini-stories that roll out week-to-week. I'll be posting one of my original mini-story series, The Counter Narrative, which was a father's message to his children, inspired by a series of Polaroid photographs that were discovered in a trunk.

But coming in September, get ready for a mini-story series called HOLLYWOOD EXTINCTION EVENT. It unravels the mystery of how Hollywood destroyed itself from the inside. It is told by an insider who saw and recorded everything.

I'll also include announcements about new publications and events.

INTRODUCTIONS In case we haven't met yet ...

I am a novelist with a published science fiction trilogy. The three books, set in the near future, are SURRENDER, RESIST, and LIBERATION. My next book is part of a new trilogy and is called THE SHADOW SIDE OF LUCAS PERFECT. I’m the producer and host of The Future Lab podcast, engaging in discussions about how fiction shapes the future.

My television production career includes writing for Good Morning America, being a producer on Dateline NBC, and executive producing and producing many documentaries for the History channel, the Learning Channel, CourtTV, Discovery Health, the Food Network, and ReelzTV.

I was a writer on the iconic cartoon ThunderCats.