Years ago, as a young brand builder at Procter & Gamble, I was part of the team that launched Febreze, and led the launch in Canada. I worked tirelessly for months, bringing a core (and then ever expanding) team of like-minded people together to get this new-to-the-world product category to market. The night before “SOS” […]
(note: the following post was originally published on LinkedIn on February 29th, 2016) Watching Pixar take home the Oscar for Best Animated Film reminded me that we all have loads to learn from Pixar Animation Studios. Much has been written and celebrated about their creative process, including in Ed Catmull’s must-read book (‘Creativity Inc.’), but […]
Yesterday, I learned that author Harper Lee had died. I’ve never met her, and actually know very little about her personal life, but she gave to us a literary gift in To Kill A Mockingbird that will outlive us all. I first read the book in high school, when soon-to-be adult views on the world […]
This week I’m in Miami for the annual Kidscreen Summit, flying the flag for AWESOME… In it’s second year in Miami (used to be NY), Kidscreen has become a global meeting place for people making content for kids (and kids at heart). It’s part conference (Mary Coleman of Pixar is the keynote speaker) and part […]
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I’m obsessed with creating characters, stories, and worlds. I love writing fiction because it’s an organic process, probably the purest expression (after oral storytelling) of story. But I’m also a relentlessly visual thinker and I love the creative collaboration that happens in television (as opposed to the loneliness that […]
So, today is kind of a big day. If you’re like me, a child of Star Wars, this is the day you’ve been waiting for since the mid 80’s. I must admit, I was excited (and then ultimately disappointed) by the prequels, but nothing like the excitement in store for JJ’s take on Lucas’ world. […]
I’m working on something new, something a bit, well… different. STAR PRESSED is a story about family. It’s not quite a kids book, it’s not exactly YA, and it’s not fully a grown-up read either. It’s a story about eight “people”, three adults and five teenagers thrown together by fate, facing a world they don’t understand, and […]
If you follow this blog, you know how much I love telling stories. To date, I’ve been fortunate and privileged to tell stories to younger audiences and mostly in the medium of books. But lately, since putting together and creating new TV shows, I’ve started moving more in the world of television. It’s an exciting […]
Usually, this blog is reserved for the fun and flippant, but today I want to share something serious, downright terrifying, but I hope ultimately changeable. Last week, two dear friends of mine, parents to two young girls, shared that their youngest daughter, Sadie, had been diagnosed with Rett syndrome. This is a neurological disorder that I’d never heard of, and […]
If you’ve been following my twitter feed, you’ll know I’ve been down in Cannes, France for my very first MIPCOM market. MIPCOM is like a huge bazaar of TV shows; it’s probably where your favourite shows have emerged from (bought, sold, financed, packaged, etc) and it’s nothing short of overwhelming. But I was in town […]
