I’d like to welcome Bob Brill to the blog for #WriterWednesday!

Things you never want to run out of: cold milk

Things you wish you’d never bought: Chevy Malibu

Hardest thing about being a writer: criticism/rejection

Easiest thing about being a writer: freedom

A few of your favorite things: baseball cards, photographs, books, collectibles

Things you need to throw out: 90-percent of my garage.

Words that describe you: stubborn, self-motivated, determined, energizer bunny, creative, diligent, hardworking, multi-tasker,

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: defensive, stubborn

Something you’re really good at: writing

Something you’re really bad at: art, drawing, painting type of art

Favorite music or song: Come Monday by Jimmy Buffet

Music that drives you crazy: Hotel California

Favorite smell: Vine ripened tomato

Something that makes you hold your nose: canned tuna

Favorite places you’ve been: Italy

Places you never want to go to again: Disneyland

Favorite books (or genre): Books about U.S. Presidents

Books you wouldn’t buy: Graphic horror novels

People you’d like to invite to dinner: Kevin Costner

People you’d cancel dinner on: The Donald

The coolest person you’ve ever met: Nelson Mandella

The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: Richard Chamberlain

The nicest thing a reader said to you: I couldn’t put your book down

The craziest thing a reader said to you: I couldn’t put your book down

Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Film making

A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: The first shooting of a Martial Arts comedy short film, which we reshot and it was 100-percent better.

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: Hitting a home run in Little League

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: They wonder if I created the Lancer character to be what I wanted to be in the 1880’s.

About Bob:

Bob Brill is a well known and multi-award winning journalist with a long career in radio. A major market talent currently as a news anchor/reporter at KNX News Radio in Los Angeles, he is also an author of 13 books. He has written nearly 20 screenplays and Pilots and produced four short films. His full length Documentary “Shaken; The Great Sylmar Earthquake” airs on Amazon Prime and other platforms.

Journalist: Former National Correspondent and L-A Bureau Chief UPI Radio Network, Reporter and Anchorperson for many radio stations. Was a columnist for The Examiner, UPI wire service, and published the successful The Brill Report. Writes the popular weekly column “Baseball in the 1960s.”

Author: Seven books so far in the “Lancer; Hero of the West” series, plus “The Tattoo Murder,” “Fan Letters to a Stripper; A Patti Waggin Tale,” “Al Kabul, Home Grown Terrorist,” “No Barrier; How the Internet Destroyed the World Economy,” “Tales of My Baseball Youth; A Child of the 60’s,. “Beating the Slump; an athletes guide to a better career.” Ten Lancer books are planned.

Podcasts & Videocasts: “Interesting People with Bob Brill,” “Major League Stripper.”

Screenwriter: Written both features and pilots as well as those targeted for screeners. Wide variety from Biopics, westerns, two pandemic related, comedies, drama, sports related including period.

Producer: Documentary “Shaken; The Great Sylmar Earthquake.” It is a one-hour documentary based on the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. Four short films including the western “Sundown,” (multi awards), “The Girl From Sweden,” which has more than 1,000,000 views on YouTube.

Radio: News anchor/reporter KNX News Radio Los Angeles.

General: An icon in the sports trading card and memorabilia industry for decades.

Let’s Be Social:

Websites:

www.bobbrillfilms.com

www.bobbrillbooks.com

www.bobbrill.com

www.baseballinthe1960s.com

AMAZON Author page:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bob-Brill/author/B00411A3MY?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Bob Brill YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfToqYTs5f3lMhlCdVmJgRw