Hi, and welcome to my home page. I’m Lance Brown, formerly of Dalton, MA, and currently of Grass Valley, CA.

I’m a writer, a website publisher, an activist, an entrepreneur, and a freelance communications and Internet consultant. Among other things.

Here you can find a lot of stuff that has to do to with me:

My Websites

• GreenLiberty.org is a site I’ve been toying with for a long time, and which may or may not be finding its second wind about now. (It looks pretty, at least.)
• CampusLP.org has been providing free hosting and e-mail service for student libertarian clubs since 2001. It is now also a “portal” site which has forums, downloadables, and other resources for libertarian student activists.
• PNAC.info was created in 2003 to expose the Project for the New American Century, and now aims to persuade the American public to reject the neoconservative foreign policy approach.
• LettersToMitch.com is an Arrested Development appreciation site that I started in April 2006.
• Freedom2008.com was the website for my presidential campaign, which has been suspended for the time being. I won’t be running in 2008, but there’s plenty at the site if you’d like to check it out.

My Creative

• I’ve got a gallery of photos at photos.lancebrown.org. There are some photos of me and political events that I’ve been involved with, but the bulk of the photos are of natural scenery, animals, and pets (including a LOT of peacocks). There are about 600 pictures at the time I’m writing this. More to come soon.
• I’ve written a fair amount of poetry in my day. The poems that I’ve chosen to make public are gathered over at poems.lancebrown.org.
• In recent years I’ve begun to work more on my creative (prose) writing, and that is beginning to bear fruit. A small amount of that fruit can be found here on my new writing page.
• I’m putting together an online portfolio featuring most of the things I’ve created, from posters, press releases, and programs, to op-eds, web sites, and various writings. There are already a number of items gathered there, at works.lancebrown.org.

My Résumé and Qualifications

• Here is a page with online versions of my résumé and some of my other qualifications.
• Here is a fairly comprehensive list of the different jobs I’ve had over the past 20 years.

Aside from all that, my interests include reading, animals, the Internet, philosophy, walking with my dogs, revolution, and music. Not necessarily in that order.

The entries that I post here at my lancebrown.org blog are likely to be things that are primarily of interest to myself - I’m using it to gather resources on screenwriting and other writing at this time, mostly.

I’m working to further weave all this stuff into a coherent whole of some sort. And I’m only getting started, in terms of things I want to get done. This is all just the tip of a quite large iceberg. Stay tuned!

Feel free to contact me if you feel moved to do so.

Thanks for your visit!

Be well, be free,

Lance Brown

SimplyScripts - Glossary of Screenwriting Terms

MovieMaker Magazine: The Art and Business of Making Movies

They accept article submissions. Guidelines as summarized by WritersWeekly.com:

MovieMaker Magazine, 121 Fulton Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10038. P(212)766-4100. F(212)766-4102. Email: staff (at) moviemaker.com. Website: http://www.moviemaker.com. Jennifer M. Wood, Managing Editor. 85% freelance. “MovieMaker Magazine is the world’s most widely-read magazine on the art and business of making movies. Founded in 1993, the publication has a worldwide circulation of 55,000 and its website, MovieMaker.com, is one of the most popular film sites on the Web. MovieMaker’s content is directed at the audience as well as the artist, and its mix of in-depth criticism, do-it-yourself moviemaking and behind-the-scenes looks at talented actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, screenwriters and editors makes it a perennial favorite with film enthusiasts the world over.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 55K. Quarterly. Pays within 30 days of publication. Publishes ms 3 - 4 months after acceptance. Buys exclusive rights. No reprints. Responds 4-8 weeks. Sample online under archives. Subscription $16; $26 Canada; $42 other. “We have no set guidelines, but interested writers are encouraged to pick up a copy of the magazine or visit our website to see the kinds of stories we publish.”
CURRENT NEEDS: “Technical, how-to, celebrity interviews.” Pays flat fee of $75-$500 (depending on department, placement, etc.). No set word count. Submit query by email to Jennifer Wood at jwood (at) moviemaker.com. “If this is your first submissions to MM, please include a resume, cover letter and writing samples.”
PHOTOS/ART: N/A.
HINTS: “We encourage interested writers to take a look at a few past issues of MovieMaker Magazine and keep in mind the scope of our readership, the tone of our magazine and the fact that we are a quarterly publication (so pieces that are timed to a specific week, etc. may not work). We encourage creativity in our writers and are not afraid to try new things, but ask that people come in with a knowledge of our readership and targeted audience.”