It began with my making Captain America popular enough to warrant two bad TV movies being made about somebody with that name.

It hit its stride with my making The Batman and his world something movie audiences would pay to see, and being brought in to make that happen.

It got running with my creating The Night Man, having him adapted quite faithfully to the television screen, and becoming a regular writer for that series.

Since then I've become a real Hollywood guy, with two stories about near-misses to my credit. First, my agent did a deal with Greenblatt/Janolari for a series called Ghost Harbor. G/J hooked me up with a writer from Chicago Hope to do the pilot, but she had a death in the family and we missed the selling deadline. Before the next selling season opened, the exec who'd bought the idea left for MTV and the project never revived.

Second, I was given the nod to become a staff writer on Charmed - but first they had to sign the bigger-ticket writers. And once they had, they'd used up their budget and could no longer afford me.

See? I can hang with anyone when it's time to talk the cruelties of Fate. But since that's the norm, I'm happy to say that one of my screenplays, "Majorca," has been chosen as part of the Black Coat Script Library and published in book form. There's always something new...