Margaret's January Nearly Monthly News!
It's January! The new year has begun, the rains have come to Southern California, and as of this writing, I am both gainfully employed and doing my best to...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - December 2023
I nearly called this edition of the newsletter: "Margaret's Nearly Monthly Annual Wrap Up," but decided to err on the side of grammatical caution. Looking...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Nov 2023
Hello, and welcome to the November Nearly monthly news. Let's kick off with one last labor update because: The SAG-AFTRA strike has ended! So happy for my...
September/October - Margaret's Nearly Monthly News
So... September got away from me, and since October isn't looking any less eventful, I'm going to see if I can get this update out before there's even more...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News: July/Aug Edition!
It's Barbenheimer's world, and we just live in it. I saw Barbie first, in a theater full of people of all genders dressed in their pink best, and Oppenheimer...
Margaret's June Nearly Monthly News!
Hey there, hope your summer is off to a great start! As I write this, the WGA is still on strike, and I have a feeling I'll be reporting the same at the...
Margaret's May 2023 Nearly Monthly News
Thank you Jennifer Jacob, friend of the NMN, who heeded the call in the last newsletter and sent lovely photos of some May flowers at the Brooklyn Botanic...
Having a Moment for Margaret's April 2023 Nearly Monthly News
It's April! Sometimes people ask me why I didn't stick with multiplatform/interactive storytelling after The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Welcome to Sanditon....
Margaret's March Nearly Monthly News (2023 Edition)
Welcome new subscribers! I was all set to open this month's newsletter by talking about how rainy it's been in Los Angeles lately, but then I checked the...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Feb 2023
Hello all, and welcome new subscribers! Glad to have you here during this rainy Los Angeles winter. No blizzards at this altitude, but let's just say my...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - January 2023
January has been a quiet month here at the Nearly Monthly News. As Hollywood still reels from the aftershocks of the WB/Discovery merger and braces for WGA...
Happy New Year from Margaret's Nearly Monthly News (Dec 2022)
December again, and time for the Nearly Monthly News annual wrap up! But first of all, thank you for subscribing and for your support. I started this...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - Nov 2022
Oh November: my birthday month! Also the month of Thanksgiving, National Novel Writing, and of asking each other: "Is Twitter dead yet?" Twitter, either a...
Nearly Monthly News: The October 2022 Spooky Edition!
Welcome to October's spooooky Nearly Monthly News! When I was a kid, I loved Halloween. This is true in spite of the fact that I was very good at coming up...
Nearly Monthly News - September 2022
Where did September go? This month's news is sliding in at the last minute in part because last month's did (and that sort of scheduling tends to become a...
Margaret's August Nearly Monthly News!
AHHHHHH! Anyone else need a good primal scream this month? Not sure about where you are, but chez Nearly Monthly News, August has been a month. Starting with...
July 2022 Nearly Monthly News
Happy July! For me, this had been a summer of nostalgia. I spent several weeks visiting a friend from college and her family in a city I used to live in, I...
June's Nearly Monthly News
Welcome to June! Summer is here in Los Angeles (does it ever really leave?), and I'm balancing deadlines against the feeling I still get—despite not having...
Margaret's Nearly Monthly News - May 2022
Happy May, and welcome to the 6th edition of the Nearly Monthly news. I've been doing this for half a year? Inconceivable! This month marked my first visit...
Nearly Not April Nearly Monthly News
Hello! It's April (barely). I'll admit, if not for Twitter, I probably would have missed the fact that this particular April marks the 10th Anniversary of...