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SCRIPT SHOOT SCROLL: The Beginner’s Blueprint is for the new wave of creatives stepping into an industry that rarely stops long enough to explain itself. It’s for the filmmakers, editors, writers, shooters, social creators, strategists, and curious beginners trying to make something human in a world built on speed, noise, and impossible expectations. If you’ve wondered how to get your first job without knowing anyone, questioned whether you’re too late to start, panicked about working for free, or quietly Googled the “embarrassing beginner questions” everyone else seems too ...

What if the rumors that Paul McCartney really died in 1966 were true… and the cover-up was orchestrated by pigeons, psychedelic cults, and a sentient record player named the Vinyl Oracle? Welcome to The Fab Façade: The Rise of Faul, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of Beatlemania, brainwaves, and backmasked breadcrumbs. When a Scottish oddball named Billy Shears stumbles into a Paul McCartney look-alike contest by accident, he unwittingly becomes the linchpin of the most ludicrously elaborate conspiracy in pop culture history. Selected by a shadowy cabal known as the Order of the Saffron Veil...

In the soft-lit hum of a small English town in the late 1970s, where polyester reigns and repression hangs thick in the air, two girls find each other across the shelves of a struggling record shop. Nora Whitman is the sensible one: bookish, buttoned-up, and quietly counting the days until she can leave suburbia behind. Charlie Green is all chaos and cheekbones: a sharp-tongued ABBA devotee with a talent for zine-making, a rainbow collection of band tees, and an unshakable belief that disco can save your life. When a fumbled ABBA lyric and a shared enemy in the town's resident moral ...

What if the soundtrack of your life was written by Neil Diamond? Brooklyn, 1973: Eli Rosenberg, a clumsy, wisecracking record-store clerk with big dreams and even bigger shoelaces to trip over, meets Maria Sullivan, a fiery Catholic artist with paint on her hands and rebellion in her heart. They shouldn’t work, his Jewish family wants him to stay in line, her Irish clan wants him to stay away, but Neil Diamond’s songs pull them together, chorus after chorus. From the neon buzz of Coney Island to the cracked vinyl bins of Eli’s shop, from shouting matches with parents to late-night ...

Some love stories are written in ink. Theirs was pressed into vinyl. Liverpool, 1960. In a dim basement club thick with smoke, sweat, and impossible ambition, Emily Hargrove hears a sound that changes everything. Across the room, Jack Thornton is watching the same band, four boys on the brink of history, and neither of them knows yet that their lives are about to be measured in records, rumours, and love that refuses to stay in one place. As the Beatles rise from local phenomenon to global obsession, Emily and Jack fall in love in the slipstream, sharing bootleg singles, late-night ...

In the glitter-stained shadows of New York’s queer nightlife, where Studio 54’s ghost still echoes and drag queens preach gospel in disco boots, two souls collide in a symphony of strobe lights, sequins, and survival. Eli Abrams is a shy FIT fashion student with a heart full of sketches and scars, haunted by high school taunts, ignored by his father, but burning to make art that speaks louder than shame. Sasha Verma is a rising singer with a voice that could split galaxies and a past she’s fought tooth and nail to reclaim, trans, brilliant, and done being polite. They meet under a ...

ON A TRAIN BOUND FOR HOLLAND, TWO STRANGERS WILL MEET Video journalist Guy lands the gig of his dreams: a month-long odyssey across Europe’s electrifying summer music festivals, capturing the raw passion of bands and their die-hard fans. But this dream job morphs into a twisted nightmare when a chance, flirtatious train encounter with enigmatic backpacker Carly spirals into obsession. What starts as a playful spark on a train to Amsterdam ignites into chaos as Carly begins stalking Guy, appearing uninvited at every festival he covers, her charm masking a chilling edge. When she snatches ...

The playbook for creatives in the algorithm age! SCRIPT SHOOT SCROLL: The Art Of Storytelling In The Social Age is for the next generation of storytellers - the filmmakers, editors, screenwriters, copywriters, social creatives, and brand builders learning to make something real in a world that rarely is. If you’ve ever written a script that died in feedback hell, stayed up cutting a thirty-second ad until it felt honest, or wondered whether the industry still values emotion over metrics - this book is for you. Writer-director Nick Pollack distills two decades of experience in commercials,...

Nerd out about pitching and fantasy baseball weekly with Pitcher List's Nick Pollack and Eric Samulski.

They followed KISS through love, loss, and thunder, and found eternity in the noise. When Ace Frehley, the legendary Spaceman of KISS, died in 2025, two lifelong disciples set out to keep the flame alive. For twenty-five years, Jax, a grizzled rock photographer with a Les Paul tattoo and too many miles behind him, and Riley, a cosmic muralist whose art turns noise into color, have chased the heartbeat of the KISS myth across America’s highways, dive bars, and deserts. From their wild 1998 meet-cute at a comic con to the desert flash mobs of 2026, their love story mirrors the band they ...

Two hearts. One jukebox. And the Roy Orbison song that could bring them back together. In 1989 Lubbock, Texas, the oil bust still bruises the town, but inside the flickering glow of the Starlight Lounge, cabaret singer Lila Monroe and record store clerk Jesse Harper find something worth believing in: each other, and the soaring heartbreak ballads of Roy Orbison. When their romance ignites during an Orbison look-alike contest, it feels like fate. But lies, fear, and dreams bigger than Lubbock tear them apart. As Lila lands a life-changing contract in Los Angeles and Jesse struggles with ...

Breaking the law, one laugh at a time. When disillusioned law-school dropout Milo Carter stumbles across an absurd statute about pickle quality, he doesn’t just roll his eyes, he sparks a revolution. Along with his chaotic comedian best friend Tina Morales, anxious tech genius Raj Patel, fiery historian Clara Nguyen, and golden-retriever-hearted himbo Dave Thompson, Milo hits the road in a beat-up RV nicknamed The Lawnmower on a mission to “yeet” America’s strangest laws. From Connecticut’s bouncing pickles to Alabama’s Sunday domino ban, every state brings new stunts, new fines...

Pitcher List's Nick Pollack sits down with many he's met inside the baseball industry, discussing their journey and what they learned to get where they are now.

One-on-one interviews with MLB pitchers, talking about their pitches, grips, approaches, mechanics, and their life inside the game.

In the rain-soaked shadows of early-’90s Seattle, where flannel is armor and guitars bleed truth, Nina Carter and Jake “Jagger” Malone are on opposite ends of a dying genre war. She’s a sharp-tongued zine queen and grunge band manager whose words have bite and purpose. He’s a Sunset Strip refugee, all eyeliner swagger and glam-rock riffs, trying to keep his fading band alive in a world that’s swapped hairspray for heroin and solos for screams. When a West Coast Battle of the Bands throws their paths together, grunge versus glam, dirt versus polish, their rivalry is instant, ...

In the smoky pulse of 1980s South Bronx, where block parties blaze and subway trains roar with graffiti wildstyle, Maya “Tee” Robinson and Rosano “DJ Spin” Carter are born of beats, rhyme, and fire. She’s a fearless Boricua MC with paint-splattered hands and verses sharp enough to cut glass, dreaming of a future for her daughter and her voice. He’s a rising DJ with scuffed Jordans and soul-deep scratches, torn between fame’s lure and the neighborhood that raised him. Their rivalry is the stuff of local legend, two talents clashing in cyphers and alleyways, dueling through ...

Five years ago, Anna Thompson was the rising star of Boston’s culinary scene, until a disastrous live TV meltdown turned her into the internet’s favorite punchline: “Soufflé Girl.” Humiliated and heartbroken, she slinked back to Clover Bay, the sleepy coastal town where she grew up, and took a job flipping burgers at The Salty Spoon, a run-down diner clinging to its last fryer basket of hope. Now thirty-three, Anna’s once-flamboyant ambition is buried under grease stains and sarcastic one-liners. But when the quirky town’s annual Food & Fling Festival offers a $60,000 prize and...

When Ruth Ellison opens The Last Bookshop in the fading Cotswolds village of Willowby, she’s looking for more than just a fresh start. At 48, reeling from a divorce and a lifetime of what-ifs, she’s poured everything she has, emotionally and financially, into restoring a dusty old shop filled with creaky floors, forgotten first editions, and a cat named Brontë with an attitude. She wasn’t expecting Graham Hargrove, a reclusive former literary star with a tweed cap, a bruised past, and a knack for quoting poetry when it’s least convenient. Nor was she expecting a leather-bound ...

In the eyeliner-smudged chaos of 1982 London, where synth-pop rules the airwaves, New Romantics clash with rude boys, and every mixtape feels like a manifesto, two rivals are about to find harmony in the last place they expect. JJ Ryder is a Smash Hits journalist with a mullet teased to the gods and a devotion to Duran Duran so intense, he dreams of fronting his own band. Marisa Schmidt is a graphic designer with Boy George in her bloodstream, Culture Club stickers on her smock, and a permanent eye-roll reserved just for JJ’s frilly blouses and “yacht-pop fantasy.” When their editor ...

GUILTY AS CHARGED: A CROSS-COUNTRY CODEX OF CRAZINESS : PART TWO The laws get weirder. The laughs get louder. The road gets real. After burnout, breakdowns, and one disastrous goldfish arrest, the Lawbenders are back on the road, recharged, reunited, and ready to finish what they started. Milo Carter, former law student turned accidental outlaw, leads his ragtag crew, Tina Morales, the stand-up comic rediscovering her fire; Raj Patel, the tech wizard with new resolve; Clara Nguyen, the historian-turned-activist; and Dave Thompson, the world’s most optimistic himbo, back into the chaos of ...