Carole Parker

Female

Marina Del Rey, CA

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
NYC, NY
About Me:
I'm a hardboiled screenwriter, but I read A LOT of fiction. Just here to play; not promote. Drop me a line. I won't bite. Unless you ask nicely ...
I Am A:
Reader, Writer
Website:
http://www.anewtomorrowmovie.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Ramond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, Mickey Spillane, John Carroll Daly, Jim Thompson, Andrew Vachss, James Ellroy, Cornell Woolrich, Christa Faust, Vicki Hendricks, Duane Swierczynski, Ed McBain, Sara Gran, Megan Abbott, Ken Bruen, Alan Guthrie, Max Allan Collins, Richard Stark, Lawrence Block, Richard Aleas, Donald Westlake, Day Keene
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
DOUBLE INDENMITY, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, SUNSET BOULEVARD, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET, CRIME WAVE, THE KILLING, BORN TO KILL, GUN CRAZY, THE BLUE DAHLIA, LE CIRCLE ROUGE, RIFIFI, BREATHLESS, BELLE DE JOUR, PULP FICTION, SIN CITY, KILL BILL. Don't have cable. Just watch stuff like DEXTER, THE WIRE DEADWOOD and THE SOPRANOS on DVD.

Comment Wall:

  • Asmodeus_Amanti

    Woot! wall cherry! :P lol

    Hello! How are you? Thanks for the add and have a great day! ^_^


    Don't be a stranger ~_^
    Cheers!

    Nov 26, 2008

  • Miss Mae

    Hi Carole! How are you? So do you write for any television shows?

    MM

    Nov 26, 2008

  • Asmodeus_Amanti

    Nov 27, 2008

  • JackBludis

    Good Title, good theme, love those L.A. mysteries.

    Jack Bludis

    Dec 1, 2008

  • Meredith S. Cole

    Yes, I love Raymond Chandler, too. It's hard to include everyone, isn't it?

    -Meredith

    Dec 1, 2008

  • JackBludis

    Every time I see your avatar, I duck. Good luck on getting the elephant gun.

    Dec 2, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Your gun is so much bigger than mine, I suddenly feel inadequate.:).
    How does a NY girl survive in all that sunshine and clean air? It'd kill me:).
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    I've done the trip out a couple of times for screenplay sales and have a lot of transplant friends out there, but it is a whole 'nother world. Though NY is not he Ny of even five years ago let alone ten when it had non-Disney character. Been very sanitized. (besides--who has sanity in this business?)
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Jaundice is just another way of saying 'golden california sunlight' ain't it?
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Wow, someone that acknowledges the existence of Carroll John Daly, who are you, and what planet you drop off of? :-D

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    About forty degrees here but the hot tub is warmer:).
    Ain't my hot tub, but its good to have friends.
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Its the time of year to roast chestnuts:)
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    'Be honored. I steal my friend's names all the time. Its old Scots Gaelic. I've seen it as a last name (John Wesley Harden had a lawyer named John Teel).
    I've also seen it as a last name Tiel.
    Just have me brought to Justice (if I'm not the cop):)
    Teel

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Ah , Brett Halliday. Located an original anthology with his work. I live on the light side of planet pulp that stands for, ADVENTURE, ACTION & REALLY TOUGH GUYS!!!!! *cue flapping scarf, smile-bright teeth, and theme song to Indiana Jones, and leather flight jacket*. :-)

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    I finally made a list of something!! We celebrate when we can:.
    Teel

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Ah, Bill, he's a friend of a friend who've I've spoken to on occassion. Good man, Great writer. He's the writer for the Nameless Detective series which I highly reccomend, & the longest running PI character ever! Been scribing Nameless since the mid-70's I believe. Hardboiled is somewhere on my shelf (or in a box as the case, cleared my living space out for a nice new desk). :-)

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    "Are you thinking now that you SHOULD have paid me on time?
    "A shame you finished paying off that bridgework."
    "Don't I know you from some where?"
    "Oh, please, don't whimper, it'll give me nightmares."
    "The women I am saving from that look--if they only knew."
    "Surprise!"
    "You gotta ask yourself--oh hell, you finish it."
    "Splink zoing dorf--and you'll never know what that means!"
    "Left eye or right?"

    And the number one thing to say before you shoot someone in the face:
    "You better hope I remembered to load this or I'll have to beat you to death."
    Teel:)

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    rittin? Darn, but that be hard! Wordz iz tuff.
    So top ten things to say to the guy pointing the gun at your face...
    Teel

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Okay--so violence is its own reward:).
    Or so I'm finding with my stuff.
    I just try not to shoot blanks...
    Teel

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Good, good. Oh the subtle hostilityof a woman with a semi-automatic and a clip to spare *sigh*. Ya make the woman's right movement so proud I tell ya. A light rouge, kevlar body suit, and a flat heel goes well with semi-autos. Stilletos will break under the recoil. :-D Don't forget about highlights, it all the rage with Molls such as yourself.

    If you like Spillane, shoot on over to my site and read the tribute I wrote back when he passed. Good guy, and a true throwback to an era long lost.
    :-( (though some parts of that era......are better off lost) :-/

    Dec 5, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Gonna be at a con saturday, gun girl, to pump the blazing adventures anthology I'm in with Dash Courageous so I may not have internet til sunday so remember--its not the caliber of the bore but how boring the gunsel...
    Teel

    Dec 6, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Ah, Blondes, they tend to like my company. :-) And blondes can do highlights, depending on what type? Strawberry, dirty, plain, except platinum...hmm..

    Over the knee's too Hollywierd, gotta go more stealth. Like shin-high tight around the calf boots, hidden under a pair of black straight legged jeans.

    Yes, me and Teel will out there at the con, pimping our wares. Him in a fishnet belly shirt and fedora, sporting crotch-high cut up jean shorts and Freddy Mercury eyeliner, while I'm in white ankle-length fur with spackled-on mascara, smoking a long thin cigarillo. A rough looking broad-shouldered latina missing her front teeth, in a lime green El rumbles up to the corner, reaching over the passenger side seat, winding her window down. The smell of cerveza and weed flowing.

    Teel shimmies up to the window, bent fully over from the waist, half his body inside the car.

    (hahahahaha, god what an image of Teel. :-P)

    Yup, we'll be selling ourselves and my anthology (as imaged) at a con.

    I got to speak to Mickey on two occassions and still have his number. Friend of a friend intro'd me so I could drop him a line. Short conversation, though from y understanding that was the way he was, but he was definitely cool.

    Doesn't Max look like the fifth beatle? :-D

    Mickey was one of my influences, out of 4.

    Dec 6, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    YES MAMAM! *salutes*
    (brillo works best to get that Teel image out your brain) :-D

    And thanks. :-)

    The Courageous One.

    Dec 6, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Ah, but Teel, he is a man among boys. A rare gem that one. Glad to call him friend I be. Freaks are always more entertaining when viewed through altered eyes. ;-) I'd rather see freaks than suburban house wives. :-(

    Dec 6, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    That's why I always site behind refractive windows and have three doubles to confuse the competition...
    Teel

    Dec 7, 2008

  • Grant McKenzie

    Hey Carole: Switch isn't available in the U.S. yet — even though the story is set in Portland, Oregon. It just launched in trade paperback in Australia and will arrive in mass-market paperback in the UK in July and in Germany in August. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I land a U.S. and Canadian publisher in the New Year. It would be nice to see it in a bookstore on a continent where I live ;-)

    Dec 7, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Have fun at noir con!

    I know about being a black sheep. I'm a black sheep among crazy people. How out of bounds is that?

    Dec 7, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    I just read what Dash wrote about my outfit--it was brown eyeliner!! He's soooo catty!
    And it is a proven fact that cell phones stop inertia--cars cannot hit yuppies talking on them. I've seen it.

    Dec 8, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    The only hummers I like can't be mentioned in polite company.
    And while Dash might have exaggerated my presentation attire for the con, I have worn some pretty 'interesting' outfits over 30 years as an actor. I was the official Dr. Strange for Marvel for 7 years.:).
    Yes--I was strange professionally.
    Teel

    Dec 8, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    my websites that have shots of me in various 'outfits' are tjglenn.8m.com and theurbanswashbuckler.com, and my dear, I could never think you you as
    the bitch!"-- A bitch, maybe, but I knew "The Bitch" and you are so much sweeter (snicker)
    Teel

    Dec 8, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Sounds fun!

    But being a crime whore can be a daunting task.

    There's the sweaty summer nights in grim-splattered gas station bathrooms, broken halogen lights flickering over "for a good time" numbers, scrawled in sharpie. Knees bathing in urine puddles with Jennys (not johns) expecting service with a smile, for a 10 spot and a bottle of hooch.

    Crime whore's a busy occupation. lol. :-P

    Dec 8, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    The only thing about that Acme course.

    If they hire you to hit a very thin bird, DON'T! Cut all ties, burn all evidence, and change your identity. YOU;VE BEEN BURNED!

    They've slapped a burn notice on you. Govenments won't hire you. You'll be stuck in the city you're in. Hitters will come for you.

    All because of little bird hopped up on speed!

    Dec 9, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Nice to see you checked out the ego stuff:). I'm not a reanactor--I am a professional fight choreographer/actor--though i have many friends who do reenact--they really don't do correct combat and can't be used for professional faires or films safely--spend too much time arguing 'thats not accurate' even when it is:). I checked out the trailer --looked like fun. Yes-I am one of those guys who yells at the history channel when they get stuff wrong>

    Dec 9, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    Oh I didn't think you were 'accusing me' of being a reenactor--but its a distinction like "north and south' to some people. I deal with it a bit in my renfaire mystery novel Knight Errant.
    My email is tjglenn@aol.com--
    Love to hear from you.
    Teel

    Dec 10, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Go to aim for the forehead next time. Double tap. one in the chest, one in the head. Did you at least pop the hooker? Witnesses can be a liability. (Burn Notice is a good show, hopefully they won't make him all soft like the ep he wouldn't shoot tim matheson because he had a hostage. HE'S A SPY, CAP THE BASTARD!)

    Dec 10, 2008

  • Teel James Glenn

    The last book I sold is "Queen Morgana and the Ren Fairies"--and takes place at a human faire and a Fey faire in the Summerlands. Not a crime novel:).
    Teel

    Dec 10, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Yup, good ol acme knows how to treat their agents. Though imagine if Burn Notice was on FX like The Shield?

    Have you ever seen the Phillip Marlowe series starrinig Powers Boothe? Really good series back in '84 I believe. It's on dvd. I even got Mike Hammer and Spenser: for hire. TJ did an episode of Spenser. Got his butt kicked by Hawk. TOTALLY BAD ASS!

    Dec 10, 2008

  • Dash Courageous

    Yeah, heard of that show on the dish. Sounds cool the way its written

    Hey, what show can go wrong with bruce campbell, right? :-)

    See, I always had a funny feeling aboutol Saint Nick, considering how anything associated with the church is either corrupt or Pedo-oriented. C'mon, guy like kids sittiing in his lap. telling him secrets? DISGUSTING1

    Whack 'em! :-D

    Dec 11, 2008

  • JackBludis

    Saw your comment to Dash about Eddie Muller ... Eddie is the prince of noir. Knows it better than anyone on earth. A great guy as well.

    Jack

    Dec 13, 2008

  • JackBludis

    More mutual acquaintances, Christa Faust! Interesting woman. I bought her a drink at "noircon"--bottled water.

    Dec 13, 2008

  • Ann Reillet

    We're close enough to get into serious trouble;-)
    Do you ever wish it snowed here? It's just green
    year round:-(

    Dec 14, 2008

  • Miss Mae

    Thanks, Carole! Hope you'll tell your friends too! :)

    MM

    Dec 16, 2008

  • Ann Reillet

    Hi Carole, I started the screenplay. No idea what will become of it but I'm learning as I go and having fun with it. Ann

    Jan 27, 2009

  • CJ West

    How are you Carole?

    What's happening with you? Selling anything? I'm guessing the market is pretty tough right now. CJ

    Feb 7, 2009

  • CJ West

    That sounds great. Hope your nibbles turn into ferocious bites.

    No news to report on my end. The feedback we get on the screenplay is great (I'm not bragging - I didn't write it). But we don't have a sale yet. I'm working on my 4th novel now. Planning to be done by October.

    CJ

    Feb 7, 2009