Andrew Klavan

“Haunting Melissa” On the Rise

May 19, 2013 News

After its first two days of release, Haunting Melissa, the new ghost story app with a script by Andrew, is in the top ten of free entertainment app downloads at the Apple iStore, vying with such apps as Netflix and the TV networks. Named best App of the day, and featured by Apple, the first-of-its-kind movie-in-an-app [...]

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Great Launch for Haunting Melissa

May 19, 2013 Culture

  Wow, I couldn’t be happier with the way Neal Edelstein and the Haunting Melissa team introduced this new ghost story — and this new form of entertainment —to the world. Lots of good press about it like here and here, creepy trailers here and here, even an encouraging tweet from Avril Lavigne! The app [...]

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“Haunting Melissa” Has Arrived

May 16, 2013 Culture

If you own an iPhone or iPad, you can now download the first ever app movie, “Haunting Melissa,” a ghost story with a script by yours truly. My buddy Neal Edelstein came up with this truly new way of delivering entertainment. The app download is free and incredibly cool — and all downloads are helpful [...]

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“Haunting Melissa” Now Available

May 16, 2013 News

The first ever app movie, “Haunting Melissa,” a ghost story with a script by Andrew is now available for download free, exclusively at the app store for iPhone and iPad users. The story, delivered in installments by the app, tells of a young woman in a lonely farmhouse who begins to feel her mother is [...]

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“Haunting Melissa” Coming Soon

May 6, 2013 Culture

I’m really excited about this. My buddy Neal Edelstein — now the overlord of his own company Hooked Digital Media — has created this brilliant new app to, in his words, “fill a void in today’s entertainment landscape by creating original filmed stories for viewing directly on mobile and tablet devices.” It’s cutting edge stuff [...]

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First App Film Coming Soon, With Andrew’s Teleplay

May 6, 2013 News

Producer Neal Edelstein announced the formation of his new company Hooked Digital Media this week, saying the firm would be dedicated to delivering “quality film-making for tablet and mobile devices through app technology that reinvents distribution.” The first-ever such film will be the ghost story Haunting Melissa, to be released later this spring. Haunting Melissa features a story [...]

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Interview at Faulkner University

April 29, 2013 Culture

Here’s an hour-long interview I did with Professor Robert Woods of Great Books Honors College of Faulkner University. We discuss my novels Crazy Dangerous, If We Survive and Identity Man, talk writing in general with a little politics thrown in. Again, the link is here.

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Andrew Interviewed on Google Plus

April 25, 2013 News

Andrew will chat with Professor Robert Woods of the Great Books Honors College on Google + Wednesday, May 25th at 6PM Pacific Time. Andrew will answer questions sent in from the audience regarding his novels for both adults and young adults, and his concerns about the culture.  The interview can be found at http://studyliberalarts.org/2013/04/09/interview-with-andrew-klavan/

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Me on Mamet – Again.

April 21, 2013 Culture

I’ve written about the playwright and screenwriter David Mamet a number of times now, first in the Los Angeles Times, then in the Wall Street Journal. I don’t intend to make a career of it, but I do have one more piece about him on the Front Page website – a study of how the [...]

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Andrew Has Part in “Hating Breitbart”

April 21, 2013 News

“Hating Breitbart,” a documentary on the late media activist, will be released into select theaters and also made available on DVD and video on demand starting May 17th. The film follows Breitbart through a number of his clashes with the mainstream media, repeatedly showing him first vilified, then vindicated. Andrew (Klavan) appears, offering commentary on [...]

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