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Lee Goldberg
American writer
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Lee Goldberg is an American author, screenwriter, publisher and producer known for his bestselling novels Lost Hills and True Fiction and his work on a wide variety of TV crime series, including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Martial Law, She-Wolf of London, SeaQuest, Missing, The Glades and Monk.
Career
Goldberg began his career as a journalist, covering local news and the police beat for the Contra Costa Times (later renamed the East Bay Times) and UPI, and writing feature articles, interviews and reviews for various national publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and American Film among others.
He attended UCLA, where he was a reporter and feature writer for the Daily Bruin student newspaper, in addition to his aforementioned journalism work. There he befriended Lewis Perdue, the paper's journalism advisor from to , who got Goldberg his first writing assignment for Pinnacle Books. The novel, Vigilante, was published under the pseudonym "Ian Ludlow" in The novel spawned three more sequels and the series' movie rights were optioned by New World Pictures. Although the movie was never made, his script for the movie, co-written with fellow UCLA classmate William Rabkin, led to a long career in television and film. Their first television credit was on the "If You Knew Sammy" episode of Spenser: For Hire about an author of vigilante novels.
Film and television
His subsequent writing and producing credits include Murphy's Law, SeaQuest DSV, The Cosby Mysteries, and Monk, among others. He is perhaps best known for his stint as supervising producer and executive producer of the long-running series Diagnosis Murder starring Dick Van Dyke as a doctor who solves crimes.
In , Goldberg wrote and produced the
[Interview] Best-selling author, Lee Goldberg
We had a chance to catch up with best-selling author, screenwriter, and publisher Lee Goldberg. You will want to hear what he has to say. Here’s a brief bio:
Lee Goldberg is a #1New York Times best-selling author. His mother wanted him to be a doctor, and his grandfather wanted him to go into the family furniture business. Instead, he put himself through UCLA as a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as American Film, Starlog, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle (he also wrote erotic letters to the editor for Playgirl at twenty-five-dollars-a-letter, but he doesn't tell people about that; he just likes to boast about those "Tiffany" credits).While he was still a UCLA student, he published his first book, Vigilante, under the pseudonym "Ian Ludlow," so he'd be on the shelf next to Robert Ludlum. The West Coast Review of Books called his debut "as stunning as the report of a Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort," singling the book out as "The Best New Paperback Series" of the year. Naturally, the publisher promptly went bankrupt, and he never saw a dime in royalties. (But the books are available on Kindle as The Jury Series)Welcome to publishing, rg broke into television with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then, his TV writing and producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of London), kid's shows (R.L. Stine's The Nightmare Room), T&A (Baywatch), comedy (Monk), and utter crap (The Highwayman). His TV work has earned him two Edgar Award nominations from the Mystery Writers of two careers, novelist and TV writer, merged when he began writing the Diagno Lee Goldberg is an ex-Navy SEAL, nuclear physicist and a professional Daniel Craig impersonator. Okay, that’s not true. But he wants this biography to be really exciting, so pay attention. If things bog down, I’ve been instructed to add a car chase or some explicit sex. Here’s the real story. Lee Goldberg writes books and television shows. His mother wanted him to be a doctor, and his grandfather wanted him to go into the family furniture business. Instead, he put himself through UCLA as a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as American Film, Starlog, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle (he also wrote erotic letters to the editor for Playgirl at $a-letter, but he doesn’t tell people about that, he just likes to boast about those “Tiffany” credits). He published his first book Vigilante (as “Ian Ludlow,” so he’d be on the shelf next to Robert Ludlum) while he was still a UCLA student. The West Coast Review of Books called his debut “as stunning as the report of a Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort,” singling the book out as “The Best New Paperback Series” of the year. Naturally, the publisher promptly went bankrupt and he never saw a dime in royalties. Welcome to publishing, Lee. His many subsequent books include the non-fiction Successful Television Writingand Unsold Television Pilots as well as the novels Lost Hills, True Fiction, My Gun Has Bullets, The Walk, King City, and Watch Me Die, which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America. He was also the co-author with Janet Evanovich of the five international bestselling Fox & O’Hare novels (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam and The Pursuit) and two New York Times bestselling prequel novellas (The Shell Game and Pros & Cons). His most recent books include Dream Town (the 5th novel in the Eve Ronin series), MalibuBurni Lee Goldberg: &#; I am an ex-Navy SEAL, freelance Sexual Surrogate and a professional Pierce Brosnan impersonator. Okay, that&#;s not true. But I want this biography to be really exciting, so pay attention. If things bog down, I&#;ve been instructed to add a car chase or some explicit &#;s the real story. I writes books and television shows. My mother wanted me to be a doctor, and my grandfather wanted me to go into the family furniture business. Instead, I put himself through UCLA as a freelance journalist.&#; The Interview with Lee (part 2) Q. and the all important: What does the process of going from &#;no book&#; to &#;finished book&#; look like? A. That&#;s such a broad question, it would take a book to answer it. But in simple terms for me, it looks like a page manuscript printed out on my desk&#;and lots of empty diet coke cans in my recycle bin. A. . The characters come first, the story comes next. You can&#;t tell a story without the characters. Story is character. Q. What inspired your story/stories ? A. I have no idea. What I can say is that my story process usually begins with a clever, fun, interesting, scary, unusual, perplexing conflict of some kind that my characters get into. Q. Have you? Or do you want to write in another genre`? A. On TV, I&#;ve written cop shows, doctor shows, lifeguard shows, monster shows, just about everything. Bookwise, I like writing crime novels. But I&#;ve also written a horror novel (The Dead Man&#;), an epic thriller (&#;The Walk&#;) and a western of sorts (Mr. Monk In Trouble, half of which takes place in the s). Q. Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know? A. The rumors that I am a hermaphrodite are not true. Click here to read Part 1 of Interview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q. Where/when do you first discover your characters ?
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