OTHER LIVES, BENDS IN THE ROAD, AND WHAT-IFS (from the author of "Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices" (Penguin Books).

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Rick Schmidt's "Alternate-Universe" novel should help the reader contemplate (as he has...) how different their life would be if they'd made different choices in relationships, jobs, and friends.
Feature filmmaker (AMERICAN ORPHEUS, EMERALD CITIES, MORGAN'S CAKE, etc), fiction author (COLD, BLACK PRESIDENT, GREATEST SECOND-CHANCE FROG QUEEN), and memoIrist (TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES--A FILMMAKER'S MEMOIR) Rick Schmidt has written a novel about comparing his real-life facts with several most important WHAT-IFS moments, where a different choice about taking a video class, or joining a commune in Oregon/USA in the late 1960s would have formed an entirely different life for him. He calls the fiction stories "Alternate-Universes," and makes it clear that pretty much EVERYTHING he has lived (MARRIED, father of children, becoming a filmmaker...) would never have happened. Since his how-to Penguin book, "Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices" has been credited with starting the careers of CLERKS writer/director KEVIN SMITH and superstar VIN DIESEL, SCHMIDT CAN PRETTY CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT THOSE CAREERS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF HE'D JUST STAYED AT A COMMUNE IN THE OREGON WOODS! ULTIMATELY, Schmidt's page-turning "Airport-Book" can't help but put the reader in a frame of mind to wonder just how different her life could have been if the sometimes-tiniest choices were just a little bit different!

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Rick Schmidt
Rick Schmidt is an award-winning American low/no-budget feature filmmaker, with 26 indie features to his credit. He is also author of the seminal filmmaking book, “Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices” (Penguin Books, 1988, 1992, 2000), regarded as ‘the indie filmmaking bible’ by MovieMaker magazine. Frameworks magazine has called Schmidt a major innovator, in the era of early 1990s independent film, and Library Journal adds that his book has helped lead the way for film-artists to create their works outside the Hollywood system. With over 100,000 copies in print, ‘Used-Car’ filmmaking has helped noted film writer/directors like Kevin Smith/Clerks and action star Vin Diesel to establish Hollywood careers.

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