Hornpin Media Group is negotiating with Matthew Cox to purchase the film rights to “Cash & Coke,” his true-crime article featured in the digital Inside True Crime Magazine. The proposed adaptation would bring a story of armed robberies, family loyalty and police corruption to the big screen. The article follows Robert “Snoop” George III and his half brother, Devell Hawkins, who robbed drug dealers throughout Florida. According to their accounts, their operation became more lu

Every September 1 in Binghamton, New York, friends gather at the Belmar Pub. They raise a glass, share stories, and toast two men who died on that date years earlier. The tradition has now entered its fifth year. What makes it unusual is that the men being remembered never lived. They are characters from a novel. Thirty-Three Cecils, set in recognizable places throughout Binghamton and Erie, Pennsylvania, has blurred the line between fiction and the real city. Because the b

For generations, ghostwriting was considered the literary equivalent of an apprenticeship. Young writers, often unknown and unpublished, took on anonymous assignments to earn a living while learning the craft. They wrote memoirs for celebrities, business books for executives, and autobiographies for public figures—collecting a paycheck while waiting for the day their own names would appear on a book cover. Ghostwriting was often viewed as a steppingstone, something writers di