: About Me

Novelist, screenwriter, amateur ghost-hunter, part-time ordained minister and husband with a slowly improving track record. I have written six books, a handful of plays, screenplays and in the past 18 months was hired to write the biography of a local industrialist.

I'm currently working on the script for a TV sitcom based upon a friend's experiences as a street cop. The thing I've been learning lately about my writing is that I not only can "write on demand" about topics or fictional situations not of my own choosing, but I quite enjoy it.

Web sites:

www.matthewstamand.com

www.enroutetheseries.com

www.murphyslawpress.com

Books I've written:

* With These Two Hands (biography of a local industrialist)

* Randham Acts (suspense novel)

* Pickle on a S*t Sandwich (blog posts)

* Homunculus (collection of satire)

* Forever & a Day (poetry)

* As My Sparks Fly Upward & Other Stories (collection of short fiction)

Plays

* Dorian (based upon The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)

* Shine On You Crazy Diamond (original)

Screenplays

* Mr. Brightside (feature-length)

* Jay-Star (short)

* The Bike Man Cometh (short)

* Grudgingly (short)

I know too much about ...

Popular culture

My childhood ambition ...

To be a forest ranger

My favorite memory ...

Saying to my mother when I was 7, "Ma, we'd know by now if I was retarded?"

My best moment ...

My wedding; publication of my first book

Business > Business Issues Should there be a maximum limit that businesses can pay their CEO?

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Compensation for chief executive officers is just one of those egregious, indefensible items reported in the news, from time to time, which makes every ordinary working slob shake his head with disgust and bewilderment, and all those step-on-anyone-who-gets-in-their-way career ladder climbers salivate with envy and anticipation. Such anomalies as this in daily life fall into an awkward category labeled: "Whatever the market will bear." Are CEOs worth their exorbitant pay?  Rarely. Often, the most profitable move a CEO can make is to perform poorly, tank the company they head (few CEOs...

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