"Small Apartments" To Film...

Rob Schneider will star in the film adaptation of my first novel, "Small Apartments", for which I also wrote the screenplay. Michael Philip ("Drop Dead Sexy") is set to direct in early 2009. Production and distribution partners include Tim Peternel and David Hillary at Deviant Film (QBlack Media), Bridget McMeel and John Glynn at Amuse (with William Morris Agency), Arsenal Pictures and Film Tiger. More info as it develops.

"Small Apartments" Team at Sundance

SMALL APARTMENTS film director Geoffrey Haley has just come off a terrific week at Sundance where he premiered his first feature "The Last Word" starring Wes Bentley, Winona Rider and Ray Romano.

The film has received great reviews (google: "the last word sundance" for more). Also, check out this series of video interviews conducted by Variety of "Small Apartments" director, Haley, and producers Tim Peternel and Dave Hillary of Deviant Film.

"Orange" - A Poem to be Celebrated

I fear that my first, and only, published poem debuted in such an obscure literary volume that I am robbing dozens of the opportunity to experience it. I therefore provide this link. Enjoy "Orange", a guaranteed tonic for word scurvy. I await my MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant.

Buy My Buddy's Book

Name the Boy (Dan River Press, 2007) is a collection of stories about fathers and sons written in the vein of Hemingway if he had been raised on a lobster boat in New England. The author is Shawn Kerivan, the enigmatic Stowe innkeeper and a fellow graduate of the creative writing program at Goddard College, Vermont.

Click here to visit his web site and pick up a copy of this fine American story collection.

If you enjoy Shawn's book, you may thank him by forwarding a bottle of Irish whiskey direct to the Auberge de Stowe, c/o the author.

Apparently, I need a blog...

Greetings people in pajamas. This is my first posting in the blogosphere, a world wherein proper names -- indeed no word at all -- need be capitalized. I will contribute to this web address (chrismillis.com) all information relevant to my writing and drawing.

I had owned chrismillis.com for many years and done little with it. In 2006, I let the domain lapse and thought little of it. Then, suddenly, I was struck with an irrational paranoia. I feared that some other Chris Millis (and I know of several) would snatch it away, and with it, a piece of my soul. I was pleased to learn today that it was still available. I have repurchased it for the princely sum of $10.

My concern no doubt stems from my knowledge that of the several other Chris Millis's I am aware of -- all are involved in the arts, i.e., writers, painters, performers, etc. My doppelganger in Boston, for example, is an arts professor at Boston University, poet, journalist, playwright and performer. A while back we exchanged emails -- "Hey Chris Millis, Chris Millis here...etc, etc." He told me he had been recently introduced at a reading as the author of my first novel, Small Apartments, among other of my modest accomplishments. And, once upon a time, I had in fact been tracked down through my cartoon syndicate by a friend of his through their association with the writer's retreat Yaddo, located in my hometown.

So, you see, my paranoia was rooted in more than fantasy and anecdote.

But now, as a result of this afternoon's $10 reinvestment in my career identity, there can be no dispute: I am the one, true Chris Millis. All others will now and forever be relegated to chris-millis.com, or chrismillisonline.com or the extraordinarily unsatisfying suffixes .net, .org and worse. I know this because I checked the box marked "auto-payment."

So in conclusion and by way of introduction, people in pajamas, this is my blog. The official location on the Internet for the official Chris Millis. Cheers.