I’m passing the virtual hat…
Welcome to Humanity Is My Business, the online home of the Jason Davis.
If you’ve enjoyed my writing for Creative Screenwriting, Cinescape, or Collider; my work for Babylon 5 Books or with Harlan Ellison; or my books, Writing The X-Files, the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia, or the behind-the-scenes saga of my forthcoming making of Babylon 5 books, I invite you to take a look at my newly launched Patreon account.
I’ve been a freelance writer since 2003, and much of my early work—interviews with writers, including Guillermo Del Toro, Rockne S. O’Bannon, and J. Michael Straczynski; essays on Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Godfather; and other oddities I’ve likely forgotten I wrote—has been unavailable for years. I’ll be exhuming a couple of these every month in “It came from the morgue…” at the $5 level.
First up is “Knocking Over the Candy Shoppe”, the essay I wrote for the now-out-of-print Archive edition of The Deadly Streets by Harlan Ellison. You can read the first couple paragraphs here to see if it takes your fancy.
For patrons who join at the $10 level, there’s “Fresh copy!” These are newly written pieces—some based on older works, but completely re-written or expanded by more than 50%, or both—that allow me a creative outlet beyond the aforementioned Babylon 5 project that consumes most of my waking hours.
The initial offering is a 2007 interview with Steven Moffat, discussing his writing for Coupling, Doctor Who, and his then-forthcoming series, Jekyll. A bit of this was published in CS Weekly, the long-defunct online companion to Creative Screenwriting, but it’s more than doubled in length. I went back to the original interview recording and got every bit of writing advice the future Doctor Who showrunner had to offer.
You can see a few paragraphs of the Moffat piece here, to see if it’s your cup of tea.
For those who don’t want to go the Patreon route, but appreciate my work and want to offer a digital tip, I’ve also established a Ko-Fi account.
Whether you found me via Creative Screenwriting, Cinescape, Collider, Babylon 5 Books, HarlanEllisonBooks.com, Writing The X-Files, the Harlan Ellison Books or Babylon 5 Preservation Project, Patricia Tallman’s B5 Events, or my Write Your Story workshops, I appreciate you taking time to explore my anarchic little website.
Thank you for your interest.
If you find my work worthy of a contribution via Patreon or Ko-Fi, thank you for the support. It is appreciated more than you know.
Be well,
JASON DAVIS
