Before he took the New Media plunge as co-founder and CEO of the blog aggregation Pajamas Media, Roger L. Simon made his living writing novels and screenplays. In books, he is best known for his series of eight Moses Wine detective novels, which have been translated into over a dozen languages and won prizes from the Mystery Writers of America and the Crime Writers of Great Britain. The first Moses Wine book was The Big Fix, made into a film starring Richard Dreyfuss for which Simon wrote the screenplay. This brought him to Hoillywood. Among his other screenplays are Bustin’ Loose (with Richard Pryor), Scenes from a Mall (with Bette Midler and Woody Allen) and the Paul Mazursky-directed Enemies, A Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for adaptation. Roger also directed the independent feature Prague Duet, starring Gina Gershon. He has taught screenwriting at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and at the American Film Institute. He is a former president of the PEN Center USA West and a former member of the board of the Writers Guild of America. He blogs at www.rogerlsimon.com.