{"id":15966,"date":"2015-10-02T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?page_id=15966"},"modified":"2015-11-15T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:54:57","slug":"melinda-snodgrass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/highlights\/panelists\/melinda-snodgrass\/","title":{"rendered":"MELINDA SNODGRASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Panelist<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg\" data-lbwps-width=\"471\" data-lbwps-height=\"722\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed-196x300.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15967 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" alt=\"Melinda Snodgrass\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg?w=471&amp;ssl=1 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>Melinda Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna in Austria, graduated from U.N.M. with a degree in history, and went on to Law School.\u00a0 She practiced for three years, and discovered that while she loved the law she hated lawyers so she began writing science fiction novels.<\/div>\n<div>In 1988 she accepted a job on Star Trek: TNG, and began her Hollywood career where she has worked on staff on numerous shows \u2014 Reasonable Doubts, Profiler, and has written television pilots and feature films.\u00a0 Most recently she wrote a film based on the Wild Cards franchise for Universal Pictures. \u00a0 She also writes for the book series and co-edits Wild Cards with George R. 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Martin.<\/div>\n<div>She is currently working on the second book in her five book Space Opera series for Titan Books.\u00a0 The three books in the EDGE series\u00a0 \u2014 THE EDGE OF REASON, THE EDGE OF DARKNESS and THE EDGE OF DAWN are currently available from Tor Books.<\/div>\n<div>She also writes an Urban Fantasy series featuring blood sucking lawyers under the name Phillipa Bornikova.\u00a0 Those novels, THIS CASE IS GONNA KILL ME, and BOX OFFICE POISON are available from Tor books.<\/div>\n<div>For fun she rides her dressage horses and plays video games<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panelist Melinda Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna in Austria, graduated from U.N.M. with a degree in history, and went on to Law School.\u00a0 She practiced for three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15967,"parent":16733,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-15966","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15969,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15966\/revisions\/15969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}