A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin

I expected them to read more or less like an extended episode of the show, but they don't, really. Unfortunately, they're not very good either. If you like the TV show, and it is one of my favorites, then the books aren't bad. I'm going to repeat this review for all of the Psych books that I've read, since they're essentially all the same. He also currently teaches “Beginning Television Writing” and “Advanced Television Rewriting Workshop” for Screenwriters University. Rabkin, adjunct assistant professor of screen and television writing at the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert’s Low Residency MFA In Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts, has lectured on television writing and production to writers, producers, and executives in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Brazil. He is the co-creator and co-editor of “The Dead Man,” a monthly series of supernatural action thrillers published by Amazon’s 47North imprint. He has published two books on writing for television, Successful Television Writing (2003), with Lee Goldberg and Writing The Pilot (2011) and five novels. His work has been nominated twice for the Edgar Award for best television episode by the Mystery Writers of America. He has also written a dozen network TV pilots. He served as showrunner on the long-running Dick Van Dyke mystery series “Diagnosis Murder” and on the action-adventure spectacle “Martial Law.” His many writing and producing credits include “The Glades,” “Monk,” “Psych, “Nero Wolfe,” “Missing,” “Spenser: For Hire,” “seaQuest 2032,” “Hunter” and “The Cosby Mysteries”. William Rabkin has written and/or produced more than 300 hours of dramatic television.

He has consulted for studios in Canada, Germany, and Spain on television series production and teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension and as an adjunct professor in UC Riverside's low-residency masters program.

William Rabkin is a two-time Edgar Award nominee who writes the Psych series of novels and is the author of Writing the Pilot.

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read by William Rabkin