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A brief history of Movies in Fifteen Minutes:

• May 9, 2004: I see Van Helsing in the theater and come home and knock out about 2500 words on a whim. The internet goes a little nuts. Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes.
• May 11, 2004: I'm watching TV. "Hey, let's see if lightning strikes twice." Hannibal in Fifteen Minutes.
• May 15, 2004: Hidalgo in Fifteen Minutes.
• May 16, 2004: The Sunday after Van Helsing, I go see Troy. Troy in Fifteen Minutes. The internet goes a little bit more nuts.
• The following Thursday, an editor at Orion Books gets in touch with me about writing a book. Yes, it happened that quickly. No, I'm not making this up.
• I go on a panicked search for an agent to negotiate a contract and fire off a letter to a lovely agent I found listed online. By Monday, I have representation. We sign off on a deal for a ten-parody book, all new material.
• May 22, 2004: I'm watching TV again. Dracula (1979) in Fifteen Minutes.
• June 1, 2004: The Day After Tomorrow in Fifteen Minutes.
• June 7, 2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Fifteen Minutes.

All told, this is a level of easy productivity that will never, ever be seen again.

• Early July, 2004: I have a series of mild hissyfits over plagiarism (mostly people reposting entire parodies, usually Troy or POA/15, without permission or credit). Oh, those innocent, idealistic days when I actually thought I could police the interwebs.
• July 14, 2004: King Arthur in Fifteen Minutes.
• July 2004 - May 2005: I nearly have a nervous breakdown trying to write the book, considering that I've actually finished very few writing projects in my entire life.
• January 9, 2004: I take a break from book-writing to post Phantom of the Opera in Fifteen Minutes. The internet goes a little nuts. Again. (Yay!)
• October 20, 2005: Happy Bookday! Movies in Fifteen Minutes is released in Great Britain and various non-North American countries internationally.

The parodies in the book were all-new content and are not posted online. The ten parodies (links are to icon entries that served as countdown previews):

• Jurassic Park in Fifteen Minutes
• Braveheart in Fifteen Minutes
• Independence Day in Fifteen Minutes
• Gladiator in Fifteen Minutes
• Titanic in Fifteen Minutes
• The Matrix in Fifteen Minutes
• Attack of the Clones in Fifteen Minutes
• Spider-Man in Fifteen Minutes
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Sorcerer's Stone
• Lord of the Rings in Fifteen Minutes

From POTO/15 on, I've been posting parodies at a much more leisurely rate. All appearances to the contrary, the journal isn't dead; I just post somewhat infrequently. And I like it that way, because it keeps me from getting burnt out and the reader community from getting completely tired of my writing.

• March 29, 2006: On a whim, V for Vendetta in Fifteen Minutes.
• October 30, 2006: On another whim, The Prestige in Fifteen Minutes.

As of this writing (early 2007), a second book has been in planning stages (i.e., in my head) for about a year; I have a rough idea of the movies I'd want to do, but am still a little gun-shy from the stress of writing the first one.

Links:

• M15M FAQ
• Order the book from Amazon UK
• M15M entries tagged with "parodies"
• M15M entries tagged with "icons"