About C.M. Dinsmore

The Author

C.M. Dinsmore is a writer and scholar. He holds a doctorate in Literature and Writing, with earlier training in film and media studies. He is the author of The Robinsonade and Authorial Context (forthcoming 2027), a critical study, and the novel The Melody That Binds (2023), a Robinsonade set in the Philippine jungle during the Second World War. He works across the narrative arts, including fiction, screenwriting, and digital media.

His storytelling is rooted in the filmmaker within him. Fate steered him toward literature and prose, and that film background adds layers of complexity and depth to his work.

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Criticism

C.M. Dinsmore's critical study, The Robinsonade and Authorial Context (Heliotropic Media, forthcoming February 2027), applies his own essentialist lens to the castaway narrative, from Robinson Crusoe to The Martian and his novel. About the book →

Fiction

C.M. Dinsmore's debut novel, The Melody That Binds (2023), is a powerful WWII historical fiction narrative set within the Asia Pacific theater beginning in 1945. It follows a Japanese soldier whose flight into the Philippine jungle leads to an unexpected journey of atonement, forgiveness, and love.

The novel was inspired by the visuals and drama of Kurosawa's films and is set within the framework of a Robinsonade tale, where views of nature and society are akin to Thoreauvian thinking. Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook. The novel is one of the six castaway narratives examined in The Robinsonade and Authorial Context.

Screenwriting

CM's screenwriting practice includes both original screenplays and literary adaptations. His latest project, Christabel, completes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous unfinished Gothic poem (1816), with an original score by composer Albert Syeles.

The project has its own project page, where the full synopsis, the original Coleridge poem, and project details are available. Scripts and treatments available upon request.