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New Works Project
Commencing Jan 1st, 2011, the
feature movie stories listed on Screenplays
and Loglines will be developed as novels
for release in digital format, suitable for tablet
download.
Overwhelmingly, 3 - 1 you have
requested Ice Cold
as the first.
Thank you all for the e-mails and positive comments.
If you have a second favorite send an
email.
Your votes will determine which
one will be the next.
Vote here.
As of today's date:
2nd Chances ahead of
Magick by 17 votes,
Nutter is in 3rd place with 6.
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A conundrum that confronted me when I had completed
and tried to market my first manuscript: no publisher, other than the
vanity press, would deign to look at it unless I was already a published
author, and no agent would accept me as a client unless I was already
represented.
Encouraged by screenwriter
and novelist Budd Schulberg, to contact his agent when I had a
presentable ms (What a break!) I received a form letter from that agency
apprising me that unsolicited manuscripts were unacceptable.
Schulberg's business card upon which he'd
written the name of his agent, that I'd included, was not returned.
How many gifted writers have never seen the
light of day because they weren't given a chance, because they weren't
connected?
Consider the tale of John Kennedy Toole, who
wrote A Confederacy Dunces published in 1980, and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction in 1981.
Enviable? Not really.
The only reason the book was published
11 years after the author's suicide, with no small thanks to
the same sequences of rejection listed above, was due to his mother's
tenacity in getting a publisher to actually read the manuscript she only
discovered after his death. What great works could he have given the
world, if given that chance? How many other John Kennedy Tooles are out
there, unread, unpublished, discarded without a fair shot?
It is very hard to market one's work when the
rejection of an author's work is, in fact, a rejection of years spent
developing a perspective on life, and a rejection of the person. It is
to that end that Cre8tve1 Corporation dedicates a lion's share of its
resources.
Bless you Cre8tve1.
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