Is there any question?
All of these years, decades now, of writing screenplays, tech manuals, songs, novels, notes, etc. Paper piled up in 4 drawer file cabinets.
The question now becomes how to publish. I've tired of the jumping through hoops, playing 'chase the agent'. Need I write my query in blood to convince thee of my will to write?
So, it's to the masses I turn.
Will they find me and if they do...will they read?
Showing posts with label agents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agents. Show all posts
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Into the New Year
Like an old car with a weak battery, I'm hard to crank over when it's cold outside. Once I get started, I can run with the best of them.
The past few weeks have been taken up with research for the books I'm working on and doing the agent hunt dance.
When I get away from the keyboard I've been helping a neighbor repair his barn roof. Which is not exactly the type of activity most people engage in during the winter months. It's more of a spring, summer, fall kind of job, which you don't want to fall down on. Tied to a safety rope while sliding across the 45 degree slope of a 60 year old barn is not a leisurely situation. Sure it's not mountain climbing, but then I'm not living in the mountains.
I'm running roofing screws down through crusty tin and corroded aluminum panels, securing them to weathered wood which is more rot than wood in some places. It's a good thing that I'm not too heavy at this time in my life.
Anyone else might go through the roof. Which as those of you who have experienced the vertigo, acceleration and then abrupt deceleration of any fall knows that it's not how it happens, but what lies between you and the ground that can hurt you.
It's good, old fashioned, physical work and it pays off in keeping me sharp plus giving my balance and muscles a work-out. My 80 year old neighbor appreciates it and it keeps his barn roof together.
Getting my mind off my writing brings me back to the computer refreshed and ready to get on with the project at hand.
The past few weeks have been taken up with research for the books I'm working on and doing the agent hunt dance.
When I get away from the keyboard I've been helping a neighbor repair his barn roof. Which is not exactly the type of activity most people engage in during the winter months. It's more of a spring, summer, fall kind of job, which you don't want to fall down on. Tied to a safety rope while sliding across the 45 degree slope of a 60 year old barn is not a leisurely situation. Sure it's not mountain climbing, but then I'm not living in the mountains.
I'm running roofing screws down through crusty tin and corroded aluminum panels, securing them to weathered wood which is more rot than wood in some places. It's a good thing that I'm not too heavy at this time in my life.
Anyone else might go through the roof. Which as those of you who have experienced the vertigo, acceleration and then abrupt deceleration of any fall knows that it's not how it happens, but what lies between you and the ground that can hurt you.
It's good, old fashioned, physical work and it pays off in keeping me sharp plus giving my balance and muscles a work-out. My 80 year old neighbor appreciates it and it keeps his barn roof together.
Getting my mind off my writing brings me back to the computer refreshed and ready to get on with the project at hand.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Out With the Old and in With the BOLD
People who know me will tell you that I can be a bit, let's be gentle, intense, to say the least.
I have little time and less than enough patience for the routine, much less dull in life. Which is why I chafe at the amount of time and effort it takes to get an agent or a publisher for my writing work.
To say that dealing with the old school version of the publishing world is tedious would be polite on my part. I know that it has good reason to be the way it is. Truly there are many who would want to be published so as to reap fortunes and fame. Myself, I just want to write.
After years of doing other jobs, some of which I was good at, I realized that living your life while doing something you don't love is not a life. It's a job.
So, on into the new year.
Where I will rev up the marketing campaign.
You've been warned.
Have a Happy Holidays, for whatever reason you celebrate this season.
I have little time and less than enough patience for the routine, much less dull in life. Which is why I chafe at the amount of time and effort it takes to get an agent or a publisher for my writing work.
To say that dealing with the old school version of the publishing world is tedious would be polite on my part. I know that it has good reason to be the way it is. Truly there are many who would want to be published so as to reap fortunes and fame. Myself, I just want to write.
After years of doing other jobs, some of which I was good at, I realized that living your life while doing something you don't love is not a life. It's a job.
So, on into the new year.
Where I will rev up the marketing campaign.
You've been warned.
Have a Happy Holidays, for whatever reason you celebrate this season.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
The Write Life
The write life is the only life.
How can you not communicate once you learn the form?
I spend many hours per week writing and researching my books, screenplays and other expressions of my thoughts.
Now I have to do that which I do not enjoy, but is a necessity.
Marketing my work.
I've been researching agents, agencies, publishers and the various new forms of publishing available to anyone with the urge to write. Then get it out to the public and hope for it's acceptance as viable entertainment.
To paraphrase Elvis, "Too much talk and not enough action, I can't get no satisfaction."
Wait, there might be a touch of Rolling Stones in there...or did they copy Elvis?
Either way, it's time to take action.
How can you not communicate once you learn the form?
I spend many hours per week writing and researching my books, screenplays and other expressions of my thoughts.
Now I have to do that which I do not enjoy, but is a necessity.
Marketing my work.
I've been researching agents, agencies, publishers and the various new forms of publishing available to anyone with the urge to write. Then get it out to the public and hope for it's acceptance as viable entertainment.
To paraphrase Elvis, "Too much talk and not enough action, I can't get no satisfaction."
Wait, there might be a touch of Rolling Stones in there...or did they copy Elvis?
Either way, it's time to take action.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Agents, continued
I might have sounded a bit gruff, rough or been tough on agents in my last post.
Didn't mean to upset anyone. Just want some answers to the simple question of using videos as a method to query agents, publishers and for those of us who write screenplays, production companies.
Doing a video isn't easy. Most people have a hard enough time writing a query letter or a pitch for their work. I've been shooting film or video for decades, so it's a something I'm used to.
It's the video age. Everyone was raised on TV. OK, I've got a few gaps there, where I've gone for years at a time without owning one and didn't watch too many hours of programming. That can be explained and no, I wasn't in jail.
Gives me more time to write and shoot photos.
Didn't mean to upset anyone. Just want some answers to the simple question of using videos as a method to query agents, publishers and for those of us who write screenplays, production companies.
Doing a video isn't easy. Most people have a hard enough time writing a query letter or a pitch for their work. I've been shooting film or video for decades, so it's a something I'm used to.
It's the video age. Everyone was raised on TV. OK, I've got a few gaps there, where I've gone for years at a time without owning one and didn't watch too many hours of programming. That can be explained and no, I wasn't in jail.
Gives me more time to write and shoot photos.
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