Windows Publications is a Cavan based publishers supported by Cavan County Council and Cavan Crystal. They publish every year or so an anthology of emerging writers, 3 or 4 for short stories and 8 to 10 for poetry as well as a couple of artists. This year they've chosen me and 6 or 7 of my poems as a representative sample of my collection. Yay! A reading in Cavan in October followed by one in Dublin and Galway for all. No money but lots of glory.
I wonder who else was accepted. Let me know if it's you or someone you hear of.
Movie extras update. Since I took up my full time employment, taking me out of the Monday to Friday availability, I have been asked for my availability for shoots 3 times.
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Monday, 10 September 2007
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Updates
Well, another (nice) rejection from Simon and Schuster. Two more before the next round. Fingers crossed we won't need it. I have been reading up on rejections. I'll post later.
Got a rejection from BBC Northern Ireland for the Tony Doyle Award for New television writers. I suppose it was a stretch but I am very fond of my story. It will have to find a different home and perhaps form.
Read this and weep or laugh, the truth about the slush pile.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/the_shocking_truth_about_the_s.html
Particularly some of the comments below. Publishers run a business. 90-95% of what they receive is completely unpublishable - which is good for people who produce publishable work - and it takes time and effort even to post out a form letter. I know I appreciate any feedback at all, however hard hitting but the urge to respond is tough to control. So feedback is rare and unusual. The number of acceptances from the slushpile is sobering. Having an agent speeds the process up but doesn't that just move the slushpile from the publishers' offices to the agents'?
The National Gallery class went great. Enthusiastic feedback. Hope they have me back.
Got a text from movieextras about availability but nothing happened beyond that.
Got a rejection from BBC Northern Ireland for the Tony Doyle Award for New television writers. I suppose it was a stretch but I am very fond of my story. It will have to find a different home and perhaps form.
Read this and weep or laugh, the truth about the slush pile.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/the_shocking_truth_about_the_s.html
Particularly some of the comments below. Publishers run a business. 90-95% of what they receive is completely unpublishable - which is good for people who produce publishable work - and it takes time and effort even to post out a form letter. I know I appreciate any feedback at all, however hard hitting but the urge to respond is tough to control. So feedback is rare and unusual. The number of acceptances from the slushpile is sobering. Having an agent speeds the process up but doesn't that just move the slushpile from the publishers' offices to the agents'?
The National Gallery class went great. Enthusiastic feedback. Hope they have me back.
Got a text from movieextras about availability but nothing happened beyond that.
Monday, 28 May 2007
Movie Extras
I have just signed up with movieextras.ie. They say they are looking for over 35s especially. I understand there is a lot of hanging around and I am really good at hanging around, having two kids that need ferrying about the county! I thought I could use the hanging around time to write too. And they pay and I have no money. And I would hope to get an insight into how films work in case my book ever makes it into film. Watch this space.
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