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I got this email today: My name is Brad Burchards, a Publishing Consultant with Xlibris, and I would like to inquire if you have any current manuscript or works in progress where you have plans of publishing it once you have completed it. Here’s a brief intro of our company and services we offer. Xlibris … Read more
I received the email below from Susan Driscoll, CEO of iUniverse. It is presented here unedited. She has also kindly offered to let me interview her for a Q&A to be posted here in the future. If you have any questions you would like me to ask her (in addition to whatever occurs to me), … Read more
I got this email IN ALL CAPS today, so I know HE’S SERIOUS. LEE I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHO IS WRITING FOR DONALD BELISARIO.THE REASON BEING I’VE WATCH THE SHOW SINCE IT FIRST CAME OUT AND I DO NOT LIKE THE SEASON FINALE OF NAVY NCIS THIS WEEK.WHERE CAITLIN GETS KILLED.THOSE 6 PEOPLE MAKE … Read more
It’s Emmy time… that’s the glorious time of year when members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences get inundated with DVDs of all the best TV shows (sitcoms and dramas), MOWs and miniseries that have aired on network, cable, and pay cable in the last year. (Fellow scribe Paul Guyot lists on his … Read more
My friend Paul Quarrington, a wonderful novelist himself, reviews Isabel Allende’s Zorro in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. This is a book rife with coincidence, love at first sight, pirates, secret societies — hey, it’s a book where a guy can put on a mask, draw a little moustache on his face and fool people … Read more
I don’t what what it is, but Friday seems to be a big day for email. Here’s one I got today, which read, in part: Television series air and are eventually canceled. What happens to them? Obviously I wouldn’t be asking if I weren’t interested in a particular series. "Search," an adventure series that aired … Read more
Today I received this email, which I’m assuming is in response to my post "iUniverse By The Numbers." Is it bad writing that prevents a POD book from selling or many other factors? I challenge you: an established, tradional, successful writer to submit something you wrote to a POD and when it doesn’t sell will … Read more
I got this email today…then again, it seems like I get it every day: I have a great idea for a TV cop show but I’m not a writer. How can I sell it? I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before, but here goes anyway. This is a column I wrote several years ago … Read more
Today, I received this email: I would like to Email Mr. Wolf about an idea…If anyone knows his email address are a way I can get in contacted with please email me at StreetRacerBW@yahoo.com. Thank you, Victoria. My reply: If you’ve paid any attention to Dick Wolf’s shows, you’ll notice they all have one thing … Read more
I’m not the only one amused by Lori Prokop and her ridiculous BookMillionaire reality show scam. Other blogs are having fun with it, too. For example, Richard Cobbett took a look at the requirements to be one of the "contestants" on the informercial: You can apply if you meet any one of the following criteria: … Read more