I’ve come down with a bit of a cold as of late. Thankfully this phase of the book prep was finished over the weekend, which gives me a little time to go back and blow the dust off some screenplays that have been beckoning me to finish them.
I’m pleased to report that the galley proofs for Horror Screenwriting have been proofread. Which means we’re on our way to getting bound galleys.
Our special guest this Wednesday on ScreenTalk is the lovely and talented Max Adams. She is a past recipient of the Nicholl Fellowship and has gone on to write Excess Baggage, an uncredited adaptation of The Ladykillers, and is currently in pre-production on Saving Rose Gillespie.
A friendly reminder: it’s only a little under 8 months until Nanowrimo begins. If you haven’t already started your outlines for your novels and still think you’ve got what it takes, you should seriously consider starting that part now.
Those of you who tuned in got quite a bit of information from Greg Beal, head of the Nicholl Fellowship. The interviews with both Amy Kaufman and Aubrey Kelly provided both sides of this controversy surrounding Fade In’s own screenplay contest.
Chris Wehner and I will have the editor of Fade In on our show tonight along with Amy Kaufman also for any rebuttal to the allegations in Amy’s article regarding Fade In’s purported screenwriting contest scam.
Received word a few minutes ago from my editor that the manuscript is being sent off to the designer. Which means that we have officially completed the editing on the book and are now waiting for the galley proofs to look over for any errors or corrections.
As with the music and movie industries before it, now the “publishing” world is jumping on the bandwagon and trying to control even more with outrageous claims.
What a lot of people don’t know is that your editor, if they are good at what they do, also have a tight timeline to complete a book’s edits before moving directly onto the next one. They can be constantly busy, as was the case with my editor. So my own short time window is rapidly closing in. It’s this Sunday. If I don’t get all of the edits completed, I’ll end up at the back of the queue, which means the book will be delayed.
When I first heard about Nanowrimo years ago, immediately my adrenaline flooded into my bloodstream. Write an entire novel in just 1 month. No more, no less.
