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Post by ronmiller on Feb 1, 2020 21:08:22 GMT
Maggie, With the way things go for me I can snatch poverty from the jaws of wealth. Since I can't afford a review, it's not happening. And yes, it's nice being acquainted with someone like Ron who achieved success in his chosen fields. You don't necessarily have to pay for reviews. Yes, Kirkus charges, but there are magazines, newspapers and respectable online sites that happily review books with no charge to the author or publisher. All they need is a copy of the book to review.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Feb 1, 2020 21:25:22 GMT
Maggie, With the way things go for me I can snatch poverty from the jaws of wealth. Since I can't afford a review, it's not happening. And yes, it's nice being acquainted with someone like Ron who achieved success in his chosen fields. You don't necessarily have to pay for reviews. Yes, Kirkus charges, but there are magazines, newspapers and respectable online sites that happily review books with no charge to the author or publisher. All they need is a copy of the book to review. Ron,
Our house can't afford even the simple expenditure of sending a book to a magazine at this point. We have internet to provide the kids with educational courses, incidentally allowing the adults access to other resources.
In a year, perhaps, though there are other more important priorities. Things are seldom as simple as people would tell us they are and I, for one, need to wash dishes. At least I can listen to "Mr Blue Skies" while I engage in drudgery.
Please consider this discussion of potential wealth ended, it is vexing and distressing. We know our duty.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 2, 2020 14:56:11 GMT
By the bye, seemingly unlikely things can happen. A book that I wrote 20 years ago--- The Art of Chesley Bonestell---has been out of print for nearly that long. Yet it became the basis for a feature documentary that premiered last Spring at the Newport Beach Film Festival. So one can never tell! Well done Ron. You are a success story. Just to keep things in perspective, an Irish producer/director has tried for more than a decade to get a film made based on my Velda books and comics...to no avail. Right now a writer/producer in LA has also been trying with ditto results. The total time spent between the two is probably more than 15 years...so it just goes to show... (On the upside, there have been four Velda radio adaptations done by the Shoestring Radio Theatre and broadcast nationally by NPR...but those were really easy. Shoestring Radio Theatre actually actively solicits contributions, which might be something for anyone here to think about if they have a story that might make a half-hour radio play. If you do, write the play--which is not difficult since, being for radio, it's all dialog and sound effects---and send it to www.shoestring.org/index.html Shoestring does a great job with casting, sound effects, music, etc. Well, I do have to admit that the voice for Velda in the first episode did make her sound like she was in her 70s, but the rest were great!) Oh, PS: If anyone would like to listen to the Velda plays to see how they turned out, they are here black-cat-studios.com/veldaradio.html
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 15:17:17 GMT
I listened to the plays. I really didn't like Maxine's portrayal of Velda. I'd read your book of Velda and had an idea of what she sounded like to me. I like Numbers 2 and 4 Velda. Another success Ron.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 2, 2020 17:53:05 GMT
I listened to the plays. I really didn't like Maxine's portrayal of Velda. I'd read your book of Velda and had an idea of what she sounded like to me. I like Numbers 2 and 4 Velda. Another success Ron. I agree about Maxine! If you want to know what I think Velda sounds like, listen to the narration on the two little B&W short videos I made*: black-cat-studios.com/Velda_movies.htmlAll that being said, it was a lot of fun creating the plays for Shoestring and I very much encourage everyone to do the same. Shoestring may or may not accept what's sent, of course, but they are fun to write, a good experience and...well, you never know! They do plays in every imaginable genre---from science fiction to mysteries---set in every era. *The third video, the one in color, is of the full-length stage play that our local Little Theatre put on for two nights in a local park one summer. That was a lot of fun! Here is the poster for it (it says that I directed it, but I didn't, much to my relief---and probably everyone else's as well! I did design the sets, though.) The local paper not only wrote it up, but let me serialize one of the comic book stories in each issue for two weeks. The third picture is the cast. The poster says that the play is in "The Miracle of Emergi-Vision 3D" because of course it was in 3D!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2020 4:07:54 GMT
Yes It's a good portrayal of Velda. What a fun detective she is.
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 3, 2020 12:17:05 GMT
Back to the original topic (!)... My friend Steve will very often include titles as part of the finished art for the covers he creates (which are in oils, by the way)... www.stephenhickman.com/
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Post by ronmiller on Feb 3, 2020 12:23:17 GMT
Yes It's a good portrayal of Velda. What a fun detective she is. Thanks! I have had a lot of fun creating the stories and comic books. They make a great break (to say nothing of change of pace) at the end of a long day doing space art! Velda is a combination of my wife and daughter. Her personality is based on the former and her appearance on the latter. I wish my daughter could have been in the videos, but she lived too far away at the time.
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