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A window on my thoughts, musings, and updates.Wednesday, January 16, 2008
audiobooks, e-books, films, oh my!
Lots of stuff happening around the industry lately. Creativity came on full throttle with the new year!
Karin Kallmaker, a longtime lesbian author, has a great new blog -- and a great new job, as Bella Books editorial director. Check out her blog, Monday Morning Chocolate Break, and read all about it. Then check in regularly for her experience and advice on the writing life.
A new site/service has launched L-Books, for computer-read audiobooks and e-books, all lesbian fiction titles. They have just a few to start, but the technology wave is clearly coming up. Next up I'm sure will be professionally read ones, full-blown audiobooks, or even dramatic readings, and movies/shorts. Only place to go is UP.
On that note, check out Power UP!, the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching UP. A donated copy of "Turning Point" helped them raise a little grant-seed money back in November, and I've kept up with the happenings. Many films end up on Logo and Here networks. Amazing stuff.
And then there's MOVIES. A pair of indie filmmakers in Arizona are in the midst of launching Girls Shorts TV, a pay-per-view website for indie films of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women's interest. A friend of mine, Linda Andersson, an indie filmmaker happily making films in Hollywood, is among the filmmakers whose work will be available in this more direct support venue. Check out the Girls Shorts TV site to join during the preview period, and also check out Linda's MySpace where she has wonderful trailers for several of her works like "Misconception" and "Moving Out" and "Torn".
I'm also in the midst of creating scripts from scenes in "Turning Point" for a local video production school (they need 5-minute scripts for the students to work production on). If/when it gets produced, I'll post it as part of the preview for "Turning Point".
Since connecting up with the dramatic community I'm thinking about getting a few good voices to record dramatic readings of scenes from "Turning Point", too. We'll see where that goes.
Karin Kallmaker, a longtime lesbian author, has a great new blog -- and a great new job, as Bella Books editorial director. Check out her blog, Monday Morning Chocolate Break, and read all about it. Then check in regularly for her experience and advice on the writing life.
A new site/service has launched L-Books, for computer-read audiobooks and e-books, all lesbian fiction titles. They have just a few to start, but the technology wave is clearly coming up. Next up I'm sure will be professionally read ones, full-blown audiobooks, or even dramatic readings, and movies/shorts. Only place to go is UP.
On that note, check out Power UP!, the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching UP. A donated copy of "Turning Point" helped them raise a little grant-seed money back in November, and I've kept up with the happenings. Many films end up on Logo and Here networks. Amazing stuff.
And then there's MOVIES. A pair of indie filmmakers in Arizona are in the midst of launching Girls Shorts TV, a pay-per-view website for indie films of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women's interest. A friend of mine, Linda Andersson, an indie filmmaker happily making films in Hollywood, is among the filmmakers whose work will be available in this more direct support venue. Check out the Girls Shorts TV site to join during the preview period, and also check out Linda's MySpace where she has wonderful trailers for several of her works like "Misconception" and "Moving Out" and "Torn".
I'm also in the midst of creating scripts from scenes in "Turning Point" for a local video production school (they need 5-minute scripts for the students to work production on). If/when it gets produced, I'll post it as part of the preview for "Turning Point".
Since connecting up with the dramatic community I'm thinking about getting a few good voices to record dramatic readings of scenes from "Turning Point", too. We'll see where that goes.
Labels: audiobooks, filmmaking, friends, Girls Shorts TV, Karin Kallmaker, Linda Andersson, news, scripts, Turning Point, update
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