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Article #1262Publishers of the wierd... info request
From: bgardner
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:31
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:31
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Hi :) I'm a writer who writes really wierd things... like as in my stuff has been compared to Beckett and Albee and Joyce (depending on what I'm writing) and I would like to start being published now. Every one who has ever read my work has loved it (even those who hate me), but I didn't think I was ready until this point. But now the problem is finding publishers... from looking over and over at the Writers Market I can not find any one who seems avant garde enough... is that a failing on the part of the listers, or are there truely no publishers out there that are willing to take a risk on something that has never been tried before. What I'm looking to publish is a play entitled "Eves Dropping" which is about Adam, Eve, Eris, the apple (both golden and biblical), the devil and sexuality. It is as one of my friends (who is also a writer of good caliber- something I would say of few) a cross between Sheakespeare and Albee... who in the play writing world would be intersted in publishing a poem of lyrical quality, but absurdist style? As poetry comes round, my poems are typicalish... and I don't consider them to be that extrodinary. I think I can manage to find publishers for that... it's getting excepted that will be hard. The other thing I have a problem with is that I am curently revising a 51 page (single spaced typed) prose-poetry epic done in stream of conseness form. As if this isn't enough of a risk for a publisher to take I want to illustrate it with found immages and basically what amounts to poster art (as I want to put text over the images)... the finished product would look formally like Alice In Wonderland and read like Finegan's Wake... the plot? Don't ask... the title of the book is War Of The Words... and it's devided into 11 "Word Wars." Any ideas of a publisher willing to take a risk on what could very well be ground breaking material? No, I'm not stuck up... I know I sound it... I am just very confident in my writing abilities... as so many people have complemented me so much. I realize that in the world of publishing being good is not enough though, so I am trying to find the right people. Any responses would be loved to death. Flames included. Please write to bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu Thank you very much for your time, and consideration. May your lives be filled with whatever you want them to be... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This... some madman's desire, yet I've always admired the crazy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian
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Newsgroups: misc.writing Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!hamp.hampshire.edu!bgardner From: bgardner@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Publishers of the wierd... info request Message-ID: <1992Dec17.213146.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> Lines: 39 Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Hampshire College Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:31:46 GMT