home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Path: 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
-
- 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
-
-