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2 Responses to Books, Music, Comics, & Dreams

1. hi brian says:

   September 6, 2013 at 7:50 am

   the concept of youtube ads for books is weird to me.
   • Brian John Mitchell says:

     September 6, 2013 at 8:32 am

     People are making YouTube ads for every thing these days. I see some people making them for individual concerts. I think the thing is that people are lazy & YouTube is an easily digestible & sharable medium.

One Response to Books, Buttons, Small Life Form, Sales, & Dreams

1. Brian John Mitchell says:

   August 13, 2013 at 6:00 pm

   I got my rejection letter in from a publisher & I’m super happy with it.
   “…while I definitely think you can self-publish this and show it to the general public without any fear of embarrassment whatsoever, I also think that this is going to be a tough sell to more commercial small presses like us. The problem is that these pieces feel like little more than half-finished journal entries; and while that’s fine for when you simply want to sell a small amount of copies to your friends and at live events, and when the quality of the actual writing is decent like yours, it’s simply not substantial enough to hold the interest of a complete stranger who knows nothing about you. If you want to continue working in this very short “micro-fiction” format, my suggestion to raise the stakes of what’s being discussed in them, and to make the characters more memorable than they currently are; but my stronger suggestion would be simply to write longer stories, if you don’t mind doing so, because a lot of commercial presses simply aren’t going to be interested in your work at all until it conforms more to the standard minimum length and emotional heft that they usually work with. But that said, I think if you were to write even micro pieces that were more memorable, you could certainly attract the attention of some of the more artistic/cutting-edge small presses, and especially ones that specialize in writing that blurs the line between prose and poetry. “

One Response to Dreams

1. GoddakkAttack says:

   July 12, 2013 at 11:53 am

   funny about your dream cuz when i was in HS in D-land, some new kid bragged about being a surfer, even had the frosty dumb hair and then we find out he’s from michigan. maybe you dreamt of him.

2 Responses to Mead & Dreams

1. hi brian says:

   July 11, 2013 at 7:58 am

   juxtapost the touring dreams with stories of your touring reality.
2. hi brian says:

   July 11, 2013 at 7:58 am

   yeah….juxtapost.

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