Quote: chipolata @ February 11 2009, 2:19 PM GMTWhat if I only want one book? Should I buy three copies of yours?
Yeah they make an even better stocking filler than your avatar!
Quote: Deferenz @ February 11 2009, 2:07 PM GMTMarc P, you were at Bournemouth University? I was there 92-96. Small World!
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I was there 92/3 I think!
A) I thought K was a good letter for a surname because it brings you in at eye level or thereabouts on the shelves in books shops. And...
B) Because I thought the name Kennedy might help to sell it in America. And..
C) Because my aunt might see my name and read the book and there are a lot of rude words and such like in it.
A) is actually genius. I've never thought of that before.
Quote: Marc P @ February 11 2009, 2:22 PM GMTI was there 92/3 I think!
Freaky. We were there at the same time then. Didn't I buy you loads of beers in the SU? 
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Quote: Deferenz @ February 11 2009, 2:37 PM GMTFreaky. We were there at the same time then. Didn't I buy you loads of beers in the SU?
Def.
Somebody did 
You should send Stephen King a copy. I always buy books if I see him recomending them on the front. True fact.
Quote: Marc P @ February 11 2009, 1:58 PM GMTHi Bighead, yeah just wrote loads of scripts and sent them in. It's all hard I think and not getting easier. Drama wise after a while I got an agent and they got me in to see people as well.
And it's in Watestones and Borders and Smiths etc Chip. Three for two at Watersones and Borders!
Cheers for advice Marc, trying to sell sitcom which seems is going to be hardest, with the current crop of mainstream ones being made it seems to me you have to have a foot in the door, cos it doesn't seem to be the fact that your sitcom is funny.
As for your sales pitch, yes I'll give your book a read.
Well done on the book. I'm sure this does NOT apply to yours but it reminds me of a comment from Groucho Marx.
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
Quote: Marc P @ February 11 2009, 1:58 PM GMTHi Bighead, yeah just wrote loads of scripts and sent them in. It's all hard I think and not getting easier. Drama wise after a while I got an agent and they got me in to see people as well.
And it's in Watestones and Borders and Smiths etc Chip. Three for two at Watersones and Borders!
If you could only use just one word for each day (a medical condition, say), and I asked you: 'What do you do?', would you say 'novelist' or 'scriptwriter'?
I think novelist has more kudos. I just assume writers have more brains than me (and I work in publishing).
Quote: Flaner @ February 12 2009, 12:19 PM GMTI think novelist has more kudos.
Tell that to Barbara Cartland and Jeffrey Archer.
Quote: chipolata @ February 12 2009, 12:21 PM GMTTell that to Barbara Cartland and Jeffrey Archer.
Whenever I look at Katie Price, I think to myself: 'I respect your ghost writer.'
Then I read a page, and withdraw my respect.
Quote: Flaner @ February 12 2009, 12:19 PM GMTIf you could only use just one word for each day (a medical condition, say), and I asked you: 'What do you do?', would you say 'novelist' or 'scriptwriter'?
I think novelist has more kudos. I just assume writers have more brains than me (and I work in publishing).
If I am honest, which is rare, I would probably answer what I was doing at the time.
BLOKE: What do you do then, Marc?
ME: Writer.
BLOKE: What sort of writer?
ME: Well I'm doing a Doctors episode at the moment.
BLOKE: (CONSIDERS) Oh, not a proper writer then!
It's not realistic. The bloke wouldn't ask what you're writing, he'd ask what you've written. The implication being, what have you written that I've heard of?
Crikey me! Everyone's an editor nowadays!
Quote: Marc P @ February 12 2009, 1:02 PM GMTF**k me, everyone's an editor nowadays!
I've never heard you swear before. It's made me sad inside. Our last pure, unsullied BSG member succumbing to coarseness. 
Quote: chipolata @ February 12 2009, 1:07 PM GMTI've never heard you swear before. It's made me sad inside. Our last pure, unsullied BSG member succumbing to coarseness.
That's mean - editing my words like that! I swear you could work for the BBC!