September 21, 2007
An Inspirational Holiday
I've just been incarcerated in a friend's luxurious villa near Marbella for a week (my holiday reminded me of 'Darling'). I had my own roof terrace, so every night before I went to bed, I lay down flat on the floor and viewed the stars. Inspirational! I got a lot of fresh ideas for my new novel, so it was worth going away just for that!
Posted by frances on September 21, 2007
September 11, 2007
Storm Trojan
I'm officially an Ezine 'author expert', which means I can submit an unlimited amount of Ezine articles for publication on the net. To date, most of my articles have been about the Seventies, to help promote Frantic, my novel about the 'nostalgic' '70's.
Google Alerts alert me when one of my Ezine articles is published by another site or blog (to date, 531 times). To my horror, some of my articles, which have been published on Google owned blogger.com have recently been desecrated by porn links. Naturally, I have left 'I object to this' type of comment on the 'offending' blogs. I suspect that Google don't care what bloggers say in their blogs though. Their policing is provided by readers who flag 'objectionable' articles. But, so many of my articles have been doctored now, I suspect that I'm a victim of Storm Trojan. Sob!
Posted by frances on September 11, 2007
September 10, 2007
A Plug for Super8
Frustrated feature film directors waiting to get the 'Green Light' for their projects can always keep their hand in by entering Super8 competitions, which director Nick Scott did with "The Other Half", his entry for the straight8 competition for short films shot on Super8 film. It was selected as one of the winners and was screened at an 'exclusive presentation' at the Kodak Pavillion during this year's Cannes Film Festival. My friend Clive Ashenden (of Snatching Time fame) who worked on it, told me he did 'a bit of everything. Nick was the director, but I contributed to the writing, the camera operating (Super8mm/16mm/Mini DV), offered technical advice and whatever was needed to get the film in the can. What was nice was that it was a real group effort - and that it came out so well.'
There's now going to be a Raindance screening of "The Other Half" on Thursday October 4th. Also, Nick Scott's amusing documentary, "Making of 'The Other Half'" can now be viewed on YouTube. For people who thought that the art of Super8 was extinct, Click on Part One and Part Two to see how it's done!
Posted by frances on September 10, 2007
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