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Our new TV series -- tied in with upcoming book releases --
aims to capture the spirit of the written word in moving images,
and gives our publishing partners a prime-time television broadcast
to help reach new readers. The corresponding website is scheduled
for launch in October, and we've got two more episodes of the
eight episodes to produce and deliver to our broadcast partners
at CHUM Access Media. Rogers Television will be broadcasting the
whole series starting in January.
The first episode features the new short based on Jason Christie's i-ROBOT Poetry (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) and ICE: Beauty Danger History (McArthur & Co.) both exploring the adaptation of books to animated film.
We are pleased to welcome Houghton Mifflin to
our roster of enlightened publisher partners, a positive outcome
from our initiatives at BookExpo America this year. Their non-fiction
title One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
is now in its final post-production, helmed by "veteran"
BookShorts director Irene Duma, with a screenplay by Bruce Pirrie.
It will be in distribution in September, timed to the trade paperback
release in US and Canada.
Returning partner Random House of Canada is
in for a hat-trick, their third BookShorts commission, to produce
the video for Thomas Homer-Dixon's much-anticipated
new work, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and
the Renewal of Civilization. The video's creative outline,
sub-titled "September 11, 2001 Won’t Be the Last Time
We Walk Out of Our Cities" is spot-on with the concerns of
a global environmental agenda.
BookShorts will accept manuscripts for books with a street
date after December 2006. Ideal advance
lead time is 4 to 6 months before pub date for best distribution.
And since we now have an ongoing television series, there is even more opportunity to help filmmakers whose works may be inspired by the written word, by incuding them our distibution initiatives. If you are an author, filmmaker or aspire to either -- visit
the site for guidelines on how to http://www.bookshorts.com/authors.htm
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BookShorts Judith Keenan Media Representative BookShorts Newsletters at http://www.bookshorts.com/newsletter.htm
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