Friday, January 26, 2007
Hollywood lifestyle
I recently came across a link to some ads my fellow Cambridge English student Zoe Green, now a film director, has been making in Hollywood - and they're so good I just had to post them here! I hear Zo-bo is also writing for the X-Men tv series and doing the rounds in H'wood with the sci-fi fantasy gang.
http://www.them.tv/green-work.html
For me, the first working month of 2007 has been a bizarre mixture of writing some books for children about forensic detective work, doing features for one women's mag involving researching libido-enhancing magnets and a total body makeover, choosing pics of my great grandparents for a feature I did on my family past for another magazine, plotting several feature ideas with friends and finding more ex couples for Observer Woman. In between this, I've been desperately keeping up with the 15-pages-every-3 weeks workshop sumbissions for my MA course, and reading nine books for it from Brett Easton Ellis to Annie Proulx. It's all a very random combination, I can tell you!
Last night I went to the launch for the MA's published book, Bedford Square. The launch, appropriately enough, began for every guest in Royal Holloway's Bedford Square HQ, where we were issued with a combination code for the door to the party in Gower Street. It was full of so excited they were dazed new authors and the publishers, John Murray, made a really sweet speech about how they liked publishing work from our MA. They have given one or two graduates book deals in the past year or so. It's all quite intimidating and exciting. People on my course keep moaning (along with everyone else I know) about how I never update my blog, so I'll write about them! We're all completely different, lead wildly contrasting lives and write in polar-opposite styles, but all get on SO well and it would be worth doing this course just to have met them. I love you guys!!
http://www.them.tv/green-work.html
For me, the first working month of 2007 has been a bizarre mixture of writing some books for children about forensic detective work, doing features for one women's mag involving researching libido-enhancing magnets and a total body makeover, choosing pics of my great grandparents for a feature I did on my family past for another magazine, plotting several feature ideas with friends and finding more ex couples for Observer Woman. In between this, I've been desperately keeping up with the 15-pages-every-3 weeks workshop sumbissions for my MA course, and reading nine books for it from Brett Easton Ellis to Annie Proulx. It's all a very random combination, I can tell you!
Last night I went to the launch for the MA's published book, Bedford Square. The launch, appropriately enough, began for every guest in Royal Holloway's Bedford Square HQ, where we were issued with a combination code for the door to the party in Gower Street. It was full of so excited they were dazed new authors and the publishers, John Murray, made a really sweet speech about how they liked publishing work from our MA. They have given one or two graduates book deals in the past year or so. It's all quite intimidating and exciting. People on my course keep moaning (along with everyone else I know) about how I never update my blog, so I'll write about them! We're all completely different, lead wildly contrasting lives and write in polar-opposite styles, but all get on SO well and it would be worth doing this course just to have met them. I love you guys!!
# posted by Olivia @ 6:27 pm 
