Re: RARA-AVIS: Mercenary Questions

From: BaxDeal@aol.com
Date: 21 Jan 2008


In a message dated 1/21/08 2:32:22 PM, foxbrick@yahoo.com writes:

> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King <abrasax93@...> wrote:
> I
> > know that James M. Cain, one of my idols, said "Anyone
> > who writes for anything but money is a fool."
>
> Usually attributed to hardboiled, but unnoirish, lexicographer Samuel
> Johnson.
>
> With the novellas you're writing, have you tried running them past the
> magazines, such EQMM, AHMM, CRIMEWAVE and possibly now MURDALAND and
> OUT OF THE GUTTERS, that might actually publish novellas?
>

or alternatively, adapting them into screenplays, which generally top out in the 120 page range. then you can have a whole 'nother wall to bang your head against

John Lau

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