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[Sentinel]

I like all of the ideas suggested so far. My personal favourite is along the 'game' theme, I would like to write a piece about the ever blurring boundary between reality and fantasy with the development of the internet and global communication, discussing ARG's and MMORPG's (as I have knowledge of both) I will begin work on this, however if it is decided that the book should follow a different route I would still like to participate and would therefore choose a different topic.

[Juxta]

Publish in PerplexCity? Great. If it's good enough, we could possibly publish it on Earth too...perhaps Mind Candy might be able to help here, but in case they can't, there is always something like LuLu who will take a submission and then do on demand softback printing. A friend of mine went via them to get his book published, it can be bought either soft copy (Adobe .pdf if I recall correctly) or actually printed and shipped to you

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[Mokey Fraggle]

Super fun! I want in! I'm happy to go with whatever we're choosing, but I definitely think a uniformed decision on a general theme is best. How about a poll? From there, we can make up our minds about who will write which article/story/whatever.

[Forgery]

Is everybody agreeing the whole book should be on one topic here? I don't mean to be a sore thumb (excuse the strange epression lol) but wouldn't it be better if it covered several themes? one theme for all 20 stories may be all a bit too much

Forg

[specterz]

Ah, don't dicount the variety you can have on one topic, as long as people write about it in the broadest sense. There are lots of aspects to one topic, people can write fictional/non-fictional, there can be poems, etc.
I agree on the idea to make it one topic.

[GasparLewis]

Totally in on this.

We can call it "Tales From Earth", or some pseudo-dramatic rubbish title like that.

Finally, the ball falls in my court!

And as for the "one topic" ordeal, I would say that all the stories being from Earth writers is well-enough a binding theme for all our work.

Right, so get on with it!

Just an afterthought: what if somebody were to include an exposé on the Earth front of the investigations? That would drive sales of the book into the stratosphere, and we can maintain control over what we send out, so any bone we feed them will cause enough of a clamor. Eh? Eh?

Just a thought!

[perplexed]

It would be a great idea if we included a code in the book, throughout the entire thing in order to recruit perplexians, but mostly for sheer fun... any ideas?

[Spankit]

[Reason]

Having a poem and riddle section sounds like a good idea, or maybe instead of a riddle section, just have a puzzle section, I have a few interesting I could send in...

[zaeil]

I'm in agreement on the very general "Tales from Earth" topic. We just need to get something book-length together for Violet, and such a general topic would let us get in just about anything we deemed worthwhile--poems, stories, riddles, essays, whatever.

(Uh, not that I'll be writing anything, not much of a writer, but if anyone needs some black-and-white lineart illustration, I'm your woman! )

[Mokey Fraggle]

We scrapping the games thing, then, and just going with anything Earth-related? And what is our deadline? Are we going to self-impose one?

[Forgery]

We need somebody to take charge and somebody to set a deadline for it all.

Forg

[Sentinel]

I have written a factual piece tonight, of just over 2500 words (I know, I got a bit carried away, sorry) which I would like to submit for the book, but would like to know whether someone will be collating all the material and then sending it all to Violet or whether we should submit individually?

[Rube2k]

I think the 'it's a book from Earth' is a good enough theme, as for submissions, perhaps it is best if people submit individually. Violet has already suggested taking an editor's role. Unless someone is going to take responsibility for collating and sending all the ideas direct to Seaside Press, making certain to include Violet as a co-author to get her the access she needs.

Maybe the best motivation is the idea that Seaside Press will be teaming up with Mind Candy to print the book up and give a copy to all contributers. I'm assuming that they won't print a book of infinite size or necessarily include all submitted ideas if they are surplus to requirements. Thinking along those lines, it may be best to submit something of your own (of the highest possible quality) to Violet ASAP?

[number9dream]

Ellen Moriyama wrote:

Thank you for your enquiry. The minimum length of our manuscripts is 40-50,000 words; roughly the length of a short book.

Where's Leeravitz when you need him, he could knock this one off in his lunch break (and probably has on several previous posts)