From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #15 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, January 21 2007 Volume 07 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] 33 1/3 needs fresh bleeding vinyl, or, write about music, lose your marbles ["Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] 33 1/3 needs fresh bleeding vinyl, or, write about music, lose your marbles I know we have fine writers onlist, so, in case anybody didn't see it at the blog in question, I bring to your attention the following from http://33third.blogspot.com/ , for consideration, and/or to pass along. Just don't touch BAT OUT OF HELL. I'm all over BAT OUT OF HELL. Andy Time of the Season! We're now accepting proposals for future 33 1/3 books, to be published in 2008 and 2009. Here are some rules, guidelines and ramblings: * Proposals on artists already covered in the series (or under contract to be covered) will not be accepted. In other words, these people: The Smiths The Kinks Neutral Milk Hotel Pink Floyd Joy Division Velvet Underground Rolling Stones The Beatles Radiohead Love Neil Young Beach Boys Dusty Springfield DJ Shadow Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin The Replacements David Bowie The Band Beastie Boys Jeff Buckley Prince Pixies The Ramones R.E.M. Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan Elvis Costello James Brown Abba Jethro Tull Nirvana Sly and the Family Stone The Who The MC5 The Stone Roses Guided By Voices Magnetic Fields Joni Mitchell Guns N Roses My Bloody Valentine The Byrds Stevie Wonder A Tribe Called Quest Sonic Youth Captain Beefheart Steely Dan The Clash The Minutemen PJ Harvey Celine Dion Nine Inch Nails Richard and Linda Thompson Tom Waits Belle & Sebastian Throbbing Gristle Nick Drake U2 Brian Eno Lucinda Williams Patti Smith Kate Bush Television * The deadline for submission of proposals is Wednesday February 14th - - how very romantic. * Only one proposal per person. Seriously! * If you've submitted before, you're perfectly welcome to do so again. * All proposals must be submitted via email - the address is pitches33@yahoo.com Please don't send any proposals to my regular work email. I'm trying to concentrate on Biblical Studies for the next few weeks. * Choice of album is important - we're here to sell some books, after all. We're more likely to accept a proposal on Odessey & Oracle than on Angels With Dirty Faces, as much as I love them both. * Your proposal should take the form of a Word document attachment. Do not include your proposal in the body of your email. * Your proposal needs to include these simple things: your name; a brief outline (up to 1000 words) of how you would approach your album of choice; a brief bio of yourself (up to 500 words), outlining why you're awesome, and why you're the best person to write about that album; a couple of sentences on which 33 1/3 book you've enjoyed the most so far, and why; that's pretty much it. *** Last time around (towards the end of 2005), we received about 170 proposals, and ended up offering contracts to 21 of them. I've no idea how many we'll get this time, or how many we'll end up signing, but we do promise to read them all and to give them all equal consideration. Once we've narrowed it down to a shortlist (by the middle of March), we'll contact those authors to finalise manuscript deadlines, etc. I hope this covers everything! If you have any questions, leave them in the comments section to this post, and I'll do my best to answer them. (posted by David Barker, editor, 33 1/3 series @ Continuum) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #15 ******************************