Getting things set up for the Cowboys/Vikings game — SKOL!!!
We’re 50 pages now into Tales of Anduale: Book One, Decatia — first draft is at 254 pages.
Local newspaper article about Cynthia and myself and our upcoming cons:
Yep, that’s right, Smoking Will Kill You, one of the plays in the THEATRE OF THE MACABRE collection (www.horror-mall.com) is set to be filmed this January by Frosty Moon Omnimedia, the same folks responsible for the WOLFPACK BOWHUNTING WITH EDDIE DUNCAN and THE NEBRASKA EXPERIENCE cable TV shows.
I’ll keep you all posted with more details as they develop.
One of the things that drives me nuts whenever I/we get an overseas royalty check statement from Samuel French is that they may state the country the play was produced in, but not any of the other neat details, like by whom, exactly where, and when.
Cynthia and I are proud to announce, that as part of a three part one-act bill, TWO WIVES AND A DEAD GUY was produced by the Athenry Drama Group of Athenry, Ireland (County Galway) at the Hotel Athenry, April 29 and 30 of this year. The cost of admission was 10 Euros.
And here’s some irony for you: one of the other plays on the bill was THE VALIANT, the play I directed for my directing class final back in 1988 (winter quarter) at Bemidji State University. Cynthia was also part of the production crew for that play as well.
CONvergence July 2 - 5 at the Bloomington, MN Radisson Hotel. Edited list provided by Skullvines Press.
Thursday, July 2nd
5pm – Brian Keene and Roy C. Booth will be in Atrium 2 at the panel, “Brian Keene’s Adventures in the Comic Industry.”
Friday, July 3rd
9:30am – Roy C. Booth and R. Scott McCoy will be in the Bloomington room at the panel, “Writing Craft: Creatures and Character.” Other panelists include Jeannie Holmes, Andre Guirard, Catherine Lundoff, and John Shea.
9:30am – Cynthia Booth will be in Plaza 1 at the panel, “Voice and Body Actors.” Other panelists include Jennifer Menken, David Potter, and Gordon Smuder.
2pm – Brian Keene and Roy C. Booth will be in Atrium 3 for “Adapting TERMINAL.”
Sunday, July 5th
2pm – Brian Keene, Roy C. Booth, and Cynthia Booth with be joining Dwayne McDuffie at the signing table for autographs.
Samuel French has informed Cynthia and myself that our comedy TWO WIVES AND A DEAD GUY (www.samuelfrench.com) was recently performed in Ireland.
The play has now been produced 35 times in seven countries (Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Philippines, and the USA).
Play submissions tip: the bulk of play submissions usually occurs in the fall since quite a few new plays make their debut in late spring/summer (summer stock, college playwrighting/directing classes, fringe festivals, etc.), so if you wish to avoid being stuck in the slush pile any longer than you have to… (Always check the submission guidelines first — some companies read/accept scripts only during certain months.)
And you see all the details at:
http://www.horror-mall.com/THEATER-OF-THE-MACABRE-by-Roy-C.-Booth-p-19315.html
Also: we’re now deeply entrenched at the new store location at 210 Third Street NW — stop by and say “hello!”
“Thank you for submitting to Necrotic Tissue. We have accepted “Sabine Barring-Gould and the Werewolf” for the 8th issue in October 2009.
This is not our normal style, but it is so well done and we do like to mix things up. Thank you for sending it our way.”
The story was co-written with Lauri Gardner, an ESL professor at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
And you can pre-order it from Amazon.com and the usual suspects, too, including one of my favorite haunts, The Horror Mall (www.horror-mall.com), whom I greatly recommend! 
http://sdhintz.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/theatre-of-the-macare-is-up-for-pre-order/
Thanks!
