{"id":3649,"date":"2009-12-16T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:30:42","slug":"wednesday-various-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2009_12_13.html#018190\">Mark Evanier on screeners<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>If I send a screenplay to most of these studios, they&#8217;ll return it unread with a stern letter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d probably written by the guy who writes the threats in the screeners \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that they don&#8217;t accept unsolicited material. And then they send me unsolicited material&#8230;including copies of their screenplays.<\/li>\n<li>Do you <i>really<\/i> want those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/News\/story\/sm_3595288.html\">two front teeth for Christmas<\/a>? Something tells me &#8220;a knuckle ring fitted with four of your molars&#8221; is just waiting to turn up on a <i>C.S.I.<\/i>-type show.<\/li>\n<li>A further lesson in <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/011997.html\">how not to respond to a bad review<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Well that&#8217;s surprising: <i>Kirkus Reviews<\/i> and <i>Editor &#038; Publisher<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6711111.html?desc=topstory\">are closing<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/smallbeerpress.com\/not-a-journal\/\" title=\"Small Beer Press\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis<\/a> is right: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=8048\"><i>Slingers<\/i> looks like very, very intriguing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier on screeners: If I send a screenplay to most of these studios, they&#8217;ll return it unread with a stern letter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d probably written by the guy who writes the threats in the screeners \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that they don&#8217;t accept unsolicited material. And then they send me unsolicited material&#8230;including copies of their screenplays. Do you &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3649\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,14,11,31,17,39,12],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-movies","tag-publishing","tag-sci-fi","tag-tv","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}