<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> For PAGING MR HITCHCOCK . . . .<BR><A href="http://www.grayfriarpress.com/guidelines.html">http://www.grayfriarpress.com/guidelines.html</A><BR><BR>Whatever differences we acknowledge between film and prose, it cannot be denied that the two have a major relationship. Cinema has always sought the printed page to inform its storytelling, while authors continually recognise the influence of the screen. Nevertheless, the two media are not interchangeable.<BR>Quite enough has been discussed concerning the transition of text to camera, but little has been explored regarding the alternative route: the way literary writers use the imagery and ideas of directors to create their own effects with words.<BR><BR>This book will allow contributors to display how film has shaped their work. Rather than paying homage to a specific film genre, we want authors to choose either a favourite director or a cinematic "style" or sub-genre (see below for suggestions) in order to reveal this. The idea is to demonstrate how different techniques of the camera might be captured, developed or even eschewed by prose. Show us the limitations and advantages of drawing upon the screen; be clever and inventive. Avoid pastiche or a simple<BR>conversion of themes, etc — push yourself, and fiction, into new expressionist quarters…<BR><BR> Stories can be any length, though there will be a preference for 4,000-7,000 words; still, if you've got a fine novella, send it along. HOWEVER, please send a short synopsis of your story first, the better to avoid overlap.<BR> <BR> Email your synopses/submissions to BOTH Gary Fry and Gary McMahon at <A href="mailto:submissions@grayfriarpress.com">submissions@grayfriarpress.com</A> AND <A href="mailto:garyzed@hotmail.com">garyzed@hotmail.com</A> (Send to both e-mail addresses) <BR> <BR>NOTE: one of the problems with Gray Friar Press's previous anthology, Poe's Progeny, was that many authors who were rejected had simply dug out an existing story and appended a plausible source to it! Be<BR>warned — we'll know if you've done this, and unless it works very well, will be less inclined to accept or<BR>even read all of it. Having said that, the submissions accepted will shape the finished anthology; we're eager to put together a book which is structured as much by the contributors' ingenuity as it is by<BR>any preconceived ideas we might possess...<BR><BR> If you're unsure as to the type of fiction the publisher prefers, check out a copy of its previous anthology Poe's Progeny— These tales combine story, character and theme with both craftsmanship and an artful use of language.<BR> <BR> Payment: negotiated. In the real world of independent press publishing, there's only so much money to make projects viable. We'll be as fair as we can, while guaranteeing exposure — distribution in both the UK and the States — to all contributors. Please enquire.<BR> <BR>Response time: ASAP, but please remember that the editors have lives, too. :)<BR><BR> Deadline for submissions: when it's full.<BR><BR> Submission period opens: 1st December, 2006. Please don't submit before that date.<BR><BR>Examples of directors you might want to consider:<BR>Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski, Werner Herzog... The list is endless.<BR> <BR>Examples of cinematic "styles": New Wave Cinema, 1970s Hollywood movie Brats, European cinema, Japanese cinema, Dogma, American Indie cinema, the cinema of paranoia, Exploitation cinema, Slasher horror, Underground cinema, Silent cinema... In short, anything worthy goes, so be inventive!<BR> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>