Yowie has just won Best Cinematography and An Award of Merit at the Los Angeles Cinema Film Festival of Hollywood! Of course I'm very chuffed. Overseas vindication means so much more in Australia where the cultural cringe means we don''t value anything that has not had the stamp of approval from a northern hemisphere big brother - usually the UK or the US. At the same time I'm a little down because we realise we can't take up the offer from the UK channel to show Yowie for seven years in ten countries because of the Chewbakka problem and Lukasfilm. Still film festivals will have to do - which is OK. Today I'm off to a funding meeting which may result in some money for The White Feather.
Just finishing off a 700 page novel and tried to get it to an agent who seemed keen till she realised its length. Oh no, she said, can't look at anything over 100000 words! Well, mine is 250000, lady. Size matters. Maybe I'll have to go the dreaded route of.. self-publishing (Aaaargh!). Not that desperate yet. we shall see. These things all act synergistically: If Yowie and White Feather are successful then an agent is more likely to look at prose. Methinks.
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