I’m not even sure how I landed on this BBC page, but as someone who’s been telling stories for twenty years, I can say with some confidence that I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere else:
Send us your script»
Send us your work. We read all unsolicited scripts for BBC Films,TV Drama, Children’s Drama,TV Comedy, Radio Entertainment and Radio Drama. We accept unsolicited scripts written for film, television, radio or stage.
I mean, even the scammers and con artists who are actively trying to sucker would-be writers don’t just throw the door wide open and say, “Come on in!” (They charge you for the privilege of being fleeced.)
Is this BBC invite a good thing? A bad thing? I have no idea.
But it reminds me that while I’ve been looking for good blog fiction on the web, I keep ending up on UK and European sites. I don’t know what that means, either, but it keeps happening. Is the U.S. badly lagging in blog fiction? Is there an EU government subsidy that’s giving them an edge? How do we close the blogfic gap?
— Mark Barrett
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2009/09/victoria-strauss-google-book-search_04.html
Whoa — excellent link!
Anybody else reading along here, you should definitely click through and read one author’s voice explaining why they opted out of the proposed Google Books class-action lawsuit settlement.
Equally as interesting (to me) is a link that post contains, which will send you to a document written by Scott Gant. I know his name from a sticky note I’ve had on my desk for a year: he’s the author of a book called, “We’re All Journalists Now”, which seems like a book any online writer should read.
Speaking of reading, the more I read about the Google Books settlement, the less I seem to actually know, which in itself seems like a bad sign. Hopefully Gant’s will clear things up. In any case, the author of the link you posted makes a good point: this is not a done deal between the Author’s Guild and Google, and there is reason to believe their settlement will not pass legal muster in October.
Thanks again.