Advice & help for budding writers and Gallery

WRITERS PLEASE NOTE THIS WARNING, Robin Price, self-styled literary and film agent, previously

MEDIA ARTS INTERNATIONAL (FORMERLY AVALON FILMS) is NOW TRADING AS

PROSPERO FILMS.

This man doesn't just take your money - he steals your dreams. Steer clear!

A website is being set up by someone who lost £25,000 to him. If you're a victim you might like to visit:

 http://www.robinprice.org.uk and add your own comments.

Writers often contact us asking for advice, so we have put together this page will we hope will give encouragement.

If you’ve already written the masterpiece but you are having trouble getting a publisher to take it on, perhaps it's because your presentation is not up to scratch. Maybe you should consider getting it edited properly. There are many reputable companies on the internet that can do this for you. Just be sure to check them out thoroughly and don't be afraid to ask questions!

If you have given up on publishers - try what worked for Jenny. Get your book produced by Amolibros, and then work very hard at marketing, and you just might be lucky enough to get a commercial publisher to take the book over, like Jenny did with her first book. Whatever you do, be very careful not to fall into the clutches of a so-called ‘vanity publisher’. Companies like Amolibros, will produce a professional finished article, AND the all-important distribution deal, without which it would be very difficult to get your book into shops. Vanity publishers will give you a few copies of your book, often at an exorbitant price, and poor quality, and no distributor or reviewer will touch it.

Be very careful if an agent offers you any kind of deal that involves you parting with money. To get a genuine offer from a reputable literary agent is very rare. If a deal seems too good to be true, it often is. Jenny herself wasted a whole year on a fraudulent agent, so beware!

One way to enhance your profile as a writer and to get publishers to look at your work more favourably is to have some work published in magazines. Give it a go! You never know!

Above all, never give in. Getting rejected or accepted is a very subjective area. Some of today’s classic best-selling authors could paper their walls with rejection slips.

It’s often simply a case of showing your work to the right publisher at the right time. Publishers are not ogres (well most of them aren’t ;), so try talking to them and see what they’re looking for.

Mysterious Seamtress - Chris Barnes

Tis an unfathomable thing to be so close to another yet so far away,

it feels from the depths within ripped and torn apart yet bound,

What a paradox, separated at the seams physically, emotionally,

mentally and spiritually apart,

ragged at the edges of one’s sanity,

nowhere to look for solace,

nor a place to weep nor cry,

as I turn in as if to die,

to cut of and it seems no where to hide alas from what,

just I, alone, A self created torment within,

separation it seams from all things familiar to me,

And in that deepest despair in the fathoms of my mind,

in the deepest oceans of my emotions when all seems cast away,

Ripped and torn apart from that deepest despair.

Tis lifetimes of not knowing these emotions and thoughts within,

to come down into lifetime after lifetimes to learn and to own these things,

Hidden before deep within the hidden places of my mind,

locked away waiting for that day when the key is turned,

but who will do this deed of unleashing this inner torment and despair,

hidden from lifetimes before waiting for that date of destiny when fated circumstance

Comes, when we are least aware, to spin up that inertia of past ways and deeds ready for a new,

When all it seems that Love is lost and gone away,

That is when out of this deepest despair when it seems no one is there,

and only then comes the mysterious Seamstress,

That woman force and energy from fathoms deep within like rod of Ion spinning

up, up and up a whirling force and power yet love prevails,

her hands so skilled to bring together that which has been ripped and torn apart,

With tender loving care,

that unfathomable mysterious Seamstress brings together the parts

that seem to be irreparable, to make anew reborn from eternity,

Never dying just changing the garment that we where,

Passing from time to time to time on and on,

evolving into the eternal grand blueprint that only A God knows

within, now and only now is that time anew that immortality,

of letting go that joy of living and loving,

in the light now and forever growing,

never needing to dye once more but living the adventure,

on and on creating anew,

Being reborn each and every moment as it is and supposed to be,

as it seems to be,

Ye to a God and living the adventure a creative existence,

ever present simultaneously in all places at once radiating that light of Christos

For this I bless that mysterious Seamstress from fathoms deep,

that weaves and sows with thread of gold that which seems to have been ripped apart.

Tis you that torments me into that eternal now that I ascribe these word for.

      I Will Love You Always