Thursday 9 April 2009

Please take part

The next Wild West Monday will be the first Monday in June.

However what we want is to start a letter writing campaign NOW- please email publishers - they all have a email contact on their websites - and ask them if they would publish more escapist fiction such as westerns.

If you do email then please say so in the comments section of this blog - come on, folks let's get things moving.

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9 comments:

Jeff Smith said...

What you are doing is a wonderful idea! Count me in for contacting my publisher and a few others I know.

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

Thank you very much Jeff - it's great to gave a Soapy family member on the side. Gives Wild West Monday that authentic old west connection.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Short story tomorrow?
aa2579@wayne.edu

Dominic Fox said...

I'll do my bit.

Unknown said...

Yes, do it, everyone! Perhaps the publishers will take more notice than they do of writers' "query letters".

Dominic Fox said...

We have e-mailed Penguin books because they publish westerns in US so why not here as well.

Pan books because they used to publish westerns.

Corgi books because they publish Bantam books - again in America Bantam publish westerns.

Another point that we have made to these paperback companies is that we like books the size of Hart, Herne The Hunter and Edge. So if they published some of the writers with Black Horse westerns then these books would be about the same size and we would buy them.

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

Dominic - you are a true fan of the genre. Thanks. I email Penguin too and Harper Collins and Orion.

Ray said...

Add me to that list.
Might be an idea if you posted some links to these people so that others can target them.
I like the Corgi/Bantam idea. Maybe the US based writers could target Bantam and ask why their books are not being published in the UK.

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

Yeah Ray that's a great idea. I mean it wouldn't cost them any more to place books that are already published onto the UK market.

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