The Real Lance Brown

Filmmaker Magazine has a cool interview with industry pro Peter Broderick, where he outlines the many options available for independent filmmakers who want to get their stuff out there. It’s 14 minutes long, so he has time to really explain his take on the currnt playing field. Good stuff. Look for his excellent analogy comparing the changes in the industry to the New World pioneers breaking away from England/Europe.

Broderick and interviewer Scott Kirsner are offering a workshop on all this in LA in November; see the article with the video for details.

Angel Group Likes Lights, Camera And Action Of Indie Films – Venture Capital Dispatch

As an experienced tech entrepreneur and angel investor, Rizwan Virk was happy to see a solid return on one of his recent investments after just one year.

But the exit didn’t come from a software start-up or social media company finding a corporate acquirer. Instead, Virk’s quick payoff came from an independent film.

Virk is a member of FilmAngels, a Silicon Valley group whose members back film productions – mostly small, independent projects. Founded in 2005, Film Angels is made up mostly of tech executives and investors who apply their business and venture capital experience to the filmmaking world.

Read the full story at the WSJ blog

Madhouse Entertainment is a TV & movie management/production company which accepts script queries by email. From their site:

“We’re always one the lookout to work with new writers. If you are looking for representation and/or for producing partners we’d love to hear from you.

Please send a paragraph description of the script you’d like to send us to: query@madhouseent.net.

Please note that we receive thousands of query emails and cannot possibly answer them all. You will hear from us if we want to read your material.”

Check out their site to get a sense of what kind of projects they work on. They appear to be connected with a number of known and notable Hollywood talent/projects.

P.S. – If you open their site in a tab and forget about it, and end up wondering what that clicking sound is that you keep hearing, it’s their slideshow.

Mandy’s Film and TV Production Directory – television – video – broadcast.

Cool site where you can connect with film distributors, among many other things. Hat tip to Angelo Bell for telling me about it.

Poetry Magazine pays $10 per line for poems, with a $150 minimum.

Submissions : Poetry Magazine

Images of America – Greeting Card Writers Wanted

We are looking for greeting card writers and designers to supply cards for our online mall. If you can write verses or currently have existing pre-formatted greeting cards we would like to hear from you.

“Please pitch only COMPLETED SPECS by filling out the form below. NO OTHER WAY OF PITCHING SCRIPTS IS ACCEPTED.”

Pitch your script to Gallagher Literary Management

These folks publish a quarterly publication consisting entirely of stories and articles that start with the same predefined first line. They accept submissions, and they even pay (a rather small amount).

The First Line: It all starts the same but….

The Huffington Post Contagious Festival

Problem Solvers Lessons Submission Guidelines

intro:

All About the Problem Solvers Curriculum
The Problem Solvers© Curriculum is a multi-discipline supplemental curriculum for classroom teachers, after-school programs, summer camps and home school teachers. The Problem Solvers curriculum takes students on a one-hour adventure to solve a real life problem using skills from a particular career field

¨ Complete a take-home project

And here’s their Writers Wanted! page.

Top Ten Reasons to Write Articles for Free Publication Online from Bella Online.

The Atlantic Online | Letters to the Editor and Submissions Information

MovieMaker Magazine: The Art and Business of Making Movies

They accept article submissions. Guidelines as summarized by WritersWeekly.com:

MovieMaker Magazine, 121 Fulton Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10038. P(212)766-4100. F(212)766-4102. Email: staff (at) moviemaker.com. Website: http://www.moviemaker.com. Jennifer M. Wood, Managing Editor. 85% freelance. “MovieMaker Magazine is the world’s most widely-read magazine on the art and business of making movies. Founded in 1993, the publication has a worldwide circulation of 55,000 and its website, MovieMaker.com, is one of the most popular film sites on the Web. MovieMaker’s content is directed at the audience as well as the artist, and its mix of in-depth criticism, do-it-yourself moviemaking and behind-the-scenes looks at talented actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, screenwriters and editors makes it a perennial favorite with film enthusiasts the world over.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 55K. Quarterly. Pays within 30 days of publication. Publishes ms 3 – 4 months after acceptance. Buys exclusive rights. No reprints. Responds 4-8 weeks. Sample online under archives. Subscription $16; $26 Canada; $42 other. “We have no set guidelines, but interested writers are encouraged to pick up a copy of the magazine or visit our website to see the kinds of stories we publish.”
CURRENT NEEDS: “Technical, how-to, celebrity interviews.” Pays flat fee of $75-$500 (depending on department, placement, etc.). No set word count. Submit query by email to Jennifer Wood at jwood (at) moviemaker.com. “If this is your first submissions to MM, please include a resume, cover letter and writing samples.”
PHOTOS/ART: N/A.
HINTS: “We encourage interested writers to take a look at a few past issues of MovieMaker Magazine and keep in mind the scope of our readership, the tone of our magazine and the fact that we are a quarterly publication (so pieces that are timed to a specific week, etc. may not work). We encourage creativity in our writers and are not afraid to try new things, but ask that people come in with a knowledge of our readership and targeted audience.”

I Love Cats Magazine Writers Guidelines

summary from WritersWeekly.com:

I Love Cats Magazine, 16 Meadow Hill Lane, Armonk, NY 10504. P(908)222-0990. F(908)222-8228. Email: ilovecatseditor (at) sbcglobal.net. Website: http://www.iluvcats.com. Lisa M. Allmendinger, Editor. “We are a ‘g-rated’ magazine catering to the interests of cat owners.” 80% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Bimonthly. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 1-2 years after acceptance. Buys all rights. No reprints. Responds in 1-2 months. Sample copy for $5 via online form. Subscription $19.95 ; $36 Canada. Guidelines by mail with SASE, or online at http://www.iluvcats.com/writguid.html.
CURRENT NEEDS: “Any stories that deal with cats. Fiction and non-fiction are published. No poetry. No tributes to dead cats.” Pays flat fee of $100 depending on the story for 500-1000 words. Submit query or complete ms by email, or by mail with SASE.
PHOTOS/ART: “We accept color prints or slides, or black and white prints.” Pays $25-$50 for inside art and $50 for a cover.
HINTS: “Send a manuscript that’s clever or funny or covers a different topic. Keep it short and fun or concise and factual. Art helps a sale. When submitting by mail, always include an SASE with enough postage to cover the return. NEVER: use purrfect anywhere in a story. It drives me nuts; Bad writing. And, there’s a lot of it out there. I’ve wanted to tell people not to give up their day jobs on occasion; Handwritten submissions. Please be sure to be specific about what you are sending in the subject line of your e-mail. I get 1,000s of emails per week and you’ll be deleted if I don’t know what you are sending. Also, be sure to include all of your information on any attachment because I print out submissions to read. If there’s no information, i.e. a byline, address, e-mail address or phone number on the attachment and I trip over one of my pets while walking with a stack of submissions and they go flying, how will I know it’s your story when it’s separated from the cover letter?”

Submission Guidelines for Artella Content Writers!

Our Needs

We are seeking short articles (approximately 600-1000 words) on topics of interest to writers. While we are open to articles of all topics, we are most interested in the following:
Articles about writing poetry (any aspect), to be featured in our upcoming PassionPoetry eZine

Tips, advice and inspiration for freelance writers

“A Day in the Life” articles that paint pictures of the writing life

Articles connecting writing to other creative arts (visual art, dance, music)

Payment Terms

We will pay $50.00 per article selected for publication. Payment is made within 14 days of publication date.

The Best Free Poetry Contests from WinningWriters.com

Citizen CultureSub mission Guidelines

Citizen Culture Magazine is a general-interest, nationally distributed, monthly literary magazine—not a journal. We welcome excellent writing of all types and styles, in accordance with our Editorial Calendar. The Magazine is designed to be an intelligent source for traditional and investigative journalism, cultural reviews (including film, food, books, and theatre), social commentary and ideological debate, personality profiles, humor writing, fiction, poetry, and original photography, cartoons, and art. Every month we run a several-page-length photo/art essay. We subscribe to no agenda and profess no bias; but believe that controversy breeds interested readership.

The Writer : The essential resource for writers

The Writer is dedicated to helping and inspiring professional and aspiring writers. We do this by producing a magazine that provides information, instruction and motivation. We hope to foster the idea of a writers’ community in which writers share their experiences, expertise, struggles, successes and suggestions on our pages.

About 80 percent of our articles are by freelance writers. The best way to get an assignment is to send a query letter with clips of previously published work. It helps to include the lead and an outline of the proposed article. We do not accept fiction or poetry.
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WritersWeekly.com Forum :: View topic – Call for Submissions – Apex Digest Pays $15 1cc

Want to submit to Apex Digest?

First, your story needs to be pertinent to the goals of Apex Digest. Apex is looking to publish the best edgy science fiction and horror in the business. All our published stories will be in the science fiction genre. Not all our stories will require a horror twist. It is just this particular editor likes horror. But if you have a great hard sci-fi manuscript just dying to be published, send it to us.

Ok, the particulars…

Must be sent electronically in Word Doc format as an attachment to your email. Save your stamps, we don’t accept mailed submissions.
Must be no more than 10,000 words.
Please use Courier as your font. We hate having to reformat documents.
Put your last name on each page.
Only one submission at a time.
No reprints.
Feel free to include information about yourself. I enjoy checking out writer’s websites and their published work. This isn’t meant to discourage new writers. Unless your name is Stephen King or Orson Scott Card, I’m going to publish only what’s good.
We ask for North America First Print Rights. We also ask for the exclusive electronic rights to your manuscript for up to 90 days after the publication date of the issue in which you appear. After 90 days, the author has the right to leave the story up, or ask to have the story taken offline.

If we like your story, we will email and ask if you are willing to let us publish your work. If you agree, then we will either fax or mail you our standard publication contract. This has to be signed and returned to Apex before we can print your work.

One last thing…Apex Digest subscribers who submit stories will be placed on top of the pile. They won’t be given any extra ‘points’ for subscribing when Apex makes a determination of whether to accept their story for publication, but they will have the privilege of having their stories seen first and have responses to their submissions before others. If you are a subscriber and you submit, please mention this in your submission email. Likewise, those who have purchased the current issue of Apex will be placed next in the queue behind the subscribers.

Payment will be $15. Not exactly 3 cents per word, but you will also receive a free copy of the issue of Apex in which you appear. And…you will be given props on the Apex website, along with a bio and byline in the magazine. As our circulation numbers go up, so will the standard pay rate.

We will try to answer all submissions within four weeks. Right now, estimated response time is 15-20 days.

Submit to submission@apexdigest.com

Visit http://www.apexdigest.com for more information.

Jason Sizemore
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NYU Journal of Law & Liberty

From Jan 20th 2005:

Call for Submissions:

Essays on Liberty – We are always searching for quality essays discussing the concept of liberty.

General submissions – We gladly accept unsolicited articles developing or criticizing libertarian and clasical liberal legal scholarship.

Rights of Criminal Defendants

Private Property in the 21st Century – We will publish the papers from our Nov.19 symposium and invite submission of unsolicited papers on various aspects of private property for inclusion in the issue.

Tocqueville’s 200th Birthday

Legislation & Classical Liberalism

Second Amendment