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December 16, 2012
How to Describe Bit Players 2
Wondering what Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels is actually about? On one level, it’s very simple:
Musical theatre…love it. Bullying…hate it. High school…undecided. So it goes.
December 15, 2012
And We’re Back…
Gotta love CreateSpace self-publishing. Roughly 12 hours after submitting the tweaked content for Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels, the book is “back on the shelves” and available for purchase. This is dangerous. Such a quick response encourages authors to continually make changes to their work. Must resist…
December 14, 2012
Book Unavailable for 24 Hours
Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels is unavailable for purchase for the next 24 hours while a minor adjustment is made. Sorry for the inconvenience, but please check back Saturday night (possibly sooner), which still gives you plenty of time to order the paperback or e-book as holiday gifts for your many theatre-loving friends and relatives!
December 11, 2012
FREE Book Giveaway on Goodreads
I’m giving away 5 FREE copies of the brand new Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels on Goodreads. Click here to enter. Contest ends January 7.
December 7, 2012
Get Your Bits On
It’s official. Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels, the sequel to Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers, is now available! (I really should have gone with those trendy one-word titles…)
The paperback can be bought as we speak by clicking on Buy above to get to the Bit Players e-Store. The e-book will be on Amazon by tomorrow. And within a few days, the paperback will be on Amazon. As for Nook, let’s just say that continues to be a nightmare.
See how happy my little Bit Players family looks now!
December 6, 2012
Exclusive Preview of Bit Players 2
Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels — the second installment in the Bit Players series — will be released within a day or so! Here’s an exclusive sneak peek from the mind of Sadie Perkins:
I really needed the lead again. I know that sounds greedy or ungrateful, but I barely got to enjoy having the lead in Twilight: The Musical last fall….I only knew I was the lead for ten hours before the opening night curtain, and then I got to enjoy it for all of three days. Definitely not enough.
Half the fun of being the lead is the build-up: acting the star at rehearsals, having your cast mates look up to you, knowing they’re actually criticizing you behind your back…When you’re the lead, you own the show. You’re at practically every rehearsal. If you’re not in a scene, it’s to give others a small chance to shine; it’s not like you were overlooked. After all, you’re integral to the plot.
But I missed all that. Whatever role our director/English teacher Mr. Ellison picked, I needed to win the lead so I could savor it for real this time, and add it to my application to Yale School of Drama, where I intended to go after finishing junior and senior year and four years of undergraduate college.
I know, there are plenty of good parts that aren’t the lead. Every drama teacher or director I’ve ever known says every part is important, even the ensemble, and there is no such thing as a bit part, only bit players. Well, I’ve had plenty of bit parts and believe me, being the lead is a hundred times better.
If you’ve ever had the lead in a show, you know exactly what I mean.
December 4, 2012
Virtual Precipitation
Yes, I’m easily amused, but it’s that time of year when WordPress makes it snow on my blog and website. Best of all, the snow is pretty but not cold and doesn’t need to be shoveled. Oh, the joy of virtual precipitation. I could watch it for hours…
December 1, 2012
Answer to “Who is Mika?”
Mika is a singer-songwriter with Lebanese/French/British undertones, and his song We Are Golden, for those who don’t know it, is an infectious, lunatic thrashing of the first order. And if you’re wondering if this is a clue to a song that just might appear in the soon-to-be-published “BitPlayers 2″ then you are onto something…
November 30, 2012
Who is Mika?
The characters in “Bit Players 2″ ask the same question. Nigel – remember him from the first book? – turns them on to this lunatic…
November 26, 2012
Theatre Snob
Sadie Perkins on thespian attitude: “Some kids at school called me a theatre snob because I insisted on spelling the word ‘theatre’ like my favorite teacher Mr. Ellison did, instead of ‘theater’, the common spelling. I didn’t agree with the snob label, but an addict? Definitely.”
