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Re: (TV) New Book ? / Mitchell's Advocate



It needs an angle somewhere inbetween
Good reviewers such as those in Uncut mag etc will recognise that a person
such as yourself is trying to tell the real, in-depth story but also appeal
to general interestees (if that's a word)

I'd certainly buy one K :o)

Andy

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Allison" <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) New Book ? / Mitchell's Advocate


> In message
> <68a8ea5e0512070048j220b8006qbf0baf3b542e328f@mail.gmail.com>, Rex
> Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> writes
> >Worth noting: this guy is a published author, which few if any of the
> >fine writers on this list can say of themselves.  So if he chooses to
> >use that credibility to convince a publisher to put out a book on
> >Television... good on him!  And if that gets a little more notice paid
> >to Tom and the band, double good.
>
> Agreed.
> I am, in fact, working on a book about this stuff, but the problem is -
> do you write it for the 200 people who care or do you aim it at everyone
> else who doesn't care? If the former, then where's the selling point? If
> the latter, then maybe it ends up as being about "the band who invented
> punk" which, frankly, is not only wrong but a waste of time.
> -- 
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