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On The Banes of Darkwood Hall
You’ll recall that Sam Spud: Private Eye arrived in the mail last week.
Yesterday I received an email from Baker’s Plays indicating they would be willing to publish The Banes of Darkwood Hall AKA A Splash of Horror. A contract will arrive shortly, and when it does, I will submit ANOTHER play when I return the contract – as I did last time. This seems to help speed up the process.
So – what play will I submit? Or plays?
I am thinking A Pirate’s Tale or possibly one of my Christmas productions – like The Swensons’ Christmas or Follow That Star.
So by this time next year I could have doubled my number of published works to four.
Now that’s definitely made my week.
I have to say, I do not care for the title — The Banes of Darkwood. I am definitely open to suggestion on this one.
I did presentations at Loreburn Central School and John Cuelenaere Public Library in Prince Albert today and yesterday.
When people ask me if I miss teaching, I always say the book presentations help make up for it. But after talking to Grade 7 and 8 students on these two occasions, I have to say – I really miss being in the classroom. No, I don’t miss the marking and the prep and the staff meetings and the bells, but I do miss interacting with all those runaway hormones.
But, back to writing . . .
For the next few months, I am going to turn my attention to marketing some plays – and that will mean making revisions to them to reduce the number of characters. Most theatre companies – whether amateur or professional are looking for smaller casts. At one time we had no difficulty getting 16 – 18 adults out for our community theatre production. Now we struggle to find 9.
Mitch’s Crossroads Café goes on stage in nearly two weeks. And it looks like it’ll be sold out for the dinner theatres on Friday and Saturday night. We can’t wait!