A request and some links
A little update and a request
Hello everybody. Just some updates.
I am making significant progress on the book, Ong’s Hat: Compleat. I am confident I will have it ready for publication early next year. I toyed with the idea of going with a traditional publisher to save me the stress of doing the editing, layout, publishing, and distribution for a change but my recent negative experience of working with “industry” people has convinced me that I should maintain control of my narratives and their public presentation. So, OHC will be self-published, like all my other works now and in the future.
On the movie front, I have withdrawn Ong’s Hat as a movie because I do not wish to work with “Hollywood” entities because that system is designed to water things down to appeal to the masses, and my work is not for the masses. It’s highly personalized stories told for my tribe, which, if you’re reading this, is probably you and others like you. My people. The “Others”.
The “entertainment industry” has hijacked one of the most important of human activities. Storytelling. Some of us, me included, will no longer hand over the results of one of the most sacred rites, our stories, to the giant parasite that I half-jokingly call Mouseferatu. Of course, it’s not only Disney but the big D is a perfect icon for what I oppose.
The things I will be working on between now and next year.
1.) Finish and publish Ong’s Hat: Compleat.
2.) Layout and publish a full-color, print, 11 X 8.5 graphic novel version of Statio Numero.
3.) Begin preproduction of an independent video version of Liminal. I recently spoke to Helena Celle for hours about a lot of things but among them, we spoke about Helena doing a soundtrack for Liminal the movie. (It was an excellent conversation by the way)
Now to the thing I want to ask of you. Since I published the interactive edition of Statio Numero, there has been no real mechanism to collect and display reviews. I’d also like to have some reviews on the back cover of the print edition next year. So, if you read Statio and want to review it, there are two ways you can do it.
1.) Send an email to quotes@josephmatheny.netphmatheny.net with your review (1-5 lines is ideal, but I will refine longer reviews to shorter versions for print). Also, include any website you’d like me to link to from the Statio Page.
2.) Review on Goodreads and notify me via quotes@josephmatheny.net so I can include it on the Statio Page and the back cover of the print version.
An example of a review to email me:
Quote content. -Your Name [Link to a website you’d like your name to be linked to. ]
Your reviews will be archived on the Statio Numero page and the back cover of the print version next year.
I appreciate if you decide to help me out with this.
It will be my honor to review Statio. It's a great story. I was honored to being one of Statio Beta Testers and again I am honored to write your reviews to both help sell your stylish art. And for you to be able to use mine, and I'm sure others of the Tribe quotes for the larger version.
Rob Conn
Thank you for opening the doors and sharing the alternate places told by your imagination.
RC3
Hi Joseph, I am glad you decided not to go the Hollywood route for your works. For Myself and I am sure the rest of the Tribe are tired of how many other great stories have been crafted into movies & series, especially streaming. i.e... NETFLIX: Archive81, Travelers, OA as good examples of story to screen that were loved my most especially us "Weirdos :)" only to be cancelled without Rhyme or Reason. And since Netflix over last couple years makes it nearly impossible to change platforms, it would send your works to obscurity.
Plus with Hollywood's big studios putting profit over evertthing. They would buy the rights of your works and make 100 remakes that would increasing have little to do with the beauty you created and just another multiverse or FX nightmare. And if they could merchandise the crap out of it, you know they will.
Long are the days of Michael Crichton's Great Movie Adaptions, to endless clone Dinosaur movies. If I want silly remakes, Sharknado is waiting hehe.
Growing up I fell in Love with Crichton's books and movie adaptions. Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Timeline. Including a few great stories written for the screen Coma, Looker, Runaway & Westworld, and after his passing hoping the studios he sold the movie rights to would continue with others. These early works did what great scifi thrillers did, ask questions, project future possibilities, and tell stories of living in these alternate worlds.
BUT What do we get now, 100 Jurassic Park sequels, scripts written like they write porn in a notebook, and filled with endless action and FX scenes. All to make studio owners giant profits.
I applaud your desire to go the Indie route. It has so much more promise. When films have smaller budgets, effects budgets are limited which allows Storyteller and Cinematographers to concentrate on actually transporting us into a great work of literary art. Instead of losing us in endless FX.
Movies franchises like the Phantasm, Evil Dead, and many John Carpenter's would of never gotten anywhere if they all started today with big studios.
Ong's Hat & The Liminal Cycle allowed us to tap into great mysteries, puzzles and really great storytelling, created in worlds you built with passion and perhaps even connections to other worlds and the great unknown.
And like your great stories & world building, if you go the Indie route you have more room for experimental filmmaking. Which is how people should experience your stories, in how you envision the stories to exist.