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OVerdrive is a system that allows you to access EBooks through it like a traditional library system. IT is a member of the Rakuten family, which owns my publisher Kobo. Each page to a book linked below has a sample page. Enjoy. are your already published works on overdrive? @Troy @Mel Hopkins @Cynique *My books* Sunset Children Stories https://www.overdrive.com/media/3670145/sunset-children-stories Looking West and West https://www.overdrive.com/media/3670099/looking-west-and-west The Visasiki https://www.overdrive.com/media/3670180/the-visasiki The Janidogo https://www.overdrive.com/media/3670162/the-janidogo Overdrive library location https://www.overdrive.com/libraries app for overdrive https://meet.libbyapp.com *For Writing life authors* Once your eBook is live on OverDrive, spread the words to your fans so they can request your eBook at their local library. OverDrive also launched a great free app, Libby, where users can browse eBooks right on their devices. As you can see, the process is incredibly simple and a fantastic way to get your book out to a new market—and help you increase your earnings! If you’d like to enable OverDrive distribution on your account, send an email to the KWL team now and we’ll get you set up.

Cleopatra Jones was mostly written or partially produced from MAx Julien , starred Tamara Dobson. Black people had a hand in the money/script/direction/acting in this film, thus making it one of the few true black films , in my opinion. What do you think should be involved in a remake? any ideas. article https://shadowandact.com/underground-creator-misha-green-to-write-produce-cleopatra-jones-remake-at-warner-bros/?utm_content=bufferf81d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer misha green twitter https://twitter.com/mishagreen?lang=en referring tweet https://twitter.com/shadowandact/status/936322338072793089

@Mel Hopkins I think you hit the problem on the head. If you take Get Out and replace all the black characters, for which only five exist <outside the black cops>, and replace them as white you have a plot that is part wicker man <original or nicholas cage>/manchurian candidate/the strangers. Nothing plot wise was not done before: mental manipulation to a protagonist to serve the agenda of a financially affluent shadow organization, white female antagonist who acts as a bait to the male protagonist, a deadly set of whites <use lethal force> in a white suburban area. The protagonist side his friend are the only steady black characters. the black cops were only used to show how impotent black law enforcers will be , which is no other than white law enforcers in similar scenarios in films, ala halloween 2 and law enforcement mocked donald pleasance. The white grandmother and grandfather and a white man who bought the brother in the opening scene inhabit three black characters bodies who are only expressed through moments of mental stress or the flashlight which break the mental hold, like when the black maid starts to cry after the male protagonist says i am only nervous around so many white people. Thus, three from the five black character are never fully exposed. My point being the plot is not absurd, as white violence to blacks in the usa is if anything a statian tradition. but a film that display white people who are fiscally wealthy/country side folk <not exactly urban elites>/who have no visible danger to them<like the texas chainsaw folk> abusing or murdering many black people in the most complete way is what the golden globes wanted to deem a comedy. If the cast is all white then like wicker man/manchurian candidate/the strangers/halloween the film is a thriller, suspense thriller. If having a character that speak in a buffoon manner dictate you are a comedy then transformers 4 is a comedy, mark wahlberg's friend. Some say the beginning of the film is funny but the opening scene isn't funny but honest. Black people do speak like that in white communities at night. And law enforcement may not like it, but too many missing cases in the black community in new york city exist to suggest Get Out is falsifying how law enforcement work to missing cases in the black community. But, when you see the film. Below is the scripts enjoy the reads, apologize for the format issues. The movie script https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=get-out This is an early script, it varies from the movie in vital ways, and to be honest, i can see as an earlier script, the rewriter gave it a more neutral ending and softened some of the character interactions. I wonder your thoughts to the variance. your thoughts @Neftali Rivera Jr @sabine ziya @Maame Dede @Cynique @Uniquelymade7 http://scriptslug.com/assets/uploads/scripts/get-out-2017.pdf from here http://scriptslug.com/scripts/get-out

@Troy I apologize, golden globes:) it proves I follow neither too well https://shadowandact.com/jordan-peele-on-the-golden-globes-classifying-get-out-as-a-comedy-what-the-movie-is-about-is-not-funny

#GETOUT was labeled a comedy by the oscars. Forget about the purpose to why that labeling was done. Artistically, how do you define GET OUT and how can it be labeled a comedy? @sabine ziya @Neftali Rivera Jr @Mel Hopkins I define get out as a suspense thriller. It can be deemed in the science fiction mold through the mental paralysis but I think it is not complicated. The complication in get out is not the general plot or the science fiction. It is the wrapping, about black white relations in the usa that is unique and that is the biggest hurdle in classification. if the entire plot involved white people and did not have the concept of white people trying to obtain black bodies in the larger context to the usa. Texas chainsaw massacre- the brood- all deal with similar plots involving white people who harm others through similar means in the film. They key is black people are never in the story. If anything, they are white on white crimes. The legacy/history in the u.s.a. from white on black crime is massive or well documented while not treated as valuable or worthy in films, which are the modern book. So few people see films that are not historical fictions where white on black crime ix exhibited. And thus, the definition to get out is a thriller that utilizes elements from film noir side science fiction. To the comedy label, i know how. the movie does have funny aspect. yes the line i always love is the , she licking your balls and shit. The best friend to the main character is the comic relief, while he serves a greater function as the hero. It is not a comedy though. But I comprehend why oscars did it. The reality is, a movie that displays criminal white behavior from fiscally wealthy/violent/liberal whites to completely innocent or peaceful black people is something that was never done before in the usa, in a relatively big budget film. Get Out if a student film does not have the accessible audience. but cause it could reach a larger audience the themes in it are for white people , unknown in the usa. White people are never criminals like this to black people in a film. it is that simple. I think about movies I have seen, I can not recall many white antoganist to a black protagonist. Film versions of Othello/brother from another planet ; enemy mine or star trek do not count as the inhuman nature to klingons or the creature louis gossett junior played. Story wise, the truth is, the system is not perfect in the film. by default the part that remain from the original people is an echo that by defacto has to continually be suppressed. and the chores are the method to continually repress them, thus the other members are enslaved to the armitages.

PBS predicted the union between English Prince harry and a woman, not all white? What fiction based on real people predicted something you recall? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/king-charles-iii/

*Lotte Reiniger* films #silhouette mastery , enjoy 1919 – The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart - Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1LmpO7dW3A 1920 – Amor and the Steady Loving Couple - Amor und das beständige Liebespaar ? 1921 – The Star of Bethlehem - Der Stern von Bethlehem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaksf34wbjc 1922 – Sleeping Beauty - Dornröschen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBYyol_uBTc 1922 – The Flying Suitcase - Der fliegende Koffer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSuWa_D5M-Q 1922 – The Secret of the Marquise - Das Geheimnis der Marquise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wof9QrdK3I 1922 – Cinderella - Aschenputtel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kku75vGDD_0 1926 – The Adventures of Prince Achmed (feature) Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfqoawd9V4 1927 – The Chinese Nightingale - Die chinesische Nachtigall ? 1928 – Dr. Dolittle and His Animals (3 parts: "The Journey to Africa", "The Monkey Bridge", "The Monkey Illness") - Dr. Dolittle und seine Tiere ? 1928 – The Seemingly Dead Chinese- Die scheinbar toten Chinesen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K1lquNDNpo 1930 – Chasing Fortune - Die Jagd Nach dem Glück https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4BDpSmY2Eg 1930 – Ten Minutes of Mozart - Zehn Minuten Mozart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOLpEqOUuGk 1931 – Harlekin - Harlequin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0-dkGHoVM 1932 – Sissi ? 1933 – Carmen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCSGNRvd7DA 1934 – The Stolen Heart - Das gestohlene Herz ? 1935 – The Little Chimney Sweep - Der kleine Schornsteinfeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUq3OwxpyjI 1935 – Galathea: The Living Marblestatue - Galathea: Der lebende Marblestatue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDZq4IEzyE 1935 – Kalif Storch - the Stork Caliph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLRfuyMFBXs 1935 – Papageno <refer to : the magic flute> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCR-GFKmMGU 1936 – Silhouettes (animation scenes) - Silhouetten ? 1936 – Puss in Boots - der gestiefelte Kater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i4uzZvhJnk 1937 – The Tocher. Film Ballet - the daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-GpcE64Ow 1938 – The HPO – Heavenly Post Office - Himmlische Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HcaLptkn3g 1942 – Girl of the Golden West (writer) - Una signora dell'ovest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_of_the_Golden_West_(1942_film) 1944 – The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs - Die Gans, die die goldenen Eier legt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtBsIsoh1_0 1951 – Mary's Birthday - Marys Geburtstag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGu3gRF-Now 1953 – The Magic Horse -Das magische Pferd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myG5Xg0NaQ4 1954 – Aladdin and the Magic Lamp - Aladdin und die Wunderlampe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A38fUONi_o 1954 – Caliph Storch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K--QN3H4KHA 1954 – Cinderella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD4Ky_RdGuo 1954 – Puss in Boots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i4uzZvhJnk 1954 – Snow White and Rose Red - Schneewittchen und Rosenrot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbYz4Se9FP4 1954 – The Frog Prince - Der Froschkönig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii4OZ76QtWQ 1954 – The Gallant Little Tailor - Der tapfere kleine Schneider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jG2ITmKI4 1954 – The Grasshopper and the Ant - Die Heuschrecke und die Ameise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6H4kUKtgNs - not original soundtrack 1954 – The Little Chimney Sweep - Der kleine Schornsteinfeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNJmrT2HPI 1954 – The Sleeping Beauty - Die schlafende Schönheit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBYyol_uBTc 1954 – The Three Wishes - Die drei Wünsche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9HxScYDG6Q 1954 – Thumbelina - Däumelinchen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO3pKhtRVhU 1955 – Hansel and Gretel - Hänsel und Gretel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkIGXVwZTM 1955 – Jack and the Beanstalk - Jack und die Bohnenstange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZIw4LbNF5o 1961 – The Frog Prince - Der Froschkönig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMjOJ5vgPA 1975 – Aucassin and Nicolette - Aucassin und Nicolette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGmXUO6z9Y 1979 – The Rose and the Ring - Die Rose und der Ring ? if you have a link to one question marked please share *The Work of Michel Ocelot* _mostly online, viewable_ Kirikou And The Sorceress film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvTnEpLP20 Princes and Princesses film - all the episodes from the series Cine si except one https://my.mail.ru/mail/sestoles/video/mult-tv/196.html Kirikou and the Wild Beasts film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdwpChnCgNM Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZtrg1EhmTE Kirikou and the men and the women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEmmI0FG6M DRagons and PRincesses series information http://palais.wikidot.com/dragons-et-princesses-episode-guide The Insensitive Princess series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7rZJcnPWaA&list=PLjS13O8ZcTgZ6nZ8QiwGic-AgY9brpe4t The three inventors short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbP4m0qXh3w La Légende du pauvre bossu - the legend of the poor hunchback - short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FPjM1X82s Short Films listing- The Three Inventors /Daughters of Equality /The Legend of the Poor Hunchback/ The Four Wishes /The Wedding Guest http://palais.wikidot.com/michel-ocelot-shorts director http://palais.wikidot.com/michel-ocelot If you like the animation style check out the house of christmas http://www.ina.fr/recherche/search?search=titre_collection:Case+de+Noël+%3A+contes+magiques

@Troy do you control the IP address to this site. with trump killing net neutrality, which will be a fiscal boon to all major internet service providers, knowing the ip address to this site may be needed

@sabine ziya As always, the best thing to do is submit your work to any publisher when the time comes. You have to be pure to your story and then , resubmit it accordingly if need be. I checked fifty shades of grey, it is listed as contemporary or romance so... at least in kobo you can categorize your work as such. but you should check the publisher you will use for your book

Ok @Troy my idea is described here LINK I am thinking electronic simply cause it can be accessed globally, can be cheaper to access. Shipping a book is more costlier globally than downloading an ebook

If any of you have Kobo Ebooks and you want to place them on OVerdrive, it can be done for free through the dashboard. I placed all but one of my paid books which I am working on in the overdrive. https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/11/14/distribute-to-overdrive-via-kwl-hassle-free-library-distribution-50-royalties/

The way the article author composed her prose made me think of glengarry glen ross. Enjoy:) my modulation <did I succeed in gender neutrality or environmental change:)?> and then read the article. Lacy Williams: ...S-M-A-R-T. Smart Marketing Art Retailers Tracking - Smart - Are you smart enough to listen? Marketing - You want to market? I know you do, or you'll keep living day to day. Art- Will you create for Christ's sake. Retailers - Be their pusher or give them free views, and Tracking.... S.M.A.R.T. Be smart you fools, the whole worlds online. You think they stay online to only view porn? An addict doesn't want yesterday's candy everybody gets, they always want something sweeter only you will provide. They are at home waiting to buy your book. Are you gonna get them? Are you adult enough to take them? What's the problem,pal? You- commenter. Commenter: Your such a hero, your so successful, how come your around this blog wasting your time with a bunch of bums? Lacy: You click on this website? you click on this website? Commenter: yeah. Lacy: This website cost more than your car. I made two million last year. How much you make? You see, pal, that's who I am, and your nothing. Nice person? I don't give a shit. Good parent? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna write here- close! ,You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse from writing a book? You don't like it, quit! I can start right now, tonight, with the first draft you've got and make myself fifteen thousand. Tonight! In two hours! can you? Can YOU? Go and do likewise. S-M-A-R-T. Get mad you spawn of bitches, get mad. You want to know what it take to write great books? It take a BRASS BALL to write great books. GO and do likewise, folks. Money's out there. You pick it up, it's your. You don't , I got no sympathy for you. You wanna sit on those chairs tonight and close, CLOSE. It's yours. If not, your gonna be getting my groceries. And you know what you'll be saying- a bunch of losers tweeting, alone in their home. Oh yeah, I used to be a writer. It's a tough racket.... https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/11/06/be-a-smart-indie/

What is your favorite character trigger @sabine ziya @Mel Hopkins https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/11/03/using-triggers-to-poke-at-a-characters-emotional-wound/ People today, view or listen more than read. Am I right? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/10/27/making-promotional-videos-on-the-cheap

Good prose on doubting, I do not have doubt. My problem is verbosity or uncommon grammar techniques. ... and unwillingness to change to fit any readership. https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/10/31/fighting-the-demon-of-doubt

a half hour audio listen but good thoughts. I have no estate plan, to be blunt. I realize that could be devastating if an edgar allen poe happen to me:) but... a good listen overall The audio- you can listen too RAW LINK http://traffic.libsyn.com/kobowritinglife/KWL_Podcast_EP_095_EstatePlanningforAuthors_with_MLBuchman.mp3 article https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/10/24/kobo-writing-life-podcast-episode-095-estate-planning-for-authors-with-m-l-buchman/

how about an AALBC community book? The author to the article describe what he thinks are good methods for a bundle. 1. One theme or one general theme, so Valentine's day, romance. 2. Authors that are willing, initiated; and a way for them to be connected. I suggest connecting on AALBC. 3. Contract should exist between parties for royalties or contral rights. 4. Marketing must be outwardly and consistent. Possible ideas *Please Suggest Before You Read Mine* this year no one did anything for black solidarity day. I saw it on my calendar and I did not make any mention to it, to see what happened. In light of that, I want to honor black solidarity, which as a celebration in the black community in the usa is functionally pan black, globally. Juneteenth is specific to black people whose forebears who were in enslaved in the usa, like me. Kwanzaa is a solstive celebration that reference black african culture, which is my forebears. But, what if you are black and your forebears were not enslaved in the usa, like in ethiopia. what if you are black but not from african descent like some native people in the american continent, like some tribe in south america, or like some in each sector in asia. Black Solidarity is not about any particular tribe in the village, it is about all the tribes, being solid in themselves and making a solid union on earth. Sequentially, I see a title, tentative Happy Besooned Black Solidarity Day Stories or something with Black SOlidarity Stories in it I will suggest my following ideas to the itenerary listed below, please do likewise or similar. 1. Theme 2. Author 3. Contract 4. Marketing 1. Theme - Black Solidarity obviously, each story much contain positive black solidarity in some way or fashion. I think it need to be a short length. Flash fiction to short story, no epics or the novel needed to be written. 2. Author- each other a member of AALBC with their profile page as proof 3. The book is free, so this makes it a matter of want in the first place. I am willing to be the steward to whomever trust me. I will share the ebook through email to each member that I load. 4. Marketing, if each contributor post a link once a week to the page, the number of contributors will dictate the effect of the post what say you? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/10/10/multi-author-bundles-dos-and-donts/

If you are on Kobo and not on helloreads yet, check out this information. They have a form to submit to Helloreads. I made a helloreads page which aside my goodreads page. I don't use enough but they are present. I am trying to use AALBC moreso than any other profile. So, if you are not on either, that is fine but we should connect. if all the aalbc members connected on every other platform in a group or individually that would make us a block. NOTE: a link to posting a kobo work on helloreads is used, consider it My HelloReads https://www.helloreads.com/richardmurray My GoodsReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/189838.Richard_Murray https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/10/04/find-your-next-read-and-promote-your-books-with-helloreads/

Strong commentary on the commonly called "social media". It is mirror world. When an author is not well known electronic communication venues can aid while they do not guarantee attracting an audience. The potential audience or craft buyers using electronic communication venues, I don't say social media cause all media is social <newspaper articles, old fashioned radio,anything where a message can be presented through>, are assaulted secondly from various advertisement. Thus, in my experience, getting those more popular on electronic communication venues to present your work is the best for the not well known. Oprah's book club Beyonce giving kudos are prime examples. If Barack Obama say he likes a particular non profit organization that advertisement is priceless. When you are well known, all media is good cause people know you so getting your information out is only a positive. *thoughts* https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/09/29/6-social-media-tips-just-for-authors/

*Question* have any of you considered writing in another language beside english? I have a plan to publish in another language, nothing long winded though, something tiny but... what say you? The world is a circle, and multilingualism is a tool. Money is out there, but it does not always speak english. Question, what language would you like to see a story from you in ? name the story side the language ? *Your thoughts* ? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/09/25/five-things-i-learned-as-an-esl-writer/

Using the steps below, let us make a story together. I will start off with the inciting injury, named after the steps, and you do the immediate treatment and someone else the definitive and...? *STEPS* THE BEGINNING: The Inciting Injury: the moment and manner in which the character gets hurt. The Immediate Treatment: what the character does in the moment to feel better and avoid further injury. THE MIDDLE: The Definitive Treatment: when the character receives care which ultimately begins their healing process. The Rocky Road to Recovery: when the character faces challenges relating to their new disability and how they cope with those problems during healing. THE END: The Big Test: the moment when a character must overcome a greater challenge related to the global plot – while still recovering from their injury. The New Normal: when your character’s final degree of disability becomes apparent. They can have No Disability, a Partial Disability, or be Totally Disabled (for the affected body part). *LET US WORK TOGETHER* The Inciting Injury: Elsa Robinson, grandmother or lingerie fashion model, fifty six year old, walking along a dark street in the urban core to her boyfriend's house. Sprain her ankle when she step on a pebble in her diamond studded stilettos. The Immediate Treatment: SOMEBODY !? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/09/08/maim-your-characters-the-structure-of-an-injury-plot/ *I quote the article* So remember this very basic fact: Writers write. If you’re not writing, you’re not a writer. So go back to your laptop or notebook and just write. Stories will come. Your craft will improve. Life and the universe will conspire and one day you’ll wake up and be a professional writer with an actual career. This won’t happen if you don’t write. https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/09/16/five-things-i-learned-in-the-age-of-the-typewriter/

I compose books exclusively through Kobo writing life, set up DRM rights to myself, make my own covers thus, duplication or public domain issues or cover copyright issues are absent in my work. Metadata I am careful about and double check on everything I have from audio to the ebook itself. The only issue I can have that I have yet to test myself is erotica. In some stories I have written, grand abuse/assault was described, but that, to me, is not erotica. To me, erotica has to have the lustful in a fornicative sense. To lust is to desire above the healthy, it can be any thing. But, fornicate lust, which is not procreative lust, is to desire things that bring the arousal or attempted arousal in fornication. What are your thoughts? @sabine ziyaI know you are working in the erotic genre so i ponder? https://kobowritinglife.com/2017/08/21/top-5-reasons-books-are-rejected-from-publishing-on-kwl/

@sabine ziya haha yes, i am not a shy man. her medallions is what sold me. I hope so too:)

@sabine ziya Ok, I placed the image at the bottom to this post. Cool:) Sound like a masterpiece Sabine. Remember, no story ever end, just a part on the infinite road. You will know when you have finished the part you see.

@sabine ziya Try now, consider the words too... oh thank you:) i am an honest storyteller and I nearly hate filler plotting from what I create. Well, I don't judge artists from my own philosophy, at least, i don't try too:) I try to see what they are doing oh ok:)

fair enough. i wrote is darkness negative or dark:) thank you for stating my unmentioned