Shameless Self-promotion

Sent these messages in the aim of trying to promote this fucking project.

Subject: YO!

Hey up.

How's it going?

Did I email you about the blogs I'm doing for my PhD.

It's at - www.nothingisntreal.blogspot.com

please also see linked blogs (see right hand side)

I'm trying to rake up some readers. Do you think this is newsworthy?


Hope yr well


Mark


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Subject: Re: YO!

Busy busy but good (except for job worries) - I may be putting a gig on
in Leeds next month, thanks for the blogs links, hope you're well
Best wishes

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Subject: PS

Having looked at the blog, I'm not sure the content is intrinsically of
any value on its own, though I haven't read it fully (!) but as part of
a concept it works, partly because it's a brilliant concept. Also, it's
very well designed - I like the look of it.
It's also effortlessly cool in a way I never am!
PS If I ever make modernmusicreview.com a working website - as opposed
to a museum - I would love you to write something conceptual about music
for it.


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Subject: PPS

It may be a news item for us - email your full details about who you
are, which school you went to, age, what you're doing, to our news
editor XXXXX at XXXXXXXXXX@ypn.co.uk

If you don't mention your XXXXXX past, he won't pass it onto me for XXXXXXXXX and it might get on a news page at some point.
That's what I recommend.


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So I send this out:


Subject: Nothing Isn't Real

Dear Mr XXXXXX

I'm a local Harrogatonian and PhD student at the University of Huddersfield undertaking research in the fields of Creative Writing and Art into the relaitonship between Fiction and Reality. This is being done primarily through a number of blogs (see www.nothingisntreal.blogspot.com and links to the right of the page) that is fictionalised retelling of my real life (if that makes sense). These blogs will gradually build into a novel that will be published by Collective Unconscious publishing in 2011

My reason for writing is that I was wondering if you'd be interested in running an article on my research. I'm hoping that people would like to get involved in this by telling me their stories that I can then interpret into this piece so it would be a call for "submissions" as it were and also to promote my art. Ideally I'd like to meet up with people and photograph them and then incorporate this with their story into the overall piece.

I've lived in the Harrogate area for most of my life and have, in the past, been involved with Harrogate Theatre as both a writer and performer. I went to the Grammar School before studying a BSc Zoology at Cardiff University and an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. I currently lecture for the Open University and for the University of Bradford.


I'd be really greatful if you would consider giving my work a mention.


Kindest Regards


Mark Ellis.


(p.s. This letter has now been included into the blog. Please don't let this scare you - it's all part of the overall narrative. You are involved now as well)