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Ever since she was a 10-year-old in Liverpool, England, turning out adventure stories, Patricia le Roy wanted to be a writer. But aside from some love poems written at university and a bit of journalism for a Paris expatriate newspaper, le Roy remained unpublished and got on with her life - a degree in French at the University of Sussex, a husband in Paris, two children, a job as a manuscript editor at Radio Liberty. Then in 1997, a British e-publisher, Online Originals, snapped up her fourth novel, The Glass Palace Chronicle. Her next e-book, The Angels...
...Roy: I never approached publishers directly myself. I always had an agent who did that - until The Glass Palace Chronicle, when my then agent refused to handle it. Burma [its setting], she said, was going nowhere. The Glass Palace was turned down by every publisher I approached...
...Roy: I heard about Online Originals at a writers' workshop in Scotland. One of the other writers mentioned it, and right away I thought it was a great idea. A low-cost, high-reach, tree-preserving way of putting one's works at the disposal of readers, not just in one country, but in the English-speaking community worldwide. My experiences with Online Originals were extremely positive. They put The Glass Palace Chronicle on the site six months later with virtually no editing. I got hooked and gave them The Angels of Russia without bothering to submit it to print...
...Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from its stylistic conventions could be heard anew." In fact, hearing familiar music as you've never heard it before is an experience that comes with nearly every Don Byron album...
...Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from its stylistic conventions could be heard anew." In fact, hearing familiar music as you've never heard it before is an experience that comes with nearly every Don Byron album...