The CSA”s nominees put “Guardians of the Galaxy” side by side with “Wolf of Wall Street,” “Whiplash” with “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and Disney”s “Planes” with “Frozen.” If you were dreaming of a re-evaluation of “We”re the Millers,” your time is now.Ģ015″s bicoastal Artios Awards will be hosted by Patton Oswalt (Los Angeles) and Michael Urie (New York City). With categories ranging from Big Budget Drama to Low Budget Comedy, nearly every film that one expects to make the cut made the cut. 31, 2014, paving the way for last year”s Best Picture winner to nuzzle its way into contention along with 2014 hopefuls like “Birdman,” “Boyhood,” and “Selma.” It’s up for grabs, with ll the recent changes, we don’t know where it’s going, but writers should band together to help influence its direction.Because the Casting Society of America shifted the date of its Artios Awards, this year”s nominees include films released theatrically from Jto Dec. What do you think about the future of book publishing? Self-publish, because then you have total control. How did you decide how to publish your books? What advice would you give other writers? They don’t remain their creator’s playthings. They are the writer’s creation, but, if they’re valid as entities on their own that readers can believe in and empathise with, they must be left alone for the reader’s own imaginations. I think the basic theme is running around in my head for years once I start writing it, I do outline a bit, and then, in the process of writing, it all falls into shape.įor Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters? Present state of society, plus the fantasies/demons in my own head. The two published so far are GOOD QUEEN BETH, and GABRIELLA.

I’m also a poet (poetry pamphlets: Wasted Leaves, 1996 I Went With Her, 2007). They’re shocking, original and respectful of nothing and nobody. I would describe them as surreal novels with plenty of comedy, satire, humor, romance, sex and adventure.

I’m UK-based, and a director of an English language school for foreign students.

Good Queen Beth by Alan Hardy