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Fun! Literary mash-up extravaganza
From Victoria (www.victoriamixon.com)
“Due to a strong response on the subject of literary mash-ups from my essay on Rebeca Schiller’s site, Alvah’s Books <http://www.alvahsbooks.com/>, I’d like to invite all of you to join us in a Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza.
Please use two (or more!) literary sources to come up with titles and brief descriptions for possible literary mash-ups and send them to us <mailto:gotheca@mcn.org>. We’ll post as many as possible of the ones that make us laugh the hardest on www.victoriamixon.com in about a week. We’ll consider posting entire flash fiction pieces, as well.
EXAMPLES:
/Don Juan S.S. Valdez Quixote/
A slightly mad coffee merchant spends 800 pages attacking windmills
and making love to women all over Spain. Then he spills thousands of
gallons of oil in an Alaskan sound. The end.
/Brokeback to the Future/
Doc and Marty experience a love they never knew was possible. In the
sequel, they do it in the Old West, but no one watches it.
Wendy Burt-Thomas, author and full-time freelance writer
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Wendy Burt-Thomas is the author of:
• “Oh, Solo Mia! The Hip Chick’s Guide to Fun for One” (2001, McGraw-Hill)
• “Work It, Girl! 101 Tips for the Hip Working Chick” (2003, McGraw-Hill)
• “The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters” (Dec. 2008, Writer’s Digest Books)
Other credentials include more than 1,000 published articles, short stories, essays, reviews, poems and greeting cards. She taught “Breaking Into Freelance Writing for 8 years and has worked as an editor, columnist, writer and PR specialist.
Wendy lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, two kids and two black labs. She is a full-time freelance writer, editor and PR consultant.
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