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In memory of Julie Ellis
Feb. 28th, 2009 10:26 am
Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia. During her high school years she was part of the school drama group and wrote her first novel. She shipped it off to a major New York publisher, received a fast rejection slip, tossed the manuscript into the garbage--vowing to do better. At sixteen she moved with her parents to New York (after high school graduation and a very brief stint at the University of Georgia), where she focused on drama studies and wrote one-act plays performed by her drama class. Julie Ellis was torn between an obsession for writing and for acting (she'd read every play in her Columbus, Georgia, library)--and soon triumphantly combined the two by writing three-act plays (one was briefly optioned for Broadway--the prospective sponsor decided instead to invest in a sugar-free jelly operation) and acting on the Off-Broadway scene.
Julie Ellis married her producer/director, lived in the colorful East Village, continued to act on Off-Broadway (and toured summer resort hotels and bungalow colonies) until after the birth of her second child, daughter Susie. During the Off-Broadway period she sold several radio and television scripts--and gradually, along with her husband--became realistic. Raising two kids required some financial stability--missing in our Off-Broadway existence.
Julie Ellis passed away on February 2006 from a massive stroke.
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Julie Ellis was born in Columbus, Georgia. During her high school years she was part of the school drama group and wrote her first novel. She shipped it off to a major New York publisher, received a fast rejection slip, tossed the manuscript into the garbage--vowing to do better. At sixteen she moved with her parents to New York (after high school graduation and a very brief stint at the University of Georgia), where she focused on drama studies and wrote one-act plays performed by her drama class. 
This is a nice and creepy short story. Scott is a college student and the only gay guy on the dorm; he has a little crush on one of his fellow students, but probably he is too shy to say or do something, and so he is prepared to go through college in completely loneliness. Then his uncle sends him a calendar as birthday present, and Scott eye-dreams on one of the guys in it, Mr. October. Problem is that his daydreamings become even too real when at night Mr. October comes to visit him. But Scott's roommate, an homophobic jock, is not so happy for Scott.
This is a nice and creepy short story. Scott is a college student and the only gay guy on the dorm; he has a little crush on one of his fellow students, but probably he is too shy to say or do something, and so he is prepared to go through college in completely loneliness. Then his uncle sends him a calendar as birthday present, and Scott eye-dreams on one of the guys in it, Mr. October. Problem is that his daydreamings become even too real when at night Mr. October comes to visit him. But Scott's roommate, an homophobic jock, is not so happy for Scott.
After asking your opinion, friends, I realize that you like my "In the Spotlight" appointment where I feature the authors in my Top Gay Novels list even if it seems a not so followed appointment. So I decide to try to do a better work, and I sat down and think where it lacks. First of all, I noticed that most of the books and authors on top of the list are obviously books released first than the others. Second a book could be on top of the list since when it was released it had an huge success, but then it didn't sell any more copies, and maybe there are books that continue to sell years after years. 
Every week I will continue to feature an author from the list. After the first 40 authors (and this will happen in few week), I will close the first 40 position and create an Amazon list: the list will not change for the next 40 weeks, when I will draw the second 40 positions list reopened also the first 40 positions. 
What makes me feel that the criteria are not so wrong is that, more or less, there is not so many differences between before and after applying the correction factors, only that some new books enter the first positions sooner than before.
After asking your opinion, friends, I realize that you like my "In the Spotlight" appointment where I feature the authors in my Top Gay Novels list even if it seems a not so followed appointment. So I decide to try to do a better work, and I sat down and think where it lacks. First of all, I noticed that most of the books and authors on top of the list are obviously books released first than the others. Second a book could be on top of the list since when it was released it had an huge success, but then it didn't sell any more copies, and maybe there are books that continue to sell years after years. 
Every week I will continue to feature an author from the list. After the first 40 authors (and this will happen in few week), I will close the first 40 position and create an Amazon list: the list will not change for the next 40 weeks, when I will draw the second 40 positions list reopened also the first 40 positions. 
What makes me feel that the criteria are not so wrong is that, more or less, there is not so many differences between before and after applying the correction factors, only that some new books enter the first positions sooner than before.
