<div dir="ltr">I received this request from John Madera for emoji-blurbs!<div><br></div><div>Everyone, please participate !!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Séamas Cain<br><a href="http://alazanto.org/seamascain" target="_blank">http://</a><a href="http://www.priosma.net/" target="_blank">www.priosma.net</a><br><a href="http://seamascain-writernetwork.org/" target="_blank">http://seamascain-writernetwork.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>____________________________</div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">John Madera</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnmadera@gmail.com">johnmadera@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 11:07 AM<br>Subject: Blurb request<br>To: <<a href="mailto:seamascain@gmail.com">seamascain@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Seamas Cain,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’m writing with hopes you’ll be willing to emoji-<span class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail-m_-6768667092716885727gmail-il">blurb</span> <a href="http://www.davisschneiderman.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Davis Schneiderman</a>’s debut short-story collection</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—<i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/twkyfciv0wxxogj/There%20is%20no%20appropriate%20%23emoji%20-APRIL%202019.docx?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">there is no appropriate #emoji</a></i> (<a href="https://madhat-press.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Mad Hat Press</a>, Fall 2019). The collection features<span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> stories by Schneiderman and collaborations with <a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Lance Olsen</a>, <a href="http://www.timguthrie.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Tim Guthrie</a>, <a href="http://www.staceylevine.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Stacey Levine</a>, <a style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline">Cris Mazza</a>, and others.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oscillating between stories and text and images from <a href="http://www.museumofalternativehistory.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i>The Museum of Alternative History</i></a>,<i> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/twkyfciv0wxxogj/There%20is%20no%20appropriate%20%23emoji%20-APRIL%202019.docx?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">#emoji</a></i> is set “everywhere”: from the Greek island of Lemnos to a hovering Zeppelin to a suburban street on the brink of solar catastrophe. <i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/twkyfciv0wxxogj/There%20is%20no%20appropriate%20%23emoji%20-APRIL%202019.docx?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">#emoji</a></i> is a wide-eyed view of life in the death throes of the Anthropocene—Schneiderman at his most prescient, predicting an endless epoch of nothing-but-the-same.<br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">What’s an emoji-<span class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail-m_-6768667092716885727gmail-il">blurb</span>? Here are two examples:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif">📚🔥🔥🔥🔓🔑🔮⚠💓💓😂😂😂👿👿👿</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">”</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">            <span style="background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">—David Shields, author of <i>Nobody Hates Trump More Than</i> <i>Trump</i> and <i>The Trouble with Men</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“<i>There is no appropriate </i>#</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">😋</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is a compelling </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">📖</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> overflowing with </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">😲</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> ideas, captivating </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">👩👨</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">, and </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">🌌</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> scenarios that will make you </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">😀</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> and </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">👀</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> and keep you on your </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:black">👣</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">—Naiomi Joy Madera, middle-schooler</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Your <span class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail-m_-6768667092716885727gmail-il">blurb</span> will join a large number of others, forming an “image-wall” of emoji-rich text to distort and reposition the practice of the <span class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail-m_-6768667092716885727gmail-il">blurb</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We’d need your <span class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail-m_-6768667092716885727gmail-il">blurb</span> no later than June 15, 2019.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Here’s the link to the manuscript: <i><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/twkyfciv0wxxogj/There%20is%20no%20appropriate%20%23emoji%20-APRIL%202019.docx?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">there is no appropriate #emoji</a></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks for considering it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John</span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-3881372329224472080gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.rhizomatic.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><i><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></i></b></span><span style="font-size:10pt">—<b><i><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></i></b></span><br><a href="http://www.rhizomatic.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><i><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></i></b></span>www.rhizomatic.org</a><br><a href="http://www.johnmadera.com/" target="_blank">www.johnmadera.com</a><br><a href="http://www.bigother.com/" target="_blank">www.bigother.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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