REQUESTING SUBMISSIONS FOR TORONTO'S 2008 NANOWRIMO CD!

[greensong]

Hello everyone,

We hope this email finds you well and enjoying the beautiful summer
weather! While November still seems eons away, we would like to give
you the heads up about something very exciting that is in the works in
Toronto-Nano land, and invite you to play a part. We are all
novelists, yes, but it has not escaped our notice that many
individuals in the group channel their creative energy into other
pursuits as well - we have a lot of talented musicians, graphic
artists, dramatists, and other artistes in our midst.

We have a wonderful idea: to create a CD of original music by Toronto
NaNo'ers, for Toronto NaNo'ers, about NaNoWriMo and the creative
process/writing in general. Not only will this encourage and inspire
copious amounts of novel writing, it will also act as a fundraiser to
help support the events that we have all come to know and love during
November.

If you're interested in taking part, here's what you need to do:
1. Send an email to nanotoro...@gmail.com before September 1st,
letting us know that you'd like to participate.
2. Write a song relevant to NaNo, writing, or creativity (ideally 2-5
minutes in length), and record said song. Multiple submissions are
welcome.
3. Email your song(s) in high quality MP3 format to
nanotoro...@gmail.com by October 1st in order to get it on the
CD. We will endeavour to include all songs submitted by the due date
on the CD, as space allows.

Collaboration and cowriting is absolutely encouraged, so if you're got
a great set of lyrics that you'd like set to music, or play an
instrument but don't necessarily want to write something, let us
know. We will do our best to facilitate collaboration to ensure that
everyone who wants to be a part of the CD is part of it.

And lest you visual artists are feeling left out, there's one last
part of the project that we'd like your help on, and that's the cover
art! If you're graphically inclined, and would like to take a stab at
putting something together, please contact us at the same address
(nanotoro...@gmail.com) for further details. Submitted artworks
will be put to a vote, with the winner getting featured on the cover
of the CD.

Please make sure that any works you submit to this project are ones
that you have created yourself, and control the copyright for. All
artists included will retain copyright, as well as all legal and moral
rights of any work they submit.

If you have questions on any part of the process, please email us and
we shall be more than happy to answer.
We are incredibly excited about this project, and can't wait to hear
what everyone comes up with!

Ryan, Debs, and Errol
(the CD Team)