[THE_EPISTLE] Book

[Debora]

Hello to everyone!
I think is a wonderful idea and I'm naturally interested... But I have a big problem: my stories are written in italian and I'm not able to translate them in english for you. And it would be too difficult for me to write a new story directly in english. So, for the language, I'm out :-(

I realize now that Ian Dickerson is deeply involved in the Saint Club. If Saint Club owns the Saint's rights, well, I hope you are not disappointed about my writing... 
I called my series "Young Templar" (like Young Bond) and features a boy named Simon who defends orphans from evil people. I started from the beginning of the Val Kilmer movie and I developed the young character. Yes, I know, the Kilmer's movie is considered a fake. But I loved it and it was the start in my mind to love the Saint.
My series is more an homage to the carachter... I never thought to promote them with the combination of Templar and Simon... But I never understood how the creator of the cartoon Lupin the3rd never paid rights to the owner of the classic Arsene Lupin.

Debora
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Dickerson 
  To: THEEPISTLE at OGHAM.ORG 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [THE_EPISTLE] Book


  Peter Sewell wrote:
  > It was Deborah from Italy that got me thinking about this and I put it
  > out
  > just to see if there was any interest. I put finger to keyboard without
  > thinking so my sincere apologies to the Saint Club and Ian for typing
  > without thought and not contacting/consulting them first.  The idea is
  > just
  > for a bit of fun and to help the Saint Club and in no way am I trying to
  > undermine Ian/Saint Club and the fantastic work they do. Indeed it is the
  > good work that the Saint Club does that inspired this idea.
  >
  > I guess the first consideration is whether The Saint Club is
  > interested and
  > secondly copyright issues. This I should have checked first.  Ian if
  > you can
  > advise I would be most grateful.
  >
  > If the Saint Club is up for it and any persons who submit a story do
  > so on
  > the understanding that it is to raise money for the Saint Club and not to
  > benefit the author in anyway shape or form then hopefully subject to
  > enough
  > interest, a deadline of say three months from the launch would be a good
  > starting point.  However at this stage it is merely to gauge any
  > interest.
  >
  > Once again I'm sorry for putting the cart before the horse
  >
  > Peter
  >
  All,

  My apologies for not responding to this previously but I've been out of
  the country and largely away from e-mail for a couple of weeks (which
  was just downright weird but nevertheless a welcome break!).

  Peter, I'm slightly concerned because the tone of the above suggests
  some comments have been made regarding the suitability of this idea and
  if so, then I've not seen those comments.

  Having said that, I have to say first and foremost that I have
  absolutely no time to get involved with this. Regardless of what I think
  of the idea there simply aren't enough hours in the day for me or the
  Club to get involved. I'm way behind on a significant mountain of Club
  paperwork and am in discussions about a number of other Saintly projects
  which I hope will see the light of day shortly.

  Copyright is also an interesting issue and I think any hard copy
  publication would create more hassle than it's worth. But it is a fun
  idea and there may be something that can be done online--say for just
  the subscribers to this list. Would anyone be interested in that?

  Ian