The 15% CreateSpace discount is valid on this item as well.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
No Kind of Life Soundtrack
This album is now available. It is primarily aimed at anyone who did watch the movie and wanted to get the music. The whole album feels like a demo as opposed to a polished album. It contains five songs that were in the movie, the majority of the instrumental music, and four additional demo songs that add a little extra value to the disc.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Genesis of the Mutation Draft 1
The second installment of The Fempiror Chronicles is coming along just fine. I completed the first draft of chapter seventeen, which according to the current layout, means I just have chapters eighteen and nineteen to go along with a prologue. From there comes the dreaded rewrite phase, which can easily take as long or longer than the first draft because I have to read it so many times, and then I hand it to my wife to read as well.
She's a big reader and was invaluable in editing the first book. It's coming though. Still a few months off, but it's coming.
She's a big reader and was invaluable in editing the first book. It's coming though. Still a few months off, but it's coming.
Friday, November 20, 2009
No Kind Of Life Soundtrack Proof Shipped
One step closer to the release of the soundtrack to No Kind of Life. I've been notified that the proof copy has been shipped to me. Once I receive it and confirm that it plays without incident, then it will be live. Should be available within a week after that. That'll be my first album that's just me. It's exciting.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
No Kind of Life Soundtrack Status
I checked on CreateSpace this morning, and the status for this item has been updated to "A proof copy of your title is being created using the same process as the production version." So sometime in the next week, I'll get the CD in the mail to listen to a couple of times to make sure it worked out all right. This makes my fourth item with them, and they've all turned out real well.
Here's to number four.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Plans for the Future
So from here, we have several projects that are written and lined up, just waiting for the time to get them done. Here's the calendar as it stands right now. There are no dates here as we plan on going onto the next project as soon as the previous is done.
1. No Kind of Life Soundtrack - This is already done. I'm just waiting for the proof to test and approve before it's available. It's mostly therein case you thought the music in the movie was cool, and couldn't live without it. The songs are really good, but it sounds rushed (which it was).
2. One Night - a concept album for a musical. Backgrounds are coming from a sequencer with excellent sound quality and mixed by Robert, my brother and sound guru.
3. Inexplicable - our next feature which is a collection of four horror tales
3a. Soundtrack for Inexplicable depending on how the music turns out.
4. Amehr - another concept album for another of my musicals. It needed a lot of work story-wise when we did it, but the music was really good.
5. Feature Number 3 - This was going to be a script called Jagged, but I'm not sure about that at this point since Jagged needs a lot of work. I might get it done before we get to it though. Otherwise, I'll see what else I have.
5a. Soundtrack for Feature 3 again depending on how the music turns out. Gotta be worth an album.
6. Ron and Julie - This would be a concept album using ALL of the music from the show and putting together what we have for this show in its most final incarnation. It's last on this list because I'm not sure how much work it'll take.
7. The Fempiror Chronicles - the novels will be written during the rest of the projects and come out periodically over the years. Several of the stories are already written so it's just a matter of converting them into novels.
8. Solo/Band Album - This is something I've been thinking about for awhile. I have a lot of songs I've written here and there and it might be nice to take the best of the best and record them.
That's the plans. You can see that the product list will grow little by little, but we're not one hit wonders. I'd also like to point out that this is just my material to get us started. I'm not opposed to doing stuff written by other people as well if it works for me. We'll see what happens, but I'll keep blogging progress on everything so if you happen to read about it, you have something to keep up on. This is probably the only place that everything will be until the site comes up. Even then, this'll be the main place for updates.
That's it for now. Keep you in the know though.
Ron and Julie
While not strictly a Willson project, I did co-write this one some years ago, and the guys in Sweden put together this preview album in 2000. It has languished in obscurity for years until I fond CreateSpace and put it out there. If you want any reason to get this album, it would be for the song, More Stars Than In Heaven, which is the best song, by far, that I've ever heard. I love it.
Beyond that, it's still very good. It's very much a concept, but they did a good job on it.
Beyond that, it's still very good. It's very much a concept, but they did a good job on it.
No Kind of Life
In November, 2008, we wrapped our first feature film, but it took another year to work out the post-production difficulties, mostly related to sound. We found that if we'd just redubbed it all immediately, it would have been a hundred times easier. Oh well. Live and learn.
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This film is out on Amazon and CreateSpace now as well. The IMDB listing is forthcoming as is the listing for Willson Pictures as a motion picture company.
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The Fempiror Chronicles: The Initiation of David
Into the novel foray, we have The Fempiror Chronicles. The first book, The Initiation of David, was published in August and is available on Amazon.com and on CreateSpace, which is the outlet we have for all of our materials. Because we're just getting started, sales are very, very slow, but those who have read the book have really liked it. They've said it's original, easy to read, and draws you in at a certain point to where you just have to finish it to see what happens.
The second book is underway. I'm fifteen chapters into the first draft, so there's still time there before it's done.
Genre: Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Logline: A young tailor evolves into a different person and finds himself in the midst of an ancient war.
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Introduction
Hello and welcome to the blog for Willson Pictures, Willson Records, and occasionally progress on novels by George Willson. It seems like a self-centered blog, since I'm George, but at the same time, I figured it would be nice to have a progress report somewhere to sort of have accountability for what we're up to in the Willson Companies.
Now, to get one thing out of the way. There is a reason I decided to choose what appears to be the egotistical company name approach. I will admit that I have an ego. I'm a writer, and writers have enormous egos. I'm also a musician which only serves to compound the ego problem. however, if you know anything about the legal side of creating a company, selecting my name for the company name makes perfect sense.
I am the main producer and guy-in-charge when it comes to everything, but I am perpetually broke until one of these projects actually takes off. Well, guess what? My use of my name as a company name places my companies as legal sole proprietorships that are little more than an extension of myself while having a company name instead of pulling a Jerry Bruckheimer and just being me. It holds a little more weight if you have some kind of noun after your name, you know? Legal company shifting takes place when there is some reason to shift it (i.e. having some actual assets and the income to justify it).
So this blog will tell you where we are on our projects. I'll have some quick posts after this one to give you a couple brief bits of what we've done, and then move forward from there.
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