Semiurban Cover Page
ABOUT SEMI-URBAN CARTOGRAPHY
“SemiUrban Cartography” is the internet/self-publishing persona of Erick Mertz, a Portland based screen writer/fiction writer/poet and ravenously, burgeoning filmmaker. He’s worked extensively as an editor for both literary outlets and screenplay production.
The website will feature rolling, regular, perhaps infrequent updates on his many writing endeavors, from screenwriting to a curiously carved novel, to the Summer/Autumn publication of his chapbook (which will bear the same name as this website). This isn’t meant to be the exoneration of the absolute minutiae of his personal life — you want to know something, ask him outright by sending a query. Care to read an update on his publications, strategies and frustrations, then you’ve come to the right place.
CURRENT FEATURES:
Citadel of the Spirit is starting to make the rounds in the local publishing circuit. A post detailing just what this book is and why you should buy it can be found here.
Another poem hits the lit-rag circuit. In the Poetry section tells of “Palms of Ash: Third Rewrite” and its inclusion in 580 Split out of Oakland’s Mills College.
RECENT ADDITIONS:
February 14th:
I’ve recently posted a new article I’m working on about some recent use of Pandora’s Music Genome Project while writing to assist me with deeper, more outside the box character development.
Looking for feedback on how this article can be better formed.
February 10th:
Myndcast Media has taken an interest in “The Collector”. This morning I sent out a signed release and a copy of the most recent screenplay for their consideration. While Myndcast is apparently new on the scene, they’re looking to make a splash with speculative fiction projects that have a broad media potential (comic books, “web-isodes” and potential feature expansion). This project is that, if anything.
Stay tuned. This is very, very big news with great potential.
January 10th:
A veritable deluge of letters and queries, pleas and bargains are going out into the publishing/producer world: do any of these sad, strong missives yield fruit?
My bet is on yes — but which one?
December 2008:
Is the ice breaking on “Closing Time”? After nearly two years of dropped lines and dropped deliveries, it feels like Cy’s forlorn love story might be finally nearing the finish line (notice I didn’t say, “done”?).
Keep an eye on this site for any updates on this film.
“I am a lean, tenacious weed
risen from so many sidewalks.”
from the poem “Semiurban Cartography”