YOU GOES...
N.B. A note from JR: due to personal circumstances not being ideal before and during the coronavirus crisis (considerably less free time rather than more!) please accept my apologies for being a bit tardy about responding to emails. Needless to say, this project will get back on track as soon as it becomes possible to give it the attention it deserves - so if you want to become involved or already are, please do carry on!
You Goes...
Bit odd, isn’t it? Grammatically speaking, that is. Please don’t get in touch to tell us; we know – and there’s a reason for it.
The YOU AND WHO books have never been about reviewing things, or analysing things. There are a hundred and one books out there already, that do that sort of thing perfectly well. Our books aren’t actually about the things we’re writing about at all … they’re about the people who’re writing about the things that we’re writing about. They’re a history of us, the viewer, the reader, the audience – written through the prism of the things we love. Or even the things we don’t love so much!
They're the story of how we experienced the things we experienced, not the story of the things themselves. So if you've ever bunked school to make sure you were at a record shop at precisely 9am on a Monday, if you've ever accidentally recorded the wrong television channel and as a consequence discovered something that blew your mind, if you've ever queued halfway down the High Street to get a writer's autograph or if you've ever taken a day's drive across the country just so you could stand in the rain in the exact spot where they filmed your favourite movie moment... then these are the books for you.
If you see something listed below that inspires you to take metaphorical pen to paper, to tell the world your story – or the story of you and the subject you’re writing about – then please get in touch and write an essay for one of our books. The more personal the better, whatever the specific subject you’re writing about. As long as you’re comfortable with sharing your story – but that’s what these volumes are for, to create an illustration of the way we consume the culture around us. A biography of the audience, rather than the art. Albeit with a biography of the art included as a by-product.
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Is there a film, a book, an author, a song, album, concert or artist, or a television series that changed your life, made you see things differently, gave you an experience you could never have expected? Those are the kinds of subject we’re looking for. Not your favourites, but the things that gave you an epiphany – whether for good or for ill! The You Goes books aim to look at the following subjects in terms of how they affected us when we experienced them, not simply in terms of whether we liked them or not.
YOU GOES TO THE PICTURES
British cinema. Probably with an emphasis on cult or genre cinema – but not exclusively so.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - The Ipcress File
Dan Barratt - The Medusa Touch
James Bojaciuk - Horror of Dracula
Simon Brett - 24 Hour Party People
David X Brunt - Ring of Bright Water
Simon Bucher-Jones - Dr Phibes
Mike Burgess - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
David Carrington - The History Boys
Peter Cox - Under the Skin
Robert Day-Webb - Zulu
Kara Dennison - Local Hero
Michele Donovan - Paper Mask
Tony Eccles - The Devil Rides Out
Tony Eccles - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Chris Glew - Jabberwocky
Christine Grit - The Wicker Man
Steve Hatcher - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Steve Hatcher - Night of the Demon
Alan Hayes - The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Betsie Jones - A Room With a View
Sami Kelsh - The Third Man
Don Klees - A Matter of Life and Death
Liam Looker - Carry On Cleo
Charlie Ross MacKenzie - Monty Python's Life of Brian
Declan May - The Servant
Drew Meyer - Zardoz
Nathan Mullins - Casino Royale (2006)
Timo Peach - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
John Peel - A Night to Remember
Adam Parker - Withnail & I
Lee Rawlings - Scrooge (1951)
Andy Robinson - Chariots of Fire
Ken Shinn - Goldfinger
Ken Shinn - Time Bandits
Dewi Small - The World's End
J.R. Southall - A Clockwork Orange
Matthew Sylvester - Hot Fuzz
Daniel Wealands - Get Carter
Jez Winship - If...
YOU GOES TO THE LIBRARY
British literature. Whether it be an individual book, one of a series, or simply an author’s body of work.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Alwyn Ash - John Christopher
Steven B - Roger Moore and the Crimefighters
James Bojaciuk - Jane Austen
Christine Grit - Robert Holdstock
Iain Key - An Ideal For Living by Mark Johnson
Liam Looker - Frankenstein
Meghan McGuire - Mrs Dalloway
Angelina Olding - Terry Pratchett
J.R. Southall - Thursday in Paris
Jez Winship - Mervyn Peake
YOU GOES FOR A SONG
British music. Be that a song, an album, or an artist – rock, pop, or even classical.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - Blue Monday by New Order
Pip Blackledge - Henry Purcell
Simon Brett - Pet Shop Boys
Mike Burgess - Glam/Punk Rock
Alan Burke - Soft Cell
Robert Day-Webb - Marc Bolan
Paul Gill - The Wombles
Jamie Hailstone - Status Quo
Drew Meyer - Peter Gabriel
Angelina Olding - Thunder
J.R. Southall - Jesus Couldn't Drum
Daniel Whitaker - Les Miserables by Cameron Mackintosh
Jez Winship - Broadcast
YOU GOES FOR THE REMOTE
British television. A sister volume to You and Who Else, this will probably include many of the same series, and hopefully a lot more. This won’t be limited to genre television, this time; we’ll include any programme that the authors felt affected them in some way.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - Minder
Robin Barlow - Emu's [etc.]
Robin Barlow - Knightmare
Dan Barratt - The Day of the Triffids
James Bojaciuk - Tenko
Kara Dennison - Jeeves and Wooster
Paul Driscoll - Years and Years
Tim Gambrell - Randall & Hopkirk (2000)
Ross Hamilton - Space: 1999
Steve Hatcher - I, Claudius
Alan Hayes - Bird of Prey
Sophie Iles - Doctor Who
Sam Maleski - The Demon Headmaster (2019)
Nathan Mullins - Only Fools and Horses
Adam Parker - Early Doors
Paul Simpson - The Saint
J.R. Southall - State of Play
Jez Winship - Penda's Fen
Note: if your choice is potentially a contentious one in terms of whether it is “British” or not, then a simple check of Wikipedia should settle the matter. If Wiki describes it as British, that makes it eligible for inclusion.
The Editorial team:
Jon Arnold (Song), Kara Dennison and Paul Driscoll (Remote), Stephen Hatcher (Library) and J.R. Southall (Pictures)
The email address to send your submission to:
[email protected]
IMPORTANT!
When emailing in, whether it be to submit an essay or to make any other kind of enquiry, please ALWAYS use the subject line to specify which of the four volumes you’re emailing in about (e.g.: “Subject: You Goes to the Pictures”).
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
We don’t want to limit what you can or cannot write about – but by the same token, we do want to encourage a variety of approaches and subjects matter – so any of our previous rules about “one essay per topic” are no longer in force.
However, we don’t want to be publishing fifteen essays on Bowie, or Blakes 7, or Bond and none on The Bolshoi, or Boyd, or Barry Lyndon, so when deciding what to write about, please try and consider how original or unusual your subject might be. Don’t be obvious, if you can help it! And check any lists above to see if the subject you're thinking about has already been covered - if there are multiple essays on a single subject, we'll likely only publish the best one, or two, so think about maybe writing on something that isn't already being covered by someone else.
However, remember also that if the subject you'd like to write about is already mentioned on one of those lists as having been covered by someone else, you are still free to write about it. We'll choose the essays that are best for the books, regardless of whether there's some cross-over or repetition.
We will have to enforce some rules, however, so here they come:
There will be a maximum of four essays per author, or two essays per author per volume. We’d like you to write more than one essay, if you would like to write more than one essay – but we don’t want the books to become too skewed towards particular voices.
If you’ve written for any of the You and Who books before, then that subject is now off-limits. For example, if you’re in one of the Doctor Who books, then we’d like you to write about something other than Doctor Who. Same goes for Bowie, Blakes 7 and Douglas Adams.
There is NO maximum or minimum word count requirement. We’d recommend somewhere between a thousand and two thousand words, but seriously (and we always say this), your essay should be as long or as short as it needs to be. It’s your story, you decide how much space you need to tell it in.
We’re not taking reservations on subjects. If you want to ask a question, please email in – but it’s not necessary to get in touch in advance. Simply email your essay, your details, and your disclaimer, to the relevant email address. We’ll get back to you as quickly as we can, and once (or if) your essay is submitted for publication (or if you've emailed in advance to let us know what you're planning to write about), you’ll appear listed on the website under the relevant title.
Previous writing experience isn’t necessary (and we will work with some authors if we feel their essay has merit but could do with some extra polishing) – but by the same token, do think about your subject and what you want to say before sitting down to write. We aren’t going to be able to publish everything, so make sure you make it impossible for us to leave you out.
These books are being published under a print-to-order service. We’re doing this for charity. So there will, I’m afraid, be no gratis print copies. However, a PDF of the title or titles in which you’re included, will be available UPON REQUEST once the individual books are published.
We’re mostly working in Word Doc, so that’s how we’d prefer submissions to be made. However, we’re happy for you to submit in whatever format you’re most comfortable with (including copied-and-pasted into an email) – and if there’s an issue with reading the file, we’ll ask for a copy of the essay in the body of the email instead.
The disclaimer (include this as part of your submission email, rather than in the document itself):
I [author’s name] do hereby give permission for the attached essay to be published as part of the YOU GOES books series, and / or in any promotion relevant to the same. I retain the copyright in my own work, and the freedom to do with it as I please once the relevant title has been published.
Your details. These are in order to give the reader some context with regards to whose work they’re reading, so each of these details is now obligatory. Having said that, we’re also aware that the author might very well want to keep certain things private – so please feel free to interpret each detail as you see fit:
Line 1: [a title for your essay]
Line 2: [the subject of your essay] by [your name], [your age], [your location]
Line 3: Occupation: [your occupation]
I repeat, we’re not insisting you give us your age or your job (although please do if you’re comfortable with that; anything which gives the reader context is a good thing), but please find some way to fill in those details that will help the reader get an impression of who you are in some other way!
We currently have no deadline for these books, but be aware – the submissions process might come to a stop at any time, should we feel any of the four titles is sufficiently stuffed with essays as to feel “finished”. So:
Keep an eye on the website just in case a deadline should appear. If one of the books starts to look “full”, we’ll announce a cut-off point. We're anticipating this happening before the end of the year, possibly something like late October 2019.
Or get in touch to ask if you have time to write an essay should you think you’ll be able to finish it by a particular date. Warning: if you (or we) specify a date and you miss it, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out on inclusion in the volume.
That’s it. Good luck! – and please get in touch if there’s anything you’d like to know.
You Goes...
Bit odd, isn’t it? Grammatically speaking, that is. Please don’t get in touch to tell us; we know – and there’s a reason for it.
The YOU AND WHO books have never been about reviewing things, or analysing things. There are a hundred and one books out there already, that do that sort of thing perfectly well. Our books aren’t actually about the things we’re writing about at all … they’re about the people who’re writing about the things that we’re writing about. They’re a history of us, the viewer, the reader, the audience – written through the prism of the things we love. Or even the things we don’t love so much!
They're the story of how we experienced the things we experienced, not the story of the things themselves. So if you've ever bunked school to make sure you were at a record shop at precisely 9am on a Monday, if you've ever accidentally recorded the wrong television channel and as a consequence discovered something that blew your mind, if you've ever queued halfway down the High Street to get a writer's autograph or if you've ever taken a day's drive across the country just so you could stand in the rain in the exact spot where they filmed your favourite movie moment... then these are the books for you.
If you see something listed below that inspires you to take metaphorical pen to paper, to tell the world your story – or the story of you and the subject you’re writing about – then please get in touch and write an essay for one of our books. The more personal the better, whatever the specific subject you’re writing about. As long as you’re comfortable with sharing your story – but that’s what these volumes are for, to create an illustration of the way we consume the culture around us. A biography of the audience, rather than the art. Albeit with a biography of the art included as a by-product.
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
Is there a film, a book, an author, a song, album, concert or artist, or a television series that changed your life, made you see things differently, gave you an experience you could never have expected? Those are the kinds of subject we’re looking for. Not your favourites, but the things that gave you an epiphany – whether for good or for ill! The You Goes books aim to look at the following subjects in terms of how they affected us when we experienced them, not simply in terms of whether we liked them or not.
YOU GOES TO THE PICTURES
British cinema. Probably with an emphasis on cult or genre cinema – but not exclusively so.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - The Ipcress File
Dan Barratt - The Medusa Touch
James Bojaciuk - Horror of Dracula
Simon Brett - 24 Hour Party People
David X Brunt - Ring of Bright Water
Simon Bucher-Jones - Dr Phibes
Mike Burgess - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
David Carrington - The History Boys
Peter Cox - Under the Skin
Robert Day-Webb - Zulu
Kara Dennison - Local Hero
Michele Donovan - Paper Mask
Tony Eccles - The Devil Rides Out
Tony Eccles - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Chris Glew - Jabberwocky
Christine Grit - The Wicker Man
Steve Hatcher - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Steve Hatcher - Night of the Demon
Alan Hayes - The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Betsie Jones - A Room With a View
Sami Kelsh - The Third Man
Don Klees - A Matter of Life and Death
Liam Looker - Carry On Cleo
Charlie Ross MacKenzie - Monty Python's Life of Brian
Declan May - The Servant
Drew Meyer - Zardoz
Nathan Mullins - Casino Royale (2006)
Timo Peach - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
John Peel - A Night to Remember
Adam Parker - Withnail & I
Lee Rawlings - Scrooge (1951)
Andy Robinson - Chariots of Fire
Ken Shinn - Goldfinger
Ken Shinn - Time Bandits
Dewi Small - The World's End
J.R. Southall - A Clockwork Orange
Matthew Sylvester - Hot Fuzz
Daniel Wealands - Get Carter
Jez Winship - If...
YOU GOES TO THE LIBRARY
British literature. Whether it be an individual book, one of a series, or simply an author’s body of work.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Alwyn Ash - John Christopher
Steven B - Roger Moore and the Crimefighters
James Bojaciuk - Jane Austen
Christine Grit - Robert Holdstock
Iain Key - An Ideal For Living by Mark Johnson
Liam Looker - Frankenstein
Meghan McGuire - Mrs Dalloway
Angelina Olding - Terry Pratchett
J.R. Southall - Thursday in Paris
Jez Winship - Mervyn Peake
YOU GOES FOR A SONG
British music. Be that a song, an album, or an artist – rock, pop, or even classical.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - Blue Monday by New Order
Pip Blackledge - Henry Purcell
Simon Brett - Pet Shop Boys
Mike Burgess - Glam/Punk Rock
Alan Burke - Soft Cell
Robert Day-Webb - Marc Bolan
Paul Gill - The Wombles
Jamie Hailstone - Status Quo
Drew Meyer - Peter Gabriel
Angelina Olding - Thunder
J.R. Southall - Jesus Couldn't Drum
Daniel Whitaker - Les Miserables by Cameron Mackintosh
Jez Winship - Broadcast
YOU GOES FOR THE REMOTE
British television. A sister volume to You and Who Else, this will probably include many of the same series, and hopefully a lot more. This won’t be limited to genre television, this time; we’ll include any programme that the authors felt affected them in some way.
List of essays promised or submitted so far:
Steven B - Minder
Robin Barlow - Emu's [etc.]
Robin Barlow - Knightmare
Dan Barratt - The Day of the Triffids
James Bojaciuk - Tenko
Kara Dennison - Jeeves and Wooster
Paul Driscoll - Years and Years
Tim Gambrell - Randall & Hopkirk (2000)
Ross Hamilton - Space: 1999
Steve Hatcher - I, Claudius
Alan Hayes - Bird of Prey
Sophie Iles - Doctor Who
Sam Maleski - The Demon Headmaster (2019)
Nathan Mullins - Only Fools and Horses
Adam Parker - Early Doors
Paul Simpson - The Saint
J.R. Southall - State of Play
Jez Winship - Penda's Fen
Note: if your choice is potentially a contentious one in terms of whether it is “British” or not, then a simple check of Wikipedia should settle the matter. If Wiki describes it as British, that makes it eligible for inclusion.
The Editorial team:
Jon Arnold (Song), Kara Dennison and Paul Driscoll (Remote), Stephen Hatcher (Library) and J.R. Southall (Pictures)
The email address to send your submission to:
[email protected]
IMPORTANT!
When emailing in, whether it be to submit an essay or to make any other kind of enquiry, please ALWAYS use the subject line to specify which of the four volumes you’re emailing in about (e.g.: “Subject: You Goes to the Pictures”).
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
We don’t want to limit what you can or cannot write about – but by the same token, we do want to encourage a variety of approaches and subjects matter – so any of our previous rules about “one essay per topic” are no longer in force.
However, we don’t want to be publishing fifteen essays on Bowie, or Blakes 7, or Bond and none on The Bolshoi, or Boyd, or Barry Lyndon, so when deciding what to write about, please try and consider how original or unusual your subject might be. Don’t be obvious, if you can help it! And check any lists above to see if the subject you're thinking about has already been covered - if there are multiple essays on a single subject, we'll likely only publish the best one, or two, so think about maybe writing on something that isn't already being covered by someone else.
However, remember also that if the subject you'd like to write about is already mentioned on one of those lists as having been covered by someone else, you are still free to write about it. We'll choose the essays that are best for the books, regardless of whether there's some cross-over or repetition.
We will have to enforce some rules, however, so here they come:
There will be a maximum of four essays per author, or two essays per author per volume. We’d like you to write more than one essay, if you would like to write more than one essay – but we don’t want the books to become too skewed towards particular voices.
If you’ve written for any of the You and Who books before, then that subject is now off-limits. For example, if you’re in one of the Doctor Who books, then we’d like you to write about something other than Doctor Who. Same goes for Bowie, Blakes 7 and Douglas Adams.
There is NO maximum or minimum word count requirement. We’d recommend somewhere between a thousand and two thousand words, but seriously (and we always say this), your essay should be as long or as short as it needs to be. It’s your story, you decide how much space you need to tell it in.
We’re not taking reservations on subjects. If you want to ask a question, please email in – but it’s not necessary to get in touch in advance. Simply email your essay, your details, and your disclaimer, to the relevant email address. We’ll get back to you as quickly as we can, and once (or if) your essay is submitted for publication (or if you've emailed in advance to let us know what you're planning to write about), you’ll appear listed on the website under the relevant title.
Previous writing experience isn’t necessary (and we will work with some authors if we feel their essay has merit but could do with some extra polishing) – but by the same token, do think about your subject and what you want to say before sitting down to write. We aren’t going to be able to publish everything, so make sure you make it impossible for us to leave you out.
These books are being published under a print-to-order service. We’re doing this for charity. So there will, I’m afraid, be no gratis print copies. However, a PDF of the title or titles in which you’re included, will be available UPON REQUEST once the individual books are published.
We’re mostly working in Word Doc, so that’s how we’d prefer submissions to be made. However, we’re happy for you to submit in whatever format you’re most comfortable with (including copied-and-pasted into an email) – and if there’s an issue with reading the file, we’ll ask for a copy of the essay in the body of the email instead.
The disclaimer (include this as part of your submission email, rather than in the document itself):
I [author’s name] do hereby give permission for the attached essay to be published as part of the YOU GOES books series, and / or in any promotion relevant to the same. I retain the copyright in my own work, and the freedom to do with it as I please once the relevant title has been published.
Your details. These are in order to give the reader some context with regards to whose work they’re reading, so each of these details is now obligatory. Having said that, we’re also aware that the author might very well want to keep certain things private – so please feel free to interpret each detail as you see fit:
Line 1: [a title for your essay]
Line 2: [the subject of your essay] by [your name], [your age], [your location]
Line 3: Occupation: [your occupation]
I repeat, we’re not insisting you give us your age or your job (although please do if you’re comfortable with that; anything which gives the reader context is a good thing), but please find some way to fill in those details that will help the reader get an impression of who you are in some other way!
We currently have no deadline for these books, but be aware – the submissions process might come to a stop at any time, should we feel any of the four titles is sufficiently stuffed with essays as to feel “finished”. So:
Keep an eye on the website just in case a deadline should appear. If one of the books starts to look “full”, we’ll announce a cut-off point. We're anticipating this happening before the end of the year, possibly something like late October 2019.
Or get in touch to ask if you have time to write an essay should you think you’ll be able to finish it by a particular date. Warning: if you (or we) specify a date and you miss it, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out on inclusion in the volume.
That’s it. Good luck! – and please get in touch if there’s anything you’d like to know.
