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GODSTAR: The Five Deaths of Genesis P-Orridge

We’re looking for a publisher brave and far-seeing enough to take on (and translate from German!) Uwe Schütte’s GODSTAR: The Five Deaths of Genesis P-Orridge. Since we were first introduced to the strange world of Genesis P-Orridge by Uwe, world-renowned expert on the works of W.G. Sebald and on Kraftwerk, the German pioneers of electronic music, things have moved on. For one thing, the book has been published in German, Uwe’s first language. We are now looking for a chance to bringing it to the wider, English-speaking world. So, publishers, we dare you to take on the strange world of Genesis P-Orridge!

GODSTAR: The Five Deaths of Genesis P-Orridge tells a hidden story in pop culture. Uwe Schütte’s book portrays the life of Neil Andrew Megson after he met a ‘godstar’ when he was 16 years old, and the astonishing ways everything changed after that. Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones, met teenaged Neil unexpectedly at a Birmingham TV studio. This chance encounter sent young Neil on a bewildering and radical life journey characterised by repeated identity changes, tabloid scandals, artistic triumphs and appalling moral failures. The startling story of Genesis P-Orridge ended with his fifth and final death in 2020. 

GODSTAR illuminates key stages in the biography of this subversive alternative culture and gender politics icon. It is a life path that included the invention of industrial music with Throbbing Gristle, to the founding of an occult order and serving as the cult wing of his band Psychic TV, to attempting to overcome gender binarity via the radical art project of pandrogeny. 

A tour de force in literature, visual art, occultism and ‘sex magick’, Schütte’s GODSTAR explores whether and how radical aesthetics in pop music and performance art are possible through ritual, ecstasy and near-death experiences – and at what cost. The first four “deaths” of P-Orridge, as well as performances by Marina Abramović and ritual appearances by Coil, provide ample material to contemplate this question. The book circles around two further questions : does ‘magick’ work? And is there life after death? 

A challenging, provocative book……

A captivating read….

Readers interested in industrial rock, the occult, subversive takes on gender, will lap this up. An adventurous publisher will clean up! Don’t delay – get in touch!

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Movie studio interest?

Is it too early to get excited?

No details for now, because that would be tempting fate, but we were recently contacted by someone from a major movie studio, who expressed interest in a client’s work. Not going to count chickens before they’re hatched, but – no – it’s not too early to get a little bit excited.

If anything comes of this, we’ll let you know.


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An exciting new client!

We here at Bookseeker Literary Agency are very pleased to welcome Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart as a client. In what is an unprecedented move for us, we have taken on a writer whose novel is not yet complete! We have broken this principle because we believe we have found someone unique…

Publishers – be prepared to hear from us!

Jessica is of Scottish and Turkish heritage, is an autistic and queer writer, PhD historian, and filmmaker. Their* first novel is called Life Goes On and will tell the strange-but-true story of their Turkish grandfather Aycetin. In the nineteen-forties and fifties, after his father died, Aycetin had to try to survive within the institutions and on the streets of Istanbul.

Life Goes On melds 19c realism with magic and fairytale, it opening a window onto early republican Turkey, from the point of view of a young boy.

Jessica has previously written for publications such as The National Student and Den of Geek founder Simon Brew’s Film Stories. They contribute videos on everything from autism to fire arrows for BBC’s The Social, have appeared on BBC Scotland’s Loop, and are in the post production stage of their first short film, ‘The Constant Companion’.

A self-proclaimed “wee angry goth,” they love to write in any fashion, do historical reenactment, and hang out with their German Shepherd Freya. They can be found at: jessicasuaka or their history blog Past Caring on Facebook, at @JessicasuAKA on twitter, or jessicaakas on Instagram. However, all communication regarding literary representation and/or publication should be directed via this agency.

Jessica mentioned, as an afterthought, “Oh I have a first from the University of Glasgow and a distinction in MScR History at Edinburgh too…”

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*This agency supports people’s right to use gender non-specific pronouns.

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Are you having problems with uploads to Amazon?

Are you a publisher, a publishing house, or someone who self-publishes. Do you upload your titles to Amazon? Many people do, because it is one of the first places readers go to if they want to buy a book on line.

Have you had any technical problems uploading to Amazon? We would like to find out. We’d also like to know how you managed to fix the problem or devise a work-round. Please get in touch, using the agency email address on the contact page.

Thanks

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Our position on Transgender rights

In the present atmosphere it has become necessary to make the following statement. Our position on transgender rights is clear: they are human rights. Our agency is a zone of safety and respect for trans and nonbinary people along with all other people whose identity comes within the LGBTQ+ matrix. We will not knowingly work with any person or organisation that does not give the same respect.

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Farewell Les Noble, an exceptional editor.

We have learned today that Les Noble, who has edited so many of our clients’ books, died on the 13th of March. It was an honour to be associated with him – his skill at spotting errors in manuscripts was enviable. He was also a good storyteller himself, and his fiction is still in print.

We have left this blog post as it stood, apart from an introductory paragraph, as a tribute to Les.

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Covid-19

Just a quick update. Due to the current situation with coronavirus, the P.O. Box for the agency will not be checked. Please don’t send anything by post until further notice. Thank you.

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Publishers! Tell us what you want!

Publishers!

Are you wondering where your next best seller is going to come from? Are you waiting for the next Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, or Margaret Atwood? Or even the next Dan Brown, Jeffrey Archer, or JKR?

This agency has access to a large list of authors working in many genres:
Children’s, crime, fantasy, historical, horror, humour, literary fiction, mystery, psychological, romance, satire, sci-fi, thriller, YA…

Just let us know what you’re looking for, and we’ll see what we can find for you – chances are we already have an author for you. Get in touch with us!

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Meetings, greetings, and web-sitings!

Elizabeth Mostyn

This week I had the great pleasure of meeting, once more, our client Elizabeth Mostyn, whose novel Wisp is getting closer and closer to its date of publication. Elizabeth is a prolific author, and is working on more novels, which the agency will take a look at. Be on the look-out for Wisp when it appears – it’s a corker!

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I also travelled in to Edinburgh to meet Luka Vukos, who directed the prizewinning short Lose like a Human, all about artificial intelligence. We had a long chat about  possible projects for the future. Edinburgh has been much on my mind lately, because I have to arrange visits to events at The Fringe and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. I have all that to look forward to, but Time’s winged chariot isn’t exactly hanging about!

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Meanwhile, Lyz Russo has just announced on her blog that P’kaboo publishers in the Republic of Ireland have a revamped web site. It has a look of the old one, but it has now been made phone-friendly. Again, it’s a case of “Watch this space,” because P’kaboo will be launching a series of books very soon – mainly fiction, but one very important work of non-fiction. At least I’d say it was. More news as and when it happens.

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