Martin F.D. Baker

Author & Scriptwriter

Loy-Loy Land Blog

Loy-Loy Land Blog

Hello and welcome to my travels in Loy-Loy Land.

That's Loy-Loy as in Land Of Yes. This is both a physical location (Los Angeles, West Hollywood and environs) and a state of mind. More especially, it's a state of mind. The Land Of Yes can be in San Francisco or Santa Barbara, and it can be in London. Although, if it's in London it's Loy-Loy without the money, which doesn't make the behaviour quite as exotic. But wherever it's located, Loy-Loy Land is certainly a place where strange things happen.

Publishing a novel, for example, is quite a rich experience, a relatively unusual thing. But if you want to know what the truly unusual is all about, try going to a meeting in Loy-Loy Land.

Going to? Note the deliberate, counter-cultural use of the wrong verb. You don't go to a meeting in Loy-Loy Land. You take a meeting, or you give a meeting (giving good meeting is what the Loy-Loys thrive on).

Anyway, I'm conker-deep in the development process of turning a novel into a movie, and thought the meta-narrative (otherwise known as the story about the story, or, I suppose, an industry blog) might amuse.

There will be many a flashback, as we're far down the road. But the journey starts with a little breakfast meeting. All you have to do to join me, is click just here.