Assistant Editor Wanted
The Doctor Who Project is looking to fill the post of ASSISTANT EDITOR.
The Assistant Editor duties will include:
- Work closely with the TDWP Range Editor and Editor.
- Assists the Editor in soliciting new writers.
- Edits written material to ensure proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.
- Works with writers to help fine tune their stories whether in style, direction, content, grammar, etc.
- Ensures that submitted stories are complete, accurate, free of cliches or hidden meanings, makes sense, progresses in a logical fashion and in good taste.
- May be called upon to represent TDWP at conventions, events, panels, online, etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
The successful candidate should have the following skills and qualifications:
- Good editing skills.
- Possess a good command of the English language; speaks and writes English fluently.
- Should have had some prior experience with editing, preferably in editing fiction.
- Familiar with Doctor Who classic series, its history, characters, etc.
- The candidate should be imaginative, enthusiastic, open to new ideas, resourceful.
- Must be able to meet and adhere to deadlines.
- Be able to work well with others – team player.
- Be able to take direction from others.
If you are interested in the above position, please reply to the post by outlining why you feel you would be the ideal candidate for the post.
Applicants are also asked to include a sample(s) of their writing in Word or PDF format.
To apply for this position, email Bob Furnell & Robert Mammone at jigsawpublications (@) yahoo.ca.
The deadline for applications is June 16, 2012.
TDWP Series Bible Up For Auction
One copy only! Now available for purchase.
Official Series Bible from the fan fiction series The Doctor Who Project
Rare publication, limited number were published, color cover, spiral bound with cardboard cover
Detailed companion to The Doctor Who Project (1999-2011)
This publication is 394 pages in total and features everything you wanted to know about The Doctor Who Project including…
- Detailed information on every story published between 1999-2011
- In-depth examination of Seasons 27-37, the 2011 Specials, Brief Encounters, TDWP Specials and numerous other TDWP publications
- A Doctor Who/TDWP Timeline
- In-depth and detailed character biographies
- A look into the rich and vast TDWP Universe
- Details on the TDWP Editorial Boards
- Awards
- Biographies
- Story Covers
- Original Artwork
- And much more!
Opening Credits
We thought we’d share a little something that was sent to us a few years back from one of the projects readers known as TheFamilySlitheen
And we recently received a brand new revised version featuring our Tenth Doctor…
I think you’ll agree these are very good and very creative. We just love them and thank TFS for sharing these with us.
Contacting TDWP
New Contact Information
If for any reason you wish to contact us, please use the email address to the right of this post.
Thanks.
First Season 38 Story Covers Received
Well I can reveal that I’ve received completed covers for two of Season 38′s stories last week and I think readers will be really impressed with them.
The first is a fantastic cover by Kevin Mullen for the season debut story “The Mask of Anhur”. I’m really impressed by Kevin’s work and I think this is perhaps one of his best covers for TDWP. Below is an edited sample just to give you an idea of what the cover looks like. (Unfortunately I can’t reveal the covers at this time as it’ll give too much away about the actual story.)
The second cover I received this week is by Philip Boyes and its an original hand-drawn piece for Kyle Bastian’s “Second Life”. I love Philip’s style and colors for this one. Again, this is an edited sample of the actual cover.
Great stuff guys and thank you very much for doing these for us.
Thank You…
Thank you to all of you who have replied to our plea for stories below. Your interest and support in TDWP is very much appreciated and welcomed. To those of you who have submitted story outlines, thank you; and we’ll be reviewing each and every submitted outline over the next few days. As soon as we decide which of these we’ll publish, we’ll let you know.
NEWS FLASH: TDWP Has 5 Story Slots to Fill ASAP!!
Want to write for The Doctor Who Project?
We have five story spots to fill and The Doctor Who Project is looking for writers who would be interested in writing fiction for our series of original Doctor Who adventures. Of the five open spots – three spots are intended as part of the forthcoming Season 38; one spot for 2012 Christmas Special and one for 2013 Anniversary Special.
We are currently accepting story outlines for consideration and are looking for five imaginative, original and entertaining stories featuring the TDWP Tenth Doctor and his current companions Val Rossi and Tom Brooker. The stories should be in the range of 18,000-45,000 words and can cover a broad range of themes and subjects. Doctor Who is a series with a flexible format and can accommodate numerous styles and genres.
So why not submit a story outline to us. We’d love to publish one of your original stories as part of the TDWP range.
When submitting story proposals…
- Please feel free to be as detailed as possible. The more detailed a proposal, the more likely your story will be accepted for publication.
- Proposals should be attached to an email in a MS Word or Rich Text Format document.
- Proposals should include your full name and email contact.
- Tell us a bit about yourself. Include a short bio about yourself.
- And, if this is the first time you are submitting a story proposal, please include one or two samples of your previously written work.
Please Note:
- Do not submit a story idea featuring former companion(s) from the television series.
- Be creative – try to develop your own aliens, monsters, villains or foes. Using your own monsters/villains will be a better gauge of your abilities as a writer instead of relying on old monsters/villains. However, having said that, we are not opposed to publishing a story featuring a monster or villain from the TV series.
- Do not use, or refer to any elements, continuity or creations from the Virgin or BBC novels, Doctor Who comic strips, the current BBC television series, the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, the two 1960′s Peter Cushing movies, or Big Finish audios. Any stories featuring any of these elements will be automatically rejected.
- Any companions who may have died in the novels (e.g. Liz Shaw) are still alive. Any companion “personality” changes, (e.g. Ace in the Virgin novels), has not happened in the Doctor Who Project universe. That’s not to say that these companions would not have changed in their time away from the Doctor, it’s just that they should not have changed in the same way as in the novels/audios.
If you would like a copy of the full submission guidelines or have any questions, please email us at the email address below.
Deadline for story submissions is May 12, 2012.
Outlines can be sent to jigsawpublications (@) yahoo (dot) ca.
Meet TDWPs Tenth Doctor
Long time fans and viewers of Doctor Who are fully aware that every so often the Doctor goes through a process called “regeneration” which was clever story telling device created by producers of the series in 1966 when they had to change William Hartnell first Doctor into Patrick Troughton’s second Doctor. This useful plot device became a staple of the series and over the past 40-plus years whenever the lead actor decided it was time to move on from the series, the then current Doctor would suffer some sort of traumatic event causing him to regenerate into a new personna. Even TDWP has made use of this technique three times to date as part of the project’s story telling process.
The most recent regeneration of the Doctor came in mid-2010 when TDWP’s ninth Doctor made the ultimate sacrifice and regenerated into the tenth Doctor as played by ficticious actor Laurent Meyer. Those of you who are long time readers of our stories will be familiar with the tenth Doctor, but for those of you who are visiting the site for the first time, or aren’t familiar with TDWP, here’s you chance to get to know the TDWP’s tenth Doctor.
Just click on the link below and download this exclusive interview with Laurent Meyer…
http://www.thedoctorwhoproject.com/files/specials/interviews/Interview%20-%20Tenth%20Doctor%20-%20Laurent%20Meyer%20-%20Duncan%20Johnson%20-%20July%202010.pdf
We Go Back To The Very Beginning
The Doctor Who Project (aka TDWP) began life in late 1998 when several members of the then fan group TASC (Telefantasy Appreciation Society of Canada) were discussing the fact that Doctor Who was no longer on television. This group of fans joked about what the show would be like if they were in the producers chair and in charge of making the series. This was supposed to be just a bit of fun, but one of the members, Bob Furnell, asked, “why couldn’t we do our own version of the series?” From there Bob explained he had discovered an online fiction series based on the recently cancelled series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, where a group of fans had got together and wrote a fifth season of the series tying up all the loose ends from the previous season. Bob noted that a lot of these stories were quite good and if this idea worked for a group of Lois & Clark fans, why couldn’t it work for Doctor Who? This got everyone to thinking and they agreed that this might be the sort of project TASC might like to try out.
Four initial questions were asked…
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What if Doctor Who had never been cancelled in 1989?
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What if Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) hadn’t regenerated into the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) in 1996?
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What if the series was still in production today?
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What would we do if we produced the series?
The answers that came from those four questions proved to be quite interesting, and it was at this point that the group decided to launch a fictional version of the television series. The Doctor Who Project was born. From there, Bob and fellow TASC member Misha Lauenstein laid down the initial guidelines for the fledgling new fiction series.
Over the next several weeks, the group (consisting of Bonnie Gale, Terry Baker, Pat Burt, and Jay Demetrick) along with Bob and Misha discussed ideas that would form the basis for this new fiction series.
Progress was slow and sadly the group couldn’t come to any sort of mutual agreement on the project, and as a result, Bob and Misha took matters into their own hands. Together Bob and Misha formulated that the first season of adventures would consist of 6 original stories penned by various Doctor Who fan writers. The stories would be published in Word format and would be emailed out to subscribers weekly over a period of six weeks. The series would use the Seventh Doctor, as played by Sylvester McCoy, for the series first two stories, after which the Seventh Doctor would regenerate into the projects very own Eighth Doctor who would be played by a fictional actor by the name of Jeremy Banks-Walker. The first story of the season would see the return of the Silurians along with the Seventh Doctor encountering former assistant Elizabeth Shaw, who would accompany the Doctor during for the first three stories. For the remainder of the season, writers were asked to create a one-off companion to be featured in their story; each character had the potential of eventually becoming the full-time companion of the Eighth Doctor. The first story would be published in January 1999.
That very first story was The Final Sunset.
Initially The Final Sunset was to be a solo project by John-Gordon Swogger. John works by day as an archeological illustrator and due to poor timing and bad luck, John sadly wasn’t able to complete the original versions as planned. When it looked like the story might be scrapped, Bob and Misha got together and taking John’s original outline and notes for the story filled in what hadn’t been completed, and in the end, you have the story you today which became the very first story published by The Doctor Who Project, as well as being the very first of two stories to feature televisions seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy.
An archaeological team dies from a mysterious virus. A second team, headed by Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Shaw, goes to investigate but goes missing. An earthquake awakens a lost Silurian colony off the coast of British Columbia; and then, UNIT Canada is called in to investigate. Meanwhile the Doctor meets up with an enemy from his past.
This story was originally featured in the Season 27 Omnibus published March 1999 and rereleased in 2010 featuring a brand new cover by Alex Lydiate.
The Final Sunset can be download for free in PDF format from the TDWP site.
JOB VACANCY: Artists Wanted
The Doctor Who Project is looking for artists who would be interested in doing artwork for us on a regular or semi-regular basis. Artwork can be in the form of hand-drawn, computer graphic generated, painted, sketched, CGI, Photoshopped etc.
We will be needing covers for our series of stories in 2012 and various promotional materials like posters, flyers, etc. Materials like our mastheads for TDWP or BRIEF ENCOUNTERS and the font styles we use will be supplied by us for use by the artist.
Guidelines for covers and other artwork are:
- 8.5 x 11 inches at 300 dpi (2550 x 3300 pixels)
- RGB
- sent to us as an uncompressed .jpg or .tif or .bmp or .png file
And when you do send in your artwork for covers, we will need:
- a copy of the cover with the TDWP logo and title/author and a copy without
- TDWP/Brief Encounters logo’s and font styles will be supplied to artists for their use.
If interested in working with us, please email, Range Editor, at thedoctorwhoproject[@]yahoo.ca with a sample of your work and details on yourself and past work.
