RE: FW: Housh & Brown / ANONYMOUS

Well, a fair bit of this actually *is* in the proposal already, to an extent, right? In the meetings themselves, we can certainly talk about that stuff as it comes up.

Her intro calls you “The former self-appointed spokesman for Anonymous”—what’s that mean?

Dan Conaway

Literary Agent

Writers House

(212) 696-3825

From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:45 PM
To: Daniel Conaway
Cc: greggatghc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: FW: Housh & Brown / ANONYMOUS

Also, meant to speak to you about this in relation to some of the intelligence contractor business we'll be including in the book. I'm not sure to what extent this sort of thing should be mentioned to publishers, but take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLS619oRTY

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

I think I get it. Will send you what I start with in a bit to make sure we're on same page.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:

Well, I’m not rigid about form, exactly, but its fundamental purpose is to order the material, demonstrate where the story starts and where it ends and what it does in between, where the dramatic beats are, etc, so I tend to think it’s going to need to be an outline in some sense.

In other words, similar in form to what you did before, but focusing more on specific events (in Gregg’s like, in the movement), concrete & user-friendly.

Does that make sense?

Dan Conaway

Literary Agent

Writers House

(212) 696-3825

From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:22 PM
To: Daniel Conaway
Cc: greggatghc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: FW: Housh & Brown / ANONYMOUS

Should I be thinking in terms of a chapter outline, or just a free-form piece explaining how we'll be handling things?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Will get that to you later this evening. Good news on the other response, too.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:

So here’s the email I’m sending out today to nudge things along. Will let you know what sort of responses I get. (No response at this stage will mean they simply haven’t read it yet.)

Barrett, I know I owe you a reply… meanwhile, any further progress on the outline?

Dan Conaway

Literary Agent

Writers House

(212) 696-3825

From: Daniel Conaway
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 1:56 PM
To: CConrad@randomhouse.com
Subject: Housh & Brown / ANONYMOUS

Hey, Charlie—

Don’t know if you had a chance to look at that ANONYMOUS proposal I sent you last week, but there’s interest in meeting with Gregg Housh and Barrett Brown and talking about various directions the book might take. Looks like they’ll be in town a week from now, Monday and Tuesday, Sept 19 / 20.

Is it too early to know, or do you think you might be interested in sitting down with them? (A phone chat’s always an option too, of course.)

Meanwhile, don’t know if you saw it, but in Vanity Fair’s annual media movers-and-shakers rankings (this month) the first listing in “The Anti-Establishment” category is, of course, Anonymous:

“The world’s pre-eminent hactivist affinity group has waged holy cyber-war on a laundry list of Establishment brands, including PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa—rallying to the defense of their mother ship, WikiLeaks. And no matter how many neckbearded I.T. guys the feds round up, it seems the “Anons”—a border-less, leader-less, ever expanding army of techno-vigilantes, misanthropic pranksters, human-rights crusaders, and free-speech absolutists—are here to stay. In mid-July, some Anons took on the ultimate Establishment target, vowing to “kill” almighty Facebook on November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day). As their slogan warns, they are legion, they do not forgive, and they do not forget. If you mess with the little guy, expect them.”

Let me know if there’s a chance you might want to meet next week, will you? Thanks.

-Dan

Dan Conaway

Literary Agent

Writers House

(212) 696-3825

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Barrett Brown
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