h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Would you rather receive it as links to entries on here, as Notepad attachments, or email bodies? They'll be in GuideML in any case.

Send it to postteamhg-at-gmail-dot-com, in the body of the text. Please, ma'am. That way, one of our intrepid Post Editors can snap it up and do the Post magic thing.

Thanks for taking this on - great idea.

I've already gotten 7 replies! I'd say a 33ish% response rate in 6ish hours ain't bad.

What I'll do is GML the whole thing, put in lines of asterixes (asterice?) or something to show possible dividing places (with possible subtitles), and let you guys decide if it's too long to publish all at once or not (I think it probably would be)--and whether you want to have all the parts in the birthday edition or spread out.

Sorta like this:

blah blah blah
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Interview: part 2--Entry Recs!

Question

Interviewee--Answer

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I figure that part of the Post magic thing involves transitional intros, right?

8 replies!

Well, we'll see how long it is.

If you want more of an intro than

Amy Pawloski has been talking to some h2g2ers who were in at the start.

Then you should write it yourself. Remember: we know nothing.

But you're a much better writer than I am, and I've seen your editorial intros at the top of things before *flutters eyelashes*

You'll have to tell me what you want to say, though. I really don't know:

1. Who these people are.
2. What they're being interviewed about.
3. What else you want to say about them.

I'll be glad to write it up - in spite of that blatant flattery.

I was thinking more of, say, in the beginning of part 2, saying what went on in part 1, in part 3, saying what went on in 1 and 2, and so on. You know, writing what you know

Oh, sure, we can do that.

Did you want to make it a series?

Not really--hunting down folks by date and whether or not they were still around wasn't the most fun I've had... I think I got almost half my emails through the fb birthday party thing

But if I get people outside my date range who really want to be interviewed with the same questions (you did get that sample list I mailed you?) I will probably whine and complain and do it anyway. Maybe.

You know, at this point - it's getting late here - I think I got a list, but I can't remember. I can't even remember where you mailed it to.

But that's fine. What I meant was: Do you want all the interviews in one article, on one week, or in separate articles on different weeks, or what?

You have to specify.

Teaser emailed

I'll go and check.

Whatever you've emailed, we'll put it on on the 29th.

Some quotes were hard to choose because there were just too many good lines in the interview, and some were hard because of terse replies, but I managed to coax quotes out of all of them

Good for you.

Yay archive! There's a typo in it, though A87791656 An instance of "Researchers" was spelled "Reserchers"

I'm still working on the archive, it's not ready yet, shoo!

Bea

But, but, but, it was sitting there all shiny when I went to fetch an old throwaway entry to test my GuideML in...

This week's interview isn't showing in my list of entries...

I'll go and see why.