Monique Tether

So, I can't find a single distribution comapany who will even give methe time of day, am I a failure? NO!!! The Tether way, Never say never, and never listen to people who say No a lot. That doesn't include your parents.

Anyway, I've been taking deep breathes and praying that this will work. First, we've gotta get this movie done, THEN find a distributor.

Right now, distribution is pretty useless if there is no movie to distribute. So, we've gotta take care of that. However, once the movie is finished, there will be an amount of time before we can get a distributor, and that can go anywhere from a few monthes to a year, so pray for us!

Wanna read the process of distribution? OKAY!!!

Its very interesting, to me. If you love movies and stuff about the wonders of movie making, read this.

First, after a movie has been made and edited (Credits added, special effects, ETC.) the movie is stuck in the computer, until, the director/producer (Me) begins to shop around for a distributor. While most didtributors don't want money up front, they are garenteed to want percentage income, and in order to put their trust upoun you, they themselves have to know the movie won't flop and will be an instant hit. While there is no for sure way to know that will happen, you've got to convince them that it will be great, having fans of the book the movie is based on will help them think "If this thing has fans already, imagine the money it will rack up!" Another thing, Movie distributors are Money vaccums, all of them. Most of them don't really care about helping, they care about money, and if helping you means money in their pocket, they are all for it.

Percentage can range anywhere from ten perecent of movie proceeds, to seventy perecent. If movie distributors have confidence the movie will be great and have theaters packed in to see the movie at every time, they will put the lowest percentage they can, it still means money in their pocket, but it also means a lot for them, and a lot for you as well. If they just aren't sure, they will go a little higher to ensure they still get money from their investment, And if they are postive the movie will flop, they either won't spend their time and money, or they will demand and least seventy percent, which will be really bad for you if the movie makes Mill.

Another thing, movies MUST make over 6 mill their opening week, or else its considered a flop. This isn't counting how much a theater sells tickets for.

Distribution must be setteld on a written agreement, and percentage can't be changed (Of what they've told me.).

Okay, My literacy agent hasn't been doing his job lately, but now I think I'll keep him. He put ads of me on google and is currently talking to parents about my book being great to read to read to kids! My Literacy Agent is surely earning his keep, finally.

Do you remember back in April when I said these very words?

You see, I have just set out for an agent, a literacy agent.

A Literacy Agent is somebody who reserves legal movie rights for my book, as long as they like it. They are on my side and they will ensure that the movie companies treat my book right when they make it a movie, sort of like an attorney for my book.

So, If I get any responses, I'll own legal rights with my book/movie

Well, this attorney for my book is now sitting right next to me! Remember Dude number 1? Well I was sitting here sad cause nobody wanted my movie to distribute, so he came by, started talking spanish, and he said he read my entire blog history, asked if I still needed a literacy agent, I said yes, and now I have a literacy agent!

So what if he's not official, he's official enough to do all my dirty work... I mean... well, as far as he knows, a Literacy agent does whatever the boss tells him, and I'm the boss. For an eighteen year old he doesn't know much about the movie buisness. Luckily, I do.

His checklist?

• Find a distributor
• Email Paramount
• Get me a latte
• Get me a bagel
• Get my toy horse from the room
• Charge my phone cuz its dead and people are probably calling me
• Don't wake up the people in the living room passed out on the floor
• Get me another Latte
• Push the publish button on my blog
• Get the itchy blanket away from my arm so I can type without scratching myself
• Get me a water
  
• Feed my birds
• Feed my snake
• Feed my hermit crabs
• Don't interrupt Dj while he's molting
• Play with my birds (Sharpay really hates him!)
• Clean Samantha's poop

• Clean the room

And thats just for this current hour!

We are gonna have a very nice friendship.

Okay, so I decided to contact Paramount Pictures to see if they'd distribute our movie, don't get your hopes up, but I think this is gonna work.

Another thing, this Janurary, I will be celebrating my first year of writing Mystic Moon! YAY!!!

This is very exciting because I have been waiting for years to do something this big and important, I'm one of those annoying people who don't give up until they get satasfaction.

I'm the only one in my family like that.

Ok, as I write this, remember that my tooth is bleeding and I'm not sure why. Wait, never mind, I cut myself. Ok, continuing.

ANNNNYYYWWAAAYZ, Guess what!!! Its really really late and I can't sleep cause People are here. In my room, blasting Lily Allen!!!!!

SO!!! Since they refuse to leave until I give them a proper amount of money from the movie proceeds (I don't even know what they do for the movie but they demand to have a part of it, I just met them five days ago. Well, I just met the dude five days ago, the other dude I've known forever. Not really forever, I met him three years ago at the flea market.)

Where was I? Oh yeah, theres two dudes in my room blasting Lily Allen. Never knew a dude could like a spanish british singer so much. Wait, I think shes french. Never mind.

What was I doing again? Ok, I'm bleeding, theres two people blasting lily allen in my room, I'm drooling on the keyboard, a random song just popped up, I don't know what it is, ok dude number 1 is changing it, oh yeah, and my lead singer is currently signing a contract with us!!!! WHOOOOOO!!!! Free music I don't have to pay for! I swear, I am like a celebrity here! Being a Director/producer/music director/writer/cameraman (Man stands for man and woman) is a big accomplishment for a fourteen year old in South Carolina.

Ok, I prefered Lily Allen over whoever is singing now. TOO MUCH SPANISH MUSIC!!! I love spanish music and spanish people (Mostly cause my family is spanish) and one of my best friends is spanish, but you can only hear Livin la Vida Loca so many times in a row! Come on, dude! Play some beatles! I really did just yell that to him. These people have got to get out of my room, they've been spending the night every night for the past week, Brought one of them back from florida with me. He isn't leaving though. I don't know why. He's bugging me. I wish he would do something besides bug me. Guess what he wants to be in the movie?! He wants to be the MUSIC director!!! NO way!!! I'M music director. So, I'm paying him to play with my phone and find music I like. So far, he's earned 0$ since he's only played Lily Allen and Livin La Vida Loca. Goodness. And the other dude just wants money for sitting in front of me and reading my game informer magizines of which he somehow got beer and soap on. And then there is another dude, my little cousin, who again just wants to play games and read my magizines. He is good friends with both of the dudes.

Yeah, so i'm just going on and on and on about how they are bugging me. And I got bit by a black carpenter ant! Now my leg is swollen up! It happened when I was trying to make a mohawk out of tiny beans from a tree. Let me run you through it, I picked the beans from the tree, then I sat down and I started making a mohawk out of them, and then I felt something on my leg and I was like, what is that on my leg, so I got up and sat down again and I started getting this stinging pain and I got up again and then I sat down again and then dude number one comes up to be and says I'm sitting on two carpenter ants so I got up and sat down again and then he slapped his face and started talking spanish and I was like What are you saying and he walked away so I started to hit my leg and then I drooled on it, wait a second, i have to beat somebody with a guitar. (TWO MINIUTES LATER) ok, so I drooled on it and then I went to the bathroom and I looked at my leg and I felt it and it stung and then I went up to the dude again and I said "Hey I think I got bit by something" and he started to talk in spanish again so I went inside and AMy put this stuff that smelled really bad on it called apple cider vineger and then I had to sit in the living room and watch ICARLY because Justin was trying to accomplish the ultimate in being lazy AND active at the same time by blasting the tv and sitting outside eating a taco while watching the tv which was inside. So he was outside eating  a taco while watching tv that was inside. Remind you of somebody? SO I was watching him doing this laughing my head off as bugs and random things got into his taco when he COULD have just went inside to eat and then go outside and play.

Oh yeah, and now the two dudes are blasting Kelly Clarkson. WHo is she?! Right right, american idol winner, blah blah.

Hey hey hey! Who said this was a party, people nocking on the door? Oh, its just that chick. Hey, I'm hungry. Ow, I cut myself. My hair smells weird. It smells like a burnt... WHOOS DARE!!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!! OH MY GOD THERE IS A MOUSE ON THE CEILING!!!! There coming to take me away!!!! THEIR!!!!

I'm trying to make the longest blog post ever. I think I have accomplished... BEP!!! OMG THE DUDES PICKED A SONG FROM THE BEPS!!! THEY ARE ACTUALLY BEING MANLY!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've decided to create my own little wonderland on my website, Head over to the adoption center, pick out your pet, and take care of him/her and more! Even breed your pet with friends pets! And the best part, you don't have to sign up for it! All my members are automatically signed up for it, you just gotta push a button on your members page.

Aggh, gotta go, Jude just jumped on me.

An Hour Later...

Okay, Now I am able to tell you more about this wonderful thing!

You can...

• Use your pet as your profile picture (For fun and bragging rights)
• Breed your pet with your friends pets!
• Get surprises in your inbox!
• Post pics of your pet in the photo gallery
  
• Upload a picture of your real pet and have him become your MMG pet!

So, your probably asking, how do I play this awesome thing? Well, its easy! All you have to do is send Me, Monique, a request, requesting your perfect pet. Or, upload a photo and send it, I I will begin working on your pet asap!

Then, I shall send you daily pics and bonus's that will help you raise your pet from a baby to an adult and show you the daily growth of your pet and what your pet is doing.

Cuz I've just been rated Youngest ever to make a Big Screen production on my own. I mean, I was shooting for being the first nine year old to make a big screen production, but youngest altogether is good too, specially since I'm just fourteen.

Anyway, I'm starting production for my Mystic Moon Movie website, but then I thought, hey, why build ANOTHER website when I could have my new website here? So, pretty soon, a new link is going to open up entiteld, Mystic Moon Movie, it'll be a nice little place for my Cast to blog and post pics of everything going on here, to keep their fans up to date.

Its my random clean up again! To keep my webpage fresh and new every once in a while, I've decided I'm going to spiff things up a bit, and I mean a BIG Bit!!! I'm talkin' new CSS coding, some new fonting, and a touch of a brand new spiffy template!

Besides that, lets talk about music! MUUUZZZAAAKKK!!! YEAH!!!

I want everyone to know that ALL the music in the movie shall be original music, composed mostly by Carla Lucile, (Suzie's Mom, due in a month!) and other songs written by their artists. We've finally got the music contracts sent out today, (I never read a contract before, yay!) and my Artists shall be reading them and writing down their names, soon! Here is a little sneak peak at some of my great new singers and their stage names!

Butt-a-Musik: Sort of Jazzy blues, but overall, a band with a ton of talent!

Alicia Hill: A nice, calming voice, perfect for my sad and romance scenes!

Jennifer!: I hope I spelled her name right, my close friend and my party singer!

S. Perales: Thats just what I call her, she's totally Punk Rock!

My Dad: He's got a good voice, and he's the only male singer I could find.

Juliette: I forgot her last name. I think its Ross, anyway, shes got a Guitarist's heart and soul, and shes awesome for any mystical scene I've got.

Sound wikid cool? I know it does!

Head over to the Videos screen to see the latest Screen Test Spoliers!:D

I have recently become a Musical Fan. Okay, not really, but I noticed how musicals make kids interested, and make adults hum. Teens, however, don't prefer musicals unless they're glee fans or preppy kits (KITS: A very girly girl who everyone hates cause she only wants to sit in bed and daydream about her impossible boyfriend who she'll never have.) , and lets face it, only 10% of America's population of teens actually watch that show (no offense, glee fans, I just can't take that show seriously.). Sooo, what's a first time Producer/Director to do? Well, I figured there will be only three scenes where my characters will break out singing. Here is my spolier list! Don't read it if you wanna be surprised!

Cookie Dominoes: in this scene, Yasmin and Cameron are playing dominoes in order to win the last cookie in the cookie jar. They start singing a cute Cookie song, which shall be featured on the movie's album.
Kody's Grand Entrance: in this scene, Kody shows up to the party dressed up like a pop singer from the sixties, and a song entilteld Kody, With A K will be playing in the background, and Kody will begin to dance to his own beat.
Under The Mystic Moon: in this scene, Amy and Jason will be leaning in for their first kiss, and a soft guitar slowly fills the air, as Amy pauses in the moment to describe what a kiss must be like in her own song.
So, it'll be a mini musical, not too  bad right? Don't forget to comment!

ALL MY INFO IS BACK!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!:D:D:D

The website is coming back today, Sometime around four, :D, and we are going to do a search of all the people who hate or dislike me and see who did it. Actually, I don't know many people and all the people I do know are my friends, so that was sort of stupid to say. So, I'm going to try and bring back the info I lost and if I can't, oh well.:(

At least I'm not going to be in safe mode anymore! Whooooooooo!!!:lol:

I had to Redo Set my website and put it into safe mode so I can Fix the stupid hack.:D

So, uh, for now you can only play games until I fix it.

I cannot believe this but somebody hacked my website! And I think I know who, and if it is who I think it is, there is No Way they are going to be in my movie...:mad:

Ok, now. Three of my cast members are in the members page, and one of them already has her website! Anyway, my Cast and Crew, (love saying that!!!) We have three new singers for the movie! Whooo!!! And I know you are all very excited, I am too, I am trembeling as I write this! I want you to know that you have worked very hard for these roles, and you deserve them. You are all very talented young men and women, and you are my friends as well, which is why I am going to do something very special for all of you, but you have to wait... Be patient, and you shall see, a very special gift for you... Just... Wait...:|

Wanna know something funny? None of my actors, actresses, editors, producers, distributors, music people or anyone involved in my movie knows about my website? Well, I have a way to make them interested! Introducing, my Top Secret Mystic Moon Movie Actors Paradise!!! From now on, my Actors, Actress's, and Music Involvers (Anyone invloved with the making of the movies music) will have top secret access to:

1. Their own webpage

2. Their own games on their webpage

3. Their own forums

4. Everything else that comes with a website besides the hassle of having one made.

5. Their own special links on Monique Tether Online that are not accessible otherwise

6. Their own Performance-O-Metor, which is a scale, much like my KOQ scale that said whether my book was a mushy love story or a movie material story. Only my POM will show the percentage of earnings each actor/ actress will make according to their place in the movie and how well they fit their part. The percentage does not count Music Involvers, since their percentage is based upoun how much their music is used.

There will also be a little chat box, of which ONLY the people involved with the movie can read and talk in. The chat box is a place where others can talk about their performance rating and can type in their goals on how high they want their percentage to be. The POM will continue to rate each Actor and Actress throughout the making of the movie, and shall end on the permanent percentage for each Actor and Actress for each movie.

Thats all for now!

Bye!

Okay, we've got one major problem, we still don't have no Kyle, which is really sucking right now, cause we also don't have a Jason, and our animations designer can't figure out the program we got him. SO, to the cast, filming won't begin until everything and everyone is set!!!!

My friend mentioned the other day how unusual the characters in my books are. I mean, you don't see a purple fox everyday, now do you? So, he continued to say how I literally created my own world in a book, you know how other books with fantasy creatures usually have like dragons and gargoles (I know I probably didn't spell that right) and that lady with snakes for hair? And you know how those creatures are used over and over again in movies? Well, my friend was saying how mine are original, and aren't mythical, they just have a childrens touch to them that makes them fantasy, not magic, not myth, Fantasy, which means not real, but given a comforting sense of mystical-ness.

Enough with my babbling, I want to introduce to you, Monique's Drafox! You know that web browser a lot of you use (For less computer-ery people, like me, its the button you click to go on the internet, theres two major ones, Mozzilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Internet explorer is already on your computer when you buy it, Mozzilla is better but you gotta download it. It has a fox on it) Mozzilla Firefox? Well, I was looking at the icon on my desktop today, and I noticed that it has a picture of a fox on fire circling a globe (No Way!!! I JUST Noticed that! Really!!!! Even though its called Fire-Fox, I never knew it has a fox on fire!!! Too Literal for me!!!) So, I decided to have Monique's Drafox (A Parody of Mozzilla Firefox) (Parody is something with a simular name to an object, movie, theme, or song) and in a few moments, a few versions shall be available in the Download area! There is the Courie Drafox Toolbar, Blue Courie Drafox Toolbar, Tyran Drafox Toolbar, and the classic Mystic Toolbar!

All of the toolbars are NO SPAM FREEWARE, which is a good thing, they all have their share of fun games, a handy Highlighter tool, which gives you the power to mark the internet with a highlighter, a PB (Porn Blocker, good for kids researching for homework, it prevents unexpected "Things" from popping up), a bunch  of other stuff, Plus, a quicklink to my website.

So, keep checking the downlad area throughout the day! The first toolbar will be arriving soon!

Yep, filming of the Mystic Moon movie starts October first. However, we still have to find roles for these characters:

Kyle Shade (Right now we aren't too desperate to find the perfect Kyle. Filming can start before we find him since it starts with Amy in the script)

Jason Cardlias (WE NEED the perfect Jason NOW, since, well, our prefect AMy wants to know who she's kissing in scene eight.)

Beau and Alicia Shade (We need the parents big time, though we think we have found them.)

And another thing, if you are a singer and want your music to be noticed, this may be your BIG CHANCE!!!

If you want to have your music featured in the movie, and on the movie's soundtrack, just email Monique Tether at [email protected] and include a sample of your music if you want.

We will NOT use your music if you decide you don't want it used, but you must notify us before August 10th.

Think you've got the talent?

Well, hurry, singers! This is your big chance!

We have room for Twenty or more music artists.

Here is our list of RULES:

Each artist can only upload a Minimum of one song to a Maximum of Eight songs.

Songs can NOT include Max cursing (F word, S word) or suggestive themes (This is a Family Movie people.) Minimum cursing (H word, etc.) is tolerated during music audition and on movie's soundtrack but can't be included in Movie.

Songs used during the movie and in the soundtrack MUST be original music composed by either you or one of Monique Tether's composers. Songs used during audition do not apply.

One more thing, one very lucky singer shall be Hand Picked By Monique to sing a song about her story called Mystic Moon. Singer can choose to compose song by themselves or to have it composed for them.

Compsers of songs are needed too! So email Monique, Composers and Singers!

Over and Out!

Monique

I am so relieved to know that they finally stopped that stupid spill on the Gulf. They put a cap over it and locked it in place, finally.

Honestly, who would do such a stupid thing in the first place? Why would anyone put an oil well in the ocean?

But the nightmare isn't over yet, that oil spill didn't vanish over night. Sure they stopped the well from leaking (Edit that, POURING!!!) oil, but the oil is still there. After taking a vacation to florida, I noticed something. Who cares about the state going from the Sunshine State to the Sludge state? Who cares about loss of tourist attractions, or AKA less money in the state's pocket? The animals on the beach were covered in oil when I visited. Pidgeons, little cute harmless gray green pigeons, were black, and leaking oil from their feathers.

Why are the poor things on the beach anyway???

So, I decided that my sixth book is going to be dedicated to the gulf, and the proceeds of which actually belong to me are going to the ANIMALS, not BP, Not Florida, not the gulf, the animals. 100% of MY proceeds, thats around five dollars per book, I don't get paid a lot for being a writer, since I ain't a popular one.

So, this is Tether, in and Out.

Bye!