“A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.”

There are 2 famously dead periods of the year for auditions.

One is the janfeb slowdown.

The other is the julalugust drought.

Summer holidays.

Parents go away when school is out.

Reduced staff in the office.

All leads to less work activity.

Less auditions being sent out.

Once again, everything slows down.

If you are thinking, “i really fckd it this time”

You havent.

Casting and production are in a pool somewhere getting dunked on by their kids.

Winners

I am no gandalf.

I must apologise for the lateness of this weeks email.

And for not replying to any of your emails over the last few weeks.

I have been dilly dallying, molly squabbing and making unnecessarily complex but terribly important slow motion videos.

You, on the other hand, have been doing some sterling work and have built a book list for each other.

4 more books have now been added to the list, so thank you readers Joe E, Dan, Emilia and Oliver for your contributions.

And here is the winner of this week’s prize:

Congratulations winner.

you won.

You’ll be hearing from my people imminently.

Know an actor who loves what they do and also wants to burn the industry down to the ground?

They might find this email calming:

sixfigureactor.net

I would love to hear your thoughts and feelings. Just reply to this email and i will get back to you as soon as I stop all the dillydallying.

Until next week,

A x

p.s. thank you to reader Niall for the testimonial of the week.

Thanks mate.

You get it.

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