LitPunk, Zombies, and Deadland
Thanks to everyone who came out for LitPunk last Saturday and packed the house. It was incredibly fun, and I had a blast. Not sure who walked off with the copy of Barfodder that I was reading from - but the way I figure it, you must have really liked it to want it that badly. John Shirley tells me there will be more of these, and I think that's a great idea. My favorite performance of the night was Rudy Rucker's cyberpunk zombie story. Really great group of writers reading really great stuff.
I stopped off at Borderlands Books on my way to Scott G. Browne's release party for Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, which is a most excellent zombie tale, and will eventually be a Fox Searchlight Film. Great party, and congrats Scott!
You might remember his reading from a piece of that story for last year's World Horror Convention's Annual Gross Out Contest. Since I can't make it to Canada this year, I've asked Scott to host this year's contest in Winnepeg in my place. Rest assured, it will be awesome.
(And back to my pit stop at Borderlands)...
Daniele Serra's art has finally arrived from Italy for my graphic novel, DEADLAND - book one, which he is illustrating. OMFG, this stuff is beautiful. It's very, very special for several reasons:
1) There are three different very high-quality large art prints with a tagline from the book on each, numbered and signed by us both, 3 each.
2) There are three matching canvas prints, numbered and signed by us both, 1 each (except for the one of the Alligator God and Oscar, which there were two made, and I have 1 of the 2).
3) We have not shopped this yet to a publisher (as Dani has more artwork to do), so these are going to be collectors items some day (we hope), aside from them just being amazingly cool pieces of art right now. Given that Dani's in Italy - it's a rare chance to own something cool. And when it finally goes into print you can tell all your friends you had it first - and are therefore way cooler than they are.
4) The signed prints are $50 a piece, and the signed canvas ones are $150. They are available exclusively at Borderlands Books, and at present they don't have a way to hang them without damaging them - so you'll need to ask for them by name. They will ship if you are not local.
5) Finally, to see the artwork check out Dani's "News" blog. Since my server is down I haven't found a way to post them yet. The post is titled "Art for Sale in San Francisco." The scans don't do the prints justice.
6) If you are purchasing a copy of Barfodder at Borderlands, I have left some beautiful bookmarks Dani did of the original Frontis Piece artwork, that did not make it into the Trade Paperback edition. They are giving a bookmark only to those who purchase Barfodder.
If you do stop in to see the artwork, drop me a line and tell me what you think.
I stopped off at Borderlands Books on my way to Scott G. Browne's release party for Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, which is a most excellent zombie tale, and will eventually be a Fox Searchlight Film. Great party, and congrats Scott!
You might remember his reading from a piece of that story for last year's World Horror Convention's Annual Gross Out Contest. Since I can't make it to Canada this year, I've asked Scott to host this year's contest in Winnepeg in my place. Rest assured, it will be awesome.
(And back to my pit stop at Borderlands)...
Daniele Serra's art has finally arrived from Italy for my graphic novel, DEADLAND - book one, which he is illustrating. OMFG, this stuff is beautiful. It's very, very special for several reasons:
1) There are three different very high-quality large art prints with a tagline from the book on each, numbered and signed by us both, 3 each.
2) There are three matching canvas prints, numbered and signed by us both, 1 each (except for the one of the Alligator God and Oscar, which there were two made, and I have 1 of the 2).
3) We have not shopped this yet to a publisher (as Dani has more artwork to do), so these are going to be collectors items some day (we hope), aside from them just being amazingly cool pieces of art right now. Given that Dani's in Italy - it's a rare chance to own something cool. And when it finally goes into print you can tell all your friends you had it first - and are therefore way cooler than they are.
4) The signed prints are $50 a piece, and the signed canvas ones are $150. They are available exclusively at Borderlands Books, and at present they don't have a way to hang them without damaging them - so you'll need to ask for them by name. They will ship if you are not local.
5) Finally, to see the artwork check out Dani's "News" blog. Since my server is down I haven't found a way to post them yet. The post is titled "Art for Sale in San Francisco." The scans don't do the prints justice.
6) If you are purchasing a copy of Barfodder at Borderlands, I have left some beautiful bookmarks Dani did of the original Frontis Piece artwork, that did not make it into the Trade Paperback edition. They are giving a bookmark only to those who purchase Barfodder.
If you do stop in to see the artwork, drop me a line and tell me what you think.