If you read my blog on Wednesday, you may remember me mentioning a friend at whose house I discoved a pile of comics on a visit where I (as usual) woke up waaaayyy too early.  Well, some choose to call him Tim.  Tim James and I met because we were both Freaks.  Yes, I use a capital "F."  That's because the theatre group that we were part of, which ( Read more... )

Christie Golden has done everything: fantasy novels, short stories, tie-ins, novelizations, comics, playwriting....  Whew!  I'm tired just thinking about it!  She's won the Colorado Author's League Top Hand Award for Best Genre Novel of 1999 for her pseudonymous novel A.D. 999.   Today she's talking about working in the different styles.

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Browsing the web, I found a great list of Eight Comic Books to Read before You Die.  I admit that I didn't grow up reading comic books, though I did spend some quality time with them as a teenager when I was visiting a friend and, being a morning person, was up waaay earlier than anyone else in the house.  Luckily, there was a pile of comics at ( Read more... )

David Mack is a fantastic writer and strategist.  I say the latter, because you can't help but think when you read his work how cleverly all the plots, counter-plots and characters come together.  He's here today talking about:

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Last week Sarah A. Hoyt gave us a fantastic blog on the difference between short story and novel writing.  This week, in honor of New York ComicCon, we're talking comics, leading off with the man, the myth, the legend, Keith R.A. DeCandido.

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