Honestly, it’s starting to look like we have our own little pocket industry here. While the books I’m talking about now aren’t making the $300-400k amount, they are making far more than most other first time comic kickstarters that I see launching. The most recent success story is Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Heart Of A […]
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Blacklisting Didn’t Work, So They’re Trying To Harass Us Out Of The Industry
Ever since I came out of the closet with how I voted, it’s been one thing after another in an attempt to gatekeep me out of the industry. It started with a convention removing me from their speaker circuit as most readers are aware, with many of the same people from that convention then enacting […]
Space Force: The Comic
I’m out of time for blogging today, so I wanted to give a shout out to Chuck Dixon, Timothy Lim and Brett R. Smith for their new comic, Trump’s Space Force. It looks really fun and these guys have been working their tails off to get this ready, so it’s worth a blog post as […]
The Character James Gentry, Grief, And Growth
I had a great discussion with a fan the other day about the character of James in For Steam And Country. As a mild spoiler (have you not read the book yet and you’re here?) he loses his parents, and as we’re wrapped up in Zaira’s perspective, we don’t see much grief from him. He […]
The Best And Easiest Way To Maximize Your Indie Publishing Sales
We’ve seen how over the last year, the biggest successes seem to have come from teams of authors co-writing, as they can get their projects out slightly faster than others, and create these shared universes where the plot just keeps coming. They both bring in their fanbases, there’s a lot to binge read, and boom, […]
The #ComicsGate Success Is No Fluke – People Crave Good Comics
We’ve had a few different successes in comicsgate now that it’s actually becoming a full on subset of the industry, not just a couple of guys with flukes. This is very positive, and I hope we continue toward this trend. I’m personally cutting back my DC Comics purchases (which ranges from about ($12-20 per month […]
I Am Writing For You: A Guide To Treating Readers With Respect
This last week there’s been a barrage of authors out there who are taking shots at readers. We saw this a lot with the situation in the comics industry over the last year, where so many of the creators fought the fans when they’d produced a lot of politically driven narrative their fans didn’t like, […]
Authors Don’t Trick Your Readers – An Analysis of The Batman/Catwoman Wedding
DC Comics’ big event hype over the summer has been the Batman/Catwoman wedding. Now we all know how comics have worked the last couple decades, and we know by proxy that “nothing is forever” – and by forever, I mean lasts more than 2-3 years before it gets rebooted, redone, respun. How anyone can take […]
Last Night On YouTube
Yesterday we did an impromptu reading of the beginning of “Knight Training” which will be the novella sequel to For Steam And Country out July 18th. Edwin did a great job reading. We followed up with a discussion of my books and the comic industry so worth the watch! Make sure to grab For […]
An Open Letter To Kevin Roche Of Worldcon
Last night I had a dream, and it’s a dream that I want to see become reality. It’s one where divisiveness, hatefulness, and petty politics can be overcome by rationality, love, treating each other like humans. I dreamt that I was at some house party where Kevin Roche, the chairman of WorldCon, was attending with […]
LibertyCon Is The Undisputed Best Convention In The World
I spent the weekend at LibertyCon in Chattanooga TN, and I’ll do my best to tell most of the story in pictures, because that’s a lot more fun, but this convention had so much going on from dawn until next dawn (they certainly don’t stop at dusk) that it was incredible. Programing had me running […]
To Be Men Anthology
Last week an anthology dropped from Superversive Press which features a story by me, “Compassion” — which is a prequel story to a novel I’ll be coming out with later this year, Justified: Saga Of The NanoTemplar. The story is a lot of fun and features a STRONG MALE LEAD (finally) so you’ll want to check it out.
