A Dad. Two Young Sons. And the Story of the Book They Wrote and Published Together

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The creative journey of Henry Herz and his sons.

We Are Pioneering Both the Conversation and The Business Model

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Yes, it’s hard. But we don’t care if things are hard, as long as they are not physically impossible.

Books: There Are No Lines: The What & Why of @MVMediaATL’s Steamfunk! Anthology [@hannibaltabu]

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The essence of Black creativity in the shadow of the western world has been one of necessity and scarcity. “Make way out of no way” is the only consistent commandment from be-bop to hip hop, from STEM education to, finally, the science fiction that fueled many of those who sought it.

Just Doing My Job

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Justin Cascio’s life has been changed by the writers who reveal their own lives—and the taboos of our society.

Creative: Breaking Down The Benefits Of Making Comics [@hannibaltabu]

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The following is a first person editorial. I saw an article referencing comments by writer Jim Zubkavich, who writes the largely entertaining comic Skullkickers (among other credits): Creator says creator-owned comics pay as little as $31.25 a page—if you’re lucky. On a print run of 5000 comics (and many, many creator-owned titles sell less than [...]

Goodbye, Radiolab: The Fact of the Matter of Storytelling

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For writers, the greatest reward is human connection. But when that connection is absent, the failure of empathy can be painful.

Opinion: The Commentary Track for the September 1st Buy Pile, Issue #9 [@cbr], “The World Is Very Different Now …”

An analysis of Hannibal Tabu’s reviews column on Comic Book Resources.

Ten things I've learned from being published on openfile.ca today!

I just got published on openfile.ca, and you can read my article here. I don’t really have ten things to say about it, but I will write one sentence as a list to stay true to the format, like so: Yay! It’s fun being published because it makes you feel like all of this writing [...]

Guestpost #58: Kevin Newman – Ten things I've learned from trying to get published

Newman is a storyman: author of Fey Girl and All Night by the Rose, in addition to being an eclectic blogger on his website www.voxnewman.com. Publishers and agents think that your work is a subjective experience, which is a fair assessment.  They also think that way about your query letter.  Not so sure that’s the [...]

An Interview with Paul Harding

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Perry Glasser interviews the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner about his experience getting his novel published.