I have one program item this year: "Beyond the Genre in Genre Fiction" on Friday morning at 11:40am. I am appearing with a bunch of truly awesome people, including Kory Bing, who some among you may remember as the illustrator for the InCryptid Field Guide. I am super excited! You should come!
If you can make the con but can't make my panel, I'll be around throughout the weekend, and am happy to sign things if spotted. Or if not spotted, but then the things may not belong to you.
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(Though nothing near the metro area population; Cambridge is only a small part of that, and Boston itself is somewhere over 800K I think.)
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Hope it's great and you have a blast at ECCC and at Norwescon in a few weeks. I'll be over here in mourning ;)
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I'm sorry. Best of luck with the move!
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But mainly, I have a now-topical question I have not seen discussed here before... Since you love comic books and have since practically forever, have you tried writing any? If not, would you like to, whether in one of your established print universes or a brand-new setting? You've got arrows in your bow for poetry, novellas, novels, and short stories... What about another target? I'm just asking about general interest.
I just finished reading your essay on Jean Grey and Emma Frost in "Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them," which had an ebook version on sale from Amazon.com for five dollars. I bought it for the essay, which was extremely satisfying, and stayed with the rest of the book for the other writers, many of whom I was familar with, though not all. And then tonight, I just listened to last month's SF Squeecast, which I finally had to turn off to finish later because I was laughing too hard. '
Sample quote by you as agent provocateur: "Urban fantasy is superheroes without the tights." So have you ever wanted to write comic books*, and if so, what are the chances you will turn your keyboard to them some day? (Breaking into comics is extremely difficult, I know, esp. with any of the major publishers.)
*Footnote: Fan-fiction and comic book scripts have much in common, and I have read many wonderful fan-fic universes that are far better than many printed comics. But I love going to my store and picking up a pile of new titles, as I did tonight... Sequential art + great writing makes me very happy.
**Footnote 2: Now I am looking over at my shelves at Dennis O'Neil's DC comics writing guide, and remembering other books like Peter David's writing guide. There is apparently no sure way to tunnel into creating comics, and now I am remembering how hard it was to send cold solicitations to even the smallest of publishers...
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But I was really asking about printed sequential art I could buy at my local comic shop, and whether you have considered the (usually incredible arduous) path to going for that...
Right. English is clearly not my native language, despite having been born into it. "Muddle" and "murky" must be the dialects I use late at night.
I'm going to go lie down before I embarrass myself further. Umm... I haven't seen an interview link on "Velveteen" yet, though I might have missed that. Did I miss them?
Mack
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