Are you ready? In less than two weeks, Halloween will be here. Haven’t picked your costume yet? How about the classic Halloween favorite? The vampire. As a Halloween treat, indulge yourself in Rick Yancy’s The Monstrumologist: THE CURSE OF THE WENDIGO. Pellinore Warthrop is a monstrumologist and is attempting to disprove the existence of a vampire when he comes across a Wendigo.
This past weekend I got to be a part of the 2nd annual Boston Book Festival. (I was there in the wind manning a booth as part of my job for Better World Books). While there I learned about ther Once City One Story project and thought I'd share it with you.
I'm a huge fan of Walking Dead, so I'm understandably excited about the upcoming TV series on AMC. It's debuting, appropriately enough, on Halloween (if you couldn't guess by the title, it's a series about zombies). It's also a graphic and emotionally shocking series (at least in comics; I'm incredibly curious to see how closely the TV show will hew to the source material and how well that will play out with a TV audience if they do). Actor Andrew Lincoln seems like a nice choice to play the lead.
I'm a little late in getting this posted (due to an unfortunate week without internet connectivity), but I wanted to post some brief musings on the wonderful world of comics that occurred last weekend. It began with the excellent ICv2 conference on Thursday (put on by Milton Griepp), which covered the current state of the industry. In brief, it turns out individual monthly comics sales are up slightly, manga sales are down for the third year in a row, and digital sales are up tremendously. (More about that manga number in a minute.) PW Comics Week did a nice job covering this conference; check it out for more info.
Here's another list we got from our 10th Anniversary Contest. These were some of the most unexpected selections you submitted as your "favorite discussion books". And these were surprising to say the least.
Perhaps each on it's own not sooo strange - but all together - you'll admit - definitely strange!
For today's round of If You Ask Me, we have Will, Carli, Georina, and Alia.
Keep up with the Seattle7Writers.org collective as they complete their Novel Live project. Yes, 36 authors, working in two-hour shifts, have written a novel that will raise money for literacy programs and become an eBook soon...How cool!!
The 10 Best Dressed authors, featuring, of course, the dapper Tom Wolfe...
