superheroes
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So, I know superheroes. I have been a superhero dork since I was a kid. DC, Marvel, the various indies through the years. I absolutely love superheroes. Writing superhero novels and short fiction has been a huge part of my life as an author, making up more than half of my output over the last
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Listen, I promise you I will start updating this blog more frequently. Really. Things have been ri-DONK-ulous lately. Let’s get everyone up to speed. Starting with the huge news. I have reached a career milestone earlier this year in that I have secured a literary agent for my book Winter Lullaby and future projects. I’m
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When I wrote Cobalt City: RESISTANCE in the wake of the 2016 elections, I knew things were bad–that they were almost certainly going to get worse. That was a big impetus for getting the book launched in time for the 2018 elections. Well, the launch happened. The election happened. And now everything is fixed. *listens
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Cobalt City: RESISTANCE comes out in a few days, and I literally could not be happier to share this book with you all. It was a long process with a hard deadline to get this book ready in time for the mid-term elections, but we made it. Here we are, with the book out roughly
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There is this common tune, that great art (and great art movements) comes from periods of strife and political unrest. While it’s most famously seen in music, take rap or punk as examples, pushing back against oppression is also a major influence on the British comic book scene in the 80’s. The panacea we’ve been
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I know I’ve discussed the current Cobalt City novel RESISTANCE once or twice before. For new readers (or those with the memory of goldfish), RESISTANCE is the novel I started last November as a way to process what I saw as our country’s decline into fascism and straight up dystopia. I’d hoped to be finished
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On May 16th, Meerkat Press will release their eagerly awaited superhero anthology Behind the Mask. (It’s available for pre-order now and the advance reviews have been great and the table of contents boasts some exciting names.) This is particularly relevant to me because my Cobalt City story “Madjack” happens to be between those pages–a fact
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The following is an advance look at the next Cobalt City book, a grim look into the underworld of the city from which no one returns unchanged. Cobalt City: Ties that Bind will be available exclusively for the Kindle on September 1st, 2015. Chapter Two—Bantam If you keep your ear to the street like I
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Frequent readers know that I have plans to put out another Cobalt City book this fall. I might have mentioned it once or twice. I might also have mentioned that it’s a bit dark. I’m deep in my final edit pass right now, with a goal to have it formatted by the end of the
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