What do a cockatrice and a damaged spacecraft have in common?
They are key elements to the newest projects of my friends, fellow writers and Seton Hill Writing Popular Fiction graduates, Kate Martin and R. Alexander Spoerer.
Alex has just finished a weeks worth of panels for his web graphic story, Calling Home, with artist Leila del Duca. The project started as a Twitter and Plurk story that took place over four accounts where the main characters could only interact through limited transmissions of 140 characters. It shows how dialogue is one of the most important aspects of telling a story and how a simple conversation do more than all the exposition in the world can. Duca’s artwork is great and really adds more to the story as each “transmission” draws in life from her pen–even in the void of outer space. She is someone you will will be hearing a lot of in the world of comics and graphic novels in the future. So check it out, the Calling Home website has everything you need to dive right in to the story and definitely going back to see each new transmission as they are posted.
I have mentioned in previous posts about Kate and her progress with the Rage of the Behemoth: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure from Rogue Blades Entertainment. We’ll I have two great pieces of news about it. First, you can now pre-order the anthology with free shipping here. You only have till May 30th to order for free shipping and trust me when I say that either the regular edition or the collectors edition of just the Mysterious Jungles stories is worthy getting just for “Poisonous Redemption.” Don’t believe me? Well that just goes to the other bit of news about Kate. The first review of RotB is already up and while you could just skip down to her name, the review is even better if you read the whole thing before getting to the reviewers comments about “Poisonous Redemption.” Take a look and order fast.
Both of these are writers to be on look out for, I know they are both actively submitting their books into the big scary world of publishing, so be on the look out for more great tales of adventure, sacrifice, love, death and all the great things in between.
In the coming weeks I plan to have interviews about both projects on here. Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions you would like to have asked and I’ll do my best to accommodate them.
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I say you have excellent taste in authors, W. D., and they have excellent taste in friends.
Nice show of praise and encouragement – every writer needs such support.
Oh, and thanks for the links to RBE as well.
Thank you Jason, writers really do need the encouragement, especially when so many other people out there still give the Spock “one eyebrow lifted at the illogical human choice” look when ever we say we are writers. I just got my first review not that long ago, so I know what it feels like to have that out there in the world.
And no worries on the links, hopefully I will have a submission for Demons: Clash of Steel for you and hopefully there will be many more links back.
Cool, looking forward to receiving your Demons submission. Word to the wise, though, would be to get it in sooner rather than later – I’ve been receiving some mighty fine works lately and I could close early…
Looks like the whole “editors will but your nose to the grindstone” bit is true. Lets see if i can write two stories simultaneously.
Now I just have Chef’s “Simultaneous Lovin’” song from the Chef Aid CD stuck in my head
Good review, Jason. I’m always on the lookout for good new writers and will check these out.
[...] enough about the genesis of the idea, go ahead and take a look at the comic. Also, is a review of Calling Home and an interview with Leila and myself. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Calling Home: [...]
Calling Home: The Graphic Novel — Renegade Sanctuary said this on June 4, 2009 at 12:28 PM |