It’s been a pretty good con – very well attended and sales have been good. Lot’s of people have been pleasantly surprised at the turnout and feel this con has the potential to turn into a real Indy-friendly event.
And I have to say – kudos to the Wizard World staff. Friendly, helpful and a [...]

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And it’s the same thing: I have what we believe to be the last two boxes of the Twilight Tales editon of Something to build upon.
I’ll be selling there in Artist’s Alley all weekend, at table 3102, so stop by. And definitely visit the Jordan’s at Crimespree’s booth.
In other news, summer has been great and [...]

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Well, not exactly. But I am now a Vice President. Sure, it’s only for the Midwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, but that’s still pretty cool (I was the only candidate, and they had blackmail information to make me run BUT STILL…)
In addition to the web duties, I’ll be working on scheduling meetings [...]

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Oh ACEN, you made me buy a badge in order to be able to vie for a table in Artist’s Alley, so I did.
But then you wouldn’t let me sign up for that table, and then you didn’t let me know when I could.
Now I find out registration opened up last week and after I [...]

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The interesting thing about being in two different publishing worlds – comics and mysteries – is the times when one world’s opinions don’t exactly translate to the other.
That’s the case with self-publishing.
In the mystery field, quite understandably, self-publishing is not well thought of. There’s a lot of reasons for this: You can’t get the books [...]

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A bit of buzz around the net and in print. Here’s who’s talking:

Crimespree Magazine has an interview with me in Issue 31 – the one with Brian Azzerelo on the cover. The big news: I don’t know if Diangelo will survive his current adventure. UPDATE: That interview is now online here.

Robot6 over at Comicbookresources picked [...]

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Chicago Comicon was definitely a success. I believe there were fewer attendees than last year, and those that did attend were on tighter budgets. But I sold almost 80 books and about 20 prints – that’s fewer books than last year, but last year the book was new and there wasn’t a recession.
(I’m writing this [...]

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Comicbook Resources has a report on the crime fiction panel from Friday. Pretty cool, and I didn’t come off sounding like a dope (too much).
But there was one small error – I reccommended Gary Phillips “High Hand” at the end.

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Jon and Ruth Jordan (that’s them in the photo below) and I are all set up at our Wizard World Chicago Comicon (or whatever they’re calling it).
Preview crowd is scheduled to be in here starting at 4 pm.
We’re on a main hallway, booth 1433, a long ways away from my friends in Artist Alley.
People are [...]

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I was a finalist for the 2009 Crimespree Magazine awards!
Favorite comics writer
Brian Azzarello (winner)
Tim Broderick
B. CLAY MOORE
Ed Brubaker
Jason Aaron
And yes, it is an honor just to be mentioned! Congratulations to all the winners!

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