tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10228808258597002642024-03-18T15:35:04.966-04:00Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted ActionThe Writing Blog of Sean Taylor
-- Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Pulp Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Etc.seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.comBlogger2817125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-74880479163344494222024-03-18T11:00:00.009-04:002024-03-18T11:00:00.128-04:00Motivational Monday: These People Are Dangerousseanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-34529578675883625562024-03-17T11:00:00.014-04:002024-03-17T11:00:00.252-04:00Sunday Funnies: Flame On! seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-68123736927294716672024-03-16T11:00:00.000-04:002024-03-16T11:00:00.141-04:00 Submissions now open for 9th Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in ComicsDeadline is May 25th, 2024 for comics published during the 2023 calendar year.by Beat StaffThe 9th Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics is now officially accepting submissions. As in previous years, the event will name one winner from five honored finalists, whose work resembles a commitment to excellence and inclusion on and off the page, much like the late Mr. McDuffie’s own seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-76422608510690165652024-03-15T11:00:00.001-04:002024-03-15T11:00:00.138-04:00AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION PRESENTS SHADOWS OF LOVE BY R.A. JONESAfter almost fifteen years of publishing some of the most action-packed adventure pulp novels, new pulp publisher Airship 27 Production is delighted to announce the release of their first-ever pulp romance novel. “Shadows of Love” by R.A. Jones.Amber Milton, daughter of Lord Kensington, never set out to fall in love with the handsome stable hand, Edwin Stone. Though aware her father was in seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-48767562279510847552024-03-14T11:00:00.090-04:002024-03-14T11:00:00.136-04:00Fanfiction -- No Longer a Dirty Word in Fiction?For this week's roundtable, let's talk about fan fiction. For a long time, it was synonymous with both "amateur" by professionals and "theft" by IP owners. But that has seemed to be changing as time moves on. So, this one is for all the fan-fic writers out there. Let's chat.What is your experience with fan-fic?Angelia Sparrow: I got into pro writing from fanfic. I have done a few filed off piecesseanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-20702504979997708202024-03-12T11:00:00.090-04:002024-03-12T12:41:07.311-04:00Martheus Wade: Ninja With a PencilMartheus Wade is a creative ninja who writes and draws ninjas. Why? I guess because it takes one to tell stories about one. The first time I met him he was showing off martial arts moves and demonstrating how to illustrate the human body as a piece of artwork in motion, a violent, deadly piece of artwork in motion. Then I read his work in Jetta: Tales of the Toshigawa. I was hooked. If seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-76223158984146067632024-03-11T11:00:00.003-04:002024-03-11T11:00:00.138-04:00Motivational Monday: The Test of Power seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-85553415931324292802024-03-10T11:00:00.003-04:002024-03-10T11:00:00.151-04:00Sunday Funnies: Em Dash Loveseanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-55869118456255069462024-03-09T11:00:00.004-05:002024-03-09T11:00:00.243-05:00[Link] 20 Inspiring Quotes from Langston Hughesby Jennifer M WoodPoet. Novelist. Playwright. Activist. There wasn’t much that Langston Hughes couldn't do. Born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902, Hughes—an innovator of the jazz poetry art form—eventually made his way to New York City, where he became one of the most recognized leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. But even amongst his peers, Hughes’s work stood out as unique.In 1973’s seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-12386698217686986692024-03-08T11:00:00.038-05:002024-03-08T12:48:01.922-05:00Sean Taylor invites you to join the Crowd in Babylon in his new collection of dark and horror tales!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAtlanta, GA (March 8, 2024) -- Featuring 17 tales of Southern horror, dark fantasy, and weird adventure inspired as much by Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Shirley Jackson as by F. Marion Crawford, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury, Sean Taylor's A CROWD IN BABYLON takes readers from the chilling underside of the urban landscape to the homegrown terrors of rural life and seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-86456494415148199892024-03-07T11:00:00.087-05:002024-03-07T11:00:00.149-05:00Playing in Someone Else's SandboxFor our newest writer roundtable, let's take a look at writing characters created by other people. There are several ways we can do this, from being hired to write a licensed character (like Superman, The Phantom, She-Hulk, etc.), reviving a public domain character (like The Black Bat, Domino Lady, Sherlock Holmes, etc.), or being hired to ghostwrite for someone else's plot and character seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-75672597843629047962024-03-06T11:00:00.034-05:002024-03-06T13:47:53.285-05:00Movie Reviews for Writers: Fantastic BritainWhat is it about Britain and the U.K. that fosters such a rich history of fantasy literature? Not only modern best-sellers like Harry Potter, but also classics like C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, Tolkien's Middle Earth books, George McDonald's children and adult fantasies, and Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Or does it begin long before that with the country's legends of King Arthur and his knights?Or,seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-30425674165650624962024-03-05T11:00:00.012-05:002024-03-05T11:00:00.340-05:00S. Rupsha Mitra: Love and Culture in the Smoked FramesS. Rupsha Mitra from Kolkata, India is an undergraduate Honours student deeply interested in works of spirituality and transcendence. Her favourite writer is Rabindranath Tagore. She loves to learn and write about culture and often experiments with translations and poetry. Her works have been published in London Reader, Mermaids Monthly, Pif Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, Muse India, Indian seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-69319359314300203412024-03-04T11:00:00.001-05:002024-03-04T11:00:00.144-05:00Motivational Monday: Because... seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-29864376897712984602024-03-02T11:00:00.012-05:002024-03-04T08:54:14.910-05:00Sunday Funnies: Snob!seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-70677273828067175752024-03-02T11:00:00.004-05:002024-03-02T11:00:00.144-05:00[Link] 16 Tips From Famous Authors for Writing Better Poetryby Caitlin SchneiderThe elusive art of poetry isn’t so hard to master if you know how to set the stage. In honor of World Poetry Day, here are a few handy rituals from some of history’s greatest poets.1. MAKE TIME FOR TEATIME.Samuel Johnson once said of himself: "[I am a] hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for 20 years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant;seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-81227209705433297852024-03-01T11:00:00.024-05:002024-03-01T11:00:00.134-05:00The Dead Speak: Sean Taylor's Corpse Delivers the Eulogy in His New Collection!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAtlanta, GA (March 1, 2024) -- Comic and prose writer Sean Taylor introduces his newest collection of essays, short stories, and poems, THE CORPSE DELIVERS THE EULOGY AND OTHER WORKS. Designed as an introduction to Taylor's writing for new readers and a re-introduction to current readers, this collection features both old and new creations in a single volume. THE CORPSE seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-44106069762277491482024-02-29T11:00:00.195-05:002024-02-29T11:00:00.130-05:00On the Dark Side (Yeah, Yeah) On the Dark Side...For this week's roundtable, we're all going to take a walk on the dark side. (It's okay if you sang the Eddie and the Cruisers song just then.) Do you have limits to how dark you will allow your fiction to become? How do you determine those limits?Sara Freites Scott: Yes I do have limits. I go by how it makes me feel when writing. I push it a little but if I start to feel too uncomfortable seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-20283512032849688302024-02-27T11:00:00.085-05:002024-02-27T19:47:02.212-05:00John French: Writing in the RuinsJohn French is a retired crime scene supervisor with forty years experience. He has seen more than his share of murders, shootings, and serious assaults. As a break from the realities of his job, he started writing science fiction, pulp, horror, fantasy, and, of course, crime fiction.Tell us about your latest work.My latest book is In the Ruins of Caerleon. It’s a collection of stories about seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-58901099770350339442024-02-26T11:00:00.003-05:002024-02-26T11:00:00.147-05:00Motivational Monday: The Vision, Not the Words seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-79806784976387860492024-02-25T17:00:00.002-05:002024-02-26T10:25:21.900-05:00Rest in Power, Ramona FradonRamona Fradon (October 2, 1926 – February 24, 2024), a comics artist for more than 70 years, has died at 97. She retired just last month. Fradon’s death was shared by Catskill Comics, a comic book art dealer, on Facebook.She began her career in 1950, beginning to work for DC Comics early on. She’s best known as an artist on “Aquaman” and co-creator of the superhero Metamorpho, set to be played byseanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-32778957381339472442024-02-25T11:00:00.001-05:002024-02-25T12:52:47.186-05:00Sunday Funnies: Contractions Are Weird seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-38633326773396802022024-02-23T11:00:00.008-05:002024-02-23T11:00:00.134-05:00[Link] What literature do we study from the 1990s?by Matt DanielsRead the full article: https://pudding.cool/2023/01/lit-canon/seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-33007378957172330872024-02-22T11:00:00.079-05:002024-02-22T14:08:15.426-05:00The Power of WhimsyWhimsy: "Behaviour which is unusual, playful, and unpredictable, rather than having any serious reason or purpose behind it" (Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers). When we think of whimsical writing we often default to the same kind of ideas. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Wind in the Willows. Mrs. Fisby and the Rats of NIMH. And typically books for seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1022880825859700264.post-13774800866421675412024-02-20T11:00:00.000-05:002024-02-20T11:00:00.132-05:00Scott McCullar: Bringing the ThrillsScott McCullar is a Professional Graphic Designer, Writer, and Visual Artist currently working for the Illinois State Board of Education as a Principal Consultant (Graphic Designer) in the Software Solutions Department. Outside of his day job, Scott is also the creator-owner of THRILL SEEKER COMICS™ ANTHOLOGY Pulp Action & Adventure Series featuring The Yellow Jacket: Man of Mystery™ that he seanhtaylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04904457463544311851noreply@blogger.com0