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Tag Archives: Justification
Anomaly
Can a novelologist earn a living writing standalone stories? It’s a question that comes up a lot. My answer to this is that, yes, it’s certainly possible. I’m doing fine writing non-series novels. Granted, I might be an anomaly, and because we don’t live in the universe where I am writing my 9th Gil’s All [...]
Posted in Blog, Writing Also tagged Anomaly, Christopher Moore, Continuity, Crossover, Detective, Discworld Novels, Dozens Upon Dozens, Fine Writing, Gil, Mack, Megaton, Misfortune, Parallel Worlds, S Books, Sci Fi, Standalone Novels, Trolls, Vampires, Werewolf 5 Comments
Other People’s Toys
A. LEE MARTINEZ FUN FACTOID: I almost wrote an Iron Man novel. This was a few years back when the original Iron Man movie was about to come out. Or maybe it had just come out. Little hazy on the details, but I remember that some tenative steps were taken between me and a publisher to [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Adaptation, Alien Robot, Bad Guys, Board Games, Espionage, Exact Details, Game, Gorillas, Grasp, Indiana Jones, Iron Man, Iron Man Movie, Love Interest, Man Love, Marvel Universe, Money, Novel, People Express, Sentry, Spy, Toys, Wit 14 Comments
Realism VS Surrealism
Realism is highly overrated. In particular, I hate realism applied to fantasy. Mostly because it seems to miss the point of fantasy in the first place. I recently started a Twitter mini-debate with a friend of mine.* Watching a preview for the new Kick-Ass movie, I remarked how the movie straddles a clumsy line between [...]
Posted in Blog Also tagged Backstory, Bank Robbers, Batman Begins, Bullets, Dark Knight, Deconstruction, Grown Man, Kick Ass, Killers, Mini Series, New Kick, Parody, Pistols, Premise, Realism, Superheroes, Surrealism, Technological Edge, Tongue In Cheek 1 Comment
Sucker Punch Vs. The World