Last year I was invited to join Amazon Vine, the online behemoth’s slick new marketing program that enables publishers (and other companies) to provide free review copies of their books (and other products) for a group of Amazon-selected reviewers, pretty much ensuring a lot of independent user reviews for the participating products. The program lets [...]
Other than the occasional review at Amazon – or even less frequently, at PopCultureShock – it’s been a while since I’ve written about comics. After 2.5 years of being ankle-deep in the industry, writing reviews, interviews, commentary and the occasional news piece, I really don’t miss it at all. While I’m still reading comics, my weekly trips to Midtown Comics [...]
Whether it’s the new job after 4+ years at my previous one; or my creative writing getting a much-needed kickstart thanks largely to a focused return to the slam scene; or my ending a $100+/month, love/hate relationship with comic books and along with it abandoning the one outlet that had kept me writing since 2005; or finally tackling my [...]
It’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
–Anna Quindlen
Articles/Essays
Remember, Remember: The Politics of “V For Vendetta”
Speakeasy Shakes Things Up
Who Cares About [Comics] Journalism?
Wizard World Philly: Marketing 101
Being Black In A Four-Color World
Is The Slam Still Relevant?
The Revolution Will Be
Write To Life
How Wonderful Is It?
Are You Experienced?
Anxiety@30: Lifestyles Of The Young [...]
My poem Prodigal Son is being featured on IndieFeed as “Part 4 of a 9 part series, celebrating the release of Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through 20 years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz!”
It’s the live version from the nycSLAMS CD (2000), but it includes some great (and extremely [...]
