The Diary Of A Novice Comic Book Writer

It’s been a while huh?

Happy New Year Everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here-last year was hetic. But I’m back and I’m refreshed. 

A few things to announce:

Necrocalia: The Origin of Dh’Shatanog is still being worked on. The pages are all pencilled next step is inking and lettering. So soon it’ll be ready to be published.

I submitted 3 stories last year to Grayhaven Comics and they’ll be published this year in the All Women’s 2 (Willehmina: King of Thieves), War (Zuhura), and Crime (Tzedek) volumes!  So look for those anthologies! 

Grayhaven is looking for submissions for 2014 now so visit their site.

I have a new interview up on my Comicmaniacs Column it’s with the @BlackTribbles so check that out.

Last year I got bogged down and I lost my love of writing but I still have it and I’m recharged and ready to go. 

Two sites to check out:

http://www.scribophile.com/

www.hitrecord.org/

Later!

What to look forward to: A Writing Update

I’ve been a busy bee writing and it’s coming along slowly but surely. I do have some updates and things that you all can look forward to:

This Saturday July 14th at 10 am: Womanthology Signing at the Acme Superstore on 434 in Longwood, FL. 

Next week July 16th-20th Talking Comics  will have a Woman in Comics Week. Everyday I’ll post an interview with a lady in comics. I’ll have an interview from Nicole Sixx and four other ladies! I’ll also be posting each day a Character Spotlight where I’ll spotlight five of my favorite women comic characters.

At Comics Crux, I’m writing a Journey Into Manga and Anime Column which is geared towards those who are interested in getting into Manga and Anime as well as those like myself who have been out of the loop for a while but want to jump back in. I need you to send me your anime/manga artwork, AMV’s (Anime Music Videos), and anime/manga cosplay pics for me to pick my favorites and feature in my column each week. Email me taliadina@gmail.com. Comics Crux’s site launches in September but they’re on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+

Necrocalia is coming along slowly but surely. I wrote a six page origin story for one of the main characters and Steve’s working on the illustrations. So look for that soon! I’m also working on something secret for Necrocalia just keep your fingers crossed!

As always check out my Comicmanaics column on the Fanboy Buzz,  there will be more webcomic/comic spotlights and interviews with indie creators to come soon on Why Not Indie’s site as well.

I also do music album reviews and related articles over at Toonari Post too.

That’s all for now. More to come soon!

A Member of the Press

Evening folks! Here’s another update for ya!

Well I’m a member of the press. I’m a contributor for WhyNotIndie.com, Fanboybuzz.com and Toonari Post (which I will be writing articles soon).

I don’t get paid but that’s fine because I get to attend cons for free (I just have to pay for travel expenses), I get to read comics for free (especially if they’re comics that haven’t been yet), and I get to improve my writing. So that’s great for me. 

I have my own column on Fanboybuzz.com entitled Comicmaniacs (http://www.fanboybuzz.com/category/columns/comicmaniacs/). In my column I do Classic Comic Review and Comicmanaic Spotlight so check it out. 

I’m still working on my comic book ideas. I’ve created three blogs for three out of the seven of my ideas here on Tumblr so please check them out. Here are the links:

Defect:

http://myskateboardismymjolnir.tumblr.com/

Tzedek:

http://tzedekcomic.tumblr.com/

Necrocalia:

http://necrocalia.tumblr.com/

 In the future I hope that I can get these three ideas published and into stores. I’m looking for an artist or artists for these ideas! So far, Defect had a 4 page story published in Womanthology: Heroic so check that out! Tzedek will have a 3 page story published in The Gathering Comic in April 2013. 

Alright so that’s what’s been going on. I hope I can attend some more cons in the future. I also need to make business cards. I’m on a budget so any ideas?

Okay that’s all for now!

Later!

Womanthology Book Signing, Necrocalia, and other updates

Hello all! Happy Thorsday and I wanted to welcome new followers to the blog! Well I haven’t written any updates in a while, so here we go!

Womanthology Book Signing!

This Saturday (which also happens to be the first day of Pesach (Passover) and my 30th birthday) at Acme Superstore (http://www.acme-superstore.com/)  in Longwood, FL at 1pm, @RachelPandich, @JenMercerArt, and I will be signing Womanthology books. So if you’re in the area please stop by and support this amazing book!

Necrocalia:

This is one of my projects that I hope to be published in the future (hopefully near future). Right now I’m working on back story/outline for it. So far so good, it’s really fun trying to create new worlds, alien races, zombie apocalypse, etc.  It’s sci-fi and horror.

I’m also looking for an artist for this project, if you’re interested please contact me taliadina@gmail.com and let me know how much you charge. So here’s the tagline:

Two female super soldiers who are genetically bio-engineered alien-monster-humanoid hybrids must protect what’s left of the living from the zombie apocalypse that’s ravaging the Adayo galaxy by the harbinger of death known only as Necrocalia.

I could see Necrocalia being a webcomic and a comic book series and graphic novel.

Other updates:

I finish writing my three page script for The Gathering Comic and I sent it off to the  editor.  This story will be debuting Tzedek and will be out April 2013! 

Speaking of The Gathering, they’ve opened submissions (http://www.grayhavencomics.com/submit/) again for writers and artists so if you want to get your story out there, submit! 

Third’s time the charm as I have submitted my three page story for reviewing. Hopefully things will go better this time.

I’m still writing for WhyNotIndie.com you can check out my latest articles there as well as those of my fellow WNI contributors! This is a great site dedicated to creator-owned comics and I’m very grateful to be writing for them!

Yes so those are the updates. I hope you all have an excellent week! Happy Pesach (Passover), Happy Easter! Happy Birthday to everyone who shares a birthday on April 7th-Jackie Chan, @Jody_Houser  and those who have a birthday this week and the rest of the month of April! 

I’ll catch you on the flip side!

Tali