Thursday, April 22, 2021

How Heavy Is A Hugo Award or What I Have Been Writing Lately?

 Ever so often I remember I have a blog and decide I should write something for it. I usually give out to myself but lately I have been doing a lot of writing elsewhere (that I am immensely proud of) so I thought I'd pop on here and let people know what I have been up to and where you can go see it.

JOURNEY PLANET

Always a delight to contribute to and now nominated for a Hugo Award for 2020 stuff. I am going to slightly brag about being part of it (in an ever so small way). My 2020 contributions are in:

I covered Magical Places in a previous post so I won't retread that. 

My contribution to The Future of Policing was a look at the NuWho alien race called the Judoon. I'm a big fan of the design and they are probably my favourite aliens from the Nu seasons. However, my lasting memory of my contribution to this issue will probably always be asking myself "why didn't I do Robocop??" (FYI - Nobody did Robocop). Reading the issue itself, I noted that multiple people covered my favourite author Philip K. Dick. I'm in the middle of reading "Flow My Tears" so I can excuse myself from not thinking of that but then Kenesha Williams covered "Minority Report" and well... suffice to say a writer's life is full of regret. The issue has an interesting variety of subjects for the science fiction fan.

The Star Wars issue covers everything after the Return of the Jedi and I instantly thought of the Dark Empire Trilogy, which is the comic book version of the new trilogy. Even though it is no longer canon, it is still worth checking out for Cam Kennedy's art alone. My piece may be a gateway drug to more Dark Horse stuff so be forewarned. On alternative topics, I could have covered the Crimson Empire trilogy, another excellent series, but I have no regrets. It is also worth reading. That one could actually be adapted to fit into the new Marvel continuity and the TV/movie universe. It has an interesting angle.

I have already completed one piece for 2021 which I will talk about when I can.

GCN MAGAZINE

In January I decided to reach out to GCN to see if they wanted an article on Irish queer comic creators. They liked my piece and I have worked on a variety of topics since then. I find it a more freeing than ICN which is more hampered by the Irish restriction (which is not a bad thing) and it has led my to take more notice of queer creators and media. This has been helpful as I try to figure out what I want to do with my own creative writing (more on that in a bit). 


My pieces so far:
I have another piece already in the queue and am constantly come up with more ideas (mostly to do with entertainment) and GCN seem to be happy to go with what 

COMICS

I am working on a story for an anthology that was funded through Kickstarter. The script is done and now we are at the art stage. I'm having great discussions with artist Brian Burke (who I worked with on my first comic book outing years ago). I am also working on my own longer length comic. It has always been my plan to work on a science fiction book but several influences have lead me to decide to make it a more personal work. It is in the research stage as I look at what other queer creators have had to say to see if I can come up with something a bit different.

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