Facebook flog - Mar 21 2013

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Link: Mar 21 2013, 6:21
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Wow, guys, thanks for all your answers on what Nathaniel should use as a pet name for Anita. I've skimmed them, but truly reading nearly 1,500 comments may have to wait until after I finish copy edits. *laughs* Seriously, overwhelmed by your enthusasim and how much you love my imaginary friends. A few of you suggested that Nathaniel wouldn't have a pet name for Anita & since nothing has worked, I'm going with that for this book. I'll look over your suggestions & post my thoughts later. We can use the nickname in a later book, if I find one I lke.


Link: Mar 21 2013, 14:27
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

I will be at St. Louis ComiCon this Saturday only. Not only will I be doing a Q & A, but I thought I might read from first chapter of Affliction either before, or after some questions. I can't remember the last time I read at a con, but I thought you guys might enjoy it. Also, we are looking for an artist to help us do Lunatic Cafe as a graphic novel. Before someone asks, Brett Booth is currently under contract at DC, so we can't use him, but him being unaviable means some other artist has a chance to come play. Show Jon & I your samples, and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine, and lets do this.

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

Also, we are looking for an artist to help us do Lunatic Cafe as a graphic novel. Before someone asks, Brett Booth is currently under contract at DC, so we can't use him, but him being unaviable means some other artist has a chance to come play.

I'd ask "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" but no, I double-checked on her twitter and she is seriously hitting up her fanbase to be her new comic artists. But rather than drawing it out into an agonising fifteen issue series, they're just going to straight up adapt the book as one graphic novel. As published by Penguin, not Marvel.

Show Jon & I your samples, and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine, and lets do this.

Considering that she blew off one book last year and needed an extension on her current book in order to make the July drop...this is a fucking joke.

Dear god this is such a horror show. I need popcorn.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

"Show Jon and I your samples"?

.....

No. Just no.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I would have thought her publisher would be responsible for finding artists for the graphic novel adaption. I can't really imagine a Big Six house like Penguin letting an author having that much power/control.

So much WTF on this.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

[has mostly recovered from the egregiously bad grammar]

I'm half-inclined to think that maybe the publisher isn't interested in doing more comics and she's pursuing it herself? That's the only explanation I can come up with, except I can't imagine how she still has the rights to the text.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

But no, she's saying on Twitter that she's got all the rights to the characters and her world and it's going through Penguin. That last part I knew about because the Marvel contract was only for the first three books and I had no idea Penguin even did graphic novels. They have the Mercy Thompson GN adaption, so it makes some sort of sense to have Anita there.

I'm just holding onto the hope that the Lunatic Cafe adaption isn't as protracted or painful as the previous three books. Because LKH has zero understanding as to how comics even work.

[raven7601.livejournal.com]

How stupid are her fans? Do they honestly think this is how professional artists are found for manga novels? I can't recall any other author hitting their fanbase up to become an artist. Perhaps she'll start posting ads on-line as well? An annoying flash advertisement...

[avalonnocturne.livejournal.com]

"How stupid are her fans?"

That's a rhetorical question, right?

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

"and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine"

That's a joke right? Like, haha LKH is soooo bad at deadlines, we'll be better, lulz.

Right?

[raven7601.livejournal.com]

it certainly sounds like a joke.

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

It definitely sets the bar low for the new 'artist' so yeah for that. ;)

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

...and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine...

I, like everyone else here, lost it right there. Good show, LKH. For a second there, you had me going.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure there will be plenty of artists going around ComiCon, but those of them that are worth their salt will have their own booths and will not be touching your tripe with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole.

Well, shit. I'll be in St. Louis this Saturday and Sunday. I wish I could afford ComiCon. Oh well, not interested in going if LKH is one of the big names there...

*looks at the site*

Oh SHIT. Now I REALLY wish I could afford it. Cries. Maybe next year... because wow. I'm kind of starstruck by those names.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my friend writes webcomic, and it's just small time stuff, but even he and his colorist have a booth this weekend. I was thinking of going but it's Palm Sunday weekend and work is going to be insane for the next week and a half.

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

I want to go, but I'm broke. My cousin is getting confirmed on Sunday, so she's having a party after.

Ah, well. I have other things to look forward to.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, confirmation Sunday! Sooo many confirmation cakes at my bakery. My mom and I are going to church Saturday night so we don't have to sit through the Confirmation service on Sunday since we have a lot of confirmands at our church...

I'm broke as well anyway so I'll be sitting at home catching up on TV shows.

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

Ugh... I'm just hoping that there aren't so many confirmands in her class. I honestly wouldn't even be going to church if my parents weren't demanding it of me, and if it wasn't her confirmation. I've grown up Lutheran, with extremely conservative, right-wing parents who practically forced the Bible/Christianity/doctrine/religion down my throat from birth. So it's gotten to the point I'm agnostic with Lutheran leanings. And just don't want to go to church ever. Also I'd rather see my long-distance boyfriend.

I will be attending Confirmation service, then my cousin's party. And then lying to my parents about where I'm spending the night, even though I'm 23 and not 15, so I can see said LDR.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Its possible that a pro will be at the con and not have a booth. However they will be interviewing her as much as she will. They will ask questions maybe ask for char outlines or script bits so they can draw her chars and get a better idea on how they will turn out.

That's pretty common. An artist will get a list of characters and a short scene and that is his interview.

Handing in samples to someone at a con randomly works..

[c-l-craft.livejournal.com]

Yes because I'm sure there is a professional level graphic arists in her fan base who is completely unattached to a company and is just waiting with baited breath to do a shit ton of work for probably very little pay and even less respect! But seriously, does she have any idea how to be professional? Why not just make her fans aware that they were looking for an artist in case any of them wanted to get in touch with the publisher?

Also, am I the only one who thought that she stopped doing readings because there was so little she could actually read without making her character sound horrible or it being porn? Being it's harder to deny bad writing when your actually reading it versus just seeing it on the printed page. Unless it grammar, but we already know that she fails grammar forever.

[duamuteffe.livejournal.com]

Okay, the only reason I can think of to pull an artist directly from your fanbase is that you have decided to handle the project yourselves and you want someone who will be so starstruck that they will work for little or no pay and won't notice or care that they're getting a bad deal. Which is pretty crappy.
Also the deadlines thing made me lol.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

and be as serious about your deadlines as I am about mine

So, ignore them, then, and turn in a load of crap at the last minute with blank spaces saying NOTE ANITA'S HAIR TO BE FILLED IN LATER WHEN I DECIDE EXACTLY HOW I WANT TO DRAW THE CURLS?

[zombiexbunny.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Oh my god.

Liefeld + LKH would produce some kind of comic that induces Cthulhu-esque levels of madness upon all those who gaze upon its pages. And I want it.

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. She writes like he draws, pouches, weapons, boobies, and bad anatomy everywhere!