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.

[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...

[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?

[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.

[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?