The Whole Damn Thing

So about three months ago, a friend of mine (the illustrious Jennifer Minchin) told me about a Twitter hashtag contest: “You’re writing a book, right?”“Yeah.”“You should submit your pitch to the #PitMad tag on Twitter.”“OK.” At which point I promptly forgot about it until after the contest deadline had ended. […]

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

10 Jun, 2014 in Nightingale / The League Cycle tagged Cliffhanger Press / Magnificent / Nightingale / The League / writing by Anthony Karcz

So I find myself with some time in-between stages of my current WIP and I’m faced with a problem. I’m starting a story and I have an idea where it fits in to my universe as a whole; but I don’t know what piece it should belong to. Should I […]

What’s This?

4 Jun, 2014 tagged Magnificent / The League by Anthony Karcz

When I started this whole novel writing process a little less than a year ago, I only had the slightest of ideas what I wanted to do other than “just finish.” Now I’ve got over 44,000 words, with more stories still untold, and things are starting to get…interesting. Stay tuned.

44k

24 May, 2014 in Writing tagged Nightingale / The League by Anthony Karcz

My brain kept me up all night with a collection of dreams. I sit here desperately trying to hold on to their meaning, but all I’ve walked away with is a collection of absurd and silly images – a high-rise staircase constructed of a children’s climbing castle, a dentist that […]

Morning Fog

14 May, 2014 tagged dreams / Tom Selleck / writing by Anthony Karcz

20k! Woo-hoo! Reached a milestone in my first League novel today. The last time I hit 20k on any work of fiction that I wrote was…well…never. Let celebrate by serving up a portion, shall we?__The “room” that he had led Alyson to was actually her supervisor’s office, wide windows with […]

20,000 Words Reached!

20 Feb, 2014 in Writing tagged Magnificent / Nightingale / The League by Anthony Karcz

You might have noticed I upgraded my background recently. This is a portion of the amazing “Quint #1” cover by PJ McQuade. It’s based on Wolverine #1 and it is possibly the most perfect image EVER for a comic-centric blog where the URL and title consist of a Jaws quote […]

New Background! Quint Returns!

24 Jan, 2014 tagged I'll bring ya yer fish / Jaws / PJ McQuade / Quint / Site News by Anthony Karcz

Magnificent is one of the heroes that started off this whole venture. He’s old. Not as old as some think; but probably a bit older than most suspect. Think Captain America; but without all that well-adjusted Apple Pie attitude. The Erudite, on the other hand came to me while driving home for […]

Friday Fiction: Magnificent Takes a Walk

24 Jan, 2014 in Fiction / Writing tagged Friday Fiction / Magnificent / The Erudite by Anthony Karcz

Welcome to The Backlog in which I comb through my ridiculously long library of unread titles (and some slightly more recent comics) and ruminate on issues that have been out for years/decades. This week, I tear into Avenging Spider-Man #1, which has a heavy Red Hulk presence. He was in […]

The Backlog: Avenging Spider-Man #1

20 Jan, 2014 in Comics / Pop Culture tagged Avengers / Avenging Spider-Man / Backlog / Jog Hippies / Marvel / Red Hulk / Spider-Man / Spidergirl sideboob by Anthony Karcz

The Asian leaned against the doorway of the Hall of Dinosaurs and watched as heroes got chewed on by a rampaging T-Rex. Green, scaly – it looked like her little brother’s rubber toys. Hell he’d probably even set it upon his Magnificent action figure at some point. That was likely […]