I am a writer, editor, and web consultant who works with marketing companies, web development and IT agencies, magazines, websites, and other organizations. I help clients develop and refine messages, ideas, and businesses through precise, creative writing, accurate grammar, and cutting edge web consulting.
I am available for freelance projects in any of these areas, and also in writing or editing fiction, comics, and graphic novels.
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Remember those submissions I mentioned a little while back? Well, count at least one of them as a success. I’ve sold my first ever comic script (I’ve published a bunch, but no one paid me for them). Sometime in the future (not sure when yet), I’ll have an 8-page story in Boom Studios’ Cthulhu Tales anthology series. Very exciting! More as I know it.
I mentioned back in June that I’d put some book and comics submissions out into the world. No word on some yet, a few rejections on others. Still, the dude abides.
As of now, I’ve got a short comic script in with the editor of an established publisher and am about to start sending out a second set of book proposals (same book) and a comic miniseries proposal, with art by the truly awesome Shane Oakley, to various publishers.
Wish me even more luck!
My webcomics anthology, Split Lip, is now available at Wowio. Wowio is an interesting business: they provide free PDF downloads (in the U.S. right now. Expansion to Canada and Europe is planned for this year) that are ad supported and pay and share of the ad revenue to the authors of the PDFs.
I’ve compiled Split Lip into issues and added sketches, script excerpts, and even a story you can’t find anywhere else to them.
If you download the PDFs, which are free, remember, you’ll earn a royalty for me and my artists and help ensure that there’s more Split Lip in the future. And, since the downloads are free, it’s not like it’ll cost you anything.
So, want to give us a download? We’d appreciate it.
One of the major tests of the quality of SEO work performed by consultants is whether they’re able to achieve #1 or #2 rankings at major search engines through organic placement on keywords valuable to their clients. I’m happy to announce today that I’ve achieved #1 or #2 ranking at all three major search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - for a client near and dear to my heart: myself.
Over the past 18 months or so, I’ve conducted an informal organic SEO campaign to try to get my webcomic series Split Lip ranked on the keywords “horror web comic” and “horror web comics,” two keywords dead on the money for the series. As of this week, I noticed that Split Lip had the following rankings on these keywords:
At Google
horror web comics - #1 for Split Lip [screenshot]
horror web comic - #1 for Split Lip [screenshot]At Yahoo
horror webcomic - #2 for Split Lip [screenshot]At MSN
horror web comic - #2 for Split Lip [screenshot]
I also have top five rankings on some related keywords. I hope to be able to share top-two results on those keywords soon.
Negative Burn #13, the presitgious comics anthology that is publishing my story “Headin’ South,” drawn by Kyle Strahm, is on sale now. This is the cover, so you know what to be looking for when you, no doubt, rush out immediately to buy it. Look for it at your local comics stores and other places where fine comics are sold.
It’s very exciting to be in Negative Burn, which has featured some of the best comics talents of the last 20 years. It’s great company to be in.
Now this is good news to get over a weekend! I found out last night that “Headin’ South,” the western horror comic done by me and soon-to-be-superstar artist Kyle Strahm for my Split Lip webcomic, has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the comics anthology Negative Burn.
Negative Burn is a legendary anthology which published early work by some of the biggest names in comics today in its first run during the 80s and 90s. The relaunched series has been around a couple of years and has maintained the level of quality set in its first incarnation.
Needless to say, this is very exciting for us. More details on this as we have them.
My first comic published by someone other than me.
Title: Dark Matter
Artist: Jeff Palmer
Publication: Variants #2
Publisher: Variance Press
Published: December 2005
Format: 8-page story
Story synopsis: On a lonely road in the dark Kansas night, a man stops to pick up a woman walking along the side of the road. He wants to help her, but she resists. After the comet creases the night sky and strange sounds seep out of the radio, she changes her mind and asks him to take her to his home. There, things happen that he never could have expected when he stopped to pick her up. “Dark Matter” is a story about an ordinary astronomy teacher’s encounter with the extraordinary. It’s about the incredible things that make up the world but are hidden to most people. It is about the things we know are there, but can never see.