by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 25, 2013 | About Writing
Since I will be writing a Wild Card graphic novel for Bantam books I have begun to really study this art form. Lucky for me I have an outstanding coach in this endeavor — I’ve got Len Wein the creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing among many other memorable characters. First some background. I tend not to buy individual issues of a comic. Partly because I don’t have a comic shop anywhere near me, and I don’t think to mail order them. They were also not part of my youth. My parents...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 16, 2013 | About Writing
I’ve always like Ken Follett’s spy novels, and THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH had been recommended by my architect husband and several other people. So I downloaded it onto my IPad mini and started reading. I was struck initially at the rather pedestrian, workman-like quality of the prose, and the rather arm’s length almost omniscient POV despite, supposedly, being in a particular character’s POV, and I wasn’t sure I was going to actually finish the book. But then I...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 29, 2013 | About Writing, TV & Movies
SMASH the NBC show about the trials and tribulations of bringing a show to Broadway was, alas, cancelled at the end of their second season. I really loved the show, but then I’m a singer and have performed in a lot of broadway shows with the New Mexico Civic Light Opera. I fell in love with the dreadful, womanizing director played by Jack Davenport, it was a great nuanced performance. The two young women had amazing voices, and I enjoyed and bought a lot of the music from BOMBSHELL....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 28, 2013 | The Craft of Writing
I just finished reading Daniel Abraham’s third installment, THE TYRANT’S LAW, in the Dagger and the Coin series. This is a terrific novel and just continues to up the stakes and tension from the first two novels. I adore the characters, particularly Clara. I love the fact that banking and the role of money plays such an integral part in the plot. It’s rare that economics is mentioned much less analyzed in most science fiction or fantasy novels, but money is a superpower,...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 20, 2013 | Blog
Thought I’d just post a little update about what’s happening. I learned yesterday that a comic book proposal was selected to become a graphic novel. I’m really jazzed. Writing for comics is like doing a screenplay, but without the budgetary limitations. More on the actual comic as more details are locked down. I’m working on a novelette set in the universe of my urban fantasy series. It’s going to be fun — a raid on fairyland or the Fey, and it will tie...
