There is a new home for some really great forums that went live not long ago.
It’s a group of people that I enjoy not only for their work but for their honest and no bullshit approach to life.
The forum is called STANDARD ATTRITION and can be found RIGHT HERE.
Even if you don’t post, it’s worth the time to go and read.
The creators involved are:
Jason Aaron (seenhere with Tony Moore)
Writer of SCALPED, THE OTHER SIDE, GHOST RIDER
Brian Azzarello
Writer of 100 BULLETS, LOVELESS, DEATHBLOW
Cliff Chiang
Artist on GREENDALE, GREEN ARROW & BLACK CANARY, ARCHITECTURE & MORTALITY
Jock
Artist on HELLBLAZER: PANDEMONIUM, THE LOSERS, GREEN ARROW: YEAR ONE
David Lapham
Writer/artist of YOUNG LIARS, SILVERFISH, STRAY BULLETS
G. Willow Wilson
Writer of CAIRO, AIR
Brian Wood
Writer of DMZ, NORTHLANDERS, DEMO, LOCAL
Each one of these people is very well represented on my bookshelves and in my long boxes. They are all really talented. And most of them smell nice too.
So go! GO! Go now and support these groovy people.
And then go and buy books with their names on them.
The best thing you can do to show support to your favorite writers and authors and artists is buy the work they do.
Alert the media! It’s official!
Stuart Neville, my Prince of Darkness, and the writer formerly known as “Conduit,” has landed an agent – and not just any agent – but literary powerhouse and legend, Nat Sobel.
His agency, Sobel Weber Associates, New York, represents a few scribes you might have heard of: James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid), Joseph Wambaugh (The Choirboys, The Onion Field, Hollywood Station), Pulitzer winner Richard Russo (Nobody’s Fool, Empire Falls, Bridge of Sighs), F.X. Toole (Rope Burns – adapted for the screen as the multi Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby – and Pound for Pound), Robert Jordan (the Wheel of Time series), Tim Dorsey (the Serge Storms series), and many more.
Oh, Nat also loves him some cats. My kind of guy.
And how did Stuart get on the Uber agent’s radar? I’m going to steal a bit of Stuart’s thunder and reveal to my blog peeps that Mr. Sobel scouted him on the Internet. That’s right – a big name agent was scouring the online crime magazines and plucked our man from obscurity. (of course I’ve been singing Stuart’s praises loud and clear since last fall when I first read his work in Agent Nathan’s Bransford’s writing contest). To those of you that don’t believe agents are poking around the world wide web looking for The Next Big Thing – here’s your proof. Here. Is. Your. Proof.
So do stop by and give a big shout out to the literary world’s best and brightest rising star!
http://conduitnovel.blogspot.com/
*shake my booty*
Having already read Stuarts’s manuscript (it already holds the distinction of being only one of four books I liked well enough to finish this year) GHOSTS OF BELFAST, I can tell you it’s nothing by clover ahead for this blessed son of Northern Ireland.