The Collingswood Book Festival returns for its lucky 13th anniversary this October, to fill the streets of this quaint New Jersey town with book lovers, and StarWarp Concepts will be making its debut appearance there! Booth #24 will be our home for the day; as always, look for the distinctive Pandora Zwieback banner.
Unfamiliar with the Collingswood Book Festival? Well, to quote the festival’s site:
The 13th Annual Collingswood Book Festival makes a triumphant return as bibliophiles converge in this historic South Jersey town to celebrate everything about the written word. The Collingswood Book Festival is a big literary event that exudes small-town, friendly ambience. Festival-goers will have an opportunity to stroll more than six blocks of Haddon Avenue filled with nationally recognized authors/speakers for adults and children, as well as booksellers, storytellers, poetry readings, workshops, exhibitors and performance stages. All events are free.
The Collingswood Book Festival takes place—rain or shine—on Saturday, October 3, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information, including travel directions, visit the CBF website.
Hope to see you there!
Today is the sixth International Read Comics in Public Day. Started in 2010 by Brian Heater and Sarah Morean, it’s an annual appreciation of comic books and graphic novels, demonstrated by folks not afraid to celebrate their reading choices by taking them out in public. For some reason, though, Heater and Morean seem to have abandoned their literacy campaign—the RCiP Facebook page hasn’t been updated since 2012—but it’s such a nifty idea that we here at ’Warp Central thought it was high time this event was revived…especially since we have comics of our own you could be reading today!
Tonight’s the night when the much-anticipated television series Fear the Walking Dead—a spinoff series to the hugely successful The Walking Dead—makes its debut on AMC. Set before the events of TWD, this prequel series will detail the early days and weeks of the zombie-virus outbreak, showing its spread across California as society falls apart and the streets fill with ambulatory corpses hungering for flesh. (If I remember my Walking Dead continuity correctly, this would be the period during which TWD’s lead character, Deputy Rick Grimes, lies in a coma in a Georgia hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound.)
Speaking of the walking dead, are you aware that I once wrote my own take on the zombie apocalypse, in the form of a short story? “Laundry Day” is the tale of a not-so-loveable guy named Josh Kosinki who, late one night, decides to take his growing pile of dirty clothes over to the local Laundromat—only to become an eyewitness to the start of a zombie uprising. It first appeared in 2007, in the Padwolf Books anthology The Dead Walk Again!, then was reprinted in Books of the Dead Press’s 2010 anthology, Best New Zombie Tales, Vol. 2. It garnered quite a bit of praise from reviewers:
Turns out Sects wasn’t there, but they did have a copy of Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast, Vol. 1, published by SWC in 2005 (our first graphic novel!). Written by me (of course) and illustrated by David C. Matthews (Heartstopper: The Legend of La Bella Tenebrosa, Satin Steele), it was a collection of the 1990s Lorelei series and covered the first half of her origin story (one of these days, I’ll have to consider finishing that up). Still, it’s always a pleasant surprise to find a StarWarp title in a comic shop—it shows that store owners really are aware of our efforts to turn out great projects. Thanks for the confidence booster, Silver Age!
Speaking of Pandora Zwieback, have you met the star of my StarWarp Concepts novel series The Saga of Pandora Zwieback? Pan is a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets an immortal shape-shifter named Annie that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see into Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world that exists right alongside the human world. You’ll find Pan in the following titles:
In case you were unaware of it, today is 
Speaking of Doctor Who, I’ve been a major fan since my high school days. How long ago was that? you ask. Well, the Fourth, played by Tom Baker is my Doctor. You do the math… 😉 Anyway, check out 
“There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive, somewhere beyond the heavens…”
At the start of this century, Battlestar Galactica had new novels written by Richard Hatch with Christopher Golden (then, later, with Stan Timmons, Alan Rogers, and Brad Linaweaver) for ibooks, inc. that followed the adventures of the original Galactica crew after the series was canceled. Apollo’s adopted son, Troy (formerly the annoying kid Boxey) had grown up, Starbuck had a daughter named Dalton, Adama had died, Apollo had became the new commander, and they continued looking for Earth. The fans loved the books—they were good, fun, space-opera stories—and so I got to thinking, What if there was more to the publishing license—say, a sort of expanded universe…?
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