Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog, page 58

I had submitted something or other to DC at some point and was told that they couldn’t accept it because the character in question was already reserved for someone else’s use. Then I submitted something and was told that the character in question wasn’t “cool” enough.

So, I did something sort of cheeky and I’m surprised it worked at all — I sent in a list of characters I was interested in and said, basically, “Look, it would save us both a lot of time (and me a lot paper and stamps) if you would just check off the characters that are both considered ‘cool’ at the moment and are also unreserved for someone else’s use.”

In retrospect, it wasn’t the slickest move. But as you can see in the personal note jotted below…it worked.

To a degree. Yeah, I got my list, but twenty years later, twelve novels, and a New York Times bestseller…and I still haven’t gotten to write anything for DC Comics.

No, no, I’m OK — I just have something in my eye, is all.

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Best. Defense. Ever.

(From Legion of Super-Heroes #51, Oct. 1988. Written by Paul Levitz, art by Keith Giffen and Mike DeCarlo.)

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OK, so it’s not actually an interview with yours truly. It’s an interview with my co-author on the upcoming After the Red Rain, Peter Facinelli! See what he has to say about our mysterious new project, including some very nice words about me, a tiny hint about the book, and the secret of his beta readers!

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Ever wonder how a book cover is born? It doesn’t involve a Mommy Cover and a Daddy Cover, that’s for sure!

Melissa Walker interviewed me on her Cover Stories feature to talk about how I developed the cover to Unsoul’d. Here’s a bit:

I know just enough Photoshop to be dangerous, so I sort of put together a quick mock-up of what I wanted. And I hated it.

For more, check out the interview!

By astonishing coincidence, this is exactly what my wedding looked like.

(From All New Collectors’ Edition Vol. 7, #C-55, 1978. Written by Paul Levitz. Art by Mike Grell and Vince Colletta.)

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