Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog, page 64

Another day, another interview! Today, discussing a range of issues, from why I interlinked the Brookdale Books to crossing over into adult.

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I Hunt Killers was recently published in Italy, where it goes under the title Mio Padre Serial Killer, a nice little intralinguistic bit of literalism there.

Thriller Cafe, an Italian site devoted to (take a guess) thrillers interviewed me. If you can read Italian, check it out!

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So… Batman’s way of thinking is “crud,” eh? Man oh man, it’s gonna be awkward around the Batcave for a while…

(From New Teen Titans Annual #2, 1983. Written by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez. Art by Pérez and Pablo Marcos.)

Those of you who enjoy This Week in Rejection! should check out this piece about rejection from the inestimable Kirk Douglas…

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A good lesson here…

When aspiring authors hear something like, “I’m sorry, but I’m just not passionate enough about this project to take it on,” they tend to take that very personally. But it’s not a judgment on your work. It’s a sober-minded distinction, a reminder that ultimately this is a business of perspectives and subjectivity. “Not passionate enough” does not equal “you suck.” It equals, “It’s not my cup of tea.” Period. Full stop.

A lot of folks also get bent out of shape by the “not passionate enough” argument because they feel that the commercial potential of their work is so obvious and so enormous that passion shouldn’t matter. “I don’t care if you’re passionate, you Philistine! Don’t you want to make gobs and gobs of money? Aren’t you passionate about that?”

Again: This business is subjective. You need and want an agent (or, indeed, an editor) who is as in love with your book as you are, someone who will take care of it, look out for it, shepherd it safely through the dangerous valleys and gullies of the publishing world.

Look at it this way: Would you rather have a babysitter who cares deeply for your child…or just someone willing to take your money?

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

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You know, up until relatively recently, pretty much every male superhero was at least something of a male chauvinist pig.

But, man! How the hell did Green Arrow ever get laid?

(From Justice League of America #226, May 1984. Written by Gerry Conway; art by Chuck Patton and Frank McLaughlin.)