Bloody Waters Redux
If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that the first release from Argonautica Press, my new imprint with...
Voyage of the Argos
So by now you’ve seen the news about my new publishing venture, Argonautica Press, in cahoots with my mate Jason Fischer. This is basically the two of us teaming up to take control of our respective backlists and, I guess you’d say, side-lists. Or you could put it this way: we’re self-publishing our books under a collective banner. Fisch and I have been discussing this for a good couple of years now. I’m not sure but I think it was JF.1’s idea to self-publish some work, initially, and I barged in and demanded he let me participate as well. So...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE ARGOS SAILS
PRESS RELEASE – NO EMBARGO Authors Jason Fischer and Jason Franks are pleased to announce the launch of their exciting new collaborative publishing venture, Argonautica Press. Dedicated to reprinting their best known works as well as new projects, Argonautica Press is launching with the immediate re-release of Jason Franks’ Aurealis Award shortlisted occult rock’n’roll novel, Bloody Waters. Jason Franks said “I was mostly known as a comics writer when Bloody Waters first came out, and it provided me with my first real introduction to the prose writing community. I had a terrible lack of confidence and I weaseled out of...
Holiday Reads!
I’m not much of an Xmas guy. My family never celebrated it growing up and neither did my wife’s. But I do look forward to the holidays, particularly because they give me a chance to read and write. And so I thought I’d share some of the stuff I’ve enjoyed best this year, as well as the top of my To-Be-Read pile with you. Best of the Year The Game Bird, Aidan Walsh Aidan’s debut novel, the Game Bird, is a nautical adventure set in what feels a bit like our 19th century, but is in fact a fantasy world populated...
Stan
I never met Stan Lee. Closest I came was being shoved out of the way by his security detail when I nearly tripped over him in a crowded aisle at San Diego Comic Con in 2010. I am glad, in retrospect, that those guys stopped me from treading on him because he was tiny and he looked a lot more frail than he does on the big screen. But I did sit opposite his booth at the first Melbourne Oz Comic Con and I can tell you this much about him: he made people love comics. First and only con...