So long 2023, hello 2024…
Where I recap 2023, include a video interview, and talk about what’s to come in 2024
2023 - what a year. A solid year for releases, as you can see from the image below:
ThunderBoom tops the list, of course. Followed by the return to print of Dominion Jack in Exciting Comics and a special anniversary edition of Growing Up Enchanted, in colour and in hardcover for the first time. Even dipped into the world of audio plays with a relationship comedy called Taste Test.
It was a nice feeling having so much new material coming out regularly this year. New markets for older material like DJ and Enchanted while getting first impressions and excellent feedback around ThunderBoom from fans of all ages, whether it’s kids, educators or parents. Happy to hear it from everyone online or in person.
For those interested in numbers…I wrote or edited 589 scripted pages this year over 12 projects. Way above my page a day yearly goal of 365 scripted pages and a new personal high!
A Video Interview…
Jason DeHart had me on his Words, Images £ Worlds podcast again, this time for a video interview (last time was audio only) covering storytelling, creativity, and my works like ThunderBoom, some of my other past & current works, along with what’s to come in 2024…
2024…
So, what’s to come next year? Right now, the only definite for release is my sci-fi noir / love story from Markosia called Asteroid Adrift. By me, Marcello Bondi and Riccardo Bevilacqua. That should be out early in the spring.
After that, nothing with a solid release date. Yet. I have another Dominion Jack short story landing in Exciting Comics later this year. And I have more new adventures on tap. Including team ups for Dominion Jack with other superheroes and superhero universes. One planned with Mark Shainblum’s Northguard and another planned with Ben Dunn and his Ninja High School superhero universe. And I want to do more! I think it would be fun for Dominion Jack to meet and visit as many other universes as possible. Plus I also want to continue where his Book 1 stories left off after these team ups are done.
I also have some non-Dominion Jack superhero stories in the works and hope to have some progress on that front later in 2024.
I continue to look for a new home for Muse’s Motel and I will be pitching a new chapter of Take 2 shortly as the new pitch art is nearly complete for that.
On the kids book publishing side of things, nothing solid at the moment. Though I do have pitches out to a few publishers and one that garnered interest, while moving slowly, looks promising as it develops.
We’ll see how ThunderBoom continues to perform in 2024 as well. And see where that leads for future volumes or editions. Fingers crossed that all the positive feedback received in 2023 (including being part of the CCBC’s Best Books Fall list and being a recommended book for the NCTE’s award for Outstanding Children’s Fiction!) continues in 2024!
And with that, I wish all of you a Happy New Year! Thank you for reading and/or subscribing. Here’s to an awesome 2024 for all of us!!!
No free comics this month but I promise, as my New Year’s resolution, not to repeat that for the rest of the year’s posts! :)