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Jonathan Maberry NY Times Bestseller and 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner Website & Blog: jonathanmaberry.com JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award and Inkpot Award-winner, producer, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, is a hit Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES). And his young adult post-apocalyptic zombie series, ROT & RUIN, is in development for film by Alcon Entertainment. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Glimpse, the Dead of Night series, Glimpse, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Pine Deep series, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin books are being produced as webcomics for Webtoons. Jonathan is the Editorial Director of the new incarnation of Weird Tales Magazine. He is a board member of the Horror Writers Association and the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at jonathanmaberry.com
Started Writer’s coffeehouse support group for writers, now it’s in 19 cities.
Got advice early on from top writers.
Ray Bradbury gave him ten rules for writers.
He was son a a KKK leader. We discuss how it affected his life, how he recovered, how others who have bigoted, racist, hating parents can recover. He learned his values from comic books—Captain America, Fantastic Four and Black Panther (his talking about this landed him role of writing for the Black Panther comic book) And how he's woven that experience into his writing.
What is a framing story? What is run of the comic? What are the messages in VWars
Scary crispr gene editing
His favorite book, I Am Legend—none of the three movies based on it really did the job.
He used to teach martial arts, including teaching women, people with disabilities and the blind. Now, he does it through stories—showing how people facing great odds find the strength to stand up and fight with eyes open to the truth. For example, his Joe Ledger series
How does bottom-up apply in his work—study folklore to learn how different countries and cultures describe myths, like vampires.
Do a search for “topic name” and the word “expert”
Go to folklore departments in universities and ask for help
In California there’s the Science and Entertainment Exchange. Lincoln founded the Science and Technology exchange in 1863.
Three questions to ask experts:
Who else should I talk to?
What don’t I know enough about your field to even ask you?
What is the weirdest, strangest, most interesting thing happening in your field?
So, I go for it and ask Jonathan the second and third questions:
What don’t I know enough about your field to even ask you?
Writing is not competitive, most really successful writers are happy to help beginners.
What is the weirdest, strangest, most interesting thing happening in your field? Webtoon comic books formatted for mobile phones is huge—over 100 billion download already.
Jonathan Maberry NY Times Bestseller and 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner Website & Blog: jonathanmaberry.com JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award and Inkpot Award-winner, producer, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, is a hit Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES). And his young adult post-apocalyptic zombie series, ROT & RUIN, is in development for film by Alcon Entertainment. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Glimpse, the Dead of Night series, Glimpse, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Pine Deep series, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin books are being produced as webcomics for Webtoons. Jonathan is the Editorial Director of the new incarnation of Weird Tales Magazine. He is a board member of the Horror Writers Association and the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at jonathanmaberry.com
Started Writer’s coffeehouse support group for writers, now it’s in 19 cities.
Got advice early on from top writers.
Ray Bradbury gave him ten rules for writers.
He was son a a KKK leader. We discuss how it affected his life, how he recovered, how others who have bigoted, racist, hating parents can recover. He learned his values from comic books—Captain America, Fantastic Four and Black Panther (his talking about this landed him role of writing for the Black Panther comic book) And how he's woven that experience into his writing.
What is a framing story? What is run of the comic? What are the messages in VWars
Scary crispr gene editing
His favorite book, I Am Legend—none of the three movies based on it really did the job.
He used to teach martial arts, including teaching women, people with disabilities and the blind. Now, he does it through stories—showing how people facing great odds find the strength to stand up and fight with eyes open to the truth. For example, his Joe Ledger series
How does bottom-up apply in his work—study folklore to learn how different countries and cultures describe myths, like vampires.
Do a search for “topic name” and the word “expert”
Go to folklore departments in universities and ask for help
In California there’s the Science and Entertainment Exchange. Lincoln founded the Science and Technology exchange in 1863.
Three questions to ask experts:
Who else should I talk to?
What don’t I know enough about your field to even ask you?
What is the weirdest, strangest, most interesting thing happening in your field?
So, I go for it and ask Jonathan the second and third questions:
What don’t I know enough about your field to even ask you?
Writing is not competitive, most really successful writers are happy to help beginners.
What is the weirdest, strangest, most interesting thing happening in your field? Webtoon comic books formatted for mobile phones is huge—over 100 billion download already.
