Great news! My Writer’s Plan website has launched! For this new website, all the blogs I’d written on this site about business planning for writers have been pulled together into a single resource for writers. The site includes an online guidebook and takes writers through ten steps to build their own plan. I’ve included three templates: the overall Writers Plan, with mission/vision, objectives, timelines and more; a personal promotion plan; and a project promotion plan.
My hope is that writers who feel they want to move their careers forward, but aren’t making progress, can apply tools that marketers, communicators and strategists use for business. Business plans can become very complicated; I’ve simplified things in my templates to keep things manageable. As time goes on, I plan to add a catalogue of goals, objectives and specific tactics to serve as starting points.
On to other recent news…
My latest comic, Traveller, is now published with Zeros 2 Heroes Media, as part of an anthology project called Manga Memoirs. Traveller is the true story of me and my friend, Sack. We were buddies in elementary school, then I moved away.
For most of the friends I’ve moved away from, and there have been lots, that would be the end of the story. Not so with Sack.
As with Rip Current, the production process has been amazing and the artists working on the project are bringing fabulous magic and talent to my humble story. Be sure to click through to the Manga Memoirs link to read the full anthology, or scroll down a bit to skip past the other stories and read Traveller. (Make sure you go back and read the others though… there’s a fabulous range in terms of art and story!)
The publication of my comic, Rip Current, is still big news. It’s been live now for just over a year. The great folks at Zeros 2 Heroes Media have built an ENTIRE COMMUNITY, just for Rip Current! That means you can read the comic, become a fan, send in fan art, fan fiction, or just blog about what you think about the story.
If you head over to check it out, remember, there are 20 other comics at the same site, freshly published and ready for reading, just like mine. There are some great books there, so be sure to check them out.
Right now, the folks at Z2HMedia are working hard to move these comics into other properties, like tv series, films, games… I’d sure like to see Rip Current end up as a series. I think there’s room in the market for an epic action/romance that’d appeal to teenage girls.