Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog, page 59

Interview: Melissa Walker’s “Cover Stories”

Ever wonder how a book cover is born? It doesn’t involve a Mommy Cover and a Daddy Cover, that’s for sure!

Melissa Walker interviewed me on her Cover Stories feature to talk about how I developed the cover to Unsoul’d. Here’s a bit:

I know just enough Photoshop to be dangerous, so I sort of put together a quick mock-up of what I wanted. And I hated it.

For more, check out the interview!

Memory Monday: Pre-Honeymoon

By astonishing coincidence, this is exactly what my wedding looked like.

(From All New Collectors’ Edition Vol. 7, #C-55, 1978. Written by Paul Levitz. Art by Mike Grell and Vince Colletta.)

Today’s Tumblr – October 8, 2013

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

"amazing things can happen when you just wing it! Sometimes a character will come on stage earlier…"

I worked most of my life in the restaurant business so when I go into a restaurant I have high expectations because I know what's possible. When you read a book do you think you have higher expectations and you might be more critical?

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Today’s Tumblr – October 3, 2013

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"people are — for all intents and purposes — programmed by our popular culture to expect a certain…"

"I tend to gravitate towards difficult characters — people who are damaged or broken in some…"

"A story is not every single thing that happened; it’s every IMPORTANT thing that happened."

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The Thai Cover to I Hunt Killers

Here’s the cover that will greet readers of I Hunt Killers in Thailand.

Damn! That got dark pretty quick, didn’t it?

Interview: Maria V. Snyder

Maria V. Snyder read and loved Unsoul’d, so we took a few moments to chat about the book over on her site, where I say things like this:

I tend to gravitate towards difficult characters — people who are damaged or broken in some essential way that sets them off from the rest of us. The outcasts and the outsiders. Those are tough people to love, but I’m fascinated by them.

Go read the whole thing — you could win a free copy of the book!

Interview: Randall Banner Speaks!

So, here’s something fun: An interview with Randall Banner, the main character of Unsoul’d! Don’t worry — there are no spoilers within. Read it!

Today’s Tumblr – October 1, 2013

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"A relationship with an agent is a working relationship. You both have your roles, and while there is…"

"This had all the hallmarks of a promising Writin’ Feud, like the kind that killed Pappy Lyga back…"

"The iPhone alone outsells Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, perhaps the world’s two most famous…"

"LaSexy McAgent may be the hottest, coolest, top-sellingest agent in the biz, but if she only sells…"

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Interviewed by the Vampire

So, the news is now out: I am writing a new novel in collaboration with Peter Facinelli and Rob DeFranco.

Yes, that Peter Facinelli.

Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say:

Alvina Ling at Little, Brown has bought After the Red Rain, a YA novel from Twilight producer Peter Facinelli, Hollywood producer Rob DeFranco, and YA author Barry Lyga. The book is set in a future world of environmental collapse and mass poverty, where a mysterious boy named Rose discovers he possesses inhuman powers that can irrevocably change the lives of everyone on the planet.

I don’t have much more to contribute, other than that Peter and Rob are pretty much the antithesis of other “Hollywood guys” I’ve met in my career. I’m having a lot of fun working on my first-ever collaboration, and I think you guys will dig After the Red Rain. As is typical for my career, it’s nothing like anything else I’ve written.

The book won’t be out until Summer 2015 — y’all still have to read the last novel in the I Hunt Killers trilogy first!

Today’s Tumblr – September 26, 2013

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

"when people ask me, “How long should my book be?” I inevitably answer, “Long enough to tell the…"

"We fought as hard as we could in a fair and honest manner and we lost."

"Where one novel educates or enlarges the mental horizon of the reader, a hundred confirm his…"

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