One of Cupán Fae’s coping mechanisms for the pandemic was to run a book club. We focus on craft books for writing, rather than fiction, because our tastes vary once you step outside of Fantasy. I’ve previously discussed Save the Cat! Writes a Novel in my newsletter. Last night, we finished discussing The Anatomy of Prose by Sacha Black….
Way back in 2015, I was working on my Masters degree in Multimedia in Dublin City University. My thesis was a group assignment, to create something substantial using the skills we’d been taught in the two semesters of lectures. My team decided to make a web documentary on comic book culture in Ireland, having elected…
The day has finally arrived – Turning Roads has been sent to print! I finished up work on the book last night after spending all day Sunday in bed, taking my finalised order and using it to create the cover and the credits pages. Rich, from Comic Printing UK, had sent a template for the cover a…
A while ago, some friends and I got together on our regular Zoom call and decided to start a website together. Somehow, we acquired IrishComics.ie. The website will function as a shared blogging platform for Irish comic creators, acting as a home for webcomics. Our line-up is currently being revealed on our social media channels, but…
Many a year ago, I picked up a book on screenwriting called Save the Cat! – it’s been sitting on my bookshelf ever since, unread. Buying books and reading them are two separate hobbies. I was, of course, familiar with the name of the book then when Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody was suggested as…
Straight from the last campaign update, here’s where the production of the book stands so far: As well as that, I was interviewed by the Comic Book Yeti’s team about the book, the Irish comic scene, and spreadsheets. It’s a long interview, covering quite a broad spectrum of topics and includes some notes on tackling a…
On Sunday evening, just after dinner with my parents, we sat around my phone waiting for 8pm and the end of the Turning Roads Kickstarter. Cue the confetti. That was a long month, with more interviews than I’d ever done in a single year, and more engagement with people online than I’ve managed probably since I joined…
The first time I ever had anything close to a viral tweet was when I released the early version of the Comic Creator Finance Workbook. It was clumsy and not too pretty, but people found it helpful. This morning, I finally released what is effectively Version 2, split across several spreadsheets, and with others thrown…
A day after my last update on the book, we hit our first stretch goal and unlocked Declan Shalvey’s cover for Turning Roads. As you can imagine, I’ve been on a bit of an emotional high since then. Now I can finally show off the full-colour version of the cover that Declan created for the book. As…
I’m finishing up on @MotherFocloir today, after a week-long takeover about comics (Irish comics in particular!) I’ll be linking all my threads to my introductory tweet, which you can find here: I miss the Hurley Throne, and I’ll miss getting to tell lots of people about Irish comics constantly.