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Next Big Thing: The Face of Devastation

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

TL;DR: Giant robots and poetry together at last for the first time the way you demanded it. Keywords: Giant robots, Transformers, poetry, John Warwicker Word count: 1,293 words Just before Christmas I got contacted by David Prater about participating in…

Tagged with: alicia sometimes, david prater, derek motion, devastator, grant balfour, john warwicker, klare lanson, poetry, transformers, tricia lockwood
Posted in i would like to recommend these people's writing, my talented friends, poetry, the writing process

Why do you write poetry? – Grant Balfour

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Adam Ford — 2 Comments ↓

I asked a bunch of poets the above question. I’ll post their answers until I run out or get distracted. Grant Balfour says: I write poems because it reminds me of writing songs and I write songs because I got…

Tagged with: grant balfour, guild of scientific troubadors
Posted in my talented friends, poetry, why do you write poetry?

Monsters vs Dinosaurs

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Adam Ford — 6 Comments ↓

I’ve been working with the amazing Cameron Baker to put together a pitch proposal for a picture book (which would make us picture book pitchers I guess – sorry about that) about monsters and dinosaurs playing games together and the…

Tagged with: ankylosaurus, australovenator, baba yaga, cameron baker, children's books, cthulu, Frankenstein, harpy, medusa, parasaurolophus, picture books, ramphorynchus, shunosaurus, sphinx, stegosaurus, triceratops, vampire, velociraptor, werewolf
Posted in my talented friends, picture books, the writing process, writing

Back in rehab

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Adam Ford — 3 Comments ↓

I’ve got some comics up on the Comic Artist Rehab blog this month. I’ve signed up to post four panels every four days for the next four weeks, which works out to a total (I think) of twenty-eight panels, or…

Tagged with: Amber Carvan, comic artist rehab, comics, Miss Helen, nicola hardy, The Godlings
Posted in comics, my talented friends, people who are nice enough to publish me

Torpedo 6: The Bullet

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Adam Ford — 1 Comment ↓

The latest output from those avian simians at Falcon vs. Monkey is Torpedo 6, aka The Bullet. It’s chockers with good comic love (and the occasional short story) by many excellent comickal types from around the globe. Standouts for me…

Tagged with: chris flynn, comics, eric dando, falcon vs. monkey, jeffrey brown, literary journals, mandy ord, michael fikaris, neale blanden, oslo davis, peader thomas, tim molloy, torpedo
Posted in comics, my talented friends, people who are nice enough to publish me, reflected glory

Sleepers has a blog!

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Adam Ford — 1 Comment ↓

Wherein Lou S. and Zoe D., the brains trust (well, the everything really) behind Sleepers Publishing talk turkey about books and stuff. In weekly video instalments. It’s called The 21st Century Bookshow and it’s fun!

Tagged with: 21st century bookshow, louise swinn, sleepers, video, zoe dattner
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Neale Blanden has a blog.

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Neale Blanden has a blog. With stuff like this on it. That is all.

Tagged with: astro boy, comics, neale blanden
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