Since so much of Jacob's time is spent working on his one property 365 Infantry, it seems fair to assume that he might feel creatively stifled. I'd suspect he doesn't get to stretch his legs into other worlds, but he assures me that despite its specificity, the world of 365 Infantry is diverse enough to let him create whatever he likes. In addition, he spends plenty of time working in other genres, we just don't get to see them as of yet.
From 365 Infantry we drift to another big project Jacob has been a part of, Anvil Magazine. Anvil is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine put out by Rich at ironage.media. The magazine is an independent approach to releasing poetry, short story, and art much like the magazines of the past such as Heavy Metal and Strange Tales. The first issue is currently shipping and the second crowdfunding campaign is just around the corner.
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Making Newspapers Worth It In Book Marketing! #ironage #indiecomics
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Anthologies Are Force Multipliers In Audience Growth With Cirsova #ironage #indiecomics #indieauthors
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October #Horror Challenge. My 60-Second #moviereview of The Descent.
Day 10/31 #31dayhorrorchallenge #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysOfHorror
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Drawing the episode to a close Jacob gives us his tips for other creatives. His first bit of advice is to build a consistent brand identity. Jacob stresses consistency in quality, planning, and voice so your audience knows what they'll be getting no matter what you're endeavor is. Point two is to be open to opportunities and engage with people personally. The second point is a fantastic way to pursue the first. The more opportunities you take the larger you build your presence, and the more honest it is the farther it can carry you without you undermining yourself.
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Iron Age Vs Corporate Comics #ironage #indiecomics
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As the conversation carries on, we talk about H.P. Lovecraft and what drew Jason into his world. Jason was a late bloomer, discovering Lovecraft after years of playing The Call Of Cthulhu RPG by Chaosium. Lamenting how few modern horror writers seem to understand what Lovecraft did, we spend some time nerding out about the movie The Ritual, one of the few modern horror flicks to capture that Lovecraftian feel.
After a quick chat about stories in general, Jason digs into the circumstances that led him to begin writing his own. Over several years and a missed start or two, Jason honed his craft and began submitting to publishers. Unfortunately, Jason came up in the Sad Puppies drama and quickly recognized a need to look outside the mainstream system to find his market.
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Talking about the YA Fantasy genre in general, Speculates that she believes more of her readers are young women. I tend to like more killing in a book than my wife does for instance so this checks out as far as my own anecdotal research. I remember YA fiction feeling juvenile even when I was of the appropriate. Tiara just thinks it's to do with the type of story itself. Women are just more drawn to fantasy for whatever reason.
Since Tales of Alexandria Stecklar is an ongoing series, I have to ask Tiara if she thinks buyers will be gun-shy about starting a book series since the GOT debacle. Tiara has been watching the ongoing Nerdrotic coverage of the long-anticipated (but not really expected) end of the GOT book series herself and thinks we might be holding onto false hope.
In one last gasp, we talk about book trailers. Tiara received so many mixed messages about them that she didn't bother. I wonder if a testimonial-type trailer might not work better than the movie trailer model. I know Storm Young got some traction with mysterious reels of her character ideas. Only time and experimentation will tell.
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