In rural Louisiana there is a barn, a meeting place for extreme musicians. This is Nodferatu’s Lair, the base of the man in this video – a talk given to Loyola University students in New Orleans. Candid, earnest, humorous and ...
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Part of being a successful creative person in today’s world is about developing your social network and online presence. Publishers encourage their authors to have blogs, twitter accounts, facebook pages, etc, and to actively use them. Marketing an author’s work ...
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Pop Verse is proud to give you our first ever interview, with Geek-Girl creator, Sam Johnson. Sam works in indy comics, writing and editing, as well as with his own indy publisher, Actuality Press. What is your writing process? How ...
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Star Trek is a franchise that has been around since 1966, when we first met Captain Kirk. Since then, we have had another four series and eleven films. On May 9th, the next film in the series, Star Trek Into ...
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