My Mind: Seeing Things a Different Way

I could sit in a hospital waiting room and make up all sorts of stories about what I see. That’s the way my mind works. I could be sitting in traffic and suddenly it becomes a movie set, with cars turning into whatever I want them to turn in to. I also get my ideas from daydreams and dreams. I always turn something ordinary into something else. I could be staring at a one and it becomes something else with its own storyline, personality etc. And that’s pretty much the way I write my stories.  But it does become kind of hard if I’m washing the dishes and my mind starts racing with ideas and I have to stop what I’m doing and dry my hands and write it down. (But no, I never write when I’m driving or when I’m doing something that requires concentration.) I love playing this “what -if” game and seeing what I can turn things into—turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.  Try it sometime. When you see a person, what can you turn them into? What is their “secret life” or alternate life? If you’re sitting in a classroom or an office? What alternate universe can you turn it into? (I’ve turned many a corporate office I’ve previously worked at into a giant spacecraft filled with aliens with different quirks, for instance. Somehow it made work more tolerable). For me, it makes life a little more creative to see things in a different way and who know what else I can create from that.

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Why is this a Non-Mainstream and Underground Comic Book Series?

People have often asked me why I don’t go with a big publisher. My answer is always the same: I am an underground, non-mainstream comic book series. I don’t partner with anyone and I choose to DIY and publish on my own and have creative control over my work. I’ve been approached before but everything either has to be “changed” to fit the mainstream, to make it PG13 or suitable for other countries or commercial purposes etc. and I’m not willing to do that with my work at this time. I choose not to compromise the originality of the characters or the storyline. This is a comic book meant for a niche market and a niche audience and to try to cater it for different purposes to make it more “commercial” and appeal to everyone would compromise my work. So it’s either you like the series, or you don’t. It’s not for everyone.  I meant it to be for the non-romance audience,  scary and vicious vampire purist and horror and comic book genre. So the answer is that I may be eccentric in the sense that I choose to be underground and different and non-mainstream and I choose to remain true to my work.

Lia Scott Price Interview on Power of Perception Radio

Listen to my interview on Power of Perception Radio about my Vampire Guardian Angels^TM comic book series. Thank you very much to Scott for the interview! Much appreciated!

Note: This interview was more focused on giving advice to aspiring writers about DIY methods and self-publishing, and advice on how to run yourself as an independent publisher.

Also, listen to author Frederick H Crook’s interview on Power of Perception Radio He mentions me at around the 43:40 mark,  thank you Frederick for the shout-out! He has some great advice for aspiring writers too! ( Follow @FrederickHCrook on twitter and check out his Facebook page )

Photos from Comikaze 2014

Found some more photos from Comikaze 2014, what an awesome, amazing event!  Looking forward to Comikaze 2015!

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 43

A very special thank you to all my wonderful friends and fans, I'm truly honored to receive your feedback, posts, responses and shares on the comic book series and I am grateful for everyone's support! Thanks again! You all rock!

A Day in the Life of Author Lia Scott Price

Here’s a typical day, or week,  in the life of an underground, indie, non-mainstream self publisher and comic book author. And yes, I love what I do! Here’s a sampling of  what I do and the many hats I wear. And well, it's work. Lots of work. 

 This is my desk

I have many roles: I am CEO, CFO, PR, sales and promotions, publisher, distributor, publicist, editor, web page administrator, funder, executive producer, accountant, business manager, and project coordinator.  I do daily comic book promotions, run my social media pages, mail out orders, oversee comic book story development, pre-production and post-production with my artists, write PR and promotions, plan and prep for comic book conventions, develop, manage and update merchandise, do  marketing and order fulfillment, and prep for interviews and photo shoots. I also create promotional videos featuring my comic books. (Yes, this kinda sounds like a resume, lol!). Much of my time is also devoted to promotions on social media.

The only thing I don’t do is draw and color, and that is all done by my talented artists Andrew Setter and Chad Hammontree.

So yes, this is basically what it takes for an independent, underground, self-publisher to create,  and produce, her own comic book series. 

Note: All my sales proceeds go to the costs of bringing my artists Andrew and Chad to Los Angeles each year for  Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo. Sales proceeds from my comic books and merch pay for their airfare and hotel costs.

Latest Updates on Comic Book Issues 5 and 6

Comic Book Issue 5 “Vampire Guardian Angels: Rule of Blood” is in the final drawing stages, then comes full coloring and text, proofing, final edits and prep for publishing. This issue will feature cameos by Sacred Ruins, Metal Invictus, and Metal Warzone.

After Issue 5 is published, (and my artists Andrew Setter and Chad Hammontree will take a much-deserved break after publication--but you will see all 3 of us at this year's Comikaze 2015) we still start on Comic Book Issue 6 “Vampire Guardian Angels: Immortal’s Reliquary”, which will take up much of this year 2015 and next year 2016 (it takes about a year per comic book). mainly the drawing stages. My artist Andrew Setter already has the storyboard.

Comic Book Issue 6 will be the “season finale” of the series (since I still have to write the next issues) and will feature cameos by Madrost, HIGHLAND, and Arachnigod! It may take a while between issues, but we all work full time jobs while we work on the comic books. However, the end results are freaky and stunning, scary and disturbing, amazing and worth the wait!