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  • Two Mini-Interviews for INDIEpendence: HAUNTED HOUSE: A LOVE STORY and DUSK: LOVE BITES

    Two Mini-Interviews for INDIEpendence: HAUNTED HOUSE: A LOVE STORY and DUSK: LOVE BITES

    Hi there! Happy #INDIEpendence! #INDIEpendence is a thing happening in July to celebrate indie artistic endeavors– such as indie comics!

    As such, we’re helping bring attention to a couple of Kickstarters for indie comics that are running RIGHT NOW by doing mini-interviews! (Why, yes, most of the questions ARE from the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire that James Lipton always asked at the end of Inside the Actors Studio, thank you for noticing!)

    First up: Winston Gambro, creator of HAUNTED HOUSE: A LOVE STORY:

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    1. What is your favorite word?

    –Lush

    2. What is your least favorite word?

    –Pneumonia

    3. What sound or noise do you love?

    –Machine Whirring

    4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

    –Stunt Man

    5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!

    –A beautiful house is cursed with the gift of life– it soon falls in love with its sole occupant, its own architect. Unfortunately for the house, the architect is oblivious to the house’s sentience, and finds forbidden romance with his doctor. The house acts out in vengeance, setting off a tragic chain of events that ripple through the next century, entrapping a diverse assortment of couples, each seeking their own romance. As each pair of lovers grapples with their own romance, the house’s grief warps their journey into horrific ends.

    If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, the entire horror/romance graphic novel is on Kickstarter here!

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/490542929/haunted-house-a-love-story-a-comic-of-horror-and-romance

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    Next up: David Doub of DUSK: LOVE BITES!

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    1. What is your favorite word?

    –Onomatopoeia

    2. What is your least favorite word?

    –Dave (David is the only true term!)

    3. What sound or noise do you love?

    –SHRRAKADOOM

    (Now I am at work just going Shrrakadoom everywhere…)

    4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

    –Be a comic book artist. I have a mad dream to make a comic complete myself, from making the paper, to binding the book, to doing it all!

    5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!

    –Dusk: Love Bites plays off of the unrequited love the female lead has for her Vampire Lord. So her unwilling paramour shows her how dark a Vampire Lord can be when it comes to their thralls. Little did either of them know this particular thrall only joined the dark ranks of the supernatural to escape the turmoil and persecution as a young gay man in the ’80s…

    If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, here’s where you can sign up to get notified when this indie graphic novel’s campaign begins on Kickstarter!

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/demonsinthedarkness/dusk-love-bites-0

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    And THESE NEXT two links are about how if you’re one of the first 100 followers of David’s Kickstarter, you’ll get a huge bundle of indie comics– a bundle which also contains the entire graphic novel of HUNGRY GHOSTS by Barb and me (Park)!

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DLWER8jRkNK

    https://www.facebook.com/DuskComics/posts/pfbid0j67DYN75tn41nn3asoVzNxvNGzuKgV7oUNK1EGnDWqw77zye9A9zxuKyzqmgDPazl

    As of the instant I am writing this, there’s room for 37 more! One of those people could be you!

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    Okay, that’s it for this time– See you again soon!

  • We’re Back!

    We’re Back!

    So guess what: remember how we had a Kickstarter for Barb’s comic Gun Street Girl?! Well– if you didn’t know already– it made! That means it was successful! GSG’s going to be in color AND in print if people want it! The first volume, anyway! Isn’t that great?! Yes, yes it is! Thank you so much if you’re one of the people who helped make that happen!

    As of this writing, our publisher, Rodolfo, of Lucha Comics, is almost ready to send the PDF to the printers to start on the print copies. I think that’ll start happening later this week?

    But anyway… we were exhausted. It is very nerve-wracking to do a Kickstarter, whether it makes or not. Then it was one of my busy times of the year… But now, we’re trying to come back.

    So anyway, as a reward for you, here’s a couple of brand-new-to-you episodes of our podcast Married Geek Couple. It’s on Spotify and other places one finds podcasts, but only here do I link to examples of some of the songs and stuff we’re talkin’ about… So here they are…

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  • Song to the Siren

    Song to the Siren

    This is just a preview of the very start of our prose novel SONG TO THE SIREN:

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    CHAPTER ONE

    If I reply to this email, thought Samantha, I’ll have to tell them what really happened. The whole thing. The slow way. Because if I just came out and tried to explain the truth to them all at once, they’d… She stared at the email that was waiting, on her computer screen, for her to reply to it…

    Dear Ms. MacNamara… it began…

    Samantha frowned. What would they do… if I really tried to explain what happened back then? What would anyone do? It’s why I’ve never told a single living soul...

    She looked up above her monitor, at the wall of her home office, at the framed photograph of a handsome young man holding a guitar. His long blond hair was flying around as he played. He was smiling at the camera, at the person taking his picture… In the background was the rest of the band, with the drum set that bore the stylized logo of the Big Carnival. “Am I really sure I want to be interviewed, Reed?” Sam asked the young man in the photo. “Music press people, diehard fans, even people I trusted, I’ve never told anyone about… what happened. It’s amazing that after all of these years, people are still interested in you and the Big Carnival.”  

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  • Road Trip TWO, the Sequel!

    Road Trip TWO, the Sequel!


    Hey there folks. Remember when Barb and I recorded a lot of podcast episodes while we were driving to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving this last November? Well guess what (don’t bother, I’ll just tell you), we did the same thing again at Christmas! Here are the first three new episodes from that experience!


    Road Trip TWO, Episode ONE: Songs and Fallout London

    Some songs Barb and/or Park mention in this episode:


    Road Trip TWO, Episode TWO: Austin Radio and Bill Bixby’s Hulk


    Road Trip TWO, Episode THREE: Lou Rawls, Fleetwood Mac, and Road Trips

  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (The Conclusion!)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (The Conclusion!)


    Hi! Time for the conclusion of our Thanksgiving Road Trip! BUT I want to give you a link one more time for watching our live Q&A session we did– it was on Instagram (and still is), but this new link to Pinterest has subtitles and is just technically a little better and so on: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269651358218/

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 7, 8, and 9)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 7, 8, and 9)


    Hi! Time for more of the Road Trip! BUT ALSO: have you seen the recording of our live Q&A session on Instagram? If not, click this link to watch it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEqgsakJMFQ/?igsh=OXo1eHo0OTh4aXNi

    Okay, now back to the audio files from our Road Trip!

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 4, 5, and 6)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 4, 5, and 6)

    Hi! Park here again, with MORE of our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! (As you’ll know if you’ve read our previous posts, it’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!)

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 1, 2, and 3)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 1, 2, and 3)

    Hi! Park here again, with more of our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! (As you’ll know if you read the last post, it’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!)

    This time is Barb and myself on a road trip– to visit my mother, for Thanksgiving. So we’re talking in the car, on the highway, so yes, there will be some road noise– be warned! But I also think it’s really not too bad. Whichever one of us is talking for more than a couple of seconds is holding the phone right in front of us, so it’s not like you can’t tell what’s being said clearly, really. Each short episode is edited, of course, but it’s just us, again, casually (but intensely) talking about stuff we like (except for Austin radio stations, we do complain just a brief while there in one installment)!

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Audio Files

    Married Geek Couple: The Audio Files

    Hi! Park here. This is our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! It’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!

    It’s Barb and myself talking in our kitchen– at first we were just talking to see if my phone would be an okay choice for recording, and then I decided it would be, so we just went with it! Each short episode is edited, of course, but it’s just us casually (but intensely) talking about stuff we like. The goal is to mostly be for people who want to listen to a happy, positive, married geeky couple talking in their kitchen about things that make them happy–perhaps while you do chores? kitchen stuff? folding laundry? other? There are 10 mostly-short episodes to start with, with many more on the way very soon!

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  • Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolves:  CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE and Personality Development

    Little Red Riding Hood and the Big, Bad Wolves:  CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE and Personality Development

    By Park Cooper and Barb Lien-Cooper

    This post contains SPOILERS for the wonderful spooky films THE CAT PEOPLE and CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE! So you should very probably consider going and watching them first if you haven’t already!

    Okay, here we go:

    When adults don’t care enough to save a child, what option does the child have but to save herself?

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