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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."
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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
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"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
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"I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this."
Love
"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
Creativity
"I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts."
Time
"We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself."
Books
"At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists."
Quality
"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
Books
"I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted."
Writing
"Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team."
Money
"Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine."
Writing
"I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy."
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