Month: May 2024

There’s not been much love for my online Etsy shop recently. So, if it’s okay I’m going to give it a plug here. You can order a signed copy of one of my books, and ask for a dedication made out to a friend, associate, or loved one (and for that you can certainly include yourself). I can send it on to an address of your choosing. Just keep me right and I’ll do the rest.

At the shop you’ll find physical and digital copies of GoodCopBadCop (A crime novel with a Jekyll and Hyde twist where the good cop and bad cop are the same person), Good Cop (the follow up), the Light (Exploring a world where you wake up and know this is the day you die), Rerun to Eden (an AI-themed short story collection), Savant (Apocalypse Now-themed Graphic Novel) and Gabriel (Angels and Demons are real).

Have a gander here:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PlanetJimbot

It’s June, so the sandals will be out, and my travels will take me to Edinburgh, Falkirk and Manchester for the Traffic Comic Con. Details to follow:

Date: Sat 1 June 2024

Cymera (Edinburgh)

Time: 10am-5pm

Venue: Pleasance Courtyard · 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ

This is a free event. See you there.

Date: Sat 22 June 2024

Falkirk Comic Con

Time: 10am-4pm

Venue: Howgate Shopping Centre, High St, Falkirk FK1 1HG

This is a free event. See you there.

Date: Sun 23 June 2024

Trafford Comic Con

Time: 11am-4pm

Venue: Beactive Urmston, Kingsway Park M41 7FJ

You can pay at the door. See you there.

Best,

Jim A

I just received a royalty payment from Disney (who own Marvel) for my story Song of Storm, which appeared in the graphic novel collection X-Men:X-Verse X-Women. The story was first published by Marvel 25 years ago in Uncanny Origins#9 and to date has been reprinted three times (first there was Uncanny Origins: Myths and Magic, then there was Ororo: Before the Storm, and latterly X-Verse X-Women from last year. Value of money from the length of the titles alone!

Royalties this time around amounted to the sum of 168 USD and 56 cents (which equates to about £100 Scottish pounds). I mean, not world changing or anything, but you know what it’s still enormously gratifying to get anything from something I wrote half a lifetime ago. The story is good, by the way, if I do say so myself (a retelling of Storm’s origin story where she goes from street urchin to X-Man and arse-kicking goddess). Check it out if you can.

I’m a guest at Back Issue Bonanza on Sat 25 May. Time is 11am-3.30pm & location is Renfield Centre on Bath Street, Glasgow. Other guests include Stref (AKA Stevie White), David Alexander (no relation), Jim Stewart (definitely no relation), and John Lees (everyone’s second favourite comic books writer). Plus we have traders selling back issues covering just about everything and anything that has ever been published anywhere! What’s not to like. See you there! More details here: https://www.facebook.com/backissuebonanza