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
Recent Comments