Brad Melzter
NY Times Best Selling Author Brad Meltzer is doing his huge book tour for “The Book of Fate.” Thursday you can see him on “Good Morning America” and his interviews are all over the major media.Today, I have my interview with Meltzer, before his book signing at Politics & Prose. I’m super excited about it and I’ll post more tonight. Tomorrow is the party at the Freemasons Temple in DC. It's supposed to be huge with a lot of famous people, so hopefully I won't feel weird or out of place there.
To hold you over until later, here is a brief piece from Meltzer’s appearance on “Elliot in the Morning,” a radio show here in D.C:
Caller: I’m really interested in writing comics and have been trying to for years. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you but its hard to get in. I’ve done numerous scripts and have mailed tons of pitches and all I have from it is a stack of rejection letters. Do you have any advice on how I can get noticed?
Brad: I had to write four novels before I got invited to come write Superman and Batman. They all were best selling novels too. My advice is to go to things like the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend and talk to Editors.
Elliot: Do you like writing comics or novels better?
Brad: I like novels better. There is nothing like owning the work. They are the house that I built. I put the bricks on it myself and I don’t need a corporate owner telling me what to do. With the novels I have my editor or my wife telling me when I messed up, but there is nothing like owning your own work.
Elliot: Really?
Brad: Let me tell you something though…
Elliot: Oh no, here we go. He’s gotta sit upright in his chair.
Brad: America hasn’t given many art forms to the world. We’ve done two. We did Jazz and then we gave comics.
Elliot: Comics is a US thing? I thought it was Japan.
Brad: You can say comics first came from cave paintings, but the modern comic comes form the US and I love when people try to quiz me on it during interviews. You have these artsy guys who get impressed that I write comic books, but when they ask about them they call them graphic novels. I’m like the only reason you call them graphic novels is because you are too snobby to just call them what they are. You know there is nothing like being able to sit at home and write the words that appear in Superman’s mouth. Every 13 year old boy has two dreams, to sleep with a playboy model and to write comic books.