Writing Collaborations

Posted inComics & Graphic Novels, Writing
Collaborating with another person is a funny, sometimes touchy thing. It can be a minefield. It can be enjoyable and easy. It can be a great experience. It can be a chore. It can make you a better writer and it can make you wish you never agreed to the project in the first place. I've worked with many people over the years, most recently on A Year of Hitchcock and Pitched!, and every experience differs wildly from the last. Writer Alan Moore said of collaborations: Collaborations all have a different nature, they all work in different ways, because any…
Pitched Vol 1

My anthology is finally available!

Posted inComics & Graphic Novels, Works by Eric
PITCHED! IS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! I've done a lot of blogging about it already, so by now you know the drill. I got together with 10 artists and wrote nine stories. Collected them into an anthology. Possibly the first of several volumes. And now it is available for purchase through this handy link. So needless to say, I'm pretty happy about that. Time to start Volume 2 ...
Revisiting an old music collaboration

Revisiting an old music collaboration

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
It's hard to believe that it's been four years since I made this first blog post. It's even harder to believe that it's been four years since Tim Granda and I spent a few woozy Thursday nights at his apartment in Red Bank, NJ recording the music mentioned in that post. Sadly, while those sessions created some awesome memories and solidified a good friendship, musically all that resulted were a few rough sketch ideas and two semi-finished songs. I hoped to finished at least a third before we were through, "Keep It On," heard here as two rough idea sketches,…