Writer Experience

Originally released as episode 160.

Julio Anta is a writer based in New York City. Raised in Miami, in a Cuban and Colombian family, Julio strives to tell narratively rich stories about diverse and empowered Latinx characters for Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade readers.

His debut comic book series, HOME, is out now, courtesy of Image Comics.

Julio’s forthcoming work includes FRONTERA, a YA graphic novel from HarperAlley, and SI SE PUEDE, a non-fiction graphic novel from Ten Speed Press, releasing in Summer 2023 and Fall 2023 respectively.

https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/home-tp

https://twitter.com/julioanta

Matt and Harrison Query are the Co-Authors of WILDERNESS REFORM which is out now! It can be purchased here:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wilderness-Reform/Matt-Query/9781668024133

Get ESSENTIALS Here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1498784643/the-lab-press-presents-essentials-an-original-graphic-novel?ref=9nyn36

ESSENTIALS is an epic reality-hopping sci-fi adventure featuring art from Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Glenn Fabry, DaNi, MK Perker, and Andrea Mutti, with a cover from Bill Sienkiewicz. You can preorder ESSENTIALS on Kickstarter.

Mike Zagari is a 20-year veteran of the comics industry with experience at Marvel, Disney, Lucasfilm, DC Comics and AMC Networks. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Throughout his career, Mike has been deeply involved in every aspect of the comics industry. Mike is currently Chief Creative Officer with THE LAB PRESS. Their debut graphic novel is ESSENTIALS, written by Black Sails star Luke Arnold and Emmy-nominated writer/producer Chris "Doc" Wyatt.

Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years experience, and the founder of Lucinda Literary, based in New York. Prior to founding her agency, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She later worked as a marketing consultant for Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project), before launching her career as an agent. She has worked with all major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and Scholastic, and currently represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of business, health, lifestyle, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction.

Her classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide, and became the inspiration for Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; Penguin Random House; February 6th, 2024).

Learn more at:

https://www.getsignedbook.com/

https://www.lucindaliterary.com/

and follow Lucinda Halpern on Instagram and Twitter:

https://www.instagram.com/lucindaliterary/

https://www.twitter.com/LucindaLitNYC/

https://www.twitter.com/LucindaBlu/

Originally released as Ep 96.

Gary Whitta is a Screenwriter, Author, Comic Book Writer, and Video Game Writer. His works include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars Rebels, The Book of Eli, After Earth (which he co-wrote with M. Night Shyamalan), Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, Marvel’s The Last Jedi comic book adaption, and Abomination, Gary’s debut novel, among many others.

https://twitter.com/garywhitta

Originally released as Ep 23.

Originally released as Ep 32.

Dorian Karchmar is a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor (WME).

Peter Katz is a manager and producer, and CEO of the management / production company Story Driven, where he supports the vision of writers and directors for film, TV and emerging mediums. Most recently he sold the short story I AM NOT ALONE by his client Chris Hicks to Netflix, with Jessica Chastain starring.

Originally released as Ep 4.

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.

www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dea…1621627715&sr=8-3

Originally released as Ep 11.

Updated Description:

Mike Zagari was the principal figure at AMC Networks Publishing involved in bringing in Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brenden Fletcher, Tula Lotay, Kirk Hammett, Christine Norrie, Cecil Castellucci, and others to the new planned comic book publishing line, that intended to work with established and up-and-coming talent in developing, producing and selling fan-focused speciality books, comics, original graphic novels and more.

Series would have included Kelly Sue DeConnick and Bill Sienkiewicz's Parisian White. Nights of Lono, by Kirk Hammett, Marcel Feldmar and Christine Norrie, Oubliette by Brenden Fletcher and Tula Lotay, with those first three titles promising a promotional edition comic debut at San Diego Comic Con 2023, followed by series launch later in the year. And a new original graphic novel, Miss Fisher's First Mysteries, based on the Acorn TV series adapted from the novels by Kerry Greenwood and written by Cecil Castelluci was to debut in 2023.

Original Description:

Mike Zagari is an Executive Director at AMC Networks. He formerly worked at Aftershock, Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars, Marvel Studios, and DC Comics. Mike has also self-published the comic book series Human On the Inside and Conscious.