Why I hate/love my editor.

Lucien, who was at the ComicCon in New York this past week, thoughtfully e-mailed me this picture.




That is, for those of you who don't know, J. Michael Straczynski. Joe Straczynski created Babylon 5, Jeremiah, wrote all the good issues of Marvel's recent Civil War 'event,' writes Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, wrote the wonderful series Rising Stars and, for those of you who are old people, he wrote quite a number of episodes of Murder She Wrote and The New Twilight Zone, which again were the good episodes. He also did a radio drama series through Sci-Fi.com, which is still available and fun to listen to.

*grumble* It's that fascist MacCallIsStar holding me back again, but I've pooled the powers of my agent agency and delivered the picture anyway.

Less talk! More picture gazing!

I'm so happy. It's my wallpaper now.

dclary said:

I went to a meet and greet with Angela Lansbury one time, about 2 years ago... everyone in the audience got to ask a question...

My friend and I wanted to ask "Did JMS ever approach you about playing an alien on Babylon 5, and if so, which race would you have wanted to play, and finally, why didn't you?"

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To which she said, eloquently and with proper elocution....?

Rllgthunder, I don't know what he asked of anybody yet. I know we scored a ton of interviews with all sorts of people (Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, for example, and.......................Gary Coleman) but I haven't gotten to hear the .MP3s quite yet.

I wish Babylon 5 would march ever onward. B5's story is done and ended, but there's more to tell, if done properly.

Rllgthunder said:

Every interview has to come up short, sometimes.

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Don't belittle other people, Rllgthunder, it makes a small man of you.

Alan:

I have been for the past six months or so an assistant editor with BBT Magazine. I built their web-site a couple of times now, for example. I read the slush pile, stuff like that. When I said "my editor," I meant Lucien Spelman, who's the boss-editor of the magazine. These days, I'm "Senior Editor," whatever that means.

I do it for fun, because I think it's a very, very educational thing for a writer to work on the staff of a magazine, no matter how small (and I recommend doing it to anyone if you get the chance).

It's unpaid, but it's worth the job just for the perks. Today, a picture of Joe Straczynski having fun at my expense. A few days ago, it was a signed and personalized copy of Joe Hill's "Heart Shaped Box," because Lucien interviewed him.

I sell stuff all the time. But that's what I mean when I say something weird and important-sounding like "my editor."

The day I vanity publish is the day I take off these stretchy pants in public for free.