Rob M. Worley » About Writing http://www.robworley.com The official website of Rob M. Worley Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:02:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 RICHIE RICH DIGEST Vol 3 http://www.robworley.com/2011/10/richie-rich-digest-vol-3/ http://www.robworley.com/2011/10/richie-rich-digest-vol-3/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:02:18 +0000 Rob M. Worley http://www.robworley.com/?p=1115 Here’s the cover art to Richie Rich Digest Vol. 3. According to the solicitation copy, it includes my short story “Laughter is Not Always The Best Medicine,” which puts Richie’s best friend Dollar Dog in the starring role.

Richie Rich Vol 3

Richie Rich Vol 3

Richie Rich Vol. 3 is available in the current Diamond Comics catalog, for comics going on sale in January. Ask your comics shop and give them the ordering code OCT110789, or use comiXology to add it to your pull list!

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Eisner Nominee seal

Two bits of good news for me and Scratch9 came down earlier this month.

First up, the book got nominated in four categories in the  29th annual Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Awards!

The comic is up for “Favorite Comic Book or Mini Series” and “Favorite Story”. Jason Kruse is up for “Favorite Cover Artist.” And I’m nominated for “Favorite Writer.” Cool!

Lets hope some of the fans vote for us.

Right after that we learned that we’ve been nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award! We got a nod in the “Best Publication for Kids” category along with five other great comics.

Such an amazing honor! I would be nice to win one of them, but it really is a thrill just to be nominated.

 

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Scratch9 TPB Cover

The Scratch9 collected trade paper back edition is due in stores in about a month. Have you ordered yours yet?

 

If not, we’ve got three easy paths to the Scratch9 TPB hookup!

  1. Your local comics shop. They’re still your best bet for procuring of feline funnybook. Just be sure to help ‘em help you by providing ordering code #JAN11 0929.
  2. Mail order from me. You can get an autographed edition from the Scratch9 online store.
  3. Mail order from Amazon. Click here to order from Amazon.
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Meet Agent of D.A.N.G.E.R.

That’s right. I’m an Agent of D.A.N.G.E.R. That’s the name of our little think tank/writers studio. We’ll be generating family-friendly books, comics and stories from our secret clubhouse at the bottom of an undisclosed body of water.

My first two AoD titles are. All Robots Must Die and Adventure-O-Matic! Hit AgentOfDanger.com for more info. For now, here is some preliminary artwork from both:

ADVENTURE-O-MATIC

ADVENTURE-O-MATIC

ALL ROBOTS MUST DIE

ALL ROBOTS MUST DIE

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RICHIE RICH - Free Comic Book Day Edition

Well, I’m not actually rich. Nor am I the famous star of funnybooks and film Richie Rich. But I am writing for Kizoic’s upcoming Richie Rich comics. Click the thumbnail for the official promo image.

Here’s the press release…

Part James Bond, Jr., and part Indiana Jones with Donald Trump’s bank account, Richie Rich® is an altruistic adventurer who travels the world helping the less fortunate, and now he has a creative team to back him up.

“Ape Entertainment is extremely pleased with the writers and artists who have come forward to bring Richie Rich back to comics,” states founder and co-publisher David Hedgecock. “We have action. We have adventure. We have humor. And best of all, we have everyone’s favorite characters, from Cadbury to Irona to Dollar.”

Today, Ape Entertainment and Classic Media announced the creative teams on the new Richie Rich series that will reimagine the classic cartoon and comic book character. Artists include Tina Francisco, Jack Lawrence, Armando Zanker, James Silvani, Iwan Nazif, and more! Writers include Tom DeFalco, Bill Williams, Buddy Scalera, Brent E. Erwin, Jason M. Burns, Matt Anderson, Rob Worley, and more!

For fans of the original Harvey Comics series, the creative team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon revisit the characters they helped to make famous, returning with two, all-new stories!

Richie Rich #1 will arrive in stores in May 2011.

For more information on Ape Comics, visit www.apecomics.com.

Want to get the latest updates on Ape? Sign up for our Email Newsletter!

Follow us online on twitter: twitter.com/apecomics

Friend us on Facebook: facebook.com/pages/ape-entertainment

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LOS ANGELES—- ACTIONOPOLIS, LLC announced today the highly-anticipated sequel Heir to Fire: Zephyr Mesa with a Kindle edition first printing. Rob M. Worley, writer of a diverse range of comics for nearly every publisher and audience, returns readers to the Arizona desert town of Gila Flats, home to invading spiders, giant lizards and young Ryan Morales who may just be mankind’s last hope. Heir to Fire: Zephyr Mesa simultaneously releases in downloadable e-book apps compatible on iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Kindle, and Android readers.

HEIR TO FIRE: ZEPHYR MESA – Ryan Morales and the town of Gila Flats are still reeling from the events of the first book. Having harnessed his fire abilities he’s dispatched the spider invaders that threatened to snatch the citizens of his town. Now something new trespasses on his home,  this time not from under the earth, but from high in the sky. Ryan must travel to Zephyr Mesa to confront these new visitors who may just hold the secrets of his lost heritage and the key to his destiny as the Heir to Fire!

For more information about the HEIR TO FIRE series visit http://www.heirtofire.com.

For more information about the new line of ACTIONOPOLIS books visit http://www.actionopolis.com.

ACTIONOPOLIS: When Adventure Is Your Destination!

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Check it out!

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Actionopolis is the book like featuring high-octane, high-adventure prose fiction by a myriad of talented writers from comics, film, video games and the like. The company initially published seven well-received books, including my Heir to Fire: Gila Flats novel, which was illustrated by Mike Dubisch.

Now they’re back with a new wave of 16 new books for the Amazon Kindle platform. The new books include my long-awaited Legend of Tigerfist: Enter the Tiger as well as the sequel Heir to Fire: Zephyr Mesa.

You might be saying, “b-bu-but I love Actionopolis books, but I don’t have an Amazon Kindle reader.”

Well, did you know that Kindle books can now be read on your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry or Android device as well as the Kindle reader? Just download the right app for your device!

Broken Frontier (and other sites) has the complete scoop.

Visit Actionopolis.com and start reading!

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If you’re interested in the new comic Scratch9, I’d ask you to click onward to Scratch9.com for the most complete and up-to-date info about that comic, including upcoming store appearances and ordering info!

Otherwise, you’ve come to the right place!

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If not here’s some interesting stuff you missed:

Now, we don’t know the exact shipping date of issue #1. We’ll have that for you soon. If you haven’t bugged your local comic shop you may want to do that now because they may have overlooked us! If you want to help your retailer order a copy of any of the issues so far, you should give him these ordering codes: Issue 1 – #JUN10 0739, Issue 2 – #JUL10 0753 and Issue 3 – #AUG10 0753

If you really want to help raise awareness about our little indie comic — and win some cool Scratch9 prizes besides enter our “Help your comics shop find Scratch9” contest!

Finally, we’ve got previews of the second and third issues right here!

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