2018 - 07/2018 Meeting

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JARED AXELROD

..........Blogger: Quirk Books Blog

..........Costume Designer

..........Podcaster: FreePlanetX

..........Puppet Creator

..........WebComics

Books

The Battle of Blood & Ink: A Fable of the Flying City (Author)

Tales from the Uncanny Valley (Collection)

Webcomics

Autobiologic

Comrade Cockroach

Fancomics

Frankenstein's Support Group for Misunderstood Monsters

Mystery of the Floating Island

Selected Post at Quirk Books Blog

.....What it The X-Men Was A Gothic Novel?

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/what-if-x-men-was-gothic-novel

.....What's Inside Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/whats-inside-handbook-recently-deceased-beetlejuice

.....Kill Your Darlings: 101 Pieces of Advice for Writers & Serial Killers

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/kill-your-darlings-101-pieces-advice-writers-serial-killers

.....Classic Works Adapted by Michael Bay

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/classic-works-adapted-michael-bay

.....What if Fictional Archeologists Acted Like Actual Archeologists?

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/what-if-fictional-archeologists-acted-actual-archeologists

.....What if Other Authors Had Written A Christmas Carol?

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/what-if-other-authors-had-written-christmas-carol

.....What if Your Favorite Movie Characters Had Crossed Paths?

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/what-if-your-favorite-movie-characters-crossed-paths

.....So, You're an Inhuman Now

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/so-youre-inhuman-now

.....Books That Shouldn't Be Video Games

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/books-shouldnt-be-video-games

.....Close Encounters of Multiple Kinds

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/close-encounters-multiple-kinds

.....Letters of Condolences from the Empire's HR Desk

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/letters-condolences-empires-hr-desk

.....What if Les Miserables Was a DnD Game?

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/what-if-les-miserables-was-dnd-game

.....A Christmas Caper

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/christmas-caper

Official Site: http://www.jaredaxelrod.com/

Social Media

..........FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/jared.axelrod.3

..........Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JaredAxelrod

..........Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/planetx/

..........Twitter: https://twitter.com/planetx

MEETING DETAIL

Meeting Date: July 14, 2018.

Meeting Site: Barnes & Noble. Paramus, New Jersey.

Attendance: 20.

Meeting Program: Talk / Q & A with Author / Blogger / Artist / Web Comic Creator / Costumer / Puppet Maker.

Newsletter Account

The following account is reprinted from THE STARSHIP EXPRESS Copyright 2018 Philip J De Parto:

The July 14, 2018 General Meeting of the Science Fiction Association of Bergen County was held at Barnes & Noble in Paramus, New Jersey. The meeting started (7:30 PM) and ended (10:00 PM) a half hour early to accommodate our host.

A J Bartholomew coordinated the Writers' Space Saloon pre meeting dinner at Panera Bread on route 17 North in Paramus with our speaker, Jared Axelrod. Our thanks to A J for her efforts, Pamela Webber for leading the Ice Nine pre meeting discussion at Barnes & Noble, and to everyone who helped with the set up and clean up of the event.

Jared Axelrod has been a ringmaster, a circus performer, a writer, a podcaster, a costume designer, a puppeteer, a sculptor, an illustrator, and a web comic creator. Our guest's varied experiences being electrocuted as part of a warm up show for heavy metal bands.

Jared was part of the 365 TOMORROWS webzine team and contributed 79 flash fiction tales which were posted to the site. An advantage to creating so many stories in short order is the emotional distancing from one's writing. Once you have been published, the story is no longer yours, it is the reader's. The same story can have one person gushing about it and someone else hating it. The words you have written are in dialog with the reader and the author has no say in that dialogue.

Our guest started the Voice of Planet X podcast in 2005 which is still running. The content, length and format of the show vary. Some episodes are scripted, others are improvised. Features include Aliens You Will Meet in which a precog informs an alien ambassador what his day will be like, and interviews with monsters, aliens and supernatural creatures including Lucifer, who is a recurring character.

Jared Axelrod has created the web comics Frankenstein's Support Group for Misunderstood Monsters which appears on the Quirk Books Blog and the self-published nihilistic super villain, Comrade Cockroach. Our speaker wrote the graphic novel, The Battle of Blood and Ink published by Tor Books.

To be continued at the 2018 - 07/2018 Meeting page on the Association's website at www.sfabc.org.