REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS: STORY TIME with A.P. FUCHS: S01EP03 –Comics Power
In this podcast, Fuchs gives his thoughts on the BLUE BEETLE movie and upcoming DCU headed by James Gunn and Peter Safran. He then dives into the world of his webcomic, FREDRIKUS, and gives some insight into it, what it’s about, and some webcomic behind-the-scenes stuff.
Welcome back to story time.
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Episode 3: Comics Power – A comic book becomes more than just four-color panels to read.
Fuchs gives his thoughts on the BLUE BEETLE movie and upcoming DCU headed by James Gunn and Peter Safran. He then dives into the world of his webcomic, FREDRIKUS, and gives some
insight into it, what it’s about, and some webcomic behind-the-scenes stuff.
REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS: STORY TIME with A.P. FUCHS: S01EP02 –
The Trapeze Artist
On today’s episode we talk about the cool aspect of Fuchs’s last name, which leads into talking about a certain swashbuckling hero from a couple hundred years ago and the movies they made of him.
Story time continues as A.P. Fuchs brings you a tale of childhood imagination.
So relax, put your feet up, and have a listen.
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Episode 2: The Trapeze Artist – Sometimes imagination can get . . . aerial.
On today’s episode we talk about the cool aspect of Fuchs’s last name, which leads into talking about a certain swashbuckling hero from a couple hundred years ago and the movies they made of him.
Story time continues as A.P. Fuchs brings you a tale of childhood imagination.
So relax, put your feet up, and have a listen.
Grab your copy of FLASH ATTACK: THRILLING STORIES OF TERROR, ADVENTURE, AND INTRIGUE in paperback or eBook at:
The Realm of Heroes and Monsters: Story Time Podcast is Live!
This morning, the FIRST episode of my new podcast aired and you’re invited to tune in!
On the desktop, there’s a graphic to your left that’ll take you to the Story Time podcast page. On your phone, just scroll toward the bottom and you’ll see it.
There’s also a handy page link in the menu above or under that hamburger-looking menu thing on your phone.
Yes, lots of places to access it.
Below is the first episode for watching/listening.
As always, subscribe so you don’t miss an episode!
Enjoy this premiere episode of a show about stories and a host finding his footing in the podcasting world.
REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS: STORY TIME with A.P. FUCHS: S01EP01 – The Key
Episode 1: The Key – A mysterious key holds a secret power only a of couple people know about.
Listen in as A.P. Fuchs introduces the show, what to expect, and a little about himself as a creator. And, of course, story time. Reading from his book FLASH ATTACK: THRILLING STORIES OF TERROR, ADVENTURE, AND INTRIGUE, A.P. Fuchs will draw you in and get you hooked for more stories to come.
Enjoy listening as we explore the storyworld of flash fiction.
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We’ve all heard the expression, “You write your own story,” or a version thereof. And while this is true in the context that our lives are the stories we are the authors of, it is also true you are a piece of fiction to someone else.
Only you and you alone know everything you’ve ever felt, thought, said, dreamed, and did. You know every experience and every secret thing.
Everyone else doesn’t nor do you know the same of them.
Despite how close we might be to some people–even those we swear we know up and down and left and right–we still don’t know them. Not the real them, and we never will.
We know fragments. We know the stories they’ve told us of their various experiences, thoughts, words, actions, dreams. We know the stories from the joint experiences shared.
But we are never them.
What happens is we end up creating a narrative about someone to make sense of them. We subconsciously fill in the gaps between their tales on an ever-assembling timeline of their life. They do the same to you.
It is all stories.
At best, it’s a case of “based on true events” but, in the end, we are all bits of narration to each other with varying degrees of accuracy.
After years of putting it off, I’m stepping down from being solely an author. “Solely” being the operative word. The book publishing industry rewarded me in the ways I needed, taught me the things I wanted to learn, and helped me meet the types of people I wanted to meet, both creator and reader alike. And while true that since I’ve been back from being ill, I’ve taken on the mantle of writer/artist instead of just writer, I thought it’d be a fair thing to tell you what the current road map looks like career-wise so I don’t accidentally mislead you.
This is the general plan:
2020 is a year of rebuilding hence Project Rebuild. Throughout the course of the year–with the very end of the year being the ideal-but-flexible deadline–I’ll be bringing my book list into the 21st century and will release a new thing or two along the way. And it will take the whole year or potentially more because I have a lot of titles and all this takes time.
Going forward in 2021, I have a few books that are done that need releasing so those will be tended to as well as finishing off some works-in-progress to wrap them up.
While the above two are occuring, I’ll be spending most of my time and energy devoted to making comics. Comics are what started me on the publishing path and are a great love of mine. In short, writing books will be a secondary thing compared to the comics.
All I want to do is finish the last bit of my book publishing life and make comics going forward.
For Axiom-man fans, don’t worry. Lots of prose adventures coming. I’m referring to my non-superhero work.
I also need to point out something to my readers that needs to be taken into consideration: I’m still sick. I’m much better than before, but even when I started up again at the end of last August, I was operating at around 65-70% capacity. Going hard at 1000mph has dropped me to about 50% on a good day, 40-45% on every other day. Each day I come to the keyboard, I’m not healthy on multiple levels, but I work anyway because making art and stories is what I do and it’s what helps me survive. All I’m saying is I’m changing things on various levels so I don’t keel over and die one day in the middle of a script or while drawing something. It is also important to point out that my shift to comics isn’t about accommodating for being unwell. It’s about looking ahead to my deathbed when I’m lying there and looking back. I know I’ll regret it if I don’t do comics and since time is the most valuable thing on this earth, I want to spend it doing something I love.
The winter season is nearly here, which means this week I’m putting the final touches on getting ready for Heavy Broadcast Mode, which starts November 1. Believe it or not, a lot of planning and organizing goes into making books and comics for public consumption. It’s not just me writing a story and sending it out all willy nilly. Every creator works their own way, but on my end, I need to have certain mechanisms in place so I can publish a story and get it into your hands properly. This ranges from the actual publishing machine itself to the promotion side of it to even making sure I have copies here at the Central for you. Then add on the need to make and have all those systems in place all the while keeping a roof over my head and, well, yeah. Busy times.
This isn’t over-complicating it. It’s just planning things out so, once all is up and running, I have the greatest resource of all when it comes to creating stories and sharing them: Time.
Everything takes time. Some things take a mere minute, other things take hours or days, and the only way to have that time is do all that I’ve been doing behind the scenes here at the Central. (Speaking of behind the scenes, a new behind-the-scenes entry is going up on my Patreon this Friday. Join the journey to check it out.)
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