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Author Archives: Kevin Wayne Williams
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts is one of those books that I had to read out of professional interest, as it was in a sense the inverse of my debut novel: while I had written about a nine-year-old black … Continue reading
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Helping Trump Succeed is a Very Bad Idea
Early Wednesday morning, right around the time of Clinton’s concession speech, I changed my Facebook imagery to reflect my despair. For those that don’t recognise the scene, go refresh yourself with the video. I haven’t changed it, and I’m not … Continue reading
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PS43 Survives
As I get older, I’m trying to achieve a few of those goals that I’ve wanted to achieve since I was a young man. Being obscenely wealthy seems to be out of reach, so I’m working more actively on some … Continue reading
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The Importance of Being a Terrorist
I don’t get directly political in this blog very often, but I’m going to now. My politics can be summarised pretty quickly: I think it’s important to be fair. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to move forward and make … Continue reading
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Author Chat with the Blerd Book Club
If you just came in, note the link changes! I’ve been invited to talk with the Blerd Book Club again, this time in a group format. I’ll be joined by three other authors (who are, strangely enough, four other people). … Continue reading
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Creators for Creators
Creatorsforcreators.org is offering a grant and mentorship to individual creators that want to break into the comics business. One lucky individual (or two person team) is going to win a $30,000 grant to underwrite a 64-100 page graphic novel, with … Continue reading
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2016 Southwest Unique Little Car Show
Authors have lives. Beyond engineering and writing, my remaining cycles are spent keeping pieces of old British transportation on the road. That means that my life sometimes involves small car shows. Not that the shows themselves are small, but the … Continue reading
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Norman Rockwell, Social Activist?
If, like me, you grew up in the 1960s, then pictures by Norman Rockwell were inescapable: something like Thomas Kinkade, but Rockwell actually had talent. A peculiarly constrained talent, though: generally images of cute white people doing cute white people … Continue reading
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Ska: A black musical legacy
Regular readers might remember my existential crisis last year, when Jamie Broadnax expressed hesitation over my Black History Month suggestions, replete as they were with blood, vengeance, uprisings, and just plain general misery. My softer side won out, and I … Continue reading
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Underdogs of the Apocalypse
I sat down the other day and built a little picture of how my “Underdogs of the Apocalypse” cycle fits together. Laying it all out makes it even more daunting, but, having published one of the books and nearing completion … Continue reading
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