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Horror and Fantasy Creator James A. Moore Needs Help

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James A. Moore

A GoFundMe has been launched to help creator James A. Moore who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer.

While Moore does have insurance, it doesn’t cover all the costs and he still looks to be facing staggering bills.

The GoFundMe is looking to raise $30,000 and so far has raised $20,033 of that amount as of this writing.

Creator Christopher Golden has written below about Moore’s contributions and we encourage individuals to chip in. Even a few dollars will help Moore.

I could tell you about the work and career of James A. Moore (and I will). I could tell you that for twenty-five years, Jim’s been producing beloved works of horror and fantasy. His earliest work appeared in Marvel’s comics exploring the universe of Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER and he was one of the primary contributors to White Wolf Games massively popular WRAITH: THE OBLIVION and WEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE, and other World of Darkness volumes. Over the course of his career thus far, he’s written dozens of original horror and fantasy novels, from his landmark SERENITY FALLS to his brilliant grimdark fantasy series SEVEN FORGES, and been nominated for multiple awards, including two Bram Stoker Awards. He’s written media tie-in novels in the ALIEN, PREDATOR, and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER universes, among others. And if you’re familiar with James A. Moore from his writing, that’s wonderful.
 
But there’s a lot more to the man than the words he’s written down. Equally important are his spoken words, the hundreds of writers he has coached, mentored, inspired, and even threatened to get them to “sit their asses in a chair and write,” to “finish the damn book.” I’m not going to write a bunch of stuff that will make Jim uncomfortable (he’s uneasy enough with the very idea of asking for help because if nothing else, he’s a stubborn old mule). What I will tell you is that Jim would be the very first person with a hand up to volunteer if someone else needed help…and he often has been. Now, he’s the one who needs help. As I’ve said elsewhere, Jim has a lot of books left to write, but at the moment, cancer’s getting in the way.
 
I’ve included much of the text of our GoFundMe appeal below, but updated with the latest information from my visit with Jim today. If you’ve ever enjoyed work of Jim’s, or of mine, or you just love books or comics, or you just want to rage at the injustice of our health care system, I’d be deeply grateful if you’d consider donating to this GoFundMe. Whether it’s $5 or $50 or $500, the help is appreciated.  As someone wrote in response to my original post about this GoFundMe, our system is broken, but our community is not. It’s a shame that we need to crowdfund our health care, but it’s a testament to the good that remains in the human heart that we do.
 
You can keep reading, but if you’d like to skip right to the GoFundMe page, here it is:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/
please-help-author-james-a-moore  
 
Thanks, so much, for reading.
 
—Christopher Golden

Hit Graphic Novels Get Literary Treatment

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Hit Graphic Novels Get Literary Treatment

IDW Unleashes Prose Program for Breakout Comic Series: Zombies vs Robots

35 Writers Explore, Expand and Remix ZvR World

[Zombies vs Robots Prose Cover]San Diego, CA (September 6, 2011)—IDW’s gleefully subversive ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS comic book series from creators Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood will soon be eating readers’ brains from the inside via a series of short stories, novellas and more. As announced at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con in July, the company plans for an ambitious slate of original prose stories set at different points in this epic adventure of a zombie apocalypse. In ZOMBIES VS ROBOTS, the clanking robots are built to fight the shambling braineaters, in a desperate attempt to save Earth’s dwindling population.   “It’s gratifying to see that ZvR has taken on an unlife of its own,” asserts Ryall, series co-creator and Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief for IDW. “Expanding from comics into prose is a logical progression, though as the heretofore sole writer of the series I must admit that letting other writers into our subversive little world was at first troubling. But now I’m fine with it. Really. Mostly. Especially since editor Jeff Conner has corralled such a talented array of writers to tackle some really bizarre and creative prose stories. As long as no one expects me to let them write ZvR comics, too…” A lurching cohort of writers—including such notable talents as John Shirley, Nancy A. Collins, Rio Youers, Brea Grant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Amber Benson, James A. Moore, Rachel Swirsky, Norman Prentiss, and John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, led by Ryall himself—has been assembled to pen original stories of life during wartime in the ZVR world. “It’s our biggest project so far,” states Conner, the IDW contributing editor helming the ZVR prose program. “In a way it’s a follow-up to our Classics Mutilated release, at least in terms of its anything goes spirit. The results so far have been—um, riveting.”The rest of the ZVR writer roster includes: Dale Bailey, Amelia Beamer, Jesse Bullington, Simon Clark, Lincoln Crisler, Stephen Dedman, Rain Graves, Rhodi Hawk, Robert Hood, Stephen Graham Jones, Nicholas Kaufmann, Steven Lockley, Nick Mamatas, Jonathan McGoran, Joe McKinney, Gary McMahon, Mark Morris, Bobby Nash, Yvonne Navarro, Hank Schwaeble, Ekaterina Sedia, Sean Taylor, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Kaaron Warren, and Don Webb.

A film version of ZVR is currently in development through Sony Pictures, with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes as producer.

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s Doctor Who; Toho’s Godzilla and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.