by Autumn Daughetee The Kymera Press family has a new addition. Not a baby, but a talented woman and professional. Christie Yant recently joined Kymera Press as our newest writer and editor. Yant, a science fiction and fantasy writer, will edit Kymera’s Gates of Midnight and the new series … [Read more...]
Fun at the Alternative Press Expo
By D. Lynn Smith Earlier this month Kymera Press and yours truly were in San Jose at the Alternative Press Expo. This is a small convention, but it still has the fun that we've experienced at other conventions. Usually, I wouldn't attempt to write anything while being this busy, but my friend … [Read more...]
Kymera Press is a Gateway to Comics
By D. Lynn Smith Last month, Kymera Press went to Bubonicon in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bubonicon is New Mexico's oldest and best science fiction and fantasy convention, held in Albuquerque every August. This year there were 850 attendees. Yes, it’s a small convention, but it is not small when it … [Read more...]
A Chat With Pati Nagel
By Autumn Daughetee For those of you who are not familiar with Pet Noir, it is a novel by Pati Nagle about Leon, a talking, genetically engineered cat who is indentured to a police department on an off-world space station. Leon works off the price of his creation solving crimes with his human … [Read more...]
Kymera Press Celebrates a Triumphant Comic-Con San Diego
By Autumn Daughetee The staff at Kymera Press is back from Comic-Con International: San Diego and I’m pleased to report it was a very successful event. We were able to sell lots of copies of both of our series—Gates of Midnight and Pet Noir. We also connected with other professionals in the comic … [Read more...]
Playing with Fashion in “Gates of Midnight”
By D. Lynn Smith All of the art and lettering for Gates of Midnight #5 is complete! Paul, my wonderful husband and production editor, is busy putting it together into a book form and getting it ready to submit to comiXology Submit and the printer. Amelia Woo is working on the cover for Issue … [Read more...]
What does a Freelance Comic Book Editor Do?
By D. Lynn Smith As I mentioned in a previous post, I didn’t have an editor on issue #1 of Gates of Midnight, and I made mistakes that weren’t caught until my husband read the finished pages. We then had to go back and make corrections, which meant paying my artists for additional work. That … [Read more...]
Support Cats in Outer Space
By Autumn Daughetee Kymera Press is currently in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to fund a graphic novel of our first project—Gates of Midnight. We also hope the campaign is successful enough for us to fund additional projects. Among the projects under consideration is an adaptation of author … [Read more...]