Official blog/website for Susan Hillwig, writer of various geeky things and author of Swords & Sixguns.
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I wish I had some real news for you about the upcoming Jonah Hex title instead of a goofy April Fool's post on Facebook , but for those of you who were brave enough to click the link, I can tell you that Chapter 4 of my long-running Hex history project has been updated! I’ve added lots more info, including a fuller picture of how the DC Implosion affected numerous Western characters, not just Hex,…
I finally found some time to sit down and type up some thoughts about the under-the-radar announcement by Scott Snyder over on his own blog that, shockingly, Jonah Hex is getting a new title...or at least that how he seems to be phrasing it. Two weeks earlier, DC had dropped the news that their latest publishing initiative will be titled "Next Level", to follow their current one called "All In".…
In an effort to keep the dollars coming in as I work on my books, I keep trying to think up different things that y'all might like to buy. The current thing in this vein is handmade ribbon bookmarks! My mother-in-law recently gifted me a bunch of revolver and fantasy sword charms, along with some other jewelry-making bits, so after a few trips to Joanne Fabrics during their bankruptcy sales, I…
While I am sorry to say that the book version of "An Illustrated History of Jonah Hex" is still not available yet (I'll talk more about that later), I did update Chapter 3 here on the blog , so y'all can enjoy the new info I've added. The expansion isn't as large as when I updated Chapters 1 & 2 last year, but there's a few good-sized chunks of newness in there, so go check it out. "Hold on," I…
Been meaning to put this up for a few days, so sorry for doing this last-minute. I promise to make it up to you, though! For you folks who usually see me at Blue Water International Comic-Con, I won't be doing it this year due to low sales the last couple of years (didn't even make table last time). Instead, I'll be at the NEW Fantasticon show in Waterford, MI -- specifically at the Oakland Expo…
As I’d hoped, my previous blog post did spark some conversation about who Legend really is, with at least one name tossed out that I hadn’t considered. Since we’ve covered all the possibilities of the female persuasion (though I did miss a few the first time out… head on back and scroll to the bottom to see who I added!), I thought I’d go over all the men-folk this time, just in case I’m barking…
Though I’ve been reading Mark Waid’s Justice League Unlimited since the first issue, I hadn’t planned on picking up the Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special . I’d already been skipping the other JLU spinoffs because they didn’t seem necessary to understand the main story, but when I took a peek at a preview for the Special , I saw our favorite bounty hunter would be present, and I am morally…
Got a show to do this Sunday! I had a table at one of Martin Hirchak's last shows in Clawson, MI, but the venue closed, so he had to move house. I went to the Warren Elks Lodge last week to check it out...looks like a good place with lots of room, so we're all hoping for an awesome inaugural show!
Thirteen years ago, after a stumbling start , I joined Facebook with the notion of using it to help promote my then-upcoming novel. As I said at the time, I'm neither social nor do I network, so I didn't really have a desire to deal with the site, but hey, I wanted to sell books, and I reckon the Swords & Sixguns page I set up there helped to a small degree. It also led to me to becoming admin for…
Got an email from KDP recently letting me know that they were discontinuing the Kindle Vella program, due to it not taking off the way Amazon expected since it began in December 2021. Frankly, the response to the two stories I'd started on the platform was a bit underwhelming, as you can see by the graph here depicting every time someone read at least one chapter. Most folks appeared to pop in,…
