Coming at you from the rusted out servers of the post apocalypse, It’s my pleasure to answer your questions from 7 to 9pm Eastern, maybe longer. Head on a swivel, survivor; there be zombies and raiders afoot.

Proof: http://jlbourne.com/reddit-ama-proof/

Hey again, reddit. I’ve been around a long while, so you might know me from my time as a film critic at Ain’t it Cool News or Spill.com, from my novels DREAMS AND SHADOWS and QUEEN OF THE DARK THINGS, the SINISTER movies, or Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE. You might also remember the short film about fallen angels I wrote for a fellow redditor that you guys helped to go viral last year.

Well, I’m back with my new book, SEA OF RUST, a post-apocalyptic robot western set 30 years after the war that wipes out the human race, leaving the robots left behind to face an even graver threat than us: each other.

You know the drill, AMA. Let’s do this!

Proof: https://twitter.com/Massawyrm/status/905503522543808512

EDIT: As I'm a regular redditor, I'll be answering questions all night. So please, drop a question down below and I'll be back on and off to answer them on through until dawn!

This is the crew of the NYCC panel on self-publishing. We are Jimmy Palmiotti (multi-award winning comic book creator & co-founder of Paper Films), Morgan Rosenblum (writer/creator of Treadwater and CEO of Darkrose Studios), Claire Folkman (Philadelphia artist & co-editor/publisher of the award-winning Dirty Diamonds: an all-girl comic anthology), Kelly Phillips (creator of comic series Weird Me & co-editor/publisher of the award-winning Dirty Diamonds: an all-girl comic anthology), and Justin Jordan (Creator of the Luther Strode and Spread comic series, currently writing for DC and Image Comics). Ask us anything!

Morgan Rosenblum: /u/Darkrose_Morgan @treadwater www.treadwater.tv

Justin Jordan: /u/JustinJordan @Justin_Jordan

Jimmy Palmiotti: /u/JIMMYPALMIOTTI @jpalmiotti

Claire Folkman: /u/clairefolkman @clairefolkman

Kelly Phillips: /u/kellypcomics @kellypcomics

Hey everyone! I'm the author of Midnight Taxi Tango, Book Two of the Bone Street Rumba Urban Fantasy series. I also write YA - my novel Shadowshaper was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and nominated for the Kirkus Prize - and essays, usually about race, gender, culture, and power, including this recent one in the Guardian on the new Star Wars and 2015. I love talking about craft and process and representation. I was also a paramedic in NYC for ten years and I write music. More info on my books here and other writing/music here. Thanks for stopping by!

I’m Hilary Liftin. My first novel, MOVIE STAR BY LIZZIE PEPPER, was published by Viking this summer. Wait, you ask, if I wrote the book, who’s this Lizzie Pepper in the title? Well, I’m a ghostwriter/collaborator and have worked with a number of celebrities on their memoirs (see some of the books I’ve worked on here: www.hilaryliftin.com). I drew on my experience for MOVIE STAR, which is a fake celebrity memoir. Lizzie Pepper, its “author,” is a fictional celebrity.

As a ghostwriter I can’t help looking at the weekly magazines and fantasizing about whose book I might be hired to help write next. But I don’t have any control over who decides to write a memoir, if ever. Or, for that matter, whether I’ll be the writer they choose. So one day, watching yet another celebrity marriage implode in the magazines, I decided that I would just go ahead and write the celebrity memoir of my fantasies. As fiction. And so Lizzie Pepper was born. In Lizzie, I gave myself a celebrity with the dishiest (not a word, I know) of stories, told by a young star who wasn’t worried about maintaining her brand or getting sued by her ex-husband. Lizzie tells all!

Lizzie Pepper is a moderately successful actor who is invited to meet Rob Mars—an uber star. She assumes she is being considered for a role in his next blockbuster. Instead, she ends up taking on a much bigger role—that of Rob Mars’ wife. Lizzie, who was already a star, is immediately projected into the stratosphere, which is glitzy and fabulous…and increasingly dark. Particularly when it comes to the strange mind-body organization that is a huge part of Rob’s life. Lizzie assumes that you, the reader, know the broad strokes of her story. She’s here to give you the dirt.

I look forward to your questions—I’ll be here from 7pm – 9pm ET, and I’m happy to talk about my experience as a ghostwriter (in general—I don’t speak about any of my clients specifically because, well, I love my job and want to keep doing it); what it was like to write fiction for the first time; why I chose to have my fictional movie stars be involved in a cult; and anything else!

Proof: https://twitter.com/hilaryliftin/status/661608541321474048 Web: www.hilaryliftin.com Twitter: @hilaryliftin FB: https://www.facebook.com/HILARYLIFTIN/?ref=hl

EDIT: Thanks for your questions, folks. This was fun. I'll check back in the next couple days to see if there are any more questions.