Meadowlark Comic Con is the official Comic Con of Southern Oregon. They bring fans of pop culture the ultimate fandom experience with a flavor of community. Comic books, celebrity guests, toys, video games, cosplay, and more.
Tonya Todd will be appearing alongside Seth Singleton. We’ll have Comics Lit, 52 Love, A Year of Romance, The Austen Chronicles, and many works from some of their favorite creatives. Come spin the wheel for free swag!
We are excited to announce the release of 52 Love A Year of Romance – Volume One by Tonya Todd, the second book in the 52 Love series!
A collection of short stories inspired by the first thirteen tips in 52 Love: Weekly Love Lessons in Bite-Sized Bits.
Authors across a variety of genres, from paranormal to erotica to traditional romance—and with heat levels ranging from sweet to extra spicy—take their favorite characters and incorporate the love lessons into their unique worlds. This delightful anthology showcases the many ways that love is expressed while introducing you to a diverse mix of interpretations.
The stories, like the love lessons, are as varied as human experience. 52 Love: A Year of Romance – Volume One includes stories from authors Paul Atreides, K.T. Bond, Wendy Wimmer, Mel Walker, Brandy M. Miller, Marie Sinclair, R.L. Merrill, Chanel Hardy, Devora Gray, Gregory A. Kompes, J.K. Allen, A.R. Farina, and Tonya Todd.
The first book in this series, 52 Love, can be found on Accomplishing Innovation Press.
You can order this book in all formats directly from us right here on our website, and you can use the code 4HP10 at checkout to receive 10% OFF!
Panel Discussion: Beyond Platform: Growing a Writing Career Without Relying on Social Media
Moderator: Allison K. Williams
Speakers: Rebecca Morrison, Tonya Todd, Darien Gee, and Jane Friedman
Think you need thousands of followers to build a writing career? This diverse panel of successful multi-genre and multi-ethnic writers, editors, and teachers proves otherwise. We’ll discuss strategies for building authentic literary connections, developing our careers through meaningful opportunities, and sharing our work without social media pressure. Learn how literary careers can be built on craft and community, not clicks and shares.
Friday, March 6, at 10:35 a.m. – 11:50 p.m. Eastern
Location: Room 321-322, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Session Code: F145
Four authors celebrate a new short story collection inspired by the love lessons of 52 Love. Through author-to-author conversation and audience Q&A, they’ll explore how love shows up in unexpected forms, be it friendly ghosts, doomed immortals, power-play dynamics, or a supernatural courtship that defies expectations. Join us for an afternoon of heartfelt and swoony romance that proves the limitless possibilities of love.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day and a love-themed book launch all in one! Perfect for couples, friends, or anyone looking for some love-filled stories, 52 Love: A Year of Romance is a short story collection inspired by the first thirteen tips in 52 Love: Weekly Love Lessons in Bite-Sized Pieces, which will also be available for purchase. Sharing the collection will be podcaster, screenwriter, actor, and author Tonya Todd, as well as local author Wendy Wimmer, whose work appears in this anthology.
Tonya Todd is teaming up with Comics Lit contributor Seth Singleton for Kaboom-Con, the ultimate Comic Con Convention for fans of all things pop culture entertainment. In adjacent booths A02 & A03, Tonya and Seth will have copies of Comics Lit, 52 Love, The Austen Chronicles, Comics Lit T-shirts, as well as photos, trading cards, comics, candy, and cos-play cameos from some of your favorite characters.
On Saturday at 1:00, Tonya will speak on the Hollywood to Nevada Panel, and at 3:15, Seth will speak on The Fantasy or Writing.
Kaboom-Con will be held in the Carson City Community Center at 851 East William Street, Carson City, Nevada, 89701. Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of comics, movies, games, and more!
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Have you discovered Tonya Todd?
If you have not grabbed up one of the books from Tonya Todd you are missing out!
Tonya Todd is a Las Vegas author, actress, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Pennsylvania, she plunged into Sin City, young enough to immerse herself in bright lights, big city, and bigger dreams.
Tonya is invested in Own Voices and fair representation in both the literary and cinematic worlds she inhabits. During her four years on the board of Henderson Writers Group, she spearheaded education for authors at all levels and staffed the Las Vegas Writers Conference. Her continued involvement in writing, theatre, and filmmaking communities provides a platform to champion marginalized artists and contributes toward an environment that embraces a variety of voices.
As host of The 52 Love Podcast, she interviewed a myriad of creatives dedicated to celebrating love and art in all its forms. Via Femme On Podcast, Tonya promotes advocacy on Active Activism and women’s health on Femme On Fitness. She hosts Dime Grinds, a monthly author meet-and-greet, and discusses censorship on the annual Banned Books Conversations series. Her appearances this year include moderating First-Page Panels at Las Vegas Writer’s Conference, teaching Literary Citizenship and How to Write with Diversity and Inclusion at the Atlanta Writers Conference, and hosting the 2023 Vegas Film, Author, and Photography Festival.
Tonya plays Cleopatra in Bard at the Bar’s Shakespearean mash-up Caesar & Cleopatra, Laura in the award-winning Wild Within, and Arabella in New Normal, a short film she co-wrote and filmed during the 2020 lockdown. For details on the upcoming Dark Angels: The Demon Pit, Hell’s Coming for You, and Rogue Angel, follow her IMDb page at imdb.me/TonyaTodd.
In between acting, serving as co-chair for The LGBTQ Writer Workshop, and reading submissions for Black Mountain Institute’s literary publication, Witness, Tonya works as a freelance editor and sensitivity reader. Her non-fiction is featured in NPR’s Desert Companion magazine. She also has short stories in Tales from the Silver State IV, Authors Portraits LV, and the Huntington Press Collection Love in the Dunes.
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We are excited for the release of 52 Love: Weekly Love Lessons by Tonya Todd!
52 weekly doses of love advice to inspire all the hearts in your life.
Great stories with powerful relationships impact us time and time again. Whether your favorites consist of Elizabeth and Darcy, Sherlock and Watson, the Ring fellowship, or Professor X and Magneto, we can all say love is eternal. Those kinships create memorable moments that outlast the pages and live beyond the silver screen and often are cherished by their readers. If the hectic pace of life has taught us anything, it’s the importance of making time to preserve relationships with the people occupying our homes and hearts so that our stories last long enough for a sequel.
52 Love offers practical applications for consciously nurturing the love in a romantic partnership, without heteronormative thinking and gender-role assumptions. In weekly installments, this playful guide suggests bedrock principles for strengthening relationships and the heart. The exercises ask readers to stretch a bit beyond their boundaries while offering a wide range of ways to explore new avenues of applying love to everyday life. Whether the relationship is new or decades old, 52 Love provides 52 love lessons for couples of all ages, genders, backgrounds, or affection preferences.
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ARF: The idea of Comics Lit actually started over 30 years ago. I was in my first year of college (University for our friends across the pond) and I was taking an interdisciplinary class where we took a look at how the humanities in general and classic works of literature in particular intersected with our lives. As a comic nerd, I thought it would be fun to start comparing comic book characters and storylines to classic characters and stories from literature.
I made all kinds of connections to tragic figures like Sisyphus as Spider-man or Empusa the shapeshifter as the inspiration for Mystique. I could see how much of the DC Pantheon was straight from Shakespeare. Lex Luthor is Richard III. Jimmy Olson is Horatio. Batman is Henry V. I wasn’t limited to just those plays of course. It was then that I first made the argument that Poison Ivy was inspired by Hawthorne’s short story “Rappicunni’s Daughter.” My ideas were not fully formed then, but I never really stopped thinking about them. I would try them out on my students and push them to make broad connections and while they often didn’t compare literature to comics, they found other amazing ways to connect the old with the new.
Flash forward 25 ish years to a conversation I was having off the mic during the recording of an episode of my Indie Comics Spotlight podcast on the Comics in Motion network. I mentioned something about my Poison Ivy idea and he mentioned he always thought the same thing about Cyborg and Frankenstein’s Monster. We started brainstorming about making a collection of essays based on these two ideas.
I gathered a team of nerds and thankfully for me, and this project, one of them was Ms. Tonya Todd, whom I met for the first time in this life through a mutual podcasting friend Mike Burton. Unfortunately, because of some pandemic stuff, and other just crossed wires, the project sat in purgatory for years. Then Tonya was at a conference and she mentioned this project to Valerie Willis and…
TT: Before I even finished describing the pitch for the collection, Valerie was pining, eyes-wide, arms-outstretched, and reaching through the screen with gimme-gimme hands. This was a live event, so I couldn’t jump onto a call with Tony to ask his permission about sharing details for what he had in mind. My plan was to gauge their interest and possibly connect 4HP with him after the conference. But when Erika joined Val’s enthusiasm, I sent up a silent prayer that Tony would forgive me for representing his project. Dear reader, he did!
ARF: So here we are now, somehow, via her magic powers, Tonya got one of my comic book idols, Bryan Edward Hill, to do the foreword and Volume One is ready for the world. Just like the idea that Ivy was inspired by Hawthorne, the idea that Bruce Wayne and Henry V share some DNA has never left me, and so, as we gather essays for Volume 2, Tonya and I can announce that we will be writing that very essay together, in two parts. It should be epic.
We are excited for the release of Comic Lit Vol 1 by Alyson Shelton, Eric Lee, Kelly Gaines, Seth Singleton, AA McCartney, Heath Fodor, A.R. Farina, Tonya Todd, and Anthony D. Holt Jr.!
Comic books are high art.
They—and their graphic novel counterparts—harken back to classic literature and artworks. Through a series of essays, the authors will illustrate that modern pop culture characters are direct descendants of classic works of literature and their visual depiction is inspired by the works of master artists.
Join us as we peel back layers to discover gothic influences, representations of badass females, uses of the mask, and the new look of Rappaccini’s Daughter as well as discuss teaching comics in college, Black identity and power, mythological and religious tie-ins, and many more correlations hidden within the pages of action-packed heroes and villains. The essayists in this collection are, first and foremost, comic book fans with extensive backgrounds in art, film, education, literature, and writing.
Comics Lit Vol. 1 contains essays by Alyson Shelton, Eric Lee, Kelly Gaines, Seth Singleton, AA McCartney, Heath Fodor, A.R. Farina, Tonya Todd, and Anthony D. Holt Jr. Foreword by Bryan Edward Hill.
You can order this book in all formats directly from our 4HP Website and receive 10% OFF using coupon code 4HP10!
