Captain America, CNN top stories, plane crashes, and the Yosemite Writers Conference - By N.L. Belardes

I tried really hard Friday to get CNN to pick up this ABC23 (KERO) story on the creator of Rambo helping to bring Captain America back to life. No go. CNN picked up a plane crash story near here after I tipped them off Friday night. Made top news.





Back to Captain America...

I met up with author of First Blood, David Morrell at the popular Yosemite Writers Conference. Check out this video interview:



Excerpt:

Come Sept. 5, perhaps Captain America can show citizens the way to courage, truth and justice after all.

Captain America is once again entering the consciousness of American popular culture by fighting the war on terrorism in the new six-part action series, “Captain America: The Chosen.”

New York Times best-selling author and creator of Rambo David Morrell has written the stand-alone comic series that follows Captain America’s involvement with a war-tired U.S. marine unit in Afghanistan.

Yet the question remains about the fate of America’s superhero, Steve Rogers, a k a, Captain America. Earlier this year in issue No. 25, Rogers was killed on courthouse steps in New York City.

According to Morrell, the new series pre-dates the superhero’s fictitious death and takes place in a separate Marvel Comics universe.

ABC23 managing editor Nick Belardes spoke with David Morrell at the premiere Yosemite Writers Conference to discuss Morrell’s dive into the world of Marvel Comics.

“I was called by Marvel Comics about two years ago and they thought it would be interesting if the creator of Rambo did a piece about Captain America,” Morrell said.

Now read, "Rambo Creator Reinvents Captain America: Captain America Resurrected To Fight War On Terror."

More on the 2007 Yosemite Writers Conference:

Is Book Publishing Dead? Yosemite Writers Conference Provides Food For Hungry Writers
Yosemite Writers Conference: A Conversation about Blogging
Rambo Creator Reinvents Captain America
Yosemite Writers Conference: Demystifying Chick lit and Women’s fiction
Yosemite Writers Conference: Poetry talk
Mystery talk after David Morrell's big speech
2007 Yosemite Writers Conference: Brenda Knight Sidesteps the TVA man
Yosemite Writers and the Chukchansi bathroom break
Headed to Yosemite Writers Conference to talk writing for social change

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Read Noveltown’s experiences at last year’s Yosemite Writer’s Conference:

By N.L. Belardes
A Writer in Yosemite: Part One
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Two
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Three
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Four
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Five
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Six
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Seven
A Writer in Yosemite: Part Eight

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A great literary weekend
What's your type?
How to Approach a Literary Agent...
The Mary Wong Lee Memorial Scholarship
Malcolm Margolin is Posh
Hanging out with the Pirates of Yosemite and setting the record straight
Kill Your Darlings

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