HOUSE OF WHISPERS, VOLUME ONE: THE POWER, DIVIDED

Well, yeah, I’d been wanting to write some comics, had been informally teaching myself about writing comics scripts. But I didn’t expect DC’s Vertigo Publishing to contact me and invite me to give them a pitch for one of the new stories in the reboot of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman! And I certainly didn’t expect them to accept my pitch. But they did the first thing, and then they did the second, and then I found myself learning how to write comics by coming up with and writing new scripts for a story line proceeding from what, about three decades ago, had been one of North America’s most groundbreaking comics series. House of Whispers Volume One: The Power, Divided, collects House of Whispers #1-6 and Sandman Universe Special #1. I wrote issues 1-4, then writer Dan Watters joined me to co-write issues 5 and 6.

From the description: One of four books expanding Neil Gaiman's acclaimed Sandman Universe. Welcome to the House of Dahomey, the houseboat of Erzulie Fréda, where the souls of Voodoo followers go when they sleep but even the fearsome Erzulie is powerless when her dream river turns sour, tossing her house from one realm and into another… the Dreaming!

Written by Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber, and Dominike "Domo" Stanton, artist of the acclaimed Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

The Sandman Universe is a new series of books curated by Neil Gaiman for DC Vertigo. Conjuring epic storytelling and immersing readers into the evolving world of the Dreaming, The Sandman Universe begins anew with four new ongoing series, existing in a shared universe, building upon Gaiman's New York Times best-selling series that lyrically wove together stories of dreams and magic.