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Ivory Madison
Ask me about the time I tried to kill the poet laureate of the United States

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Red Room mentioned in Investors Business Daily today!

Nov.08.2011

Red Room mentioned in Investors Business Daily today!

Sheila Riley wrote an article about how authors are using technology to market themselves and gave us about 300 words about Red Room, all nice. Thanks, Sheila!

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PUBLISHED: Dec.16.2009

Batman 80-Page Giant #1

Written by Steve Niles, Ivory Madison (read blog post about her contribution, "No Two Alike"), David Tischman, Simon Spurrier and others Art by Chris Samnee, Clayton Henry, Marcus To, Saleem Crawford and others Cover by Andy Kubert The BATMAN 80-PAGE GIANT features can't-miss action from some of today's premiere up-and-coming talent working on your favorite characters! It...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.28.2009

Huntress: Year One

As the last survivor of a crime family eliminated by bloody rivalries among the mobs of Gotham City, the orphaned Helena Bertinelli grew into the mysterious vigilante known as the Huntress. New writer Ivory Madison shines a light on the dark underbelly of the mob world spanning from Gotham to Sicily, exploring exactly what led Helena away from a life in the Cosa Nostra criminal...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.07.2008

Silent Songs

Opera singer Gerda Christensen Fiske was born in 1916 to Danish immigrants, and raised in New York City. Her father, a poet and philosopher, and her mother, a suffragist, encouraged her interests in writing and the arts. Her beloved husband, writer and photographer A. Richard Fiske, also inspired Gerda, first in her career a professional opera singer, and then after his untimely...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.25.2008

The Huntress: Year One #4 "To The Edge"

Written by Ivory Madison; Art by Cliff Richards, Art Thibert and Norm Rapmund; Cover by Matthew Clark In issue #4, a deadly battle with her family's assassin in the middle of Venice's Carnival leaves Huntress with no choice but to return to Gotham - sparking a fateful first meeting with Bruce Wayne!

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The Huntress: Year One #3 "Respect"

Written by Ivory Madison; Art by Cliff Richards, Art Thibert and Norm Rapmund; Cover by Matthew Clark Helena Bertinelli's vigilante attack on the shadowy cabal known as the Hand makes her a marked woman in Italy - just as a childhood mentor returns from the dead and inspires her to don the Huntress costume for the first time.

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PUBLISHED: Jun.09.2008

THE HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE #5 "The Hunted"

Written by Ivory Madison; Art by Cliff Richards and Norm Rapmund; Covers by Matthew Clark Driven to uncover a mob conspiracy in Gotham, Huntress runs afoul of Batman — and teaming up with Catwoman doesn't score her any points with him, either! Then, in the miniseries' finale, the gripping origin story concludes! Huntress tackles a deadly plot to blow up Gotham City and...

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PUBLISHED: May.29.2008

The Huntress: Year One #2 "La Donna e Mobile"

Written by Ivory Madison; Art by Cliff Richards and Art Thibert; Cover by Matthew Clark Helena Bertinelli's vow never to return to Gotham is tested by her vigilante fight to reclaim her inheritance from the Sicilian underworld — and by her unexpected feelings for the son of a Gotham kingpin!

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PUBLISHED: May.14.2008

Huntress: Year One #1 "Girls Can't Be Pope"

In 1987, Frank Miller wrote Batman: Year One, which tells the story of Batman's first year as a superhero vigilante. Now DC Comics gives the Year One treatment to Huntress, the last living member of a famous mafia family who grows up to become a superhero vigilante in Gotham City. As the last survivor of a family eliminated by bloody rivalries among the mobs of Gotham, young Helena...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2001

The Post-postmodern Principles of a Reluctant Philosopher-King

Madison reviews Peter Gabel's The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning. Her analysis provides insight into Gabel's philosophical lineage, the postmodern lexicon and its roots, and the missing feminist perspective that haunts Gabel's work in Critical Legal Theory, political history, and spiritual humanist philosophy vis-a-vis scientific paradigms. The essay...

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Huntress Year One #6 : The Prodigal Daughter Returns

Written by Ivory Madison Art by Cliff Richards and Norm Rapmund Cover by Matthew Clark Driven to uncover a mob conspiracy in Gotham, Huntress runs afoul of Batman — and teaming up with Catwoman doesn't score her any points with him, either! Then, in the miniseries' finale, the gripping origin story concludes! Huntress tackles a deadly plot to blow up Gotham City and forces a...

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Ivory's Latest Blogs

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Nov.08.2011 - 3:00 pm

"Are Women People?" (Title of a 1915 suffragist column in the New York Tribune)

Here in San Francisco, today is Election Day. I received an email from Bay Area NOW, the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, reminding me how recent of a...

Oct.24.2011 - 2:38 pm

Authors of the World Unite! Let's Boldly Go Where No Author Has Gone Before.

This Uelsmann image helped inspire us to blow the roof of what was possible for authors

I have what may have the best news for traditionally published authors ever. In addition to what your publisher pays you, Red Room now pays you more than your publisher does on...

Aug.13.2011 - 9:36 am

Welcome to a brand new Red Room!

Personification of Red Room 2.0: Astronaut and Secret Agent Steve Austin

Our team has been working behind the scenes for more than a year to launch what you're looking at now: Red Room 2.0! It's exactly like the pilot for the Six Million Dollar Man. No...

Jun.29.2010 - 2:44 pm

Stanford wants Red Room writing coaches

I've been asked to speak at Stanford University lately, first for their Publishing Course, then for a writers conference, and then I was asked to speak at their Graduate School of...

Comments from Ivory

Nov.13.2011 - 2:47 pm

In response to: "Are Women People?" (Title of a 1915 suffragist column in the New York Tribune)

Hi Gloria!

What an honor to receive a comment from you. So happy to have you on Red Room, Gloria! I hope everyone reading this...

Sep.03.2011 - 10:42 am

In response to: Welcome to a brand new Red Room!

Exactly

I can't tell you how much better we all feel about the new site. It was good feng shui to throw the old one away. We...

Aug.25.2011 - 8:50 pm

In response to: DIFFERENT BOOK COVERS FOR US AND UK MARKETS

Wow, Dale!

I just checked our analytics, and did you know you got about 2,500 readers of this blog post on August 17th? I really...

Aug.14.2011 - 8:45 am

In response to: Welcome to a brand new Red Room!

Ready to Launch

This is a song from the late nineties that Abe was enjoying in the Netherlands while I was enjoying it here, before we...

Aug.14.2011 - 8:38 am

In response to: Welcome to a brand new Red Room!

Thanks Jitu

I always like being called Madam.

Writing

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Article: Carla Zilber-Smith Acts with Talent, Humor, and Courage

Article: Making History: Our Own Personal History of Books (a book review of Steve Leveen's "The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life")

Article: CEO By Day, Superhero By Night

Published Reviews

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Mar.09.2009

Huntress: Year One

Published by Publisher's Weekly

A regular in Birds of Prey, Huntress is the sort of character who needs a clear origin story. In her typical comic appearances, it's often hard to get a grasp of who Huntress is,...

Audio & Video

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Video: Judges on Belo Cipriani at Literary Death Match, San Francisco

Video: Justin Bieber's Masterpiece

Video: Huntress Slideshow and Talk at Litquake 2009

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We got a nice 300-word write-up in Investor's Business Daily. I'm sure Warren Buffett and George Soros are discussing me right now. — 11 weeks 3 days ago

What Ivory is saying on ...

Merry Christmas to all my friends.
I just wrote this blog post about today's election in San Francisco--vote for Sharmin Bock for DA--and about the history of women getting the vote.
"Are Women People?" (Title of a 1915 suffragist column in the New York Tribune) | Ivory Madison | Bl

Red Room is a social media site for the literary world. Red Room connects writers and best-selling authors with thousands of readers through blogs, events, podcasts and videos.
On my way to a fundraiser we're co-hosting for Sharmin Bock, the only prosecutor running for DA in San Francisco, plus, the most amazing prosecutor I've ever met. We need her for DA! The event is at author Terry Gamble's house, 5-7pm, email me for the address and please come. Thanks.

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Never give up. No matter what is happening. No matter what is going on around you, never give up. ”

—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

About Ivory

Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief Ivory Madison founded Red Room. Madison is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur living in her hometown of San Francisco. A former management consultant to startups and Fortune 500 companies, Madison combines...

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