If there's a job a 21st Century writer can do, then chances are Alex Irvine has done it. He's the author of the Vertigo Encyclopedia, worked as a journalist at the Portland Phoenix, joined the writing team that produced the ground-breaking alternate reality games, The Beast and I Love Bees, and maintains a blog.

As traditional writing jobs disappear during the recession, writers like Levine are assembling careers out of new kinds of writing--mixing online, print, and digital works. GalleyCat interviewed Levine about his work, churning out new ideas for publishers and writers. GalleyCat prowled the teeming, costumed crowd of true-believers at Comic Con this year, uncovering some vital intelligence about this flourishing corner of the publishing industry.

To see more video interviews with innovators, follow these links: a Quirk Books editor talked about zombies and Jane Austen; Eric Nylund discussed how to get video gamers to read books; comics legend Danny Fingeroth talked about graphic novel sales in the recession; Ron Fortier unveiled his pulp fiction revival; and Chris Metzen analyzed World of Warcraft publishing.