About

Barbara is my real first name, but I want to be known as Barb when artist (graphic novels & illustrations) and Barbara G.Tarn when writer (novels and screenplays).
I’m a writer and an artist and English is not my first language, so bear with me if I make writing mistakes!

The story so far: I was born in 1965 and in the late 70s I started writing my first (illustrated) stories. During high school I expanded – past, present (mostly boy meets girl stories) and future. Second half of the 80s I wrote what I considered sci-fi and later discovered was science fantasy or space opera (I’m still quite a technophobe in most fields…). In 1988 I started my day job and went part-time ten years later – I’m still there, but my real job is writing. I started writing fantasy because I was into heavy metal at the time and all those long-haired guys inspired some medieval-like stories. With the new millennium and a couple of creative writing course (or vacation studies) I decided to start writing in English and thought the easiest way would be screenwriting – my adventures are summarized in the “Barb goes to Hollywood” older posts. In 2008 I went back to prose and started translating and writing the novels for my fantasy world called Silvery Earth.

I’m a self-taught, compulsive, unpublished professional writer – professional because if you count the words I have written, I’m definitely a pro, even if most of them are unpublishable or still handwritten, but they made an excellent school.

Welcome to my blog, my world, my struggles. Topics will be world creation & writing projects, real world inspiration (books, movies, events that spur my imagination or thoughts on writing/drawing) and my struggles with publishers & producers, the zines and the POD revolution.

UPDATE:

Unicorn Productions was born in the late 1990s to publish the graphic novels and one-shot comics by Barbara G.Tarn.
Those photocopied zines with the unicorn logo are now out of print, so the dozen lucky readers who have them might one day get rich.
Now the imprint is alive again thanks to new technology. It’s slowly expanding to other authors and genres… except it’s still the same person writing the stories!
Barbara G.Tarn writes fantasy and some sci-fi
B.G.Hope writes contemporary fiction including M/M romance
Barbara Sangiorgio is for the stories set in Italy that would get lost in translation.
Three pen-names for a prolific writer

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