Comics star, horror novelist and screenwriter Mike Carey will be on hand to answer questions on Friday.

Carey recently reinvented the zombie genre for a literary readership with his novel The Girl With All The Gifts – described in the Guardian as "original, thrilling and powerful".

Carey is well-known for his various series for DC Comics, where he wrote Lucifer, spinning off from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and a 40-issue run on the seminal occult horror comic Hellblazer, starring cult character John Constantine, who is shortly to appear in a much-anticipated NBC TV series.

There is much of the wise-cracking Constantine in Carey's exorcist protagonist Felix Castor, who has now appeared in five novels. He has also in recent years written some of Marvel Comics' most high-profile properties, including X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

Now Carey is moving into yet another medium, with a number of film and TV projects in development – including the movie adaptation of his own novel and an adaptation of Jonathan Trigell's novel Genus.

Carey's webchat is part of the warm-up for the Literary Consultancy's Writing in a Digital Age Conference. He will take part in the Canon Tales session, in which a variety of writers, publishers and other literary professionals will take to the stage beneath a large screen to tell the story of their writing lives in 20 slides.

The three-day festival is now in its third year, and will also include a keynote talk by pioneering 'hybrid' writer Cory Doctorow, a panel discussion on the current state of the publishing industry with Stephen Page (Faber), Diego Mariano (Kobo Writing Life), literary agent James Gill (United Agents) and Nielsen Books' Steven Bohmem, as well as lots of networking opportunities for writers.

For more information, go to the conference website.

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