I just got word from the publisher! The Eternal Undead will be hitting the shelves October 1!
I'm working on the cover now, so stay tuned for the cover release.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
New Interior Art for THE ETERNAL UNDEAD
Greetings everyone!
It's summertime! The warm weather is here, and with a much needed vacation now behind me, I'm hard at work on the interior illustrations for the third book for my "In the Time of the Dead" trilogy. There will probably be about ten illustrations inside the book, and I've just started on number eight, so they'll be done soon... hopefully by the end of the month. In the meantime, checkout another of the pieces:
It's summertime! The warm weather is here, and with a much needed vacation now behind me, I'm hard at work on the interior illustrations for the third book for my "In the Time of the Dead" trilogy. There will probably be about ten illustrations inside the book, and I've just started on number eight, so they'll be done soon... hopefully by the end of the month. In the meantime, checkout another of the pieces:
I'm anticipating an October release for the book, probably right around Halloween.
So stay tuned!
The Eternal Undead will be hitting the shelves soon!
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Final Interior Piece for "The Eternal Undead"
Sorry for taking so long! This image has been done for a while now, and I've only just remembered that I promised to put it up here when it was. I am seriously forgetful about things like this.
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Anyway, here it is! It will be the first image you hit as you read the book.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
An Update... And Some ART!
It took about eight days, but I've finally finished the read-through of the manuscript for my latest book, "The Eternal Undead," which is the conclusion of the "In the Time of the Dead" trilogy. I'm glad to report that while doing so, I didn't feel the need to rewrite huge portions of the thing, or cut out large swaths of text while pounding my temples asking, "Why the hell did I write this garbage?"
Whew.
And now, I've got to send it off to my agent and my readers for their input. So have I finished reading the thing... at long last?
No. Definitely not.
But I can say that I have a bit of a break from it for now and I can focus on the interior images. You can see, below, the start to the first one readers will encounter as they read the book. It's a different style than the those in the other books, one that I am really digging. I'm about halfway done. When it's finished, I'll throw it up here for your perusal.
Enjoy!
Whew.
And now, I've got to send it off to my agent and my readers for their input. So have I finished reading the thing... at long last?
No. Definitely not.
But I can say that I have a bit of a break from it for now and I can focus on the interior images. You can see, below, the start to the first one readers will encounter as they read the book. It's a different style than the those in the other books, one that I am really digging. I'm about halfway done. When it's finished, I'll throw it up here for your perusal.
Enjoy!
Monday, May 4, 2015
This is the Week
Here I am. This is the week that I get to check out my book again. I've purposefully kept away from the tome for exactly one month so that I can check it out with a pair of fresh eyes, and today is the day that I re-read it for the final time before I send it off to my agent and readers.
For those of you who want to know what is going through the mind of a writer (or really any creative person who has made something from nothing), I found this interesting piece that pretty much encapsulates it:
For every sentence I will be reading over, for every paragraph and chapter, those six steps will be going through my mind one right after the other... hopefully. Hopefully I will land on number six at the end. We shall see.
For those of you who want to know what is going through the mind of a writer (or really any creative person who has made something from nothing), I found this interesting piece that pretty much encapsulates it:
1.- This is awesome.
2.- This is tricky.
3.- This is shit.
4.- I am shit.
5.- This might be ok.
6.- This is awesome.
Monday, April 6, 2015
This "Month on the Shelf" Business
One month. One single, solitary month. What to do, what to do...
Let me tell you what there is to do. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I was going to use this period of time when my book is finished and sitting "on the shelf" for a month (a sort of self-imposed break I take, which, when it is over, allows me to read the work again with fresh eyes) to start work on the art for the interior and cover of said book.
And that I have done! For the cover piece, I've hammered out a few dozen thumbnails, decided on one, arranged my models, and even started my sketch. I would show you what I've got so far in that department, but the cover is supposed to be this cool surprise, you know, there's usually this big "cover reveal" day where the cover is displayed and people "ooh and ah" over it, or mostly just shrug and then click on a video where some cute puppy falls asleep next to some equally cute baby.
Such is life.
But what about writing? I've heard that writers need to write every day. Since I am fairly new to this writing business, I of course hear things like this and immediately start to feel inadequate, thinking, "Oh my God, I haven't written a friggin' thing all day! I'm fooling myself. I suck." So to alleviate this feeling of incompetence, I've decided to start writing short stories in the morning. At first, I thought it would be difficult to come up with ideas for stories, but it actually didn't take long. I just sat in my living room with the kids playing upstairs, sipped coffee, and stared out the picture window. It was nice. Relaxing. And lo! I now have five ideas for short stories that I'll be hammering out over the next month!
I'll keep you posted as to how they're coming along. Right now, I'm doing research on the first one. I haven't decided on a title yet, but it takes place in 1920's America. There's a milkman, his daughter, and a crow. Weird combination, but there it is.
Let me tell you what there is to do. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I was going to use this period of time when my book is finished and sitting "on the shelf" for a month (a sort of self-imposed break I take, which, when it is over, allows me to read the work again with fresh eyes) to start work on the art for the interior and cover of said book.
And that I have done! For the cover piece, I've hammered out a few dozen thumbnails, decided on one, arranged my models, and even started my sketch. I would show you what I've got so far in that department, but the cover is supposed to be this cool surprise, you know, there's usually this big "cover reveal" day where the cover is displayed and people "ooh and ah" over it, or mostly just shrug and then click on a video where some cute puppy falls asleep next to some equally cute baby.
Such is life.
But what about writing? I've heard that writers need to write every day. Since I am fairly new to this writing business, I of course hear things like this and immediately start to feel inadequate, thinking, "Oh my God, I haven't written a friggin' thing all day! I'm fooling myself. I suck." So to alleviate this feeling of incompetence, I've decided to start writing short stories in the morning. At first, I thought it would be difficult to come up with ideas for stories, but it actually didn't take long. I just sat in my living room with the kids playing upstairs, sipped coffee, and stared out the picture window. It was nice. Relaxing. And lo! I now have five ideas for short stories that I'll be hammering out over the next month!
I'll keep you posted as to how they're coming along. Right now, I'm doing research on the first one. I haven't decided on a title yet, but it takes place in 1920's America. There's a milkman, his daughter, and a crow. Weird combination, but there it is.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Book 3 is DONE!
... and now let me qualify that sensationalist title. What is really "done" is the first draft for book three of the "In the Time of the Dead Trilogy." And by "first draft" I mean that I have written 100,000+ words, there is a beginning, middle, and an end, and it seems to be reasonably kick-ass.
With that said, I am now in the process of reading through the whole of the manuscript, checking for any little (or big) issues that may present themselves. This means things like, "Do I really need a comma there? Would that guy really say that?" and "Wait a minute, what day is that happening on? How could they get to the location they are in that short amount of time?" as well as, "Oh man, I completely do not remember writing this, did my kid get on my computer and hammer out these pages?"
You know, stuff like that.
In a few days, after I'm done this read-through, I get to put the sucker on a shelf for a month! That's right, one month! And then, after that, I get to pick it up, dust it off, and attack it with a fresh mind... or as fresh as its going to get- which actually means it has a slight amount of moss growing on it along with an old, withered man in a loincloth walking around inside, banging on its walls with his cane, saying, "This sucks, sonny. Oh, yes, she sucks!"
From there, I get to send it off to my readers and my agent.
Now, lest you think I am sitting back and taking my leisure in those thirty days, let me assure you that I am only sort of doing that. In those intervening days, I shall be working on the cover and the interior pieces for the book. So... stay tuned! I'll be putting some artwork up here in a bit!
Later gaiters.
With that said, I am now in the process of reading through the whole of the manuscript, checking for any little (or big) issues that may present themselves. This means things like, "Do I really need a comma there? Would that guy really say that?" and "Wait a minute, what day is that happening on? How could they get to the location they are in that short amount of time?" as well as, "Oh man, I completely do not remember writing this, did my kid get on my computer and hammer out these pages?"
You know, stuff like that.
In a few days, after I'm done this read-through, I get to put the sucker on a shelf for a month! That's right, one month! And then, after that, I get to pick it up, dust it off, and attack it with a fresh mind... or as fresh as its going to get- which actually means it has a slight amount of moss growing on it along with an old, withered man in a loincloth walking around inside, banging on its walls with his cane, saying, "This sucks, sonny. Oh, yes, she sucks!"
From there, I get to send it off to my readers and my agent.
Now, lest you think I am sitting back and taking my leisure in those thirty days, let me assure you that I am only sort of doing that. In those intervening days, I shall be working on the cover and the interior pieces for the book. So... stay tuned! I'll be putting some artwork up here in a bit!
Later gaiters.
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