“[Like my hero,] on my best days I believe in the good that come from the things I do, the way I treat people, the work I get done- but there are plenty days where I feel like the world doesn’t want me or anything I can do for it, and those days I’ll admit- I’m running the motions waiting to die thanks to my depression.”
A friend from Twitter and awesome human, Avery Ames with her own take on the music for The Book of Resurrection, and a playlist that blows my prior attempt out of the water.
A preview of my next novel, The Book of Resurrection, by way of 5 songs that embody scenes from it.
Real world politics and morality have always found their way into great fantasy and sci-fi. Why I’m allowing the tragedy of America’s gun violence epidemic take center stage in my latest novel in progress.
Wherein I ponder the Theseus paradox and the volume of work Drawful has taken.
A look at the scope of continuing work on Drawful the Awful, and where I’m at in my love for this story.
Wherein I discuss the next phase for Drawful: querying, and what’s to come next on the project queue.
A bonus post with a preview of the rough sketches for the Front Cover and (Spoiler Warning) the last illustration of Drawful the Awful.
Wherein I discuss how I tie motivations, morality and thematics together through the archetypes of cardinal virtues and deadly sins.
It’s all well and good to have a hammer and know how to swing it, but without a nail to pound in that holds things together, you’re just making noise.
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