It seems criminal that it should have taken me this long to write about my first full day at RT, but what can I say — I’ve been working, and working is a good thing; it means income and the ability to pay off bills, like the big one I’ll get for attending RT. Anyway, I got up early on Wednesday so I could line up, officially register, and get my badge — the passport to all RT events, they like to…
It’s been a long while since I’ve updated my blog, even longer since I’ve updated regularly. Yesterday was my birthday, a great time to turn over a new leaf, and since I’m trying to be a good girl, I will attempt this blogging thing once again. For Drew, and for any others who miraculously still follow Alien Barbecue, I know I still owe you many a post about my trip last October. I’ll get to that, I promise. But this…
It’s funny. Now that e-books are becoming more and more mainstream, I find myself falling more and more in love with print book design. I’m still doing e-book covers, but … but … I’m going in the wrong direction! But I do love book design with all my heart. I’ve started working for a lot of self-publishing authors lately, especially those publishing through Createspace and Lightning Source. I take their manuscripts and turn them into cleanly formatted, press-ready PDF text…
H.E. persists in suggesting I do my own children’s books. I’m not against the idea, but I need time to work on something publishable. In the meantime, I’ve started doing interior illustrations. The book is Toto’s Tale, by K.D. Hays and Meg Weidman, published by Zumaya Publications, for whom I’ve done covers for books like Unveiling the Enigma and Busting Loose. Toto’s Tale is essentially the story of The Wizard of Oz, as told from Toto’s point of view, and…
Today, I worked on a cover that I normally would have assigned to someone else, but that someone else already had plenty on her plate, and I wanted to do something a little different from my usual fare and take a break from my illustration work. So I took on Amanda Steiger’s urban fantasy, Unclaimed, where the author requests something like The Scent of Shadows—except the heroine should have short black hair. I had a hard time finding the stock…