Art, Snakes, and Knowledge

It’s weird having my work start to take a full, tangible shape. It’s no longer just an idea or just some words on a document, but a real, graspable thing.

I’m in the process of getting the art for my book cover back currently, as well as having another wonderful artist create character art for the website. Seeing other people put my ideas and words into reality in their own creative way is so… exciting! Having their spin, their creative freedom filtered over my ideas and seeing how they translate my scrambled mess of thoughts and ideas into something real is just… Wow.

I’m so excited, so thrilled, so nervous, so worried. I’ve been replaying both the Metal Gear Solid series and Alan Wake 1 - partially for the inspiration they helped to originally give me and partially because I love (and in the case of MGS love and loathe) these games. I recently finished painting a resin statue too. It looks terrible, but there’s something fun in it too. It’s calming in a way.

I’ve been working on my sketching abilities too, need to keep the tools sharp right?

I’m terrified the world won’t like my books, but at the same time, a part of me is okay if it doesn’t. I’m writing these for myself as much as anyone else, but if others love my work, then I’ll be happy too.

I’ll slap a picture or two below to show what I’ve been up to!

The sketch I did! Neighbor’s dog included.

I love how the picture makes the paintjob look even worse.

Anyways, that’s all from me today!

Games, books, and other bidness…

So, I’ve been working on making this website for a long time. I’m scatterbrained on most days so it can be hard to form enough thoughts and energy into something precise.

I’m working on a lot of things at once here. I’m hunting artists for cover art and other exciting things. I hope to have backgrounds, character art, etc. all that jazz so that my stories and dreams can better be realized. I can’t wait to show off their great work! On top of that I’m writing book 5 (about halfway done with the first draft) and re-editing my first book so that my editor doesn’t give up hope on me! (I kid, thank you Susan, you’ve been amazing!)

I’ve also gotten into DnD recently with some friends, I’m still trying to practice guitar, and I might get into painting miniatures (40k has consumed my brain lately).

I’ve got a million ideas, both for this book series and two others I hope to write some time in my future. We’ll see how that goes. Check back here in like 10 years or something.

I’m also going to be reading more books, and I’m excited for that too!

Take care world, I hope I can make someone else’s day better.

The beginning of something more!

So I’ve decided I’ll be writing a blog to catalogue the progression of my books, story ideas, and personal adventures!