Flawed Femmes wielding Whips, Guns, and Blades
Good villains are difficult to create and I have been working diligently on several for Merreth. I’ve been fortunate in that several artists are taken enough with Lady Merreth and her world that they have depicted several of them for Read More …
I am both pleased and humbled that Lady Merreth is sufficiently popular that some people want to create fan art of her, particularly so as the first novel — Western Watch is only in the second draft stage. Yacermino is Read More …
Shame on me. It has been a while since my last post. However, I have been writing, so I have an excuse. Sort of. In this post I’m going to write about an artist. I’d like to introduce you to Read More …
I’ve mentioned before that I have a page on Deviant Art (DA). For those of you who are unfamiliar with Deviant Art, think of it as Facebook (sort of) for artists. Despite the name it is not devoted to the Read More …
I recently commissioned new artist whose style I liked. Her name on the Deviant Art web site is Lithana-Stia. Commissioning an artist to render your character typically involves some “back and forth” as: You send the artist your concept for Read More …
So, you’ve written a book or short story and you’d like commission an artist to illustrate your character, (or characters). Great! Now what? This is the third article in a short series on finding and working with an artist to Read More …
I have run two contests on Deviant Arts. Winners from the first contest are here. The second one ran from September through December, ending just before Christmas. The contest was entitled “Lights, Camera, Action!” To enter, contestants depicted a scene Read More …
I’m a member of Deviant Arts — DA for short. Despite the suggestive name, DA is a very large social network bringing together producers and, to some extent, consumers of art. ‘Art’ in DA covers a large canvas, so to Read More …
PowerPoint gets a lot of bad press. Poor presentations, all authored in PowerPoint litter both the Internet and company networks. Who has not been bored to tears by countless bullet points and endless “walls of words”? However, PowerPoint can be Read More …
Check out the “LADY MERRETH” menu link above for a character description of my protagonist. On that page you’ll also find another image by SYoshiko, a very talented artist.
