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Better today. Did seven pages on JASON. Got past the scene I’d been struggling with. Figured out why I’d been having fits with it, but can’t tell you guys because it would be way over sharing.
We’re gearing up for the cons we’re going to. Conestoga next weekend in Tulsa, OK. Comicon the week after that, in San Diego, CA. We’re shipping merchandise to comicon, quite a bit of merch. Enough that Mary, Darla, Richard, Sherry, and even Trin have been packing things up for a few days now. Did I mention in the blog that we have catalogs? They’ll be unveiled at comicon. We’ve got two different covers. The regular and the one that if you buy over a certain amount you can get that one instead. There’s also a black and white version of THE FIRST DEATH, the Anita prequel comic, available at comicon. You can preorder it on e-bay already.
Oh, and we’ll be at Nasfic, which is the World Science Fiction convention for the United States when the official World con is out of the country. Conveniently, Nasfic is in St. Louis, or just across the river in Collinsville, Illinois.
It’s been a big week. We had the hardback of GUILTY PLEASURES with it’s new short story come out. And THE FIRST DEATH, is out in all it’s colored glory at the comic stores. The interior art is Wellington Alves, and the cover by Brett Booth. Jon’s been very cute. He’s been enjoying the fact that when he types his name at the Marvel sight both issues of FIRST DEATH come up under his name. (The short story in the back of the hardback was the first thing we collaborated on, but it isn’t listed for him.) Part of our partnership as a couple seems to be me helping Jon be more focused and goal attaining, and him helping me remember to enjoy the process.
We checked on the forum and someone asked about a Richard poster. We will be doing a poster, eventually, but let us get back from comicon, and the new stuff that’s coming out for that before we do something else new. The whole Richard poster is probably because I mentioned it in a blog because I got to see the art work. It’s great art work, but let us and the Dabel team survive all the stuff we’re already committed to before we add something new to do.
But yes, I am talking to Brett about doing pictures for us of the guys that don’t appear until later in the books. Richard, because, well, third book. But I gave Brett a list of guys to choose from in his copious spare time. (Brett has about as much spare time as I do, which is none. But strangely, we do things in that down time we don’t have. I write on new stuff to relax, and sometimes he draws different stuff to relax. Whatever works, right?) But anyway, would it drive you guys crazy to say that he sent me a pencil today of one of the guys that’s even further into the comic book future?