It's apt that I'm coming back here on the turning of a new year, 6 years later, eep!
I'm doing a massive clean/purge of this account, but I figured I'd pop back in to say--hey! A few more things happened since the last entry in 2012, and I'll summarize them below, but I'm going to be keeping this account up to date from now on. I'm diving headlong back into art after side-lining it for nearly a decade, and I'll be posting some of it here as I go along.
In any case, you might know me as an author, first, before an artist. I wrote
The Lake and the Library, Scion of the Fox, and
Children of the Bloodlands, whose final sequel,
The Brilliant Dark, will be out in 2019. I've also co-edited a comics anthology,
Gothic Tales of Haunted Love, which featured a comic I wrote in there ("A Heritage of Woods"), and my YA fantasy work has won and been nominated for a few awards.
You can find more info about my books
here.
By day, I work as a book publishing professional, mainly as an editor, book cover designer, typesetter, and often as general procedural consultant. I help independent creators get their projects off the ground, advise them on business strategies, and travel widely to speak at conferences, schools, libraries, and comic conventions about the book & comic publishing industries.
I've been busy, to say the least.
But the desire to make my own visual art has remained--it's been a combination of timing, work scheduling, general life, and focusing more on the writing side, that has led to the art falling by the wayside. I work in the studio of two full-time digital artists, though, and that was the catalyst for me to dive headlong into comic-making, now that my first YA trilogy is in the bag.
The comic,
Krampus Is My Boyfriend!, can be read
here for free, and updates every MWF (energy-willing.)
If you ever have any questions about publishing, being an author, or what I know about comics on the theoretical level (IE, I've been a comics EDITOR some years...I'm just bashing around now with the rest of it--layouts, typesetting, the, uh, drawing), please feel free to send me a Note!
In any case, if you're still looking at this account, bless your heart. I started it when I was 13, and I'm 29 now. It actually feels kinda nice to be here.
Cheers,
S