Team Todd, Team Phil, and Team Rob

I've been considering making spoof T-shirts of twilight's team edward and team jacob craze. It seemed amusing to have the characters from Earthbound in similar shirts, especially since two of the three are spectacularly unattractive. It could be an amusing gimmick to get some attention. With every tween and teen knowing about the jacob/edward thing, I imagine I'd get a lot of confused and curious inquiries about the other characters that they'd never heard about.

I'll have to see about making some sort of cartoony/realistic sketch of the three characters. They may be forthcoming. It just depends on time and my artistic talents.

Merchandising Extravaganza

I spent the better part of the morning and afternoon designing some pretty neat logos and such for some apparel on cafepress. I know they're not always the cheapest, but they do good work, and some of the options they have are pretty darn spiffy.

So i've got clothes, stationery, bags, clocks, doggie t's, magnets, buttons, calendars, and a pile of other stuff on there (including those really nice maps to accompany my Perennials and Sworn Lands books). There's a lot of stuff for In-Roam, Equinox, and Earthbound, but a few from Pancake & Hen, Afterlives, and a few other series, too.

Take a peek over at: http://www.cafepress.com/underspace/

Perennials Map

I've just finished my map for the Perennials Saga. Originally published and updated with each book of the 5-book series, it is available for the first time in color! Unlike the 11x17 I used for my map of the Sworn Lands, this one is 16x20, still in full color. Because of the added size, it is a bit more expensive, but there was so much detail that it seemed warranted to have a larger poster (and you can only have one item of each sort on a free cafepress site).

Again, that link is http://www.cafepress.com/underspace

Take a peek, and enjoy!

What I'm Doing Now

After a couple weeks on vacation following the finish of Shadowcaster, I've started to work on an upgraded version of the Perennials Map, in full color. I have a few more nights of work to do on it before it is ready for cafepress, but it is looking surprisingly good for something I had never fully intended to colorize.

I'm back to work as well, so this will slow down any upcoming writing projects. It's important to settle in well at my new job, so writing is temporarily on the back burner. Also, I need to spend some time with our exchange student before he heads back in a couple weeks. It should be a really busy August. September might bring something new. Might.

Sworn Lands Map

Just got my copy of the Map of the Sworn Lands from cafepress. The print quality far surpassed my expectations. It's very nice. It's about 11x16 or so, and it's got a nice glossy finish. It's quite nice. I'm considering redoing the Perennial's map and selling that on cafepress, too!

Posters and More

For the upcoming release of the Sworn Lands book, I'm putting a color poster up for sale on cafepress, and i'm also going to release a very basic edition of a deck of cards for 5's on my homepage. You would have to print them yourself on card stock and cut them out, but it would still be an option. To see more of the poster, go to: http://www.cafepress.com/underspace