I'm still trying to recover from my non-vacation to Disney, plus a week of summer camp for my oldest child. The house is a wreck. I've barely managed to do any work. I would be two pounds thinner after traipsing through Norfolk Botanical Gardens all week long, if it weren't for the fact that the only easily packable snacks we had to take with us were all junk (yes, I ate my way through the garden - blergh!). However, I did manage to finish up a cartoon for this week. And here it is:
This has happened to me many times, and it always, always sucks. But you know when the characters take the story out of your hands, you've got something good going on with the writing.
One thought I'm having. I'm considering doing this cartoon on a semi-regular basis, maybe weekly if I can swing it. It's a lot of work, but I'm hoping that as I become more familiar with the program I'm using and I develop a process, I'll get it done faster. I'm thinking this could be a good marketing tool, no? Post the cartoons here, post links in some online erotica groups, etc. It's a way of attracting potential readers. If they like the comic, then they can find the URL for my writing website on the strip, come visit the site, see some of my writing and art, and so on and so on. Plus I could create bookmarks out of these strips and take them with me to conventions. When I was younger, anytime I found a comic strip I really liked, I always cut it out, laminated it and used it as a bookmark. I still have some of those strips too. Yeah, this could really work.
The first review for Demon By Day is up at Sapphire Phelan's Passion Corner along with my first interview as an author. I've done a couple of conventions with Sapphire in the past, including last month's Balticon, and I have to say she is great to work with. Sapphire has several publishing credits to her name in the romance and erotica genres, including Crimson Promise and Beast Magic, both available from Phaze Books. She also has a story in Coming Together: Under Fire, an erotica charity anthology (benefit relief efforts for the victims of the 2007 Southern California wildfires). Under her other pen name, Pamela Kinney, she's also written Haunted Richmond, which has been nominated for the 2008 Library of Virginia Literary Awards.
Thanks to Sapphire for the great review and for the interview! For those interested in reading Demon By Day, it's available now from Mojocastle Press.
The Coming Together series is a charitable anthology series. Everyone involved, including authors, editor and publisher, donate their work. All proceeds are given to various charities. The charity for With Pride is AVERT, an AIDS/HIV research organization. Yours truly has a story about a gay robot angel in this particular volume. You can buy Coming Together With Pride from Phaze Books or from Amazon.com. The book is available in both print and e-book format.