In line with new designs for The Lost, I updated the cover of The Last. Someday soon I’ll do a full post describing how this cover went from idea to its current state. Briefly, along with the text changes to the title I described for The Lost, I redid the colorization so his shirt pops more, everything is sharper, and I zoomed the image so he doesn’t look tiny next to Anna in The Lost 🙂 Oh, and I added the biohazard icon at the bottom. Other news SY goes to a salsa class tonight! I’ll have some street … Read More
The Lost cover!!
So yesterday I blogged the cover of The Lost, as part of making the page for my website, but here it is again with commentary- I have changed a number of things from the first iteration of The Last. I think this is easily my most pro-looking cover yet. The last font was flat, blank, white, on a line. It stood out, but like typewritten ink on a page. This one is an interesting font for the title- bobbled up and down unevenly, kerned (some letters pushed closer together) and stretched (original font was more squat), destructed (via a … Read More
The Lost – Zombie Ocean 2
The Lost is Book 2 in the Zombie Ocean series, and a zombie apocalypse story with a twist: the hero is a 5-year-old girl. 7 billion zombies. 1 little girl. When the zombie apocalypse claims America, only 1 in 10 million survive. Anna is one of them. She’s five years old. She likes banana milkshakes and Alice in Wonderland. She’s alone in a world she cannot understand. Will she survive? ‘Alice in Wonderland’ smashed up with the zombie apocalypse like you’ve never seen it before, packed with gore, twists and the delightfully surreal. The Lost, Book 2 of the … Read More
The Lost- cover peek 2
So Francisco (my cover artist, found through Deviant Art) has almost finished the cover image for The Lost, sequel to The Last. It’s more zombies plus the little girl, Anna. Here it is- I love it. She’s vibrant and in the thick of things. It’s dynamic. He’ll do finishing touches, then I expect I’ll transform it to be in line with the first book. That means desaturate the zombies, amp up the contrast, and of course add titles. I’ll work on that today- plus I’ll set up the preorder on Amazon (for just one week away) and start lining … Read More
The Lost- cover rough sneak peek!
Book 2 of my Zombie Ocean series- The Lost- is finished, edited and proofed, and now the cover is almost done too: This is the rough sketch from Francisco, and I love it. In the middle is Anna, 5 years old and an apocalypse survivor. This book has some good twists, I think. This cover is just the beginning. The book will be out in a week! Stay tuned for details upcoming. Working on it really made me think about story theory. My writer pal Matt said The Last seems to be primarily a character arc story, with uneven presence … Read More
Navigating Life When Things Get Hard
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Virtutibus igitur rectissime mihi videris et ad consuetudinem nostrae orationis vitia posuisse contraria. Te enim iudicem aequum puto, modo quae dicat ille bene noris. Sint modo partes vitae beatae. Cum praesertim illa perdiscere ludus esset. Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Quarum ambarum rerum cum medicinam pollicetur, luxuriae licentiam pollicetur. Alterum significari idem, ut si diceretur, officia media omnia aut pleraque servantem vivere. Qui-vere falsone, quaerere mittimus-dicitur oculis se privasse; Non est enim vitium in oratione solum, sed etiam in moribus. Nummus in Croesi divitiis obscuratur, pars est tamen divitiarum. Si quicquam extra virtutem … Read More
The Last – Last Mayor 1
The Last is Book 1 in the Last Mayor apocalypse thriller series. 7 billion dead. 1 man alive. When the apocalypse hits America, not a soul is left alive. Except Amo. He’s a comic book artist. He’s a video game world builder. He’s just a regular guy living in New York city, with only his wits, creativity and basic decency to guide him. He’s alone against 7 billion of the dead. Will he survive? A blistering take on the end of the world and one man’s ingenious struggle to survive, with a twist that’ll rip off your head and eat … Read More
Why Walking Dead season 5 whiffed, languished, echoed and finally rocked.
I love Walking Dead. I didn’t at first, I’ll admit that- for a few years in the middle I was staring in disbelief at people as they said it was the best show on TV. “What?” I’d declaim. “That bunch of pansies?” It seemed to me that Rick and crew were weak. They failed repeatedly. They were not survivors. But things changed. I gave it another go at season 3, and I liked what I saw. I’ve liked it ever since, and I liked season 5 plenty too, despite a series of whiffs, languishments, and echoes that it took to … Read More
Easter Week
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Virtutibus igitur rectissime mihi videris et ad consuetudinem nostrae orationis vitia posuisse contraria. Te enim iudicem aequum puto, modo quae dicat ille bene noris. Sint modo partes vitae beatae. Cum praesertim illa perdiscere ludus esset. Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Quarum ambarum rerum cum medicinam pollicetur, luxuriae licentiam pollicetur. Alterum significari idem, ut si diceretur, officia media omnia aut pleraque servantem vivere. Qui-vere falsone, quaerere mittimus-dicitur oculis se privasse; Non est enim vitium in oratione solum, sed etiam in moribus. Nummus in Croesi divitiis obscuratur, pars est tamen divitiarum. Si quicquam extra virtutem … Read More
