A #WIP of The Battle Begins

Well, the page isn't done yet, for reasons I'll get to in a minute, but here's a #wip of page 2: The Battle Begins. Wil and the crew have finally caught up with the mutineers who abandoned them in Bagédaan. Now, there will be justice; and after having faced the horrors of battle on their own, you can be sure […]

Illness in the family

Unfortunately, we're having an illness in the family, so I'm not going to get the weekly page post done. Our poor old pooch got a bladder infection last week. I've been up with her every night for the last five days, cat-napping as best as I can on the couch. The good news is, she's getting better. The bad news […]

FMII: The Rescue! #WIP

Welcome to 2022! I debated about whether to post the graphic novel cover #WIP of my work on The Rescue! I confess, I'm still not 100% sure that doing so is a good thing, but as I'm posting them on Instagram anyway, I decided why not. If you're following along you're going to see all my creative ideas and mistakes that […]

New Things Are Coming in 2022

It's been awhile! Alesia and I have been through a lot in the last few years with deaths in the family, illness, loss of our home, and so on. But things are finally happening  here at Met Pub again, and new things are coming in 2022! Fire Mission II: A graphic novel As you might have noticed, listed in the […]

An Update from Menelon

Hello, Alesia here. Lately, I’ve been trying to come up with a rough estimate of how much draft work that Michael and I have accomplished on Seven for a Secret. My best guess is that we’ve gotten about one-quarter of it down. As in, solidly down. As in, I catch myself going back to re-read what we’ve written because I […]

Writers, Workin’ It Toward the Weekend

It’s been a long week already. If you’re feeling the word-load like we are, I’d like to share with you a fun bit of geekery to brighten your day, and maybe give you something fun to discuss this weekend. This colorful flow chart, according to the article, covers 3800 years of the evolution of the alphabet, “all the way back […]

Just Keep Going

This isn’t another of those manic, so-motivated, happy-2019-or-die posts, and it isn’t for those who are perking right along with their champagne-bubbly, happy new year. This is a little something for the rest of us, those who are struggling to remember why we’re getting out of bed every morning, those who leave for work when it’s dark and come home […]

How Do You Know If You’re A Writer?

It’s the question every writer asks themselves. I don’t know one who hasn’t, at some point in the struggle to get words on paper, just thrown down the pen or chucked the keyboard at the wall in frustration, wondering if we really have what it takes. Well, over at LitHub  Karen E, Bender has written a gorgeous essay on the […]

Six Books, One Binding

We love our multitasking, multi-functional phones, tablets and e-readers, but it seems our ancestors have been rocking that “all in one” vibe at least since early modern times. Practical? Well, we’ll leave it to our readers to decide, but it’s certainly a bravura display of the bookbinder’s art. A tip of the hat on this one to Open Culture. https://www.tumblr.com/erikkwakkel/74300240443/six-books-one-binding-heres-something-special