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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today’s writers and authors have to learn how to wear many hats in order to get their words in front of readers, but in my view, the worst is editing. I hate editing. I really do. Michael says I’ve got a good eye for it, and maybe that’s so for certain aspects of it, but I hate doing it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
