Beloved give it a makeover.

FINALLY found a font I’m satisfied with. Switched up the wheel so that it looks more unworldly, added a gradient, smacked on a border, and boom - customer interest.

Releasing this Saturday!

Is this better?

I got rid of the ugly, under-colouring ‘glow’ and refined it to an effects layer [harder than it looks, I had to re-fill the wheel and delete all the noise from my previous attempts] which I can now edit to my heart’s content.

I also added some blood red to the body of the bicycle and fooled with the opacity a little. Too strong == uglier :P

I mean, I want it to look like an ugly colourisation job, but not THAT ugly.

I’m still not happy with the firkin title font though.

What do you think?

pardonourfandom:

Ok guys check this out!

This Halloween, while celebrating the rise of the dead and Samhain, the end of the harvest season, and a night of free candy and imaginative costumes, give someone a scary book to enjoy. It can be a relative, a friend, a special other, a classmate, fellow worker, bus driver, whoever!

Share the spine tingling sensation that Halloween brings through a good scary book and spread the creeping feeling of horror to the readers on this eventful night…they may find themselves afraid to be alone!

For more information about All Hallow’s Read, watch the masterful author Neil Gaiman briefly introduce the event, or go visit their website http://www.allhallowsread.com/ for more information. There are book recommendations for those who can’t decide which book to give away and fun extras including posters and other fun downloads!

Let’s make All Hallow’s Read a new tradition!

[Added linkage for your convenience]

Every October 4 [my birthday] I release a free short story onto the interwebs in honour of All Hallows’ Read. Obviously, I can’t ‘do’ horror. Not yet. This year, I’m settling for creepy.

Stay tuned, folks. Shameless shill will be proceeding once I get the firkin cover finalised.

(Source: fangirl-verified, via neil-gaiman)

ATTN: Beta readers

I have just sent out Book 1, version 1.2 for reading and reviewing.

If you have volunteered as a beta reader, but not received an email from me, you need to get back to me with an email address that works.

I am cleaning out all the non-responsive emails from my Beta-readers list.

I want this book out in the world ASAP. Preferably in time for All Hallows’ Read. AKA this October.

The clock is ticking.

khyarete:

Neil Gaiman Explains All Hallow’s Read (by Neil Gaiman)

DO IT.

I would if I could, but my Beta Readers are preventing me from releasing a FREE NOVEL in time for October by not getting their collective thumbs out of their collective divots.

Still crossing my fingers so that I can participate, though.

(Source: youtube.com, via neil-gaiman)

Merry Halloween!

Fifty-four peeps have downloaded my free story [And a few of you have sampled the others available] so here’s a thank-you pic of sorts. The Oshit in all its fuzzy, cuddly glory… as rendered by Xotxot.

Of course, when I’m finally a famous author, I’ll be giving these darlings away as toys :D What say you all to ‘Orrible 'Airy Oshit onna stick? Plush cuddly Oshit pillow dolls?

Scavenger is live!

Yes! The free book is out. Go. Download. Read. Enjoy.

ps, Happy 40th to me.

pps, Somehow, I have two folks downloading before I have the ISBN'ed version up. Go me.

Things to be grateful for #5247985965490921…

The fact that Xotxot came through with the brilliant cover on the right; so that you get to read a book with that cover, rather than the nasty thing on the left that I came up with.

First thing tomorrow morn, mytime, that cover is going to be in my Smashwords profile. Enjoy!

An announcement

Firstly, I would like to thank Neil Gaiman for the idea that wound its way into my head and did what ideas do best: mutate into near cthulu-esque proportions.

See, the kind and apparently flamingo-like Mr Gaiman came up with/publicised All Hallows Read, an event in which people who celebrate Halloween [and even those who choose not to] can give away a spooky book to friends, family or complete strangers.

So I wrote a completely new story. From go to whoa, it took me two weeks, including piddly editing details that are now my new definition of Purgatory [Sorry, Mum].

I did try to write spooky. Almost all atmosphere and the world-gone-wrong and big hairy things jumping on the hero(ine)… but it still wound up as comedy. Le sigh.

I’m giving it away for free anyway.

So watch my Smashwords page come October 4 [Though since I’m Australian, most of you will see it Oct 5…] as my special birthday present to everyone who cares to read my shit stuff is a free short story.

I would very much like it if the folks who took the time to read said free story paid some real money for my other works, but that’s just icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned.

What I really want for my birthday, is to be read.

Have fun.