Well, I’ve been working obsessively again. I got an idea a while back and have been refining it for a long time in my head, but finally, two weeks ago, I started working on actually creating it.
I wanted to make something cool for my future email subscribers. Since I don’t use social media, my email list has become a top priority. I wanted to give you something you couldn’t find anywhere else—something unique to me and my skillset as well as my story-world. So, I started scheming up what I think is a perfect gift for readers or potential readers of the Dronefall Series.
Has the pop-up interrupted me yet? Yep, that’s it. I created a comic adaptation for the first chapter of the first book in the Dronefall Series.
Read the Comic
I’ve got a dedicated landing page for it, too. If you check the menu and click on “Free Comic” it will take you there. The comic is 8 pages long (plus a cover and a bonus page at the end.) I drew the whole thing traditionally using alcohol markers in a manga-like grayscale. I’m still gun-shy about full-color. Alcohol markers are a new medium for me.
I’m going to do a post on my whole process for adapting and creating the comic, so you’ll get more details on that, shortly. In the meantime, I’m really excited to share this rather unusual teaser with you. I’m a visual person, and I’ve always had very strong imagery in my head while writing Dronefall. This is a chance for you to get a uniquely visual introduction to my story in a way few authors could replicate. My lifelong love of sequential art made me do it. You’re welcome. *rubs migraine-glitter out of eyes*
So, that was kind of intense. Especially coming right off finishing the Dronefall One rewrite. I finished that, by the way. I want to get it re-released toward the end of July. Another reason you need to subscribe to my newsletter is so you can know what’s going on with my crazy release schedule this summer. Book Five will be out soon as well. Six…hopefully early Fall.
What about the blog?
Where does it come in in the middle of all this chaos? I’ve got a few older unreleased stories I want to serialize—two of which I guess aren’t really unreleased. I’m going to post the two stories that were formerly exclusive to the “Secret Library,” which I took down in favor of something more streamlined. There’s another one, too. That should keep the blog active until Dronefall One relaunches.
Anyway, thanks for waiting for me! I hope you enjoy the comic. And the subsequent newsletter. I’m putting a lot of effort into making my emails actually enjoyable to read. None of this sales-pitch after sales-pitch stuff a lot of email lists do. I’ll send you art and pictures and stuff. It will be worth it, I promise.
P.S. Some of you faithful readers might wonder what’s going to happen to my Dreamscape, IN serial here on the blog. Well, I realized it was developing more of a plot than I wanted it to have. I think that was because I was trying to make it a regular series on a regular posting schedule. It’s supposed to be all vibes with multiple diffuse plot-threads that break off and pick up and fade out again. So, I’m going to try dropping an episode whenever I feel like it without warning instead.
Anyway.