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Tag: Historical Fiction
Marie Antoinette and Roronoa Zoro: An Insight into My Creative Process
In today’s video post, I’m discussing some aspects of my work on Knights of the Ruby Hatpin. I’m focusing on how I begin my world building for a new project in conversation with my favorite painters and animators.If you want to join the conversation, stay tuned for next week’s extra in-depth look at my finished …
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Updates From Cosmic Con 2024 (with embedded video)
Happy to reassure all of you, my intrepid followers, that I was able to defend my Artist Alley table successfully in the perilous waters of the Tangram Center at Cosmic Con 2024. Not a single shapeshifting bunny was lost in the storm of comic con excitement. To those of you who joined me in my …
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Updates From Cosmic Con 2024
Happy to reassure all of you, my intrepid followers, that I was able to defend my Artist Alley table successfully in the perilous waters of the Tangram Center at Cosmic Con 2024. Not a single shapeshifting bunny was lost in the storm of comic con excitement. To those of you who joined me in my …
The Wedding Dress Cipher
This beautiful, elegant wedding gown is not just a fashionable outfit, but a desperate cry for help. To communicate longer messages in a manner invisible to their male foes, the Knights of the Ruby Hatpin have created a secret Lace Language. The Valenciennes Division of the Order has created a rich vocabulary woven into the …
Secrets of a Wooden Monk
Today I’m unveiling the secret of the mysterious item glimpsed in last week’s post. (Check it out HERE). You’ve probably guessed it must be a rather important item if a dying soldier is using his final breath to hand it over to a new guardian in the midst of a battlefield. At first sight, it …
Knights of the Ruby Hatpin
I’m finally ready to reveal more secrets about the gender-bending new character I introduced in last week’s blog post, He is a Woman, but She is Also a Man. This character is part of a dream project I’ve been developing for a while and am finally ready to share with the world!Swapping genders, identities and …
He is a Woman, but She is Also a Man
I’m in the early stages of a new project (whose details remain classified for the moment). This is my first take on my new main character, who has a double identity that depends on the circumstances and environment of their operations. Their elaborate rescue missions involve international travels incognito, skills with rapier and dagger, as …
Sea Monster Submarine
Having designed everything from sloops bearing terrible conspiracies, to shipwrecked caravels with exotic figureheads, to shabby fishing boats for the pirates in my work-in-progress graphic novel, Pirates of New York, I still felt I was missing something. My secret pirate fleet just wasn’t complete without a steampunk submarine disguised as a sea monster! This ferocious-looking …
Roderick the Pirate’s Son
This charming gentleman from my work-in-progress graphic novel is on his way to Siegel Cooper Department store for a nice cup of afternoon tea in 1909 New York. You may notice his unexpected choice of accessory - a heavy ancient sword. He isn’t merely paranoid about the safety of New York’s streets (although between the …
