Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! I had a solid weekend of writing, adding close to three-thousand words to the final chapter of Vivian’s Last Cigarette. The manuscript is now likely within a thousand words of becoming a finished first draft… and the excitement of typing... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: A Quiet Winter by Ryan Van Dongen
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: Untitled Illustration by Jeff Easley
Jeff Easley has a well known legacy from his long tenure as an artist working for TSR, and later Wizards of the Coast. His fantasy artwork in the tradition of Frank Frazetta graced the covers and interiors of many Dungeons and Dragons rule-books and adventures. Beautiful women, heroic men, epic monsters... his work is classic!... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Pirate Cove by Andy Walsh
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Floating Castle by Wono Lee
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Throwback Thursday: The North Watch by Keith Parkinson
This classic artwork by Keith Parkinson graced the cover of Dragon Magazine #137, which arrived in my mailbox (and fourteen-year-old hands) way back in September of 1988. His vision in this piece really sticks with me. In many a cold Maine winter, like the one outside my window right now... I'm still glancing over my... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: ‘No Quarter’ by Néstor Ossandón
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: A Krampus In My Stylus by Jeff Lee Johnson
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Master of the Books by Waldemar Bartkowiak
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
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