Monday, April 23, 2012

Torment trailer

Long overdue I know, but here is the trailer I made for my first novella Torment, made using Windows Movie Maker.




I'm currently working on the trailer for The Noctuary, which will be more of an animation using my own own illustration, rather than sourced photos - and if I'm very lucky - it might even include a voice actor reading out an excerpt from the book!

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the Torment trailer and by all means, let me know what you think!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

The week that was

It's been a week of diversity and creativity.

The Easter weekend, which was over far too quickly, gave me a bit of time to do a few extra-curricular activities in the area of design.

I put the call out to a few author friends to see if they needed any promotional poster artwork done and thankfully some work came my way. I did the posters for G.N. Braun, Jake Eliott and Travis Heermann at mate's rates (free), but the posters did help me secure a paid gig for some cover artwork, which I'll reveal in the near future. It was fun to get back on Photoshop and stretch the brain a bit. The posters I designed are below:


 
If you have a book coming out and like the idea of a poster to promote it, just contact me at darkscrybe@gmail.com

I've also started contributing reviews to Australian specfic review and news site Thirteen O'Clock. I've reviewed Stephen M Irwin's The Broken Ones and Cemetery Dance #65 so far, but the site is generally well worth a look.

I also recently submitted two short stories to separate markets - Midnight Echo Magazine #8 and Dark Prints Press' A Killer Among Demons anthology. Fingers crossed on those. Meanwhile I'm eagerly anticipating the publication of Midnight Echo #7, which will feature my comic art for Allure of the Ancients, written by Mark Farrugia. The issue is due on May 31.

Meanwhile things are progressing with Witch-Hunts with the publisher's text edits being worked on at the moment. You can pre-order the graphic novel I illustrated for writers Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton HERE or HERE. It should go on sale in the next two months or so. Can't wait for that.