Here is the latest illustration for SQUIDS IN from Eugene.

In this scene, Toby’s friend Baker is drinking beer while Toby looks up the details of the animal lab break in on his phone. I really like how Eugene has made Baker look. I’m not great on describing people and scenes in my writing but the process of getting illustrations created by someone has forced me to figure out how these the scene looks, what the people are wearing, how they would act in certain situations. I’m really enjoying working on both the actual writing of my book and working with Eugene on the artwork.

SQUIDS IN has received a good run of orders over the past few days and this will hopefully continue given some interesting things that will be happening soon:

The weekly WriteBrain podcast that discusses the Inkshares platform and community will be mentioning the book in next weeks episode (recording tonight). Hopefully JF and Paul like my project page and give it at least one thumbs up out of the four (I assume) they have.

Also, Angela from Inkshares has been in touch to ask me to write something for an upcoming Inkshares/Nerdist blog post, so hopefully that will spread the word to a few people who have not heard of the contest previously and bring them to the site.

Thank you to all of you for your continued support!

Matthew