Good morning, local Travellers! And good [insert time of day] unto ye others. 

Reminder that in about 20 min (8:30 EST) I’ll be taking questions on Twitter with the hashtag #TheTravellersCup. I’ll be sticking around for about two hours to answer whatever I can about writing and the book in 140 chars or less. 

I foresee no greater pleasure than to exchange Tweets with you. 

Your coffee-fueled captain,

-AC

I hope you all don’t mind an update so soon after I just posted one up, but I’ve got some... news... I’m on the news! WAAY 31 did an interview with me about Inkshares as another way for aspiring authors to get their books published; but also about Artum! It was a really fun discussion, and I think I did a good enough job explaining everything. The web article is here, if you wanted to read it! http://goo.gl/o2Vv4w

Thanks for reading, and stopping by, and all that. And thank you so much, again, for all of your support. Let’s get this novel published!

Most welcome news in the email inbox!!  As you can see, Women Like Us’ status has changed from funding to in production, with the publish date pending.  When I know more about that exact date, I will let you all know again, but thanks to all supporters most heartily for helping to make this book happen. It truly means a lot to me.  Now for a little much needed rest before getting into the production process, but can’t wait to hold this book in my hands, and I hope you all can’t as well!

Hello Champions!

I thought I’d share some inspirational images I’ve been collecting as reference for CHAMPIONS OF THE THIRD PLANET.

I’m always collecting reference images for myself to use as a director. Sometimes I’m looking for something specific, sometimes I just stumble across an image I like and tuck it away.

For the opening image of the book, I loved the idea of the clash of a perfect black sphere sitting in a natural organic environment. Something about it feels wrong, a little off-putting. So I thought I’d share some of the pictures I’ve grabbed that tap into that idea -- none of them are an exact match but all of them ring that bell for me.

This artist is Simon Stalenhag and he’s brilliant, I just ordered his book. The size of this sphere seems about right and I love seeing it with the human scale.

...which made me think of an eclipse. The light behind the moon here makes the Orb looks blacker than space, which I thought was a cool idea.