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.

Chapter Two is live!  I’m so happy to introduce you to Dax and his crew. I can’t wait to here what you think.

Dear Readers,

WOW. The outpouring of support that I have seen in the past eight days has been truly overwhelming. I feel blessed beyond the scope of words.

I have uploaded a short chapter three to say thank you. It’s now featured on my project page. This is the chapter where you the reader get to take your first glimpse at our titular character, Miss Cassandra "Lucky" Luckenbach herself. I hope you enjoy!

My first draft is complete and awaiting editing as soon as we finish funding. Please help me to continue to share the word about Lucky so that she can see the light of day!

Again, my most sincere thanks to you all. Happy reading, happy writing!

Yours,

Webster

225 preorders - WOW! I feel like we ought to have a balloon drop or something! Thank you all SO much...

Hew-mons!

I’ve begun self-editing, for over 4 weeks now. Things have not progressed as fast as I expected, and that’s partly due to my cramming in reading a self-editing book (to/from work), Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, Matthew Sobin’s The Last Machine in the Solar System, work and spending my time with my soon-to-be-walking 1 year old! No surprises that the last two taking up most of the time :^)

So, just chugging along... oh, there’s 19 days of funding left, so please do help me get a few more pre-orders if you can.

Yeah, that’s it... take care folks.

LLAP \V/,