Dead Petals

My wonderful editor, Dannii Breeze, has returned the edited manuscript of Dead Petals to me. Frankly, I was scared to look at it. It's weird. You hire an editor to edit your work, but in really you don't want her to find much of anything wrong with it. You want to have gotten it right on your own and have very little in the way of comments (unless it's to tell you how wonderful this scene is) or corrections. In reality there is red pen on every page: corrections, notes on clarity, pacing, characters, grammar.

So I'm now working through the edits. It's a slow job, but I'll get there in the end.

Logos

Pixie Forest Publishing, who will be publishing their first short story anthology Love Dust on September 1st (which includes my story To the Moon and Back) asked me if I could step into the breach and come up with a last minute logo for their new publishing company. Based on a brief from them and some ideas of my own we can up with this design:

It's been a while since I drew anything and I was a bit rusty, but the end result turned out okay I think - Pixie Forest owners, Jensen and Donise loved it anyway, so that that's what counts.

I also also, on Jensen's request, created one with some colour, though I'd like to make something better somewhere in the future.

Keep writing and drawing and sculpting, or which ever other avenue your creative muse takes you.

Best

Alan