Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

       I'm not going to inflict another goofball poem rewrite this year on everyone. But I am going to finally upload my annual 3D Christmas card:

 

     The image was made from stuff and poses I bought or got for free from Daz3D. The gorilla, chimp, polar bear, and snow leopard were made by Rawart.

If only all wars were waged this way...

 

Have a safe and happy holiday folks!

Ghosts From the Past

Okay, here is the cover:

     I didn't put Irons in the shot. (he is on the shuttle) The boatbay is from Renderosity, as is the shuttle. (remade by me) The asteroid base is also from Renderosity. (both parts of it)
The characters, cart, and props are from Daz 3D. I put my own touches on everything. (including the boat bay textures and layout) Let's see, there is a Panda, Dog, 3 humans, and the chimeran in the foreground. Oh, and someone or I should say, something else...

Special thanks to Mechmaster for helping me get the textures right.

Write up:

    Fleet admiral John Henry Irons has been busy. After waking in the Senka system he has crisscrossed the system, having a series of adventures and ups and downs along the way. He's made some new friends and met old ones. He has also made some powerful enemies.
    But the call to war is inevitable. Those who thrive on destruction wish him and the civilization he is trying to rebuild ill will. The boot of oppression is already on a part of the sector thanks to the Nazi like Horathian pirates. Admiral Irons must lead a rag tag group of former pirate slaves and military personnel back to one of the few places he hopes will help stem the pirate tide. Once there he'll have to face the politicians, then dig up his one ace, a secret from his past.

But some ghosts should remain buried...

This will conclude Irons Wandering time period. I had planned on a time skip but well, events were taken out of my hands. You'll see when you get to read it.

I just passed the manuscript to Rea today. I am still waiting on feedback from a few of the betas. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we'll get it out before the end of this year. Hopefully. Maybe.

Next up is my annual 3D Christmas card. :)

Progress Report

    First off, I hope those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a good holiday. We did, even though I was exhausted by the time it was over. I now have a ton of fried turkey (all dark meat) leftover. I'm getting tired of turkey Panini's already. And my darling sister made off with the leftover butternut squash... this time with my blessings. :)

    I bought a bunch of stuff for future cover art and other projects from Renderosity and Daz during their Black Friday sales. Sad, I was buying that stuff instead of other stuff. (Okay, I did get some virtual Christmas Shopping in but not much.)

    Dad is sick so I've pretty much stopped any work on the cover art to GP, (as well as some discussion on the website and other projects) and have just been logging the corrections the guys have been sending me for GP for the past couple of days. If I can get dad to EAT and DRINK then we think he'll bounce back faster. But he's pig headed and just wants to sleep. Grr... Now you know where I get that trait from. :P We got him in to the doctor's today. Hopefully the meds will kick in and he'll start getting healthy again. He's going to be underfoot (Funny that since he's bigger than me at 6'8"!) for the rest of this week. Then he and the brat pack are off for Christmas break... whimper... ugh.

   The good news is most of my holiday decorations are up... except 1 stupid set of icicle lights I need to exchange and then get back up on the roof. Joy. At least the tree and my 2 town scenes look good. :)

   Oh, I almost forgot. I changed 'New Beginnings' to Battle Lines. The betas know why. Have fun trying to get it out of them on the FB group, they don't know much of the plot. I was driving myself 'coo coo' as my sister likes to say working on rewriting it from the ground up during Thanksgiving and decorating the tree Friday. ....That isn't really good news since I now have to rewrite the treatments for other books too and find somewhere I can stick the original plot of New Beginnings in somewhere.. :P
Buut... it should be a lot more... interesting to write. I will finally be able to write the space battles I've wanted to write!

 

Happy Holidays everyone!