Princess Rescue Inc

Wow!
Gord my alpha proof reader sent PRI (Princess Rescue Inc) Monday, I made his recommended corrections and then passed it on to Jacob who just finished and sent it back to me a few minutes ago. COOL! lol (giddy here)
In anticipation of this I fixed the cover art scaling, cropping the left side to form it into a rectangle. (and getting rid of the 6 legged rat that took hours to render... grrr)

The cover art has material from various sources. The animals (except the horse) were sculpted by me in Sculptris, the marines are from Mixamo? Most of the outfits are from Renderocity and ShareCG and are owned by their creators (who generously released them publicly) Some of the props were made by me, some like the buildings in the back came from ShareCG I think. Textures are from various sources including the web.

 

If you are wondering down the road (after the book is released) Princess Zara is the woman in the left corner, the soldiers and others I don't remember off the top of my head, but on the right is Eugene Ryans the protagonist, and Princess Diedra.

I will be making any recommended corrections the first week of April, and then I will see if someone else is willing to take a go at it... or if I can put it out as is. We'll see. Either way I'd like to release it by or before May 1st.

Last week I finished the rough draft of another short story: "Hauling Freight". That's 6 out of 13 stories for the short story book, I'm almost half way there on that front. So far 3 have been proofed, 1 is up for proofing for who ever wants it, and the other 2 (including Hauling Freight) are unfortunately going to have to wait until after PP and Jethro 2 are released before I let them be proofed. They have wwaaayyy to many spoilers in them. :D

I also added a couple more treatments for other short stories in the other time blocks. The stuff after book 7 is... wow. 14 stories planned so far, and a lot of them have combat in them. They are going to be fun to write... when I get around to them. Some are already partially finished, though raw. :)

This upcoming week is Spring Break for most of the family... which means I'm pretty sure my productivity is going to take a nose dive. I am on chapter 19, it's 1/3rd finished, a mixture of notes and finished writing. I'll try to get the last 4 chapters of Plague Planet completed... but no promises. Sigh. I so want the rough draft done though! (do you have any idea how hard it is to keep from getting nauseated with Andrew Bordaine talking about eating awful things in the background.... yuck!)

In other news Mechmaster finished proofing Chapter 32 and 33 of Afraid of the Dark, I'm not sure if I reported that in the last blog post or not. ... and I'm too lazy to check. The good thing is that he is finally half way through the book. :)

I finally received the collector's edition of Heart of the Swarm from Amazon, and they finally shipped the strategy guide yesterday. As soon as I send PP off to Gord I'm taking a sabbatical to have a bit of fun with the Zerg. :)

That's it for now!