Behold!

Hello everyone, I have some good news to report. My good buddy Ron Lim has come through for us and has finished the pencils for the cover. Atraiu's diadem is in the right place and the shading looks great on the overall artwork. Next comes the coloring. Of course he's not going to be doing that, but it means we are that much closer to a finished product and to Cursed and the Damned being available as a book! Is anyone else excited, or am I the only one?

  Also, Ron sent me another quick sketch of Atraiu and Davali for being so patient with him.

Truly I couldn't be happier. A dream is finally coming together and is slowly coming true.

Michelle

Set backs and an opportunity for you the reader

I'm telling you folks nothing EVER goes as planned. Just last week my new laptop, that was less than 2 months old decided that it wanted to give up the power ghost. Needless to say I was not amused considering that meant set backs! So here I go again editing one more time. I had most of it saved, but some of my newly edited chapters went bye-bye along with the power failure computer. In good news, I did get another laptop out of the deal.

Also it seems that many of you are getting restless for this book coming out. I hear you loud and clear. I'm now lighting the fire. Hopefully it will be enough. Also if any of you who have read the book already would like to make a comment about it and see it on my website, get in touch with me. I'd love to add comments, good or bad. Any publicity is good publicity in my eyes.

Thanks,
Michelle

Update time

Well, here I am again. This time I am here to report that the website is up and running fully. You should be able to locate it by typing in my name to your search engine. So that is a plus. Second of all, since Wondercon is over, I should (hopefully) be getting my pencils done for the book cover and hopefully I can have it sent over and colored (and with luck finished) by Comic-Con. I'd like to pick up the main artwork then.
Alas this is taking far longer than I would have liked, but all good things come to those who wait. I just keep thinking...soon.

My work continues on the sequel to Cursed and the Damned. During my low times during the work day, aka my lunch, I am going through the chapters and editing/re-writing things before I move on to the 'fun' part of the book in my opinion.

That's one thing I love about projects is the fact that there are parts that 'have to' be done and then there are the parts that you just can't wait to get to. Those are the parts that make the process worth while and hopefully those are the parts that you the reader enjoy as well.

Keep your eyes peeled folks there maybe something new coming in the near future. You'll just have to stay tuned until then.

Something new- a website

Now to prove that I am serious about the whole book publishing thing, I created my own website. I don't have a big head, but I figured I might as well start one up before someone else decided to steal the domain. Who knows the book might go somewhere. Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.michellescheunemann.com/

Feel free to send anyone my way if you'd like. Who knows, I may even add a small portion of the book for people to sample. Probably won't be tonight however.

Michelle

Question for those of you who read my blog

Have you ever looked yourself up on the internet? Well for most of us the first thing that will probably come up in this day and age is your facebook page profile. Damn that facebook. However I digress I propose a challenge to you. Look me up on Google and tell me what you find. Perhaps you can spread the word and or the challenge?

Michelle

And the results are in...

Well it's time for the results of the first round of the ABNA contest and low and behold...I didn't make it again! Actually I am so not torn up over this. I look at it this way; one way or another Cursed and the Damned will be published. It just won't be done by a big publishing house. Another good thing is that I can enter it again next year if I so chose even if it is self published.
See the thing is I believe in this book even if no one else does. I've been told it's been a great read, but alas getting the big publishing houses to believe it is another story. Oh well, it doesn't matter. I'm onto bigger and better things. Only thing I have to wait for now is my cover art to be completely finished.

Looking toward the future

You know, I'm not certain why I write a blog, mostly because I highly doubt that anyone is interested in what I have to say. Perhaps I do it for myself so I can look back on things. Right now I'm looking forward however. Tomorrow I find out if I made it past the preliminary stage of the ABNA contest. Considering I'm a pessimist at heart I'm not holding out for any high hopes. I did get back in touch with Ron and he's working on fixing the small problem in the artwork I posted yesterday. It's getting so close and all that's left after this is a bit of coloring. That means that I can publish the damn thing, unless for some stupid ass reason I end up winning the ABNA contest. (At that point I'd actually be surprised if not floored) Anyway be prepared for a post tomorrow highlighting either another failure or a small win.

-Michelle