ad design is hard

But worthwhile in the end. I have spent a significant amount of the last 24 hours working on an ad for my novels which will go in the back of Chance #1, and I’m pretty happy with the result. The result, mind you, is illegible at size, so this clicks through to a GREAT BIG HUGE version of the ad which is legible. :) – create an ad for Chance #1 – email Rich the stuff he asked for – email *more* to FPI – send photo to CI guy…

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“Take A Chance” press release

THE DABEL BROTHERS “TAKE A CHANCE” WITH C.E. MURPHY’S NEW COMIC BOOK What Makes a Hero? Find out this December in this new, original series ATLANTA, GA – October 8, 2008 – Dabel Brothers Publishing is excited to announce the original comic book series Take a Chance, written by best-selling author C.E. Murphy, with art by Ardian Syaf, already known for his fantastic work on Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle. “Take A Chance has been a years-long pet project, built on the shoulders of my insanely…

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“Take A Chance” teasers!

Some of you will have seen these before. Some of you will not have. Either way, I gotta say, when I opened up the files to make images of proper size, I was astonished all over again at how pretty some of these pages are, and how happy I am with the quality of the art and coloring. I have got an amazing team with Ardian Syaf and Jason Embury, and consider myself incredibly lucky to have found such a talented couple of guys to work with.

so far today…

So far today I have walked a couple miles, done pilates, had breakfast, taken a shower, started laundry, cleaned the kitchen, emptied the garbages,, done story corrections on the proof pages for “From Russia, with Love”, and read 2 of the 3 stories in A FANTASY MEDLEY which are not mine. It’s possible I’ve now used up all my energies, but at least it was a very productive morning. :) Next I’m going to rotate laundry, re-print the PRETENDER’S CROWN manuscript and send the corrections I’ve made to the short…

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icons

If I had a desktop computer I would have such a good time making icons. I just came across a handful of Methos icons, which reminded me that I’d like to do a set of those sometime. There’s a whole pile of movies we’ve got that I’d like to do icons from. Hellboy. Maybe Dangerous Beauty. Highlander. Riddick. Chicago. Maybe Labyrinth. I could do a whole series of Pulp Film icons–The Shadow, The Phantom, The Rocketeer, even Sky Captain. And despite the fact that there are already a hundred thousand…

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