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Review: Dark Stranger: The Dream
If you put an ad for a book on my Kindle lockscreen, I will download it like a trained seal. This must be the case, because this isn’t the sort of thing I usually check out. I tend to keep paranormal romance at arm’s length– and I say this as someone whose books have strong…
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The Sweetest of All Peas
This is a short piece I wrote about reading to my daughter. At night, it’s always Sweet Pea. During the day I call her “Sweetie”, or sometimes “Little Guppy” in the summer, because she swims a lot in the summer, but after story time, always Sweet Pea. “Good night, Sweet Pea. Have sweet dreams and…
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Cassie and a Friend
This is the art for the first cover of Random Acts of Sorcery, back when the series had a different name. I should have gotten professional covers much earlier than I did (my biggest mistake in publishing, really) but I still have a lot of fondness for this image. I think the colors look really…
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My Best Drawing, Evil Sam
I think we can all agree that this is the best thing I have ever drawn, or will draw. Really, I can really stop drawing now– I mean, CLEARLY it’s all downhill from here. There’s no following this.
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Grilled Cheese Meltdown
The following is a short piece I wrote on the subject of being in the hospital for a week. *********************************************************************** I don’t know how it’s possible to make a completely tasteless grilled cheese sandwich, but somehow, the hospital managed. There’s no sign of the grill, no unctuous cheese seeping out of the concoction—it’s somehow dry…
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Some of these drawings are weird
Here’s another sketch from my seemingly limitless pile of old sketches of these characters. This was back when Sam and Aeka were the main couple, which is funny to me, because they have very little to do with each other nowadays. This is a really uncharacteristic sketch from me because of the OMG SEX kind…
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My next book is a little…fishy
I’m taking a short break from Demonic Café to finally write the mermaid book I’ve been threatening to write for ages. I like what I have of it so far, but it’s difficult. The stakes are much lower than they are in Demonic Café, but there still needs to be urgency to what’s happening…I’m not…
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Familiars Squared
It was a while ago, but I think that when I drew this, I was starting to catch on to the fact that I wanted to take this story in a more fantasy direction. It was originally a kind of low-magic, magical realism-Haruki-Murakami-like-world, but once I came up with the idea of a tiny bat…
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Aeka in Repose
Back in the olden days, when dinosaurs walked the earth and I drew comics, Aeka (short for Agnieska) was actually the main female character. Now she’s still important but her role is quite different. But because she was a main character for so long, I have like a zillion drawings of her in all different…
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Sam and Cassie Meet
Back a million or so years ago, when I was drawing a comic with proto-versions of these characters, Cassie and Sam had a very different dynamic. Here she’s just asked Dwight what would happen if she just didn’t wear her apron at work that day, and Sam sneaks up behind her and says “It would…
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Karen L. Mead 