My next book, Good As Lily will be released on August 15th! Written by me and illustrated by Jesse Hamm. (Check out
this story by Jesse to see a sample of his wonderful work) The cover is by me.So what's the book about? Here's the official blurb:
What if your biggest competition was…yourself? Following a strange mishap on her 18th birthday, Grace Kwon is confronted with herself at three different periods in her life. The timing couldn't be worse as Grace and her friends desperately try to save a crumbling school play. Will her other selves wreak havoc on her present life or illuminate her uncertain future?Basically, "Good As Lily", is my 80's teen movie. I loved those films growing up (not to mention "Clueless" from the 90's) and I always wanted to try writing something in that vein. As you can probably tell by now, this book is pretty different from the kind of stories you've seen from me thus far. If you're anticipating something like, say, "The 10 Commandments of Simon", well, this book's probably not for you. But if you're into stuff like "Better Off Dead", "Sixteen Candles" (minus Long Duck Dong, of course), and "Breakfast Club", with some "Weird Science" thrown in, I think you'll have a good time. It's got all the classic staples of that genre, like a romantic triangle, nerds, the school play, the hot teacher, but all filtered through my own writing style (whatever that is). I hope for it to be familiar yet new. But most of all, fun. I'm eagerly awaiting its release.Now for a little feature on how the cover came into being:(I should note that the design of the cover was by someone else, I was just told what to draw so they could plug it in.)(Click the images for larger verisons.)First it was drawn in pencil of course:
Then inked:
Then scanned in and colored in Photoshop:
And finally the characters were grouped together and a pink hue was put over three of them, to set them apart from the main character. (The pink hue was the idea of Shelly Bond, my editor) Actually, all four of them are the "main character" as they are the same person, just at different ages.
Finally this was then placed into the cover design which you can see at the top of this post.I wish old Grace on the right hadn't been pushed off the cover so much, but these things aren't up to me.
My next book, Good As Lily will be released on August 15th! Written by me and illustrated by Jesse Hamm. (Check out this story by Jesse to see a sample of his wonderful work) The cover is by me.So what's the book about? Here's the official blurb:What if your biggest competition was…yourself? Following a strange mishap on her 18th birthday, Grace Kwon is confronted with herself at three different periods in her life. The timing couldn't be worse as Grace and her friends desperately try to save a crumbling school play. Will her other selves wreak havoc on her present life or illuminate her uncertain future?Basically, "Good As Lily", is my 80's teen movie. I loved those films growing up (not to mention "Clueless" from the 90's) and I always wanted to try writing something in that vein. As you can probably tell by now, this book is pretty different from the kind of stories you've seen from me thus far. If you're anticipating something like, say, "The 10 Commandments of Simon", well, this book's probably not for you. But if you're into stuff like "Better Off Dead", "Sixteen Candles" (minus Long Duck Dong, of course), and "Breakfast Club", with some "Weird Science" thrown in, I think you'll have a good time. It's got all the classic staples of that genre, like a romantic triangle, nerds, the school play, the hot teacher, but all filtered through my own writing style (whatever that is). I hope for it to be familiar yet new. But most of all, fun. I'm eagerly awaiting its release.Now for a little feature on how the cover came into being:(I should note that the design of the cover was by someone else, I was just told what to draw so they could plug it in.)(Click the images for larger verisons.)First it was drawn in pencil of course:
Then inked:
Then scanned in and colored in Photoshop:
And finally the characters were grouped together and a pink hue was put over three of them, to set them apart from the main character. (The pink hue was the idea of Shelly Bond, my editor) Actually, all four of them are the "main character" as they are the same person, just at different ages.
Finally this was then placed into the cover design which you can see at the top of this post.I wish old Grace on the right hadn't been pushed off the cover so much, but these things aren't up to me.
