Hello everyone! I’m doing my first ever Instagram giveaway, and it’s in partnership with some of my favorite people – the other winners of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers and Illustrators of the Future!The prizes are as follows: 1st Prize:TWO Sci-Fi and Fantasy Anthology Books (Vol. 36 & 37), PLUS the eBook of the international bestseller…
Are you a fan of His Dark Materials, a fabulous fantasy series by Phillip Pullman, recently dramatized by HBO and the BBC? If so, you’ll understand why I was delighted to receive my own personal daemon from HBO this week. Meet Elefteia, my lovely lynx-like caracal. In the series, daemons are external representations of the…
I created the voice-over for this steampunk automaton created by the talented Brett King.
As a fun introduction to my work in progress THE BRASS QUEEN, Disney artist Brian Kesinger created a one-off steampunk character illustration of our heroes. Here is Brian’s interpretation of the characters Constance, Trusdale and Boudicca the Yorkshire Terrier. The novel series will probably take a couple of years to move through the agent /…
The Victorian preoccupation with scientific progress underlies the enormous catalog of animal paintings produced in the nineteenth century. A new understanding of the science of biology led to the development of specialized animal breeds both domestic and agricultural. Immortalizing the new breeds in oil paintings and engravings reflected the physical changes of the breeds….