Prince Arkenbright Reviewed

I got my first review of Prince Arkenbright & the Forsaken Maid, and it's not even from my mom:

Review by: Liep on May. 11, 2011 :
It's a fun little story. Arkenbright is a good character, a prince who wants to do what princes do but can't quite do it right, this makes his adventures a bit atypical.

Looking forward to reading more tales of Siward and Arkenbright.

Lexxy

One of the things you need to publish online is to provide your own covers. For Prince Arkenbright, I really could see the covers done by Alexandra Douglass, aka Lexxy.

Of course I'll need to sell a few more stories before it makes sense to spend money on commissioning covers.

Land of Frost by Lexxy

Game On by Lexxy

Necromancer by Lexxy

If you like her work, you can see more on her website.

Things on the Go

One of the things about independent projects is that you generally don't have somebody bugging you with deadlines. In some ways it's nice, but it makes self-discipline more important. In an effort to make my self-imposed deadlines a little more concrete, here's a list of the things I'm working on now:

• At the Lovely Touch - another short story, more serious in tone about Chinese gangsters in Vancouver. Part of a series tentatively called Danger in Vancouver. This story is finished and is just waiting an edition pass and a cover.
• Unspecified Start-up Project - just maybe Bryna, Brent, Tony and will embark on a independent project. I have some documents to write up about the concept, and I need them done very soon.
• The next installment in the Prince Arkenbright series - I know what I'm writing, I even have a couple of key passages. I just have to find the time to sit down and do it.
• Hong Kong Film Project #1 - I'm working with a couple of guys, Keith and Howard, who have a pretty cool idea for a Hong Kong film. I've started on a treatment of their idea and I need to finish it. Then we'll try to pitch it in Hong Kong.
• Hong Kong Film Project #2 - this is another screenplay I want to write and pitch in Hong Kong, once everything above has been squared away.
• ... and then there are one or two things that I'm not supposed to mention at all; so I won't.

Enough to keep me busy for the next little while.