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December 12, 2005
HEY AUCTION WINNERS!!!
Just a note - if you ordered original art, please check your ebay feedback - if I've left you feedback, your order was shipped today. If I have NOT left you feedback, then I have not received payment from you yet, and your item will ship as soon as that occurs - thanks! I was reassured by the post office that all internation artwork should reach its destination before Christmas, for any international buyers that were concerned.
If you have made a paypal payment for artwork, and I have not left feedback for you, please contact me via Ebay - if you've mailed in a payment and you haven't been left feedback, I probably just haven't gotten it in the mail yet, and your artwork will ship as soon as I get it. Thanks guys!
Comic updates are on hold for the moment as I am currently in the process of relocating - I'm hoping to have everything moved over by this weekend. Thanks for your patience with the delays!
READ POSTER NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE!
Warehouse 23 is now doing poster printing, and as a result they are now offering the 'Read' design in a gorgeous, full-color 11x17 poster on heavyweight paper. I just received my comps today and I couldn't be happier with them. You can access the Warehouse 23 store by clicking on the 'store' button, or by clicking on this link - go give it a look!
Old News:
That's all, folks. Thank you for reading!
If you're despondent over the lack of QoW, this news may cheer you - due to an overwhelmingly positive reader response, QoW will start again next Monday and re-run all the original strips, seven days a week, with commentary. That's right, if you so choose you'll get to read my babblings about what exactly went on with the strips, stuff that wasn't supposed to happen, ideas that were ditched, ideas that were never explored, the works. I realize it's not NEW strips, but I thought it would be fun to do while I work on putting out my next project. Speaking of the next project - I will be announcing it as soon as it's ready to go. Keep an eye on the website, or the LJ community, or the forum, as I'll be posting it all over the place once it's live.
For those looking for other strips to read, check out my links section, and also the Keenspot dropdown up in the corner has a ton of good reads on it as well.
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| Hi there! You are reading the Queen of Wands rapid-fire reruns, a seven-day a week run of QoW with commentary. Commentary on later strips will contain spoilers, so if you are a new reader and here for the first time, I suggest you take a trip to the beginning of the archives and give the comic a read-through spoiler-free before jumping into the commentary. |
| Originally aired 12/17/02: Enter Angela. Angela was originally based on a composite of three different people I knew way back when. She was originally supposed to be a very temporary character - I was going to bring her in with the toy store, and when Kestrel left the job, Angela would go away. I did not expect #1 - the readers to like her as much as they did, and #2 - ME to like her as much as I did. She started writing herself shortly after her first appearance and becoming a character in her own right. The others did the same - for all that these people were supposed to be based on myself and my roommates, by the end of the series they didn't quite so much anymore. I suppose if people are looking for advice or something on writing, the best advice I can give you is to let the story tell itself. There's a balance between telling a story as a story, a piece of fiction, and telling a story like it was something that happened and you just happened to be sitting there while it was going on, and you're re-telling it to someone else. One is very formal, one is very casual - and there's a line somewhere in between the two that the best writers walk like a tightrope, making the characters and the story itself believeable whether it's a 'semi-autobiographical' story, or a made-up piece of fantasy completely out of the author's head. |
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