So the cover for the second East End Irregulars book, Dismal Tide, has progressed enough that I’m OK with sharing a preview. This cover has been tough, not in the painting of it, but in deciding what should go on it. Mike and I were back and forth a dozen times before we decided, and […]
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The Dismal Tide is almost here!
We had hoped to get The Dismal Tide out by the end of the first full week of October, but that deadline has come and gone. Finishing the interior illustrations took longer than expected, plus we had to prep for our appearance at Steampunk unLimited this weekend–and by prep, I mean finish our costumes. We […]
It’s not a dystopia!
Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger from Kindergarten Cop screaming the title of this post and you get a sense of how I feel whenever someone describes one of the Ascension Epoch stories, or the setting itself, as dystopian. Now don’t misunderstand me. There’s nothing inherently wrong with dystopian fiction and I don’t take it as an insult. […]
‘The Dismal Tide’ Update; Preorders at Retrocon
I won’t waste time apologizing for our untoward silence here as of late, because we’ve been doing a lot of the work that really matters, namely finishing up the second East End Irregulars novel! The Dismal Tide went off to the beta readers last weekend (if you’re a member of our mailing list and want […]
Saturday Scenes: Salad Days
We continue our work on The Dismal Tide, our second novel in the East End Irregulars series, with new scenes being written, edited, and illustrated everyday. For #SaturdayScenes, we’re giving you a sneak peek of the book. Here, Alex and Sebastian test out some upgraded crime-fighting equipment. Sebastian was alone in his garage when Alex […]
Picture Pthursday
Greetings again, Ascension Epoch fans! It’s time for another Picture Pday. I’ve been hard at work hashing out ideas for the second East End Irregulars cover. While there’s been many an unseen drawing hitting the trash can, Mike and I have finally agreed on something to run with. There’s still likely to be changes (and […]
Jared Brown draws Corona
The penultimate entry in our a series of commissioned artwork from the wildly talented artists of Sci-Fi Valley Con is this excellent full-size drawing of the Pittsburgh’s hottest vigilante, Corona, courtesy of Jared Brown of Darkstream Studios. Corona, aka Evangeline Garver, is a thermokinetic teen who first appears in our novel After Dark. Be sure […]
Saturday Scenes: Thorpe battles the East End Irregulars
Since Shell recently completed a new cover for After Dark (seen above), I thought I would share a scene from it for today’s #SaturdayScenes. While chasing down a couple of purse snatchers, Torrent and X come face to face with the notorious (and superhumanly athletic) vandal known as Thorpe. I lunged sideways, stretching out as […]
East End Irregulars Book 2 – Art Preview
Welcome to Picture Ptuesday! (Wherein Mike puts Shell in charge of an article and she posts a work in progress piece of Ascension Epoch art instead.) Seriously, though, sometimes I want to share my art, too, and when that happens, I’m going to hijack whatever day of the week it is with a silent ‘P’ […]
The Note
I just added a new chapter to our Write-On page for The Dismal Tide, the second book in our East End Irregulars series. Currently, there are three (first draft) chapters posted. Most of the book is already done, but I’m filling in some of the intervening scenes, and this one was entirely written today over […]
