Abundant Sole now available for purchase

Some Good news at last...

The proof copy for Abundant sole: Elemental sock design for the gauge impaired. has finally arrived, and subject to a couple of edits, it will be available soon.

*Note to self: never use media mail... especially during the winter holiday season.

Nope... That was an on comming train...

So much for day light at the end of the tunnel. 

Critters, Creatures, and Denizens is written, but the art is only 85% complete... and the artist working on the project has injured himself.  It is severe and we here at CP are praying and sending good thoughts to him and his family right now.  I'm not entirely sure what will happen now, but I'm left without cover art, and many of the fancy borders, and even a few critters.  I think I can cobble together the covers from old artwork that hit the editing room floor, but I think I'm just going to have to pull the stuff without art from the book and hope for the best with a first edition.

the latest news...

Well folks, we're happy to announce that the first of the two projects we have on tap has entered has been submitted to the printer for a proof copy.  So we will be announcing the debut of "Abundant Soul: elemental knitting for the gauge impaired."  An excellent 'how-to' book on the wonders of creating your own sock designs. 

Likewise we are pleased to announce that "Creatures, Critters, & Denizens" A DCCRPG compatible source book for monsters and their design is approaching its final phase.  We have 85% of the interior art and will be working out the cover soon.  I wish I could give a more solid date for delivery, but we are a small time operation at present, and when We hired the artist for the CCD project we doubled the production staff.  ;)

Cheers.

Yep! That's definitely daylight...

It's been a long and difficult struggle, but we secured the very fine talents of Scott Ackerman to illustrate Critters, Creatures, & Denizens a few weeks ago and the project is now rocketing towards the finish line.  The art is rolling in now and I'm adding it to the layout as fast as I can.  Here is a sample:  the art plate for chapter 1...  Hope you like it as much as I do!

... because this was the alternative!  Here's the 'scribble' as I call it, that I sent to him to convey my compositional ideas:

THANX MR. ACKERMAN!!

You saved us from my stick figures!

I think I see daylight....

Well, both the author's edit and the final edit of the manuscript for "Critters, Creatures, & Denizens" are done and now it is own to the layout editing.  For this I will be learning a new program; Serif PagePlus v6; and the initial attempts have been rather frustrating, but things are starting to smooth out.  The rather colorful cursing and cussing was centered around my attempts to create a new document from scratch.  However, before things devolved into 'fist -to- circuitry' combat I managed to figure out how to import a PDF to be manipulated.  This is something I can work with... it will at least allow me more freedom to move the text blocks around.  Man was I clueless as to how long a project like this would take, so I hope anyone who may still be interested has a bountiful reserve of patience.  Be assured, that we're working as fast as we can.  :D

In other news (and I don't want to jinx anything) but it looks as if we may have found an artist... I'll post more as soon as things are more certain; but things are looking a bit more colorful in the art department!  :D

News Flash: Dateline Editing Desk

“This is Phred Phreely with the Crystal View News Channel, with the latest on Critter-gate.  We join our correspondent in the field, live at the scene of the battle.  Take it away Fritz!  What’s the latest on the action at the embattled editor’s desk?”

“Well Phred, things are lightening up in here and the smoke is clearing, but the casualty reports are only just now starting to arrive, and I don’t think the shredder will ever be the same again.  I really must say it was grim there for a while.  The red ink was flowing across the pages like the waters of the mighty Mississippi, and all I can tell you at the moment is that we have unconfirmed reports of heavy casualties.”

“Wow, Fritz, it sounds awful.  Is there any hope?”

“Well Phred I think it is safe to say that it will survive to see the light of day… Wait a moment Phred… (Listening to an earpiece) I can now confirm that an entire chapter was among the casualties.  It seems that the Crossbreeding section wasn’t bringing enough to the work to justify its inclusion as a separate entity.  Unconfirmed sources are saying that it has left its legacy as a couple of re-written entries on the Mutations chart.”

“Amazing… what else can you tell us?”

“Well Phred, I can tell you that late in the reviewing process we learned that most of the work on magic has been well received and delivered up to the neo-natal intensive care unit.  I’m told that it will remain there on life-support pending the start of a new work on spells and the metaverse.”  (Looks shocked for a moment, hand flying up to his ear, then covers microphone and whispers vigorously with someone off camera.)

“WHAT is it Fritz?!  What has happened?!”

“Well Phred, I can confirm now that the Book has had to have emergency surgery to amputate its title…  It seems that the title of: “Creature Catalog,” has been sorely overused in recent years.  I’m being told now that a new one has been chosen.  Yes, it is referring to itself now as: ‘Critters, Creatures, & Denizens” and has been moved off the critical list and is considered stable and it is now being sent off to artwork & layout for recovery.  There are unconfirmed rumors of perhaps yet another round of editing after some more play testing.  I’m going to continue monitoring the situation here at the editing desk while we all wait for more information.  This is Frtiz Frelgerwunten saying: Back to you in the studios Phred.”

“Well, an amazing journey so far Fritz!  We’ll be waiting for your next up-date, but for now, this is Phred Phreely saying goodnight to all of you out there in adventure-land; and if you’re out there on the trails, remember… don’t stop to feed the trolls.”