Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome! 🙂
Today you get a sneak peak at an upcoming release. If you’ve been following the blog for the last couple of years you’ll have heard about Darkness & Good, the short story blog I run with Liana Brooks and Thea van Diepen (and if not, go check it out! Free short stories posted weekly at least 3 weeks every month!). If you’ve been paying *super* close attention, especially on twitter, you might have seen comments about ‘the antho’ or, ‘D&G antho’: Hurrah! Liana and I* have collected all the most popular stories from the first two years of Darkness & Good’s existence, and are releasing them in an anthology!
* Thea only joined us after these two years 😉
I do all the formatting for our Inkprint Press releases, and will only a little hinting from Liana, decided that a) each new short story would start on a right-hand page, and that b) consequently, there were some blank left-hand pages, and that c) blank left-hand pages in the middle of a book look really ugly, so d) I should do some (quick) sketches to fill them! So the anthology will have illustrations, which is pretty exciting. It also has a cover, which we’ll be releasing *really soon*!! So much excite.
So anyway, my contribution to #MadeItMonday this week is one of my favourite of the sketches I’ve done for the anthology, for the story Red Planet Refugees, which you can read in raw, unedited form right here on the Darkness & Good blog 🙂 The sketches are just super quick line art, but it got me drawing again and I had so much fun doing illustrations for nearly half the stories! Yay!
Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂