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FrankL

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  1. They sent another progress report on the cover for my May 15th collection. The first draft spoiled me, while the second and third left me wondering where the piece was going. The fourth has returned me to the wow factor.
  2. I dreamed last night that I was part of the Order of the Stick, and, yes, we were all stick figures just like in the comic. We were fighting a bunch of low-level monsters. They were small, green, and attacked in mass, but I don't know precisely what they were. Roy and I were fighting side-by-side while Elan sang to build up our courage. Haley was deadly with a bow. I didn't see any of the others.
  3. In a recent story, Derke, a rising-star necromancer needed to break into his old mentor's journal. The book was protected by a myriad of spells, all of which he could break except one--the demon guardian. He called the demon and challenged him to a game. The demon agreed to play with these stakes, one hour with the book vs. the necromancer's memories of his departed wife. The necromancer agreed but then found the twists. The demon was not going to undo any of the other wards. Derke would have to break them himself in the time. The other twist was that the demon wasn't going to remove memories of his wife. The demon was going to intensify them. It was a close game of Dwarven Board, but Derke got his king to the exit and away from the assassins. In a final twist of his own, when the hour was up, Derke gave the book back to the demon but had removed all the contents. His mentor had turned the book into a magic satchel.
  4. I'm glad to see that the organizers took her complaint seriously and banned the "journalist." I've thought many times that if people just seriously applied the Golden Rule that so many problems would not be problems any more.
  5. The preliminary drawing for my collection's cover came in last night! I can't call it a sketch as it is more than a sketch. I also refuse to call it "rough" as my definition of rough is what this artist would call "something I doodled with my foot while chopping veggies last night and talking on the phone." It's obviously an initial and the artist asked for feedback and clarification (and said that detail on the faces would come later) but far beyond what I expected at this stage. I squeed! I would love to share, but I'm not sure about rights to do so at this stage. Art work was done by CJ at Adazing Design. They took my idea and made it better. I look at it and say, "yes, this book is a dark fantasy."
  6. Thank you! May 15 is the launch date. The book is with the editor right now. She contacted me that there weren't any plot holes or big problems she could see, so it would be grammar and line copy. There will be more details as it comes closer.
  7. Locked in a cover designer for my upcoming short story collection. Should have a preliminary sketch in about a week!
  8. Ender's Game of Thrones That kinda describes the battle school anyway. I did not come up with that. I saw it elsewhere but knew it belonged here.
  9. We always add padding when we bid for a client. I have one client whom I pad a reasonable amount and then double it. Because if I don't double my padding, I will wish I had.
  10. My story collection is to be launched in just over 2 months!
  11. Somebody in here called it[/url=http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0878.html]! (But it wasn't me.)
  12. At work the other day, the designer I was working with explained what she needed the site to do. When she finished, she said, "Now go do what you do best." I did not say, "But what I do isn't very nice."
  13. Re: Creepy Pics. More than a little creepy.
  14. Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. The other day, the topic of who I had pursued back in my dating days came up with my wife. S: I just want to know what you were thinking when you went after Anita. F: She had a nice face. S: Is that all? F: She had nice hair. S: But she had a horrible attitude! Are you telling me that you would have gone out with someone based on face and hair and personality doesn't come intoo the picture? F: That's what you find out on the dates. S: I can't believe I'm hearing this. F [thinking DID NOT say]: Well, she had a great body, too.
  15. Re: "Neat" Pictures I was following it until TV appeared in the chart (assuming units sold). Then it lost me.
  16. Re: "Neat" Pictures that was my thought.
  17. FrankL

    Sliders

    Re: Sliders A world where the PCs meet their alternates, and the alternates most obvious traits are everything they hate about themselves. Could be one shot between epics or you could roll with it to be bigger. A world where people never got out of the bronze age. They meet themselves, a team of sliders from a different universe. Post apocalyptic worlds. Russia won the cold war. The Civil War was won by the south, keeping the USA and CSA into the current time. Harry Turtledove wrote a series about this, but I never read it. The president prior to Lincoln was pro-union and pro-slavery, leading to the north seceding. The south preserves the union, but one step in the fight is that they offer slaves the ability to work off their bonds in the south's new factories, leading to a general emancipation years earlier. The continentals lost the Revolutionary War. Several worlds suffer from a strange disease. The PCs have to track down why this disease and why these worlds. Cromag biowarfare? Alien invasion. Lovecraftian world.
  18. Re: "Neat" Pictures [ATTACH=CONFIG]45710[/ATTACH]
  19. FrankL

    Snippets

    Re: Snippets I'm so sorry yo hear that. You will be in my prayers.
  20. FrankL

    Snippets

    Re: Snippets You said on the prior page that you write to maintain sanity. I do the same.
  21. Re: "Neat" Pictures That's the one. I always wanted to meet Jerry, and I actually went into mourning when he died.
  22. Re: "Neat" Pictures Apparently you have never listened to the classic country humor story, "A Coon Huntin' Story" in which John Eubanks climbs the tallest sweetgum tree in the swamp which is where the coon hounds indicate they have treed the coon. Upon reaching the top, he punches said coon with a pointed stick to knock him out of the tree (this is because he refused to shoot a coon out of the tree. It must be given a sporting chance to whip the dogs if it wants to). Unfortunately for John, it wasn't a coon. It was a lynx. And that thing attacked (insert accent marker over the "e") John.
  23. Re: Jokes Bad puns make me hiss.
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