I've decided to move to a new blog this year.  It is up and running: Wordsteading.blogspot.com . The Daring Novelist has been a fun ri...

I started to write again this week. Not much, really more editing than writing, but after what amounts to a three year lay off, it really ...

Still drawing and building up some stock before finishing up more covers.  I decided, though, to post an unfinished one.  (It's ALMOST f...

I think that, technically, I made my goal this half week.  No I didn't upload any new covers.  (More about that below.)  But I did uploa...

I don't have a lot to post today, because I'm going through a transition. Well, two of them. One is simply that, because I decid...

I guess I just got tired of designing without typography. (Or actually, designing with the idea that someone will do bad typography over t...

Just found out that today was the birthday of Charles Lane, and  I thought I ought to give him a shout out.  (I didn't have time to draw...

Life went and took away my entire evening.  I am stressed to the hilt, and need an episode of Mannix. So without much ado, here are the fi...

Sigh. In three days, only four covers.  (The goal is two a day, uploaded to Self-Pub Book Covers for sale.)  There are additional unfinishe...

So..... I have decided that I can't be "The Daring Novelist" if I don't do some kind of dare once in while. Even if it...

I remember when I took my first design class.  It was the intro class for all art study, and it was all about design principles.  You know, ...

I'll just cut to the chase and make this announcement: I am now officially an Amateur Writer.  I know I've flirted with it before, t...

I've been playing with Blending Modes in Photoshop.  The colors on one layer blend with those below it, to create something altogether d...

Still playing with the same technique I used on the trees, but this time playing with abstracted backgrounds.  I say "Landscape" b...

Practicing some watercolor brushes in Painter.  This wasn't actually what I planned to do tonight. I was playing with abstracts for ba...