Bonnie Watson's Blog, page 17
June 19, 2013
June 18, 2013
Moss Dragon Landscape
Will add dragon back in later...
June 15, 2013
May 9, 2013
Book Signing for Midlothian, VA
Anyone from the Midlothian area? If so, you're invited to a book signing and live art demo!
Urban Farmhouse Cafe
13872 Coalfield Commons Place Suite 102, Midlothian, VA 23114
This Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 11am - 1pm
Signing will be of book one "Wisdom"
Urban Farmhouse Cafe
13872 Coalfield Commons Place Suite 102, Midlothian, VA 23114
This Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 11am - 1pm
Signing will be of book one "Wisdom"
May 4, 2013
Yuri's Home
Hope Yuri's immune to jelly poison... There's a new jellyfish type creature I created called Kha'lari. Those above aren't it. A full-size Kha'lari would take up the entire frame. Its sting would probably be fatal.
May 2, 2013
Yuri's Home WIP3
Nearly complete....
May 1, 2013
Yuri's Home WIP2
Work in progress... started some of the background..
April 29, 2013
April 27, 2013
Guest Speaker & Road Blocks
It’s always exciting when you’re invited to speak on a subject you know quite well. But how do you plan for the things that don’t go as planned?
That’s what happened when I was invited to a local high school to talk about publishing and art to the students. I arrived thirty minutes beforehand to set up. Looking good, I thought as one of the faculty members came in to assist with the cables, only to find out they needed a second projecter because the main one wasn’t working.
Not a problem, I thought. I’ll just boot up my computer and check the internet connection.
Unfortunately, the internet connection wasn’t working, and I a lot of links to show. As the teachers rolled in the new projector, they tried to find the right cable that would fit my mac. Now, if I had brought an ipad, we would have been set. But none of the cables matched. So one of the teachers brought in her laptop for me to transfer all my powerpoint presentations to. Luckily, I brought one of my flashdrives. With the powerpoints transferred, we opened them up to test.
“Wait! My links are missing!” Not only that, but entire words were missing from the slides. Poof! Gone.
Wow! We had about five minutes left before students started coming in, and I was still fiddling with the thing when they did arrive. What evetually happened was this: we decided to run my laptop and hers at the same time. I would signal when to change the slides. It was fun, though, despite the fact that things weren’t looking so hot. But at least her computer worked. I know I lost some attention when we needed to mannually type in the links to what I needed to show, and sometimes my mac wasn’t timed currently with the current slide. But it still worked out okay.
I did mention one of my favorite authors during the presenation. Trish Terrell had sent me an email early that moring, and the subject matched so perfectly with my talk that I printed the email out to read to the class. Trish was an author I had met back when she only had about three to four books published at the time. I told the students how an agent had said she’d never be published and to give up. But I let them know that they were above people telling them their stuff was worthless. Trish had published about fifteen books since then, and so could they.
Nowadays, the road to publishing can lead down many paths. You just have to pick the one that fits you.
That brings me to another subject.
The Road Blocks of publishing.
I can’t believe what I’m hearing about not being able to get into bookstores. Why? Because of one tiny thing.
POD!!!! The infamous “Print-on-demand” issue. Although I believe it to be cost-effective, bookstores do not. That makes my publisher currently related to “Publish America.” The only bookstore that I managed to set up a book signing with was a local one. All others won’t accept it.
Darn… but I’m not going to worry about it.
Writer’s Market still comes out every year. Heh.
That’s what happened when I was invited to a local high school to talk about publishing and art to the students. I arrived thirty minutes beforehand to set up. Looking good, I thought as one of the faculty members came in to assist with the cables, only to find out they needed a second projecter because the main one wasn’t working.
Not a problem, I thought. I’ll just boot up my computer and check the internet connection.
Unfortunately, the internet connection wasn’t working, and I a lot of links to show. As the teachers rolled in the new projector, they tried to find the right cable that would fit my mac. Now, if I had brought an ipad, we would have been set. But none of the cables matched. So one of the teachers brought in her laptop for me to transfer all my powerpoint presentations to. Luckily, I brought one of my flashdrives. With the powerpoints transferred, we opened them up to test.
“Wait! My links are missing!” Not only that, but entire words were missing from the slides. Poof! Gone.
Wow! We had about five minutes left before students started coming in, and I was still fiddling with the thing when they did arrive. What evetually happened was this: we decided to run my laptop and hers at the same time. I would signal when to change the slides. It was fun, though, despite the fact that things weren’t looking so hot. But at least her computer worked. I know I lost some attention when we needed to mannually type in the links to what I needed to show, and sometimes my mac wasn’t timed currently with the current slide. But it still worked out okay.
I did mention one of my favorite authors during the presenation. Trish Terrell had sent me an email early that moring, and the subject matched so perfectly with my talk that I printed the email out to read to the class. Trish was an author I had met back when she only had about three to four books published at the time. I told the students how an agent had said she’d never be published and to give up. But I let them know that they were above people telling them their stuff was worthless. Trish had published about fifteen books since then, and so could they.
Nowadays, the road to publishing can lead down many paths. You just have to pick the one that fits you.
That brings me to another subject.
The Road Blocks of publishing.
I can’t believe what I’m hearing about not being able to get into bookstores. Why? Because of one tiny thing.
POD!!!! The infamous “Print-on-demand” issue. Although I believe it to be cost-effective, bookstores do not. That makes my publisher currently related to “Publish America.” The only bookstore that I managed to set up a book signing with was a local one. All others won’t accept it.
Darn… but I’m not going to worry about it.
Writer’s Market still comes out every year. Heh.
April 2, 2013
Guest Speaker
There’s a lot of good things I can get from here on out. And lots of things going on in the meantime. For starters, I’ve been invited to a local high school to be their guest speaker. They’d like someone to talk about their publishing and art experience.
So I’ve been working on a powerpoint presenation to share with the students. One of the things I wanted was an art demo toward the end of the session. I’ve also painted a new image of my main character as part of my notes.
So I’ve been working on a powerpoint presenation to share with the students. One of the things I wanted was an art demo toward the end of the session. I’ve also painted a new image of my main character as part of my notes.
