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Syon Plays in the Time Lanes

#IllustrationOfTheDay From Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". 9 year old Syon wishes he could stay on the supernatural timeline, playing in the time lanes, running to different times. Instead has to return to the reality timeline to face his abuser, Leonard, as a twelve year old. He misses his magic wand when he returns to reality and kisses it goodbye. Still, even on the reality timeline as a twelve year old, there is something special about Syon.

Lincoln Illustration for Book #5

#IllustrationOfTheDay The last chapter of Book#5, "The Owl from Oblivion" involves Abraham Lincoln. I can't say more without giving away the ending. So here is an illustration for that chapter. Hope people like it.

The New Federation of the Twenty Emblem

#IllustrationOfTheDay Here is the Federation of the Twenty emblem updated for book #5. The Great Sophistan took humans from Earth 300,000 years ago. They made genetic changes to humans, producing 20 slightly different variants. They deposited them on to 20 different planets to see what happened. Those humans evolved into humans much advanced from Earth that had telepathic, telekinetic, and jaunting talents. At the center of the 20 planets is the Federation Orb or space station, where the...

Teaser - Parents and Their Changes

#IllustrationOfTheDay Here is a teaser from the prototype layout of Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". Click on the picture to zoom it up for easy reading.

Teaser from Prototype Layout - Death Zone Chapter

#IllustrationOfTheDay Here is a teaser page from the prototype layout of Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". Click on the picture to zoom it up for easy reading.

Sad Syon - Book Excerpt

#IllustrationOfTheDay Here is an excerpt Syon discusses his doom. Be sure to click on the illustration to zoom the print up big enough to read.

Fredrick Docherty

#IllustrationOfTheDay Here is the illustration for Ty's father, Fredrick Docherty. He loves Ty dearly and he works for the part of the British government that has relations with the aliens. But he also has a dark past in that before he had Ty, before he was involved with aliens, he was a secret assassin for the British government. So he has a very dark side to his personality and he knows his way around the government very well. When he needs something done, someone tends to take care of...

Teaser from Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion"

#Publishing #IllustrationOfTheDay Here is another teaser from the prototype layout of Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". Click the picture to enlarge for easy reading.

Excerpt from the layout prototype of Book #5

#Publishing Here in these page images is another excerpt from Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". This is from a layout prototype so ignore the text in between the  <<   >> as those are layout commands. Click on the page image to zoom it up for easy reading.

Visually Prototyping the Owl from Oblivion

#publishing Wednesday, I started prototyping Book #5, "The Owl from Oblivion". This is where I use a word processor to get an idea of how the book will look and if there are any illustrations missing or that should be created. (Click on the page image above to enlarge it.) The black print enclosed in << >> are instructions for when the book gets imported into the publishing tools. The illustrations get stripped on import and the instructions are flagged with a special style t...