Dan Henk's Blog, page 63
May 1, 2018
Great Review of my Second Book
By the talented Ashley McGee! I felt like this was the first reviewer that really understood what I was trying to accomplish with my writing!
March 27, 2018
Almost done
With this second version of the third illustration for my new novel “The End Of The World”
March 24, 2018
I finished Ender’s Game
I’ve always heard how great this novel was, and a customer finally gave me a copy.
Despite the pretty mediocre movie interpretation I had seen, I tried to approach it with an open mind. That said, the novel turned out to be quite a bit less than I had hoped for.
It’s not very descriptive regarding anything but the main character, so even though it takes place in deep space, in the future, and entangled in a war of revenge with an alien race, all of this comes across as a cardboard cut out manufactured for convenience.
The novel spends forever on the details of elementary school children playing soldier in nil gravity, with tremendous focus on their mental conditions and simplistic rules of whatever game they are involved in. Then, at the end, it moves into high gear, and the war is almost over before it begins.
The war is followed by an unbelievably short afterward that spans dozens of years and far too lightly skims over all the major incidents in a rush to conclude.
This book was a best seller in 1985, and received all sorts of acclaim, but I’m not sold on it’s merits.
February 20, 2018
Almost done penciling this redo of the third illustration for my book
Not happy with the way the original drawing for my new book, I finally gave it up and am redrawing it.
February 7, 2018
Redrawing this illustration
As a picky artist, I wasn’t real happy how this was coming out, and I initially tried redrawing it a bit, but finally decided I should redraw the entire thing. 
Splatterpunk covers!
I’ve painted the covers for the last two Splatterpunk books, and they just asked me to paint the third.
February 6, 2018
Book Cover Proposal
Al Liptik did an amazing job designing a few different covers for my new book based off my painting “The End Of The World”. This is the one we decided to go with, and he’ll tighten it up before sending me a high res image.
January 30, 2018
I got a new lens and finally took a flash free photo of my cover painting
This is for “The End Of The World”. I’m shopping it around to agents right now and trying to secure a bigger publisher.
January 29, 2018
Great review of my chapbook
by Ashely, this nice lady I met at the Austin Convention
She loved the story I gave her, and invited me to join an author’s group that she’s apart of!
