Eppy's Creations

The lil' pixelated me was created by a great friend named Eve!

Hmm...there are so many sides to a gemini.  Mostly, I'm quite private to some extent but I will give a few details.  I had aspirations of starting my own comics in elementary school (with oil pastels of all things silly).  My next dabble in the 'creative realm' was in middle school.  I wrote for the school paper--interviews mostly.  I even drew the cover for the Christmas Issue and submitted several poems.  I didn't start writing for story until I was in high school though.  It was during my study hall period (unfotunately it was only a few weeks) that I discovered the fun of writing.  What do you do when a book does not end the way you wish it to?  What do you do when a favorite character betrays you?  Well, you start writing stories the way you want them to be!  You create characters to act the way you believe they should!  Don't just sit there groaning and moaning at the author, do something about it!

I wrote on and off for a few years before I joined the United States Air Force.  Yeah, I know for those of you that don't know me too well, it's hard to believe that I once donned combat boots and camouflage.  I even qualified w/an M16 believe it or not (though I'm not fond of handling guns--try to figure that one out).  Even in the military I dabbled in writing.  I created a step by step continuity book which was bench marked by other squadrons on my base (even says so on my award certificate).  After my six year enlistment was over, I discovered a writing correspondence course.  Long Ridge Writer's Group.  I took the course and the constant challenge of coming up with a new story idea made me realize just how much I love to write!  I have so many ideas and so many characters awaiting birth that I will never in my life be bored! 

I thought my first book would be from the seven book series I'm currently working on but to my surprise, it wasn't.  No...a little book that I had created for a children's book contest was my beginning.  I didn't win of course.  One day, I noticed an artist on an online community and asked her if she would like to do some drawings for me.  She agreed.  I already knew of a company (Xlibris) that I had been planning on for the 'Fragments' series.  I still don't fully understand what connected in my mind and had me publish 'Gasgeil' first but it happened.  So then I happily accepted her sketches and then transformed them into the colored pages you see in Gasgeil's Bravery.  It's a 32 page picture book.  I inked all 32 pages and even added some lineage to a few of the drawings before I colored them (using Pro Create Painter Classic and a Wacom tablet). 

6 May 08

Update:  Just recently, I received a review from the American Author's Association.  If you'd like to read the review click here:   http://americanauthorsassociation.com/reviews.htm    

Also I am currently editing chapter 11 of 15 in the first book of the 'Fragments' series.  This isn't (of course) the final edit but I will be producing the first edition with it.  One good thing (among many) about Lulu publishing is that I can produce it w/o having to get a distributing service first so if I need to change something later on it won't cost 3 pints of blood!