First Promotional Art for City of Dreams!

So here we have the first piece of artwork commissioned for City of Dreams.  Note that this picture isn’t symbolic or representational in any way; this scene actually takes place in the book.

What you’re seeing is the protagonists – or rather, the protagonist and her love interests – being attacked by one of the Mara, a servant of Nightmare.
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The Final Cut

Slasher 2 Final Full Size

And this is the picture I eventually selected for The Grindhouse’s page header.  Again, this is by theMASman.  Note how Our Heroine is much more aggressive, and the slasher – while far from finished – is clearly in trouble.

Opening day for The Grindhouse will be Sunday, and at that time it will be host to two stories that have been in the library for a while…but keep watching.  I’m already at work on another Grindhouse story – originally planned for a short story, but rapidly turning into a @#$%# novella – that should open there soon.

From the Cutting Room Floor

Slasher Final

The picture you see above was the first attempt at a page header for The Grindhouse (coming soon!  To a theatre near you!).  I commissioned it from The MASMan, who I found at Deviantart, and all I asked for was: 1) a badass Final Girl, who was 2) protecting her boyfriend, who was wounded and cowering from 3) a Slasher who was at least a little different from your stereotypical masked machete-swinger.

I think I got what I wanted.  Our Heroine is badass, the slasher is distinctive…but as much as I liked it, I decided it wasn’t quite what I was looking for.  Our Heroine here is in a defensive posture, and I wanted it to be 100% clear that our slasher has messed with the wrong Final Girl this time, and is about to get his ass kicked so hard that there may not be a sequel.

So I commissioned another drawing, and that was everything I could have hoped for.

Coming soon to a theatre near you…