OK, I just spent my lunch hour at the post office getting all the Spindrift and PBR books out and I have NO IDEA why none of you on the f-list who ordered it hadn't been bitching at me to get them out. My index finger has no feeling because I spent most of that time punching the screen on the APC machine sending out the domestic packages, because the Post Office, in its infinite wisdom, scheduled only one employee, who was either having a horrible allergy attack or was a cokehead, because he kept sniffing and occasionally having to leave the area to blow his nose, or so he said. And thus there was a line of ten to fifteen people the entire time. I took pity on them and only mailed the international packages at the counter, and sent the domestic ones from the machine.

And in other news, Gin Ichimaru did not show up in my dreams last night*, but Renji did. We were part of a large group of people inexplicably dressed in Victorian clothing going to a movie in a theatre that had metal folding chairs. I had a zanpakuto, but I'd forgotten its name and spent most of the dream trying to remember it. It shot flames out, but I know that was borrowed from the episode of Bleach I'd seen earlier in the day, from the Bount arc, with the doll that shoots flames. If you've seen it, you'll know.


* Honestly, what's with that? I almost never dream of anime characters. Not that I'm complaining, because it's a nice change from the usual round of anxiety dreams or weird, formless, inchoate stuff.

For better or for worse, Spindrift pre-orders and the website's new shopping cart for Paypal are open!

If you're one of the people who pre-ordered Project Blue Rose and want to add Spindrift to the order, just directly Paypal me using the same address $7.00 plus $1.00 for the extra shipping. Don't want to penalize you for ordering early! :D

And if you encounter any weirdness* with the shopping cart, let me know. Thanks!


* If you encounter Paypal giving you prices in double dollars ($$), rest assured we have not gone into the Trigun universe, and the correct amount comes to me. :)

...anyone out there who would like to purchase Project Blue Rose and/or Spindrift through my Paypal button test setup and report back to me how the experience went? I can only test so far myself, because if I actually paid myself I'd lose the Paypal fees and I'd rather not lose $ .50 just to test. :)

I'm leaving to get my hair cut in about 20 minutes and won't be home until after 5:30 Central (it's 3:20 now), so if I don't answer anyone back, that's why. If you're willing to try, give me an email address and I'll send you my Sooper Sekrit oh-so-concealed test URL. :) And thanks!


And yes, this means that pre-orders for Spindrift will be opened as soon as I can be sure this is a-working. :)

P.S. If you're in Texas, I have to charge you 8.25% sales tax. Sorry! But shipping is $2.99 for the first book, + $1 for each book thereafter (either book), and it tops out at 6 books because Paypal won't let me put in more than 6 different shipping levels. :) But I figure anyone wanting more than 6 books probably will be contacting me to see if they can work out some sort of deal anyway.

I'll be doing websearching for this answer, but figured I'd toss it out there - if any of you know Adobe InDesign CS, is there a way to put page number on *top* of graphics? The image for each page of the comic is the same size as the page (easier to center that way), and from what I recall last year of laying out PBR, I had to give up on page numbers because they kept displaying *under* the comic page image, thus rendering them invisible.

Cut for boring

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DAMN but I am TOTALLY ROCKING this cover, if I do say so myself!

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I'm going to need to come up with a cover for Spindrift and I have no ideas whatsoever. The only thing I know I'd like to do is to keep the horizontal element with the title in it, like I had on the Project Blue Rose cover (that's a picture of the very first proof copy last year, where I had the blurb on teh back misplaced). (ETA: Better picture.)

I still also want ideas for art for A-Kon! Pleeeease! :)

While inking a page earlier today, I took pictures of the process and during my off time at the ref desk tonight wrote up a tutorial following the process I've been using while inking Spindrift. It's posted over on the PandaBuddha Manga page, and you can get a preview of a page you haven't seen yet, plus ogle the MOSTLY-NAKED MAN in the tutorial.

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I've just put a preview of the first seven pages of Spindrift up at projectbluerose.com. Just the inks, no tones or lettering as of yet, so you'll have to make up your own dialogue.

Click on the above link, then go to the Spindrift page and the link to the preview should be there.

ETA: I also just uploaded it to my ComicSpace page. Might as well get some use out of it. :)

To take a break from refining thumbnails, I just did a test to see how well my new scanner would work if I inked over blue lines and then scanned. And ya know what? It did great. :) Scanning on B&W, with the threshold tweaked a little bit, it picked up only my black lines. Woo!

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