Elizabeth likes...Air Ships

Clockwork Alchemy 2012! (the pre-event jitters!)

ewat — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:29:50 +0000

Hey Kids! :) It sure takes a lot of prep for a 4 day event, but I think half of what I've accomplished are things that will apply well to future events (and Dark Victorian fun). Clockwork Alchemy 2012 in San Jose, CA, this coming Memorial Day weekend (beginning Friday and ending Monday), is really shaping up. Find out details and how to get your tickets if you're local, HERE. There will be such exciting pastimes as airship racing, mechanical fox hunting (this fox will shoot lasers back at you), dance lessons, 19th C. martial arts, AND (among many other fun things requiring music and frolicking) ARTISTS EXHIBITING IN A MAGICAL, MYTHICAL, TIME TRAVELING BAZAAR. Therefore, this artist/writer/whatchamacallit is bringing Stuff.

Dark Victorian: RISEN Reviews and illos!

ewat — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:29:03 +0000

FIRST: Risen's first review by the gracious Raydeen, at My Ethereality! (go go go!). What a wonderful way to debut, thank you, Ray! :) She has very nice things to say about RISEN, so it's a nice warm boost for me! SECOND: Yes, you guess it, a second lovely and insightful review by Lee Ann Farruga at Steampunk Canada! We are currently on the front page, so please take a look, because that is very cool! :) Review by Lee Ann is Here, and I thank her for the words! Besides promoting RISEN (in a very haphazard, 'sort of'', fashion), I've been preparing for Clockwork Alchemy, a steampunk event in association with FanimeCon, the longest running anime event in northern California. Happening Memorial Day weekend, it is shaping up to be quite a show, with airship racing, dancing, bands, games, a stick fighting demonstration (sob), more bands, workshops, you name it. And I will be stuck in the Artists Bazaar all four days, wishing I was at the 19th century martial arts demo. For you see, in BONES, the next book in the Dark Victorian series, I've some stick fighting between gentlewomen. Let's just say it's awesome and they beat the tea cakes out of each other. :D And I've purchased me own 19th century Blackthorn for the occasion. Um, so I can enjoy having such a walking stick, not to go out and beat upon folk with my unlikely 19th c. stick fighting skills. WHY am I harping on this subject?

. . . and now Dark Victorian: Risen is at B&N!

ewat — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:29:39 +0000

Hooray! So there it is for Nook users. I will have a DRM-Free .epub file eventually uploaded to Google Books, now known as Google Play, for those who like their .epubs and music non-proprietary. That is in the queue. Eventually I'll figure out Apple's iBookstore (that has an extensive approval time, so that could take a month from now), and also Smashwords for those who buy from Sony for their Kobe.

What can I say, The Dark Victorian is here. :)

ewat — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:50:26 +0000

On Amazon for the Kindle. so here's the picture link:

Making a book

ewat — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:49:28 +0000

. . . making an 'interactive' PDF e-book, to be exact. I don't know a thing about Indesign but I'm pretending I do! So this is Dark Victorian: RISEN being made prettier than the usual kind of PDF you may buy and add to your digital collections, thx to a template I acquired:

Final DV art, Clockwork Alchemy, and more

ewat — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:07:45 +0000

As you can see, here at Dark Victorian central, we are full of the beautifuls. Thank you to Tom Orzechowski for the incredible (hand done!) logo and lettering. Thanks must be given to me (bwa ha) for finally nailing a decent composition of the background illustration in order to show off the title and the main character. Win/win! Presently, the doc is now with the e-book formatter, awaiting a quote (which I will prolly agree to, because sheesh, we want a book!).

Wondercon 2012!

ewat — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:53:22 +0000

WONDERCON, 2012, in Anaheim! I braved torrential rain and cold to do my exhibitor thing for 3 days, traveling to and fro from Burbank. No drunk leprechans tried to race me, I didn’t collapse under the weight of stuff I carried in and out, didn’t have to use my AK; it was a good day! The [...]

New: The Dark Victorian novella series

ewat — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:33:32 +0000

I KNOW, I haven’t been back to this blog for quite a while. In a state of obsession, I’ve decided to launch something new, and it took quite a bit of work and we’re still working on it (as in, typography, courtesy of that gentleman of lettering, Tom Orzechowski, and the e-book formatter, who I [...]

Wit’s World: Never Was, Chapter Nineteen by Elizabeth Watasin

ewat — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:42:32 +0000

Em sat quietly at one of the small tables on the dining terrace and ate her macaroni and cheese in the dark. She watched the serene, pastel beauty of Mystica beneath its blue skies. One of the rocket launchers sat soaking in a bucket and she intended to clean up the others later. The polished terrace was stained with burn marks and Em was embarrassed by the damage. “Em, the Light Bridge got destroyed. Don’t worry about it,” Buck said. He and Shade were discussing "Land of Adam” among themselves. Em wasn’t interested in hearing any more about Ray Buster Higgs’s work. All she needed to know was whether or not Pip saw her signal.

The Dark Victorian animated pose test (for motion illustration)

ewat — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:56:11 +0000

But back to The Dark Victorian. IF you've been reading the chapters of my YA novel in progress, you'll know that Em is a member of a social group, The Dark Victorian Society. When I thought about an illustration for this club I came up with the one you see in the sidebar. A full figured yet imposing woman with a skull. They became the characters Artemis and Jim Dastard. Who were they? Well, stories began to develop around them, the kinds that would inspire a bunch of Dark Folk in something resembling our modern era to have a social group themed around Dark Victorians. And the stories of Artie and Jim Dastard would be very popular. As you can tell, I like making stories inside stories---Flying Girl reading A-Girl comics, for example, Bunny and Dean maybe reading Flying Girl. So here, Emma reads The Dark Victorian.