Roll It Up (Prototype)

Roll Up The World

If you have no idea what you're looking at, go get some context first.  Katamari Damacy is a surrealist Japanese video game series that broke all genres.  That tiny little green guy is rolling around that sticky nodule-coated ball, and as he collects items, the ball grows bigger.  You start off in a house picking up bugs and candy, and by the end of the game...

SO FUN.

Yesterday, I got a random idea.  Make a paperclip holder out of Sculpey and rare earth magnets.

While discussing it on Twitter, someone pointed out that the Curie Point might thwart my plans, since polymer clay requires baking in the over to set, and heat can misalign the magic glue fairies inside the metal so they can't stick anymore.

New Cover for Make Willing the Prey

Make Willing the Prey had an old cover, and while it was good enough, I wanted something updated and in-line with my Dreams by Streetlight series.  In other words, it needed to match Emerald City Dreamer.  But since this is a prequel, and a bit more scary than Urban Fantasy is supposed to be, I also wanted it to say, "Horror".  Hopefully I've pulled that off here.

I used stock photos that I paid a few bucks for over at pixmac.com.  I used the Gimp for the background art, and Inkscape for the layout.  Inkscape worked out much better in almost every way than my last tool, Scribus. Overall, the project took around six hours, and an extremely low level of skill.

I will be uploading it tonight, so the book should be refreshed tomorrow.

Here is the old cover, since I can't throw anything away: