Fall for Freedom

They Are Free!

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Fall for Freedom and Call for Obstruction are FREE on Amazon until April 17th. This is the last freebie before Call for Obstruction is taken off KU, so get it ASAP if you haven’t read it!

In celebration of the changing series name from The Courier to Angels Dark & Dumb, as well as the release of Warrant for Damnation next month, you can get it FREE in an EPUB until it’s published. Here’s how:

1. Follow the Contact link in the menu above to the Contact form.

2. Fill out the form and identify in the “Share Your Thoughts” field that you would like a free copy of the EPUB for Warrant for Damnation.

3. I will email you a copy of the EPUB within 48 hours.

That’s 3 books you can get free to enter Barry’s world. I hope you enjoy the read!

Revisiting a School Project Featuring the Grim Reaper

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This week I’m revisiting a project from school a few years ago. I did this for my Illustration class. Believe it or not, Zap It! is a real product for swatting flies. Google it! We had to take the style from another artist and make an ad in that style for a modern day product. As usual, horror comedy was a theme in my work. As you may have guess, this was done in Adobe Illustrator.

For the artist, I chose Aubrey Beardsley, one of my favorites, who died way before he was able to truly fulfill his potential. He created illustrations for Oscar Wilde, which is another reason to love him. And Beardsley was a huge contributor to starting poster art, so choosing his style for something like this is kinda a given.

Why share it now? Because I’d like to start a series of grim reapers. Why a series of grim reapers? Because I wrote a short story about the Grim Reaper’s son that I outlined into a book. Hmmm… Is there a pattern with me here? Writing stories about sons and fathers. Actually, I’ve written quite a few short stories about Grim. I should drag them all out and reread them.

Otherwise, I’ve made no progress on Angels Dark and Dumb except for some work on cover copy. Covers are still being revitalized. And Lydia Deetz is in the works and will hopefully be in next week’s status post. Have a great week!