All things Glitter & Mayham.

Over at Apex Publications I wrote a post about creating the cover of Glitter & Mayhem (preliminary sketches, reference material, etc).  At Worldcon I finally got to see the book in print and yowzaaahz! It's even more beautiful than I could have possibly imagined! (And the stories are epic and diverse.)  If you want a chance to win a free copy of Glitter & Mayhem, Apex is holding a pin it to win it contest:

"To win, all you have to do is pin the Glitter & Mayhem page from the Apex website (or you can simply repin it from here) and pin at least 10 other things you feel best encompass the theme of the anthology on a board you call Glitter & Mayhem. Once you have your board complete, put a link to it in the comments of this post."

You have until Sept 24 to do this. GOOD LUCK!

And now, some pics from the Glitter & Mayhem release party :)

at the San Antonio Rollercade w/ G&M editor John Klima

glittery at the rollercade, Mikolaj Habryn, Liz Gorinski, Rachel Swirsky, Seanan McGuire, and I.

yes I dressed as the disco ball.

(glittery on the roller rink)

HUGO!!!!

Well, over the weekend, this happened.

I win the Hugo in the Fan Artist category! (Thank you Andrew Williams for taking this photo)

 Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Here is the live recording of the ceremony. (The Fan Artist category is the first Hugo announced, about 56 minutes into the ceremony. And yes it's nerve wracking for me to watch it, even now.)

Video streaming by Ustream
 

With much gratitude to the other artists who shared the ballot with me. 

The Hugo winners of 2013. Photo curtsy of Tor.com

WorldCon 2013

 A quick rundown of where I'll be and when at WorldCon/LonestarCon III:

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~Upon arriving Thursday afternoon, I'll hang my work in the Art Show. With any luck, the set up will look a bit like this:

Huge debt of gratitude to Lee Moyer for helping me clean up this act.

~Friday at 10 am the Art Show opens to con goers with an official Opening Reception held at 7pm that evening to meet the artists. Worldcon has also scheduled guided docent tours of the show and several Art Night Showcases featuring presentations by many of the attending artists.  (You can find those and other art related events and presentations here.)

~Saturday from 2pm to 6pm I'll be at table 5 in Artist Alley, showing art work and doodling on anyone who happens to come by.

i do so love to doodle on people.

~Saturday from 8pm to 10pm I'll be at the San Antonio Rollercade where the Glitter & Mayhem book release party will be (Aw Yeah!)

~Sunday at 2pm I'll be in room 103a as part of the Bouncing Images group doodling event w/ Teddy Harvia, Mel White, and Maurine Starkey.
  
~Sunday afternoon there will be rehearsals and such, and then off to the Reception and Ceremony (to see if I lucked out and won that Hugo.) 

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The rest of the time will be just trying to catch my breath and absorb the awesomeness.  See you there!

(✧✧✧Glitter & Mayhem cover art✧✧✧)

Spectum 20 and HUGO nomination too!

Kind of a whirl-wind day: Just got the news that I made it into Spectrum 20! Aaaaand... also, I'm on the Hugo ballot for Best Fan Artist ;)

Thrilled and honored to be sharing space with an amazing line up of artists, writers, editors, creators of all types. I'll post more when I have more information myself. Meanwhile, Here's a glimpse inside the  jury selection process for Spectrum and the nominating process for the Hugo.

More later, meanwhile, Happy Eostre!

Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. via Wiki.