Book Elves

Rustler’s Roundup

The deadline is steaming at us at breakneck speed, and we’ve made the last minute decision for me to produce the art for the cover of Kai’s next book, Rustler’s Roundup, featuring the young criminal Joshua Love. Kai was going to do it with a set of pastels, but the set he got turned out to be cheap and unusable, like crappy sidewalk chalk. So I’m going to try to adapt my Elf Life painting techniques to a more realistic scene. Here’s the pencil drawing, pending details and advice from Kai.

I’ve been needing more excuses to break out of the Elf Life style, anyway. But I’m going to have to finish this up fast, tomorrow. We’re going to shoot for finished color, but will resort to a sepia tone if we run out of time. The material has to be uploaded by Monday.

I’m helping on writing a blurb, too, after writing a blurb for his first one. Kai hasn’t even seen this, yet, but here’s what I’ve got so far:

Easy money--or a quick death!

Joshua Love--the crazy kid outlaw with a dark secret--had seen the likes of Chewy Bill Roberts, before. Rustling cattle was easy money--unless they got caught. And he knew Chewy Bill would wind up just like the others, with terror in his eyes and a hole in his head.

But it was Josh who caught the buckshot, and Chewy Bill would learn that Josh’s wound goes deeper than anyone could ever imagine.

Eh. Working on it.

Written, directed, and performed by Carson “Further Adventures” Fire.
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