HoC 6 Update

Hey Everyone!

After a 9-10 hr day of working on Draft 5 (not kidding!), the draft is complete. This round we were cutting out a LOT of description and extra fluff that was making the story drag on. Now it will be cleaner, but the last 1/2 still needs some straightening out.

I'm feeling excitement gather in my heart. The project is on it's way to completion, I'm finally seeing that light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hello all,

We are on Draft 5, Chapter 23. Scenes are smoothing out. Yay!

-T.Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hello,

We've reached Draft 5, chapter 3! Wah-hoo! We're now at our 1/2 way pnt through the drafts! 5/10!

We're excited and ready to work on this round. We'll be adding more detail, straightening up who says what, and hopefully there's no more addition scenes to create.

Almost finished with that illustration I mentioned last time. It's still heart warming.

I'm a little worried though. My digital pen's program might've given up since the last update my computer took on. If that's the case, I'll have to get a new pen. I'm hoping they've come down in price.

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hello,

We've reached Draft 4, chapter 40. The story's basics are in place. Most of the chapters have their muscles. We're working on adding the nervous system that can link it all together.

I've begun work on the illustrations again. The picture I'm working on brings a smile to my heart.

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 update

Hey Everyone,

We're on draft 4, chapter 33!

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 update

Hey Everyone,

We're on draft 4, chapter 23!

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hey,

We're on Chapter 13, Draft 4.

Main characters sound more like themselves but secondaries are still learning their lines.

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hey Everyone,

Mom is on Chapter 19 right now of Draft 3.

We still have a lot to piece together and bunches of "layers" to create. Right now, we're trying to get the main cast in the right positions, give them the lines they need to show the right feeling to each scene, etc.
It's kinda funny, cause the secondary cast is just standing around doing only little things here and there. Not really showing much expression and at times, they'll disappear completely!

So yes, we're working on it. Including the RD sketches for the chapter headings.


-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update

Hey all,


Draft 2 is complete! Mom says she'll jump on Draft 3, Monday.


T. Erickson

Taco Bell packet humor...and yes, it fits with being an author

Went to Taco Bell, grabbed a handful of their sauce packets that have the fun little messages. Look at what I found:

Pretty funny when you look at it from an author's perspective. XD Mom and I got a great chuckle out of it today.

(Also, how do you flip images in blogger?)

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update - Still in the draft stage!

A brief howdy-do,

I have 92 pages to go before draft 2 is complete. Also, I want to put Cam in a big time out! Just sayin'!

-T.Erickson

HoC 6 back cover- blurb

Well, here's the back cover of the main series conclusion! Exciting, no? We're excited for it. Normally, we don't worry about the blurb (the back of the bk's selling words) until we're nearly done with the tale.
However, this time, we did things out of order and feel the book still sounds exciting. Yay!

So far we're enjoying putting the story's skeleton together! Draft 2 is still in the works: A lot of ideas to add, many wrinkles to straighten out, and a major need for consistency is being worked on.

Enjoy this fun tid-bit and continue to hang in there, ladies and gentlemen. Book 6 will make its appearance this year.

-T. Erickson

HoC 6, Book Cover

Well, here's your look at the new cover!

(Just completed over the weekend.)

Note, we're still on Draft 2. But the art can give you some ideas about what will be in the book. ;)

-T. Erickson

Taps Fan Art - MaskedSugarGirl

One of my friends/favorite artists MaskedSugarGirl aka MSG has done some art work of my favorite HoC character, Taps. She uses her own version of clean Anime. I enjoy her style and love to see Taps in it.

Here's Taps, with the rainbow surrounding her.

If you know my character Taps, you'll recall she loves the rainbow because to her, it represents God's promise (Gen 9:13-16).

*If you're going to look up her link, I will warn you, it's connected to deviantart, the art site is NOT family appropriate.*

Taps and Angel.

Angel is a character, owned by MSG. In our minds, Taps adopts Angel and raises her. Here, they're ice skating. Taps is teaching the young girl not to fear winter and to enjoy it.

This has to be my favorite picture that she's ever done of Taps. It was blue (my favorite color) and it had a magical feel to the entire piece.

Taps with a raspberry lollipop.

Taps loves kids.

She enjoys raising them in a God centered home. She loves helping them through their trials and cheering them on when they succeed.

(All of these characters belong to MSG. We have loads of fun thinking up their stories and how Taps ends up coming across all of them.)

Taps and Victor C.

Because in our creative minds, the two of them belong together. (Here, they're dressed up as Paul and Nora from Pete's dragon.)

*If you're going to look up her link, I will warn you, it's connected to deviantart, the art site is NOT family appropriate.*

Taps and Victor C.

A beautiful romantic picture between the two of them.

*If you're going to look up her link, I will warn you, it's connected to deviantart, the art site is NOT family appropriate.* (Also, if you try to look up StravenLite on deviant art, the artist isn't on the site anymore.)

Well, I think that about does it for today. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Hopefully, sometime later, I can post some more art that others have been kind enough to do for me.

Thanks again MSG!

-T. Erickson

HoC 6 Update. Book and Cover

Hello Dear Readers,

Working on draft 2 now. Oddly enough, it's been easier to work backwards.

The illustrations are in various stages of completion. Generally, as I read, I write ideas down for the book illustrations that are used in that chapter. I sometimes will draw an object to make the reader wonder how it'll fit in. Other times, I draw the characters (my favorite thing to do).

The cover is near completion. Yay! Mom is working hard with our cover artist to get the final touches done. Then we'll paste the title and our names on it and I'll post the cover. You'll get a first hand look at the cover. We hope you'll like it.

Much love,

T. Erickson

HoC 6 "Trumped" - Edits - RabbitAndCat

Hello Readers,


No doubt you're wondering: "When's book 6 coming out?!"

Well, I'm hoping by summer. But I'm not making any promises. Due to a promo, we're going back through the books and re-writing pieces of the first book to clarify the plot.

Honestly, we'll be going through all of them so everything is as smooth as we can make it. We can only do so much editing before our eyes cross and we don't see the errors anymore.
When we get the much needed cash, we'll pay for professionals to edit. (BTW, for some editors, it can be $3.00 USD per PAGE! Times that by a 300 pg bk! $900.00...ouch!)

Once Bk 1's redo is done, then we'll jump straight back to HoC 6. It's nearly 300 pgs right now and this is just the rough draft 2nd stage (generally there are anywhere from 7 to 10).

So, book 6 will be called "Trumped" and will be the final book for the main series.

Then mom and I will cool our heels on the HoC world for a while. She'll work on her 40+ more books and I'll feel very accomplished and move on.


Anyhow, have a great one!

T. Erickson

HoC 5 is OUT!

Go here to purchase the digital version: Fourth Corner

Blurb: 

The cards are stacked against Sarah and her friends. 

In the battle at the Tapestry, thousands of Lurkers are attacking. 

No one can be sure they'll survive.

People are dying and with them, magic.

Sarah had believed Taps would save them,

But Taps isn't on their side anymore.

The most powerful idolized Club ever has taken a new form.

Sarah thought the day couldn't get worse.

Until the Bone Lady showed up...

*The book was actually released on Dec. 19, 2017. I just haven't gotten it up here until now.

*Author Note: We will continue to work on HoC 6. We want to release it this year, but we don't know the exact date, yet.

-T. Erickson

TapsTapestry Comic Strips 1 & 2

Ok, without further ado, I'm posting (finally) the first 2 HoC comic strips:

1.

and

2. 

*Author/Artist note: Please keep in mind, that these comics (unless stated otherwise) will chronologically take place between Bks 3 & 4, during nearly a 3 year period where Sarah and her friends are working on helping another character survive.

It's been a while since I announced I was working on these, but I'm getting back in the habit now. I'm hoping to eventually post one per week.

-T. Erickson

HoC 5 Update - Illustrations - Advanstic Comics

Hey HoC fans,

We're going to discuss the illustrations for HoC5! Yeah!

To warn you, this round, some of the pictures in book 5 will be my Advanstic style. "Advanstic" meaning advanced stick figures.

EX:

This is an advanstic comic I did, based off of Disney's Wreck-it-Ralph a while back. I took the idea of an average work day and just filled it in w/Sgt. Calhoun and Fix-it Felix being cute. Turned it into a "I'm thankful for you" card.

Back to HoC 5, the reason I did this is because it helped the illustrations go quicker for me and focuses more on expression/feeling of the chapter than the beauty of art.

I feel my advanstic conveys everything quickly. Here's hopin' you'll be able to get a good laugh out of the last chapter heading (Chapt. 31).


-T. Erickson

HoC 5 Front Cover

Hello HoC Fans,

It's been forever since I've updated you on what's happening. Well, here's a look at the front cover of Book 5:

We're hoping to release bk 5 in December. I'm not sure on the exact date. I still have 10 or so illustrations to work on, we have one or two more edits to do, and a book blurb to pound out.

We actually had to split book 5 because it was getting too big. So, there will be a book 6. (Yay!) Though it won't come out until next year. But that's okay, cause it'll leave you with a whole lot of speculating to do during the waiting process.


-T. Erickson