Duke Barkin in Hot Houndette
Basset Hound Duke Barkin is a transporter for The Man. In Hot Houndette, Duke picks up a suspiciously lively package – the beautiful and slippery Mai Daisi, on the run from Big Bad Bob’s Gator Show and Puppy Park.
Category: fiction
2001, A Noveling Oddity
Mysterious Symbol, (c) me My novel has been taking two steps forward and two steps back all week, but in the past four hours, I wrote 2,000+ words! New words! Fresh, unedited, un-dithered with words! I’ve decided I like writing new stuff way better than editing. Why am I surprised? …
Pretty Good Story in Three Acts
Act One: Writer Hits Bottom NaNo passed this year without me winning by writing 50,000 words in 30 days. I had (enough) time, I had a fun novel to write, but I didn’t have the wherewithal to fill out the outlines of my plot. I’ve never been an all or …
Hot Houndette Gets an Illustrator
Duke Barkin: Art by Joseph Rawlins I am now working with an amazing illustrator named Joseph Rawlins. He has been drawing the first pages of Hot Houndette, and I think the interpretation is outstanding. Now I just need to figure out how to get it printed, digitally published and posted. …
Hot Houndette: More Pages
Hot Houndette is four times longer! OK, that means I have most of four pages, about 25 panels of Basset Hounds. Right now, we’ve got washed up TV stars and a little bathroom humor. This is so much fun! I have the whole thing in my head, and it keeps …
Hot Houndette
I am working on a new comic book series called Duke Barkin, Suncoast Transporter, about a mostly basset hound hero (in his own mind) who drives for The Man. The first episode is called Hot Houndette, and I am celebrating the drafting of one whole page, 7 panels! If you …