How's the Book Going, Sarah? (part 3)
THE BOOK IS FINISHED!! Let’s Make Cocktails! is now AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!
If you’d like to see the other book updates, they’re here:
How’s the Book going, Sarah, (part 2)
A brief recap: the first time this project was discussed was November 2023. I finished the proposal in January 2024. Signed the contract in March 2024. Turned in progress materials in October 2024, and the full written manuscript in January of this year. And I’ve just been drawing since then! Thumbnailing, sketching, inking, coloring. And now it’s done!
I always feel a little sad and lonely at the end of a big project. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very glad to be at the finish line! But it also feels a little like a phantom limb. I’ve been living with this project for so long, and now that it’s finished I kind of miss it! This wistfulness never lasts long, though. I’ll have other projects to occupy myself soon enough.
(Now that this behemoth of a project is done, I promise next week’s newsletter will be a kolache recipe!)
Shameless Self Promotion:
Let’s Make Cocktails! comes out in April of next year! As mentioned up top, it’s available for preorder! In the next few weeks, ordering sites will have more info and sample interior pages for you to peruse. Preorders are awesome and incredibly helpful in making a book a success (if you’re so inclined). (^_^)
What I’m into lately:
I don’t even know!! I have time again! I could play a videogame now! Should I start Expedition 33? Metaphor: ReFantazio?? Should I finally sit down and watch K Pop Demon Hunters?? Or return to my unfinished crochet projects??? While I work that out, here’s a list of all the audiobooks I crushed while drawing Let’s Make Cocktails!:
Eynhallow, Tim McGregor
You Should Have Left, Daniel Kehlmann
William, Mason Coile
The Dark Between the Trees, Fiona Barnett
We Live Here Now, Sarah Pinborough
Starve Acre, Andrew Michael Hurley
Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle
Wounds, Nathan Ballingrud
Bad Dolls, Rachel Harrison
Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle
House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias
A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
The Haunting of Maddy Clare, Simone St. James
Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang
We Used to Live Here, Marcus Kliewer
What Toki’s into lately:
The Young Prince has been practicing his bleps. He’s getting pretty good!
Congratulations, hope you celebrate well!! And thanks for so many great book recs through this newsletter, I didn't realize until seeing your list how many I picked up. :)
Ahh thank you Kelly! I'm glad I'm not the only one with a taste for horror and weird lit. :D