From Sloane, With Love: The Return!
Hello friend! How are you? Why yes it has been a minute since I sent out one of these. I'll keep it brief! I was able to finally attend Clarion West after 2...
Finding Useful Feedback: Art
Continuing on from my previous e-mail, I thought I’d talk about how to get useful feedback on one’s art. Unlike prose, visual media is something we passively...
Finding Useful Feedback: Prose
Part of growing as an artist is finding how to develop yourself creatively by doing solo, internal work but also through external avenues. For some artists,...
From Sloane, With Love: On Purple Prose
Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Gotou One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a writer is not to write purple prose and it’s almost uniformly the...
End of Year Wrap Up
Like last year, 2021 passed too quickly. It felt like nothing happened except an atemporal creative depression and misanthropic mania. So I’m trying...
From Sloane, With Love: Inspiration, Ideas, and What's Worth Pursuing
The most common questions I get as an artist are “What inspires your work?,” “Where do you find your ideas?,” and “How do you know what ideas are worth...
From Sloane, With Love: What Makes Good Dialogue?
Recently, I was talking with a mentee about what makes good dialogue and wanted to compile some more thoughts here. The most common goal I hear from writers...
From Sloane, With Love: What Makes a Good Story?
[Hello friends! Below is a short essay where I take a look at the building blocks of story and try and distill them down to the simple yet amorphous elements...
From Sloane, With Love: GRAVENEYE Now Up For Pre-order!
So happy me and Anna can finally talk about our new book GRAVENEYE! What if a haunted house was not the horror, but the people who dwell within it ... Isla's...
From Sloane, With Love: 100% Funded! Submissions for Art and Fiction Are Open!
Me and Cassie we're up all night watching the support slowly trickle in and push us over our goal and we cannot say enough how grateful we both are for your...
From Sloane, With Love: Death in the Mouth is 80% Funded With 9 Days to Go!
Aloha awake friends! We’re so close to funding, thank you so much for all the support so far! Me and Cassie are beyond thrilled with how everyone has come...
From Sloane, with Love #5: ft. A Kickstarter
Welina! I’ve been working on this for a few months now and it's finally LIVE! Let me introduce you to... Death in the Mouth: Original Horror from People of...
From Sloane, With Love #6 ft. Art Harm
Finally getting my head on right after a gnarly heat dome that almost decimated me and everyone else in the PNW! Work Updates: - Got the art finished for two...
From Sloane, With Love #5 ft. Protagonists
Not much new at the studio. Working on Prism Stalker 2. Preparing to launch a Kickstarter in August for a horror anthology. Waiting on proposals to change...
From Sloane, With Love #4 ft. Structure
Welina, friends! There's slow summer movement on the publishing front and I'm all manic energy. I've made decent progress on my novel and am finally picking...
From Sloane, With Love #3
Welina dear subscribers! I’ve been bad about keeping this updated and you can see my last email was the day of my book release whiiiiich kind of killed me?...
From Sloane, With Love #2
My new slice-of-life basketball graphic novel A Map to the Sun debuted yesterday! It’s a story about five young women of color forced to join their high...
Wholes & Fragments #5
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Let’s Talk Story
Thinking about story openings, perfect first lines and narrative promises this week so let’s chat, this thread is open for discussion! Nancy Kress says:...