laramie

I posted on FB yesterday that Friday's job interview came to naught. They hired someone else.

Now I am looking into Kickstarter - the online service that helps creative people raise money from backers to fund specific projects. I have a couple projects in mind that I'd like to work on and dozens on the back burners of my mind.

The couple closest to being ready for proposals are a card game and a picture book.

I've already got some sample art and a manuscript for this picture book and think I could complete the rest of the art readily given the funded time.
( Picture Book: Would You Be a Baby )

I'm not sure I know enough people who'd be interested in a picture book to want to help fund the project, though. My niece just had a baby, but there aren't a lot of very young tots in my circles.

The other project is a card game I call BiZar, in the Uno family, inspired by Zar. Like the latter, it would have similar special effect cards, but rather than three suits of colors it would have six, and maybe a couple fewer symbol suits, to keep the size from growing unwieldy. I already came up with a working deck with the three alternate colors and think I could produce alternate symbols and a full set of the rules fairly easily. And I DO know a lot of gamesters.

Meanwhile, I continue to work on the latest novel, but working on my own artistic projects - with funding! - would beat a supplemental day job hands down.