Month: December 2018

yoilitmag:

ISSUE 3: SPACE

It is our pleasure to announce that Shall We Read: Issue 3 is up in our itch.io store! Here’s a preview of the cover by the amazing @paluumin! If you like what you see here, as well as in our Issue 3 tag, head on to our itch.io store to grab your copy!

If you’ve missed our previous issues, make sure to check the content by our incredible contributors in our Pilot Issue, Issue 1 and Issue 2! All of them are available for purchase at our itch.io store!

I DID IT OVER

this time in digital with the (working) title of the book

I have been getting the reconstructed outline down and I am so in love lsdfkjg;jfd

Blog Post Suggestions

I need to write some articles for my new blog- topics relating to writing, art, books, movies, design, identity, etc. Pretty broad. Anyone have something they’d like to see me cover? I’m not published, but I ran writing group for 10+ years so that’s something. 

I’m also planning to write some posts comparing different forms of media– adaptations/versions/etc. They’ll be short posts, but it should be fun, so feel free to recommend things you’d like to see in that vein, too! Is the book really better than the movie?

Feel free to comment here, send an ask, tweet, or an email- gabapple @ gmail -and I’ll add it to my list of blog ideas!

Thanks! 

yoilitmag:

Issue 3: Information

Hello everyone!

As we approach the release of Shall We Read: Issue 3, we have some announcements to make!

In Regards to Tiers:

Given this is our last issue, the tiers which provided access to our Discord server and exclusive previews of the upcoming issues will no longer exist. However, we do have a surprise extra, to celebrate our four issues of Shall We Read!

  • Baseline: for 1 USD, you’ll gain access to our SFW edition of Issue 03, which contains 12 writing pieces and 5 art pieces.

  • Postcard: for 6 USD, you’ll gain access to not only our SFW edition of Issue 03, but also an exclusive postcard designed by the incredible @paluumin! 

  • Appendicks: for 10 USD, you’ll gain access to both our SFW and NSFW editions; the NSFW appendix includes 4 additional writing pieces, and 3 additional art pieces.

  • Bang for your Buck: for 15 USD, you’ll gain access to both our SFW and NSFW editions, as well as our exclusive postcard.

Both postcard tiers will be limited, with only 200 postcards on sale. Once those are sold out, we’ll only offer the Baseline and Appendicks tiers. First come, first serve! Once you purchase either the Postcard or the Bang for your Buck tiers, you’ll receive an e-mail from us in order to collect your shipping address; e-mails will be sent out to our buyers every Friday.

Keep reading

Two days left until New Year’s Eve and the night of this fateful story… make sure you’re following @yoilitmag​ on tumblr or @yoilitmag on twitter so you don’t miss the release of Issue 3! A happy ending only happens if someone reads it, you know… and little orphan Vitya needs you. 

See my previous promo for this piece here!

This is Salmon Coal, my book son. Please love him. He is my life… and also the protagonist of the middle grade novel that I have been neglecting lately, but must get back to very soon. 

I got a travel watercolor sketchbook for Christmas and broke it in with a very cold Vitya, ‘cause it was 18f/-7.7c when I got off work today. Brrr.

Mug design I did for Sanii- a very rare commission for Christmas of the incredibly cute guinea pig Chokino! Ahhh I love piggies so much

There’s less than a week until issue 3 of the @yoilitmag​ drops… So here’s a little sneak peek of my illustrated piece.

Some of you might be familiar with this story… 🙂 ;;; 

Text version:

Little Matchstick Vitya (preview) 

“Why would little Vitya be out in the cold if he had no ushanka?” you ask. “He’ll catch a cold if he doesn’t freeze to death!”

You would be right, of course. This is what little Vitya tried to explain to his aunt and uncle, too, before they pushed him out onto the front step that night.

“It’s New Year’s Eve!” they said. “You must take advantage of the holiday, there are so many people out! Take these matchbooks; they have the company’s ad printed on the back. Give them out to the professionals you see, and get their business cards in return. You can come home when you’re all done.”

So he went, taking the matchbooks with him into the dark, wintry night.
But he didn’t go alone, at least. While Vitya had no love for matchbooks, advertisements, or for herring, he did have lots of love for his most loyal companion, Makkachin. The little poodle stayed close on the bus ride to the heart of the city, and closer still when they reached downtown. The parties were all in full swing, and they would easily get stepped on or separated if they weren’t careful.

“Excuse me, would you like a free matchbook? No? But it has really nice printing on it! Wait, where are you going?”

The boy and his dog were kicked out of parties and restaurants,theaters and hotels. They were pushed away in the crowds, and ignored on the ice rinks. A few people took matchbooks out of pity, but most of those ended up in the trash right before his eyes.

It wasn’t as though he hadn’t thought about throwing all of them away, himself. He’d wanted to throw the whole sack in the garbage the moment they’d been given to him! But… they were his family, and somehow, they always knew how to catch him in a lie. Coming back with no business cards or contacts wouldn’t help his case at all.

Besides, the punishment should they find out…

He shuddered to think of it. No; it would be better to stay out all night if he had to.

…read more in issue three of Shall We Read!

Coming soon :)))