Look, a journal!

Oh yes, I keep meaning to do this and I keep forgetting.

My Shakespeare porn anthology (that I edited, I didn't write any of it myself) is finally out! It technically doesn't go live until tomorrow, but it is already sneakily available on Circlet Press's e-store, Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, AllRomanceEbooks, and the iBookstore. It was my intern project, so I don't make any money off it, but you should go buy it anyway, because I am really happy with the way it turned out! It includes stories based on A Midsummer Night's Dream (of course), Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Othello, and Cymbeline. Yes, Cymbeline. I would do short summaries, but it's late and I'm too lazy (I had the first rehearsal for a production of Pirates of Penzance tonight, which was great, but I only got back about an hour and a half ago). Seriously though, it's super cool. Tell your friends, and all that.

At the very least, you should admire this sexy, sexy cover art:



We had a hell of a lot of trouble finding cover art that was both Shakespeare-related and suggestive of erotica, and finally teal_deer trawled the depths of iStockphoto and turned up some old woodcut illustrations from editions of Shakespeare's plays from the 1700s or so. Whereupon I shoved them at my boss and went "CAN WE JUST USE THESE, THEY ARE WAY BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE I'VE FOUND AND ALSO IF I HAVE TO KEEP LOOKING FOR COVER ART I WILL CRY." And my boss was like "hmm, I don't know, these kind of look like grayish blobs at smaller resolutions, but maybe we could use one of them if it were colorized..."

So I colorized that sucker myself. (With a touchpad, no less—which, admittedly, you can kind of tell.) And the only reason that I know the first thing about Photoshop and the coloring of black and white images therein is because of all those stupid manga icons I've made for RP. The moral of this story is that pretending to be fictional characters on the internet is not simply a waste of time, but can actually teach you useful job skills! Mostly it's a waste of time, though.

Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yes, cool book. Totally buy that shit. The end.