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Novel Update: Darkwalker Darkwalker (the novel formerly known as Wolf) is finally going to see print. It was picked up last year by Pink Narcissus Press, a small press I've done a number of covers for. The novel will be released in January 2014.
In the process, there were some pretty extensive revisions and rewrites. As it's been several years, and I've written four novels and several short stories since, I have a somewhat different perspective on writing than I did when I penned the first draft, and a lot more experience writing. The revisions were partly driven by the suggestions of my editor, Rev DiCerto (a brilliant writer in his own right), who caught every inconsistancy and continuity error I'd missed, and provided that acute outside eye that every writer needs, pointing out the forest when I was only seeing the trees, and vice versa. Without Rev, the book wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is. Initially, I was hoping to get another artist to do the cover - I felt I was too close to the work to do it justice. But in the end, deadlines loomed up too quickly, and there was no one available to get the work done in the time we had, so I jumped in with both feet. Not sorry it worked out that way, though. I'm pretty happy with the final painting, which was rendered in Corel Painter. Hard copies are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or direct from the publisher, Pink Narcissus Press. |
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2012: Final Prayer
According to some, the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world (or something like it) in 2012, and this anthology from Heske Horror, an independent publisher of horror comics, collects a variety of stories on that theme from a number of different of artists and writers. The collection comes with two alternate covers - one intended for the US, one for the UK. |
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My own contribution, a short comics story called "Harkinton," is a tale of the aftermath of the apocalypse. Fans of the RailWalker At Rites series, or of Keys should be aware that this is not a tale of happy pagans dancing in the woods, nor of serious self-reflection... 2012: Final Prayer is a horror comic anthology, after all, so the story is a bit grim and violent. Brick doesn't appear as a character (though he is referenced), but there's another RailWalker involved... What's that you say? Another RailWalker? See the section below on Wolf for more on that... |
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Reviews of the anthology have been good so far, and several reviewers singled out Harkinton for praise: "Now this I would actually love to see as an ongoing series...Eagleson truly has a jewel at the tip of his pencil!" "Duncan Eagleson kicks it off with a violent tale of the wandering, sword-wielding Harkinton..." "HARKINTON is a well written, beautifully rendered story..." |
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Where's the intro?
Flash intro pages have been done to death. They were cool when we first started using them - even if many of them were overdone. New to animating, I got caught up in the enthusiasm, and initially opened the RailWalker site with an 870K animated intro. But I noticed that after the first few weeks, even I bookmarked the second index page, so I could skip the animation. I decided enough, already. If you want to see the original intro, it's here: |
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RailWalker fans should look out for a comics collection called 
