#deviant rising

Lithia’s parents ship was willed to her after they died. She occasionally uses it to make supply runs and deliveries for an underground group known as Magdalene’s, a pseudo religious group that helps take care of the “have nots” of San Francisco.

Concept art for our character Aurelius and the “slush suit”. Aurelius is a bit of a lost soul, having joined Strife’s Merchant Marine Corp as an opportunity to work on fighters and other small craft. He’s always one slip-up from getting kicked out of the corp completely and lives more in the moment than anywhere else. 

Original concept art for our character Cade. Cade Path is Captain Shard’s “observer”, a mission auditor who oversees operations and makes sure the captain of a U.P.E vessel is conducting the mission with the empires best interests at heart. 

Concept art for our character Lithia Boson, a regular girl from the rich upper terraces of San Francisco, Earth. Largely a bystander to the military conflicts she will fall into, she is the heart and the soul of our story with a rich spiritual perspective and a tragic past. Lithia grew up in the floating cities of Venus. There her parents ran a small business growing and shipping flora of all different types to distant colonies and ships. Her mother was the green thumb and her father the tradesmen. She missed her father while he was away on long supply runs in the family ship; The Amaranth.

I walked into the Corta Madera CA Barnes & Noble earlier this week and found it on the shelf. I was literally shaking and at one point had to grab a chair and sit down. It’s been such a long, uphill battle... but now we’re finally on the shelf in a real bookstore. Man, what a milestone.

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”  - Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems    

Don’t wait for the storm to pass. Learn to fly in the rain.

Our Inkshares kick off video. Feels like so long ago.