If some of you have a more eagle eye, you’ll noticed that I’ve updated a good chunk of my site’s packaged wings. This is happening alongside a much needed upgrade to the main site, which is not neccessarily a complete overhawl–I’m still using the basic layout and design–as to work on a better navigation and making the book wings more uniform (lostboyfound and scarletpi [dot foxfirestudios dot net] will be getting remade into more basic formats, and the bloodandmetal wing will be set up with a cover bit.) How on earth will I be able to work the forum and this blog into the same standard still elludes me, but that’s a minor glitch.
As for the Scarlet PI Remix comic, I have some news on that. While I may, if everything works out all right, to finish the penciling and inking stages of all those pages by this weekend, the comic might not be available utnil May. That’s because I’ve just ordered the latest version of Draw Plus (X2, to be exact.) Something this important is going to have to be used with what I feel to be the best program out there, and in my book, it’s Serif’s Award Winning Illustration Program. (And what can I say, it’s at $40 with all the loyalty discounts. I can’t complain.)
With the hard part of the comic book out of the way, I’ll be able to get back to the books, which involves the second draft of Blood and Metal, a major revision of Lost Boy Found (and quite possibily a minor one for Mim Su Sa). And it is possible that me and a friend of mine could get to the editing stage of what could be the second book in the Scarlet PI series, something that I was hoping would happen with my projects. 
Lost Boy Found
I’ve gotten through the final major edits of the story done, a week before the deadline, may I add, and the book is now with a pair of editors, where the jots and tittles of the book (the grammar and verb tenses and those Radio Edit typos that I know are there) will be taken care of before the Lulu Publishing in May. I’ve been given a report that it is indeed original enough not to be dismissed as a Fanfict, so I can use this book to launch my career over at Lulu.com.
Scarlet PI
Good News: I’m back at making SPI strips, and I’m using that strip as my experimenting lab for my drawing style. Bad News: Using a HP PSC 1401 to scan in strip work is the Bleep. I’m going to need a better flatbed. E-Bay Time.
Note: Anyone who wants to commission some artwork from me, feel free and do so now. Those who commissioned me before know I work a lot better when I get paid.
Blood and Metal
I’ve just now started on the revision, and believe me, you’ll find the story completely changed from the very first story I’ve posted on the net. I’m still looking around for suggestions and ideas to bat around, and there’s the wiki on my site for that purpose. Watch this space, as well as my site, for further progress.
If you’re seeing this, it means that I’ve connected the new blog, powered by WordPress, to the site all right. Looks like it happened again with all the Media Wikis, including the Lost Boy Found web site. It’s a mixed blessing for LBF, becuase I wanted to remake the site anyway, I found out that using Wiki as a Blog is quite labor-intensive.
However, it happened at a good time, because I got the second final beta of LBF finished yesterday and is sent to the editor. And yes, I did find one in Januray, the gambit paid off. I’ll let you more about it later as well as reports on getting back on Scarlet PI as well as my next book.
So stay tuned and pardon the dust. Yes, again.