Chapter 8, the final chapter of Journeys of Shelby Bly, is now complete and on the site!! Yay!!! Now begins the huge task of fixing everything I screwed up in all the chapters and then get everything finalized and ready for printing. I've written about five or six pages of notes about things I need to correct on each page of each chapter. I also need to go and look back at all viewer comments and see what others say I need to fix. I am going to be quite busy for the next few weeks if I'm ever to meet my proposed deadline of sending the pages off to the printers by this summer. I think I can get it all done though. We shall see.

Today I'm going to take a break from all the illustrating and work on writing the new draft of the story for Journeys 2. I think I'm only on the third chapter so far (no idea how many chapters there will be just yet) but I know I've got quite a ways to go. I just hope I can make some major progress on the story before the day is over! I may make some concept art for Journeys 2 later today as well, character concepts. If I do, I'll add them to the official site (link above).

I did some shuffling (and am continuing to shuffle) over at deviantART and have used the new rename feature to change my old stock account to an account dedicated to Shelby Bly. I'm going to be moving all of the novel pages and lots more from my main dA account to this new dedicated account. It's going to take me a while, I've got a LOT to move. If you're a dA member and interested in Journeys, check out the new dedicated dA account at shelby-bly.deviantart.com and follow it today! I'll be posting all pages, book art, cast pictures, concept art for Journeys 2, and all the current news to the account's journal.

For the past week, workers have been putting a new metal roof on our house… and making all sorts of loud, stress-inducing noise. It's really put me on edge. My walks with Aayla every day are the best way to clear my head and get away from the noise for a bit. I hope they finish soon, I'm not sure how much more of this I can take! The new roof does look neat though. I'm not looking forward to hearing what hard rain sounds like on it.

Last weekend, Sam and I went to the movies and saw a double feature. We saw the Avengers (first time for her, second for me) and Dark Shadows. Avengers was of course just as awesome the second time and I think Sam enjoyed it far more than she had expected to. Dark Shadows was meh… I could have waited and just rented it from Netflix. Nothing special and a little boring/bloody. We also ate lunch at Panera where I got a really great peach yogurt smoothie. Yay for smoothies! I bought some stuff from Wal-Mart last night to make my own smoothies at home. I think I'll do that for lunch today. I also need to watch that DVD I got from Netflix…

I also need to get to cleaning today… later… much later… Too much to do right now!

Not much else going on at the moment. I may work on some new artworks later but right now I'm quite focused on Journeys. Damn, I need to get to work on some new commercial 3D content as well. My account is nearly empty and I need money!! Sadly, my last character isn't selling very well which sucks given how much work I put into it. I wish I had a better handle on what sells and what doesn't so I don't keep wasting my time!