Blatant shilling for a very talented son

My son Curtis The Artist (creator of the wonderful new eBook covers for the Tory Bauer series) is also the head honcho at HopHeadSaid. Curt is a a beer expert (he's now a certified Cicerone, one of only 400 in the country) and home brewer. He's also a writer, with a regular beer column in VC Buzz, a Ventura county magazine, and his series of beer videos is great. Oh, and he taped the pilot for an internet talk show on beer.

He's started a Kickstarter project in order to fund more and better videos- this time, a series on the proper glassware for individual beer styles. Go and see what he's up to, and if the notion intrigues you, you can pledge, as little as $1 up to... well whatever. The way Kickstarter works is that projects have a set amount of time (in this case 30 days) to achieve the desired amount of pledges. If the amount is met, the pledges (this time through Amazon, but any credit or debit card will work) are processed. If the amount is not met, the project is disbanded and no cards are charged.

I think this is a marvelous project, and I hope you will too.

Here's the Kickstarter page for Curt's project: beer pour'n  (pronounced Beer Porn... heh).

And here's his video intro:



P.S. Every pledge over $5 gets a cool gift

Drum Roll Please...

My Son, The Brilliant Artist, has done it again! Here's the cover for the eBook version of Mourning Shift, the 4th Tory Bauer Mystery, which will be available later this spring. I think it's the best one yet!

Check out the evolution of all of the eBook covers here!

The advantage in being the Artist's Mother

You get things like this in the mail...

Next time I go to Sioux Falls, I need to stop at Michaels and lay in a supply of black frames so I can hang these somewhere besides on the fridge (and yes, I do have enough magnets to color-coordinate the photography).

I think the Hotel South Dakota poster is available through CafePress, but the others might be limited editions... neener neener...