Just checking in to say I'm still here

I've fallen out of the habit of making journal entries around here for a while, and though I don't have anything specific to say with this one, it comes more from a wish to make it known that I'm still around these parts on a regular basis, looking up things that interest me, talking to those with similar interests and, on a very rare occasion, even posting something new in my own gallery that I hope garners the attention of my readers.

Mainly the stuff that I've been posting in recent weeks has been some of the very impressive and always welcome pieces of original artwork that my own writing has had some role in inspiring. I'd say that my words were the basis for these pieces of art, but a quick glance around the galleries of these talented individuals will put paid to that conceit and show that it's me who is lucky to have someone devote some of their time and their amazing craft to depicting what I write about.

They're just wrapping their already wonderful talent around my words and proving that they're good at what they do.

The thing that I find most astonishing is the repeated occasions on which I have found that these works of art are spontaneous on their part and needed no encouragement from me. Some have even appeared hot on the heels of a piece that I seem to only have posted the day before!

Their names are all in the Illustrations section of my gallery, where I like to repost their works, along with a link to the original and one to the story that inspired them so as to hopefully get eyes looking in both directions.

That aside, I'm still alive, writing and available for chat or the pitching of ideas, as well as hoping to have something to post very soon.