Though I’ve posted sneak peaks at Life Images a few times, I’ve never taken the opportunity to show off any of my other magazines. Art Doll Quarterly, for instance. This is the cover of the current issue, featuring artwork by Vanessa Valencia:

And this the previous issue; I think this is the issue that made me really fall in love with art dolls.

I was surprised when I took over this magazine, nearly a year ago, how much affinity I’ve found for the delightfully odd world of art dolls. With the exception of Artful Blogging, I don’t think any of our publications contain quite the variety of form, media and style as ADQ does.

The difference is that with Artful Blogging, I only get to see the photos of the artwork I publish. For ADQ, I get to see it up close and personal like. I’d like to show you a glimpse of the neat things lurking in my office right now, for the winter issue, but I’d have to have my camera with me. Instead, here’s a few spreads from past issues that show something of the diversity of the art doll world:

I could go on and on about why I love this styff, but the real reason I’m writing about ADQ right now is to tell you about the Pink Artist Doll.

I was very happy to publish “Love Squared” in the Autumn issue (on the stands right now!) not just because she’s a beautiful doll, but because of the cause she is dedicated to. 182 artists contributed to the making of this doll, and right now she is being raffled off to support breast cancer research. $10 bucks buys you two chances to win this one-of-a-kind piece (or one of some other fab prizes) and you’re helping a great cause too. I know most people who read my blog probably aren’t artists, but we all know people who have been touched by breast cancer, and this is an easy way to make a contribution to the fight. So go buy your raffle tickets, or go read more about Monica Magness, the creative trailblazer who dreamed up this project in an interview I did on the Stampington site (and then go buy your raffle tickets). It’s win-win for everyone.

I get irked every time I have to change the common “website” to the AP mandated “Web site.” It’s almost quite as annoying as having to put that hyphen in the middle of “email.”

Thus the life of an editor.

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
— Allen Ginsberg

Found here. My job leads me to the most amazing things.

Photo by the delightful Maddie.

No, I have not forgotten I have a blog! It’s only that what spare time work and family (of which there has been much of both) have left me in the last few weeks has been utterly preoccupied with the making of fiction. So I really don’t feel the need to apologize for not making the time to blog. I’d like to say that I was going gangbusters on the WIP, but rather it’s been a long, slow, wrestling-with-every-word sort of progress, so I don’t have much to show for all the time spent. But I’m not complaining, because even a word or two is, in fact, progress. And I’m having fun, too.

In the meantime, blog posts are piling up, things I’d like to blog about keep piling up, unblogged. Probably to remain unblogged, because, you know, those characters are a-whispering in my brain for some attention before the brain stops working for the night. So you’ll just have to make do with some photos of our recent family trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific.

I may upload some Comic Con photos in a few days. We’ll see!