thanks
Written
Sun Dec 06 2009
Write-O-Rama was a literary and financial success. We raised over $10K for a great cause. My friends and family came through in the pledges and showed some fantastic support.
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Pledged
Wed Nov 25 2009
Alrighty. So far I've been pledged $175.00 towards Write-o-Rama.
I'm hoping to see a lot more support coming soon. If there ever was a way you could encourage me to keep writing and earn some good tax-deductible karma, this is it.
Please, please, please -Support Richard Hugo House by clicking here. Just put PlanetHeidi in the designation field and fill out all the other necessary information.
Does Heidi have a soundtrack?
Sat Apr 28 2007
When I was writing Lex Talionis, I did it in the modern fashion. That is, I took my laptop to coffee shops and wrote there. To help find my muse, I had the iTunes cranked with what I called the "Heidi mix". Featured prominently in that mix was The West Marginals, another group of artists spawned out of the Hugo House. If you cross-reference carefully, you'll find one of the WM's is thanked specifically in the credits of Lex Talionis. We worked together on the Surveillance Inquiry a few years back, where the first seeds of Heidi germinated.
The WM are now history, having gone their separate ways. However, the music lives on at their website. Their melancholy tunes match perfectly with the latter half of the book. I especially loved Well Fed as a theme to the Heidi-Peter relationship. Burning Fuel works well for Heidi's flight to Victoria. And Four Steps and Fall Down made me almost want to give Heidi a substance abuse problem.
Fans
Sat Feb 03 2007
2/3/2007
Long time, no update.
Whew, I'd forgotten to put a note here for quite a while. Sorry about that. Hey, feel free to poke me with an e-mail if you've got a question or want me to post here more.
Thanks for being loyal readers and putting up with having to wait nearly an aching week between each updates. I know a number of you prefer to wait until I've built up a nice block of episodes and catch up all at once. Well, either way, I'm grateful for the time you spend here. As you can see, the story is wrapping up. Most of the big questions have been answered and Heidi's career is looking up.
A few notes on updates. I try to pace things at about a "weeks worth" of story. So that means if a scene is short, then I'll update more rapidly. If it's long, I might update in a week and change later. I also try not to leave things too cliff-hangary for you. Well, sometimes.
Shout out to the readers around the world. I can see you in my web logs and the countries listed just blow my mind. The Netherlands, Singapore, Germany, Portugal, Japan, South Africa, Norway, Israel and the UK. Wow. And of course, my friends up north in Canada (thanks for e-mailing). Of course, you can see part of our story takes place in your beautiful country. And yeah, lots of Heidi-lovers Down Under.
BTW, if you've never noticed... when you're reading the comic, you can just click directly on the panel and you'll auto-advance to the next panel. That way you don't need to use the scroll-bar or page down. It does it for you. I thought I came up with a nice innovation for webcomic user-interface but people don't seem to realize it's there. Well, it is.
Lastly, I'll mention this one more time again. The entire Geek Girl story has already been written, start to finish. It was done before I drew the first panel. So the way the plot unfolds has already been pre-determined. All your screaming and ranting won't change how things end.
If you feel need to rant or scream or shout out from your country, well... author@planetheidi.com
Long time, no update.
Whew, I'd forgotten to put a note here for quite a while. Sorry about that. Hey, feel free to poke me with an e-mail if you've got a question or want me to post here more.
Thanks for being loyal readers and putting up with having to wait nearly an aching week between each updates. I know a number of you prefer to wait until I've built up a nice block of episodes and catch up all at once. Well, either way, I'm grateful for the time you spend here. As you can see, the story is wrapping up. Most of the big questions have been answered and Heidi's career is looking up.
A few notes on updates. I try to pace things at about a "weeks worth" of story. So that means if a scene is short, then I'll update more rapidly. If it's long, I might update in a week and change later. I also try not to leave things too cliff-hangary for you. Well, sometimes.
Shout out to the readers around the world. I can see you in my web logs and the countries listed just blow my mind. The Netherlands, Singapore, Germany, Portugal, Japan, South Africa, Norway, Israel and the UK. Wow. And of course, my friends up north in Canada (thanks for e-mailing). Of course, you can see part of our story takes place in your beautiful country. And yeah, lots of Heidi-lovers Down Under.
BTW, if you've never noticed... when you're reading the comic, you can just click directly on the panel and you'll auto-advance to the next panel. That way you don't need to use the scroll-bar or page down. It does it for you. I thought I came up with a nice innovation for webcomic user-interface but people don't seem to realize it's there. Well, it is.
Lastly, I'll mention this one more time again. The entire Geek Girl story has already been written, start to finish. It was done before I drew the first panel. So the way the plot unfolds has already been pre-determined. All your screaming and ranting won't change how things end.
If you feel need to rant or scream or shout out from your country, well... author@planetheidi.com
A year of Heidi
Thu Oct 19 2006
It's been a full year since I got this story rolling. Honestly, I thought I'd be finished with it by now, but I guess I draw slower than I originally thought. The good news is the story is drawing towards its conclusion. It's been quite a thrill watching the readership grow. In my writing studio, I have a big cork board where I put things up relating to my writing projects. I've taken down all the rejection letters for the novel manuscript and replaced them with some your email and reviews. So keep them coming.
Thank you all again for spending the time to hear Heidi's story. I promise you, the best is yet to come.
Shout outs
Thu Jul 13 2006
Special thank you to the GirlieGeeks. Heidi is proud to be an affiliate of your site. It just so happened that today's scene includes a moment where Heidi has to surf the web, so I took the opportunity for a little shout out. It's a geek thing, baby.
I hope you all enjoyed the double-postings during last chapter's Scavenger Hunt. I was pretty beat doing all twice as much artwork. That said, I'm trying to pick up the pace in getting more updates out sooner. I know as the book hits the third act, the suspense is ratched up (as my teacher taught me to do). With this, I know the demand for more updates will also ratchet up. Sorry, when I wrote the thing, it was intended to be a paper novel... y'know, a page-turner. Now you gotta suffer with the waiting. Sorry.
At some point as we near the end, I'm going to consider putting up the novel version of the story... probably self-published and available at a marginal cost. The book is slightly different than the comic, but 95% the same as the comic. And of course, you can read it faster. If you think this might be of interest, shoot me an email and lemme know. I'm still weighing the possibilities. Here's a sample.
How many people noticed to the new font? I hope it makes things easier to read while still retaining the overall "Heidi" look to her thoughts and words. Font nerds will let you know the old font was Blambot's Chronicles of a Hero, and yeah, I loved the name. The new one is Blambot Pro and it was worth every penny.
Thanks again and keep an eye around you. And remember, Heidi is everywhere.