January 10, 2016 · 2:51 pm
Blood Bank is an adventure that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world with the strange start of a clerk who tracks blood for the controlling monsters. My beta readers say it’s the best book I’ve written so far. Your patronage is MUCH appreciated, as are any reviews posted to Amazon. (Pardon my gratuitous begging…)
Here is the cover, illustrated by Alfred Trujillo and Cara Nicole at 183 Degrees studios. Thanks to my publisher at Arizona Publishing Services, LLC. There is also an alternative cover with Cara Nicole as the character Shawna which will be available on Kindle and at special convention events.
Here is the Amazon link to purchase:
Here is a brief description off the back cover: William believes he is the only non-bitten human left in the world. He spent his entire life raised by vampires to run their blood bank and keep track of deposits and withdrawals. One day, young Shawna, a human who grew up in the wild is dropped into his prison for companionship. Neither William nor Shawna really understand the world in which they live and they both become unwitting pawns in a final power play by their vampire Overlords.
The Alternative Cover:
June 14, 2015 · 10:20 pm
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Tagged as alexis mckinstry, alfred trujillo, chris wilke, clay davis, cosplay, cosplay pictures, girls of cosplay, guardians of the galaxy, harley quinn, inara serra from firefly, jessica nigri, kurt colin, mad max, men of cosplay, misty, phoenix comic con 2015, star wars, steampunk, tardis, The Birds, umbrella corporation, viking
June 9, 2014 · 10:10 pm
Last night Phoenix Comic Con 2014 ended. I had a great time, but wow, sensory overload, 100,000 or so people and tons of old and new friends. I spent most of today just chilling with the dogs and resting up. Standing on hard concrete for four days for up to fourteen hours a day takes its toll. I am really not sure how some of my friends are able to do up to 50 conventions per year.
There are a lot of photos below, but they are all fun and from my own camera. Enjoy!
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Psylocke, my favorite X-Men
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Erin Cooper and Mini-Cooper (Kennedy) Erin is the awesome Vendor Manager for PCC.
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Dorothy Thicket (facebook.com/thicketcosplay
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Princess Leia
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Bounty Hunter holding cage
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Cosplay Misty for Me
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R2D2
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Steampunker
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Hal and Dee Astell. Dee won the battle for most ribbons, if you look closely, hers go down the back side as well.
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Tattoine
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Bossk, the Trandoshan Bounty Hunter
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Phoenix Comic Con – A wetched hive of scum and villainy
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KWSS 93.9 FM Independent Radio – dressed as Battlestar Galactica Pilot and Star Trek redshirt
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Deadmaus with a stormtrooper and Boba Fett
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The Hulk, Cassandra S. Kyle as Squirrel Girl, Irongirl
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X-Men excitement
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Khurt Khave, left, Johnna Buttrick, right and middle Johnna’s cousin
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Black Cat
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Jenn Aerilyn and friend
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Sara Mayhem
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Deathstroke and the Huntress
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Con-goers
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Cassandra S. Kyle and friend
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Cassandra S. Kyle as Squirrel Girl
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Con-goers
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Fashionable friends
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Awesome archer outfit
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Cara Nicole as Black Cat and Me
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Alfred Trujillo
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Two-face by Christa
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Stopping by our booth
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Our good friend Alexis
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Cool outfits
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Great Michonne from The Walking Dead
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Con-goer
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Too cool
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Our fun booth neighbors the last two years
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Mary and Mike DeBalfo
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Aurora O’Brien and two other people – like you see them anyway…
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Antlers
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Combat
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Black Widow and Black Canary
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Cara Nicole as Black Widow and creature from Resident Evil
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We can do it! 1940’s Star Trek Mash-up
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X-23
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Balrog
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Odin and Lady Thor
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Umbrella Corporation
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Clay Davis at the Arizona Steampunk Society Booth
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Steampunk Werewolf
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Big Brother and Little Sister
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Zombie Stormtroopers
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Friends having fun. Harley Quinn stopped by last year. Fun people to talk to.
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Foliage creature
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Brave princess
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Wonder Woman – Never date a woman with a truth lasso
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Steampunk
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Elven ladies
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Steampunker Paul – and he bought books!
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Friends
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Caitlin Fluck and Kurt Colin as Klingons, they were married at PCC as Predators
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Fun at PCC
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Old school Batman and Catwoman
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Cosplaying Family
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Another family having fun
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Deep Space 9 cosplayers
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Velma and Scooby Doo
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Black Widow and Cassandra S. Kyle as Catwoman
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Fans and Catwoman
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Awesome people, Alexis as Harley Quinn and Cassie as Catwoman
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Another nice man to talk to
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Cooll outfit, nice smile
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Fifth Element Cosplay
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Judge Dredd Cosplay, very well done
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Steampunk ladies and Me
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Black Canary and The Archer
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Cosplayer Ladies
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God of War crossplay
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Ladies of Steampunk
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Steampunk Ladies
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Joan McGue and Cassie as Catwoman outside my booth
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Tauriel Shaman from WoW, bottom half did not come through…sigh
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Mad Moxie and friend
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Cool cosplay
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Wonder women
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Cassie and Me
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Kawaii!
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Ceci Hampson in Steampunk
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Awesome cosplay
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Twi-lek and Darksider Jedi
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Cara Nicole, awesome person and dressed as Black Widow
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Cosplay friends
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Taking a break outside
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Jessica Nigri and Cassandra S. Kyle – Two very nice people
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Kip Mussatt, left, selling some of his awesome original artwork at KIpsworld
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Zenescope Entertainment
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Cosplay fun
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Cosplayers
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Con-goers
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Sara Mayhem, left, and friend
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Tom. Jeannie had to step out. They make awesome hand blown glass items.
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Tagged as alexis, alfred trujillo, Arizona Steampunk Society, aurora o'brien, caitlin fluck, cara nicole, cassandra s. kyle, ceci hampson, chris wilke, clay davis, cosplay pictures, dee astell, dorothy thicket, erin cooper, girls of cosplay, hal astell, jenn aerilyn, jessica nigri, joan mcgue, johnna buttrick, khurt khave, kip mussatt, kipsworld, kurt colin, kwss 93.9 fm radio, mary debalfo, michael bradley, mike debalfo, phoenix comic con, sara mayhem, steampunk, the hulk, umbrella corporation, women of cosplay, x-23 cosplay, zenescope entertainment, zombie steampunk
June 7, 2014 · 9:18 am
Friday at Phoenix Comic Con was a blast, lots of fun, but my stamina meter is dropping… I need one of those big health bottles or stamina boosts you get in video games. Shout outs to all the old friends, new friends and those awesome folks who buy my books!
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Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn
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Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Poison Ivy
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Brosebrothersproductions.com – cool steampunk creations
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KISS
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The Holiday Heroes Series – holiday comic superheroes
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Pearl Harper Enterprises
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Nice person stops by my booth
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Team Fortress 2, pushing the bomb
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Ryan Lunt and family. He came by to get my second book in the Travelers’ Club Series – you should too!
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A man about to be lunch…
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Icy Cosplay – Such an awesome person
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Asajj Ventress
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Steampunkers. Homemade brass and gemstone wings
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Mandalorian wooing a tough woman
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Cosplayers – Sorry for the black bar…
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Jenn Czep – fellow author and awesome friend
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Great outfits
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Domino and Misty
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Steampunkers stopping by
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I did not sneak well, both aggro’d on me…
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The Addamms family, Gomez and Morticia
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Having fun at my booth at 1629
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Steampunk Boba Fett
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Cool Costume
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Steampunkers
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Harley Quinn
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Catwoman and Poison Ivy
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Cassandra S. Kyle as a White Fairy with Maleficent
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Steampunk Plague Doctor
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Young Steampunkers
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Matching cosplayers
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Sara Moni lighting up as Storm
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Tough steampunker
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Kawaii!
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What’s all the buzz about?
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Asgardians
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Krill with Symbiote
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Mary DeBalfo – Proving why Mike DeBalfo is a lucky man!
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Psylocke
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Friends
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Winter Soldier
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Alfred Trujillo, comic artist extraordinaire and great friend
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Jessica Nigri and Cassandra S. Kyle. I will re-post later without bar. Memory chips…sigh…
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Spartans controlled by the scent of Poison Ivy
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Cara Nicole
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Transformers
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Transformers
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Star Trekkers
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Steampunk and child from Dr. Who, “Are you my Mommy?” Alexis is in fact next to her mommy…
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He did not go full nude yet = Watchmen
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Mermaid, sorry for the blur
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Tall Jokers
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Fur and leather
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Tura, Becky, and Tura’s girl and bf
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Not sure the character, but cool outfit
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June 5, 2014 · 11:30 pm
Already tired and Thursday is only a half day of fun. Phoenix Comic Con is a sensory overload of fun, costumes and friends, all set on a very firm concrete floor. You don’t realize how much you walk until the end of the day when you have sore feet from all the standing on hard surfaces. I forgot to buy those little spongy floor tiles for my booth again…sigh.
I had a great time today and I am looking forward to the next three days. Here are some samples of the first day:
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Engineer and Soldier from Team Fortress 2
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Post Apocalpytic Survivors
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Winged Unicorn and her two fairy children
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Saying hello at my booth
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Jolene Hauser and friends
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Becky, Khurt, Brian, Rayne, Sara and Johnna, Steampunk friends
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Me, Cara Nicole, Alfred Trujillo, Chris Wilke (the brown barrier at the bottom is a mystery)
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Bryan and his steampowered gatling rifle
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Cheetara and a tough nurse
January 26, 2014 · 12:11 am
I am already tired. Cons are a sensory overload as you are surrounded by fund people, awesome costumes, products, guests, etc. all while walking on concrete floors for 16 hours. It starts like an awesome stroll and turns into the Bataan Death March. In any case, my wife and I are at booth 319 and we are selling well and having fun. Here are some pictures of folks, mostly from my phone camera. Enjoy!
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Toni Darling left, Big Scotty Hulk right
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Michonne was there signing photos
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Black Cat
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Jessica Nigrit
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Mary DeBalfo with Robert Kirkman
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Arrow selfies
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Local Arizona Steampunk Society Friends
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sophia-mia.com
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LIndsay Elyse Fanpage
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Me, left, Alina with Omega 1, and Alfred Trujillo
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3 cool friends having fun
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Scary
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Sophia-mia.com
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Sara Moni
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Robin Hood
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Zombie Ladies Night Out
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Manning the booths
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Dinerys Targaryen
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Bith band
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Bith Band
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Beauty and the Beast
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Arrgghh, Pirates
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Random Ninja
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Green Arrow
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Me and awesome Cara Nicole aka AZ Powergirl, Shadowlands, etc.
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Big Scotty Hulk
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Harley Quinn
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Two Rebel scum
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Hocus Pocus
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Armored for action
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Kawaii!!
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Ready to rumble
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Fun friends
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Clay and the Lone Ranger
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Harley Yee – Rare Comic book legend
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John Mulhall – Author of Geddy’s Moon
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Bad Girls – Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy
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Some disney fun
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Friends ready for a fight
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San Romero High School Cheerleader Zombie Slayer
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The incomperable Victoria Paege
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Booth babe for fellow author Todd
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Legolas. Tall person with long lines of young ladies for photo ops
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Hound (The Dog) from Game of Thrones, left, Marine fighting Aliens on right, but he has a baby alien on his back, poor guy.
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Awesome friends having fun
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Assassin’s Creed American release, with Steampunk automaton
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Friends to the end
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Sharknado
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Wayne Gardiner of Knightengale comics
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Two of Wayne’s Knightengale character models
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Not sure who he was but he had bells and skulls and looked bad ass
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Jessica Nigri preparing to lay out her posters for a signing
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Cool costumes
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Friends having fun
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Model for Kip Murratt of Kips World
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Family cosplay
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Monika Lee just finished setting up, waiting for the rush of fans
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Rosanna Rocha
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Corbin Dallas and Leeloo – Fifth Element
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Toni Darling as She-Hulk
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Aurora and Mary DeBalfo. Can you believe Mary just had her second baby by husband Mike deBalfo? Lucky man.
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Kip Murrat of Kipsworld and his model
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Admiral Tia Maria
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October 2, 2013 · 5:16 pm
The WOD is a premier magazine on pop culture, science fiction and conventions. The top story this issue is an interview with cosplayer Cassandra S. Kyle written by yours truly. If you poke through the pages you will find some original fiction and a book review in there by me as well. Please make sure to read all the great columns, including Hal Astell, Alfred Trujillo and Cara Nicole. It’s a great publication by Patti Hulstrand. To help her, feel free to frequent the advertisers and let them know you saw them in The Wod.
Click this to read in low density color:
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Cassandra S. Kyle as Steampunk Catwoman with Michael Bradley at Phoenix Comic Con 2013
September 13, 2013 · 11:19 am
I really appreciate all of you who come to this blog site for some fun and interesting reading. I am now up to 468 followers on my blog and if you throw in the twitter feed @mbtimetraveler, linkedin, FB, pinterest, etc., up to around 4,000. Every one of you are awesome! Thanks for the support, you reading the posts makes it fun for me to put them on here. If you think this is an enjoyable blog, please recommend it to others so we can reach that 500 blog followers mark.
Also, if you ever want some longer reading, feel free to visit my store for links to my books. I just finished the first draft of my fifth book, Blood Bank. I am rewriting it and then it goes to the agents/publishers for consideration. Wish me luck!
Here are some early concept covers courtesy of the lovely Cara Nicole (AZ Powergirl) posing as the heroine of the story, Shawna. At the beginning she is dropped naked into the Blood Bank and has nothing to defend herself but her fierce spirit and a screwdriver. Photography and design by Alfred Trujillo:
Front Cover
Back Cover
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March 6, 2013 · 3:25 pm
My good friends, and recently married couple, Alfred “T-Virus” Trujillo and Cara Nicole (AZ Powergirl and cover model for Twisted History and the upcoming Blood Bank novel by yours truly) are producing a new comic book series called Project: Shadows. Alfred is already a famous comic producer and artist, invited to many conventions and a featured guest at the Phoenix ComicCon as well as many others. Cara Nicole is well known as AZ Powergirl. Please help support this dynamic duo and the rest of their team.
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Alfred on TV promoting Project Shadows
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Cara as AZ Powergirl
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The Wedding
Here is the kickstarter link:
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Tagged as alfred t-virus trujillo, alfred trujillo, az powergirl, cara nicole, comic books, kickstarter, phoenix comiccon, project shadows, Project: Kickstarter
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