Friday, November 4, 2016

Atria Books, Drooping Kittens, and Undertow

Hello! It's been a long while since I updated this website, so we have a couple things to catch up about. The biggest and most important thing that happened to my life since January is that I now work at Simon & Schuster as a managing editorial assistant for Atria Books. It has been an incredibly fun and challenging experience, and I feel super blessed for being able to work at one of the biggest five English-language book publishers.


Drooping Kittens is alive and running now, and it is slowly gaining momentum. I'd like to thank each one of you personally for your support for this project. It means so much to me that you enjoy this webcomic because it is a love letter to my college years and love of comics.

A couple setbacks happened, though, because of the demanding weekly* deadline and Laras's increasing responsibility at Falcon Pictures (and I'm so proud of her!). So we decided to restructure the production process and publication schedule. Drooping Kittens is now a monthly webcomic, and various artists will be drawing the episodes each month. This is going to be an interesting and exciting change for us! There are so many growing artists out there, and I want to promote as well as invest in them. I'm hoping that these collaborations would inspire me to churn out more projects in the future...

My next webcomic project is Undertow, a Lovecraftian horror that is set to be published sometime in 2017. Ryan Cruz and I have been working on this title for the past three months, and we can't wait to reveal more of it in the near future!


I'm also trying to take on more prose projects in the upcoming year to practice fiction-writing, so look forward to that! As always, thanks for reading, and have a great day!

*When I originally conceived Drooping Kittens, I wanted it to run concurrently with the college school year, so it would be fitting if each episode is published weekly.