Clash of clans

So is anyone playing 'clash of clans' on the iOS?

I have become addicted, so much so that I find myself jumping on every few minutes to see if I've got enough for the next big upgrade to my base, or if there's enough troop presence to go and raid another players base!

Then there's the social element to it, if you can call it social as I know nothing much about my clansmen?! But I find myself striking up conversation and making sure I donate as many troops as possible to my new found 'friends'

It's really sad, in a good way, that such a very simple game in the light of today's technological advancements can be so addictive, forget you playstation 4, give me the iPad anyday the nature and content of some of the 'free' games just blows the competition away

Gotta go now see if my base is okay, got attacked yesterday and they really creamed me!

First Christmas card caricature complete

For the good sports Lynette and Ben Mackie at www.tenteventhire.co.nz who wanted a caricature Christmas card to send out to business contacts and clients and were game to let me have a go at cutting my teeth on one for them.

Cheers

Doodle D Dragon for free!

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Just checking the testimonials section of my website, can't believe I have over a hundred 'spam' testimonials!??

Did someone have too much time on their hands?

Just finished cleaning them out..... Phew!

Lesson learnt.... Check your testimonials along with emails.... 😃

Your thoughts.....

So I was asked to do a design for a cartoon duck..... which one do you prefer....?

Doodle D. Dragon.... Is FINISHED...YAY!

Oh yeah its done...... and now available as an ebook and print version at your favourite online bookseller..... that's Amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.... just incase you forgot.......

Doodle D Dragon... Is finished

Well, some serious effort and time has paid off, Doodle is now finished, just got some proof reading to do and fine tuning (fine tuning!?!) before its ready to go to print and ebook status.

The cartoons look good, a step further on from Loopy, improvement is always the aim with each one from here on in, and my techniques are improving with each book, hopefully this will be evident upon release.

With Loopy, this was my first real book that I had complete control over what I did as marketing is concerned, Doodle is my second book, but is completely written and illustrated by me only, with no contributions from other parties I have no one to please but myself, so I am looking forward to how things go from here.

Over the weekend I attended a self publishing course run by a great author, Joy Findlay, and got some good tips on marketing, so I really want to push the boundaries on this one.

PS, if you get the chance to go on one of Joys self publishing courses in the future, then I recommend it as there is some really useful information from someone who has been there, seen it and done it.