June 9th 2009:

I've been having trouble getting some neat little thing to work that won't actually CHANGE the content of the pages, as well as getting ready for the convention at the end of may which has now come and gone, so there hasn't been a lot to announce.

NOw that everything is over, I've completely revamped the Photo Print Section of the Print shop - there is a new layout there, 2 new sections completely, as well as new art, and new options! All pictures in the Photo Print section are Fantasy pictures.

Incidentally - you may find some of my books available on Amazon.com right now if you search under my married name "Nikki Bean". It's a new service that the company I am with is testing out - at first with a 30% markup, now at NO markup at all! This service is still under testing by the company so these details may change, or become completely unavailable, but as of memorial day weekend, a bunch of my books have been found on Amazon.com which I just find cool - no matter how Amazon works or charges however, you can always buy my books here at this site for the original price no matter what the amazone mark up becomes.

April 22nd & 23rd, 2009:

A few new announcements -

• I won the logo (well, there were two winners and I was one of them) contest for AAC - It's not on the site yet, as they will apparantly email me first, but the announcement and my name is up on the site.
• I finished putting The Bards Comic Book #3 together and it is now ready to buy on my lulu.com site. I will have some of these books with me at Anime Boston if anyone wants to look me up.
• I've also finished two, inter-related projects.

  The first is a special Japanese Journal I have made for the purpose of being able to practice writing Japanese Characters - Kanji and Kana, and to use in having a more organized way for trying to practice reading/translating japanese. I've sent away for the test copy and as soon as I get a chance to look it over, it will become available for purchase online and will debut physically at Anime Boston.

  The related item is something I'm creating as a way for me to practice writing as well as learn my grammer - its a new comic called Chiisana shinpo or Baby Steps. It's a hybrid comic of english and japanese - baby japanese to start because thats what I know, but hopefully it will get better asI continue on. This comic is mostly just for fun, but if anyone else wants to use it to help practice reading, go ahead!

*Note - this comic has not been added to the comics list of links as of yet, so right now its only available through this link here. I'm hoping to correct that as i get the time to
• Other news - the new gallery organization has been finished. I finished most of it quite some time ago actually, but I had forgotten to finish the last few items!!!
• There are a few new portraits in the portrait section of the new gallery page.
• Lastly, I've updated the book section of the shop - it looks better overall and has the new bards comic book linked in.

Watch for these upcoming changes:

• A fix of the layout of this portion of the page to be viewable in either firefox OR Internet Explorere - Done
• a re-organization of the Gallery pages
• Continued additions and organization of the stuff on my Cafe Press Site
• The addition of Pencil Portrait Sketchs available for purchase in the shop - Done
• A new logo design for The Bards Comic - Done
• Additions to the Gallery pages during the re-organization

Shirts: After I sell out of shirts, I'll probably be phasing them out completely. Any more shirts I do will probably be through a third party (such as Cafe Press) since i don't have the capital for a decent selection of sizes to keep in stock. Plus, my place is too small :-P

• Bards: Currently we're all sold out of the Green "Dreams" tee as well as the Maroon "Cat Bards". I have one person interested in getting a shirt size I hadn't had before, but unless there's more interest, I probably won't be making another order for either shirt. Please email me if you want it as I shall leave the image up, but take the buttons down.
• Other T-Shirts: The Dragon Shirt is currently down to Only XL being available. However, This is a very good shirt, so I intend on eventually getting more, with more sizes. If you want one, go ahead and purchase one at the size you want, and I'll add you to the queue. The more people want to buy one, the faster I'll get around to ordering more of them.

Books - All Books will be done through Lulu.com and subject to their shipping calculations, same with items from Cafe Press.

About Updates: Please remember that even if I don't update this page with "Specific" Updates, that does not mean I'm not working on it. It may be that I ran out of time and later forgot to update this portion after making a change. sometimes the change is very minor, or just loading a new picture to one of the galleries.