ArtFlow Magazine Interview

My interview with ArtFlow has just been published and put up online for all to view. You can download the pdf or order a printed copy of Issue 4 Volume 2, just click on the hyperlinks I've provided. You can also read the magazine online here.

Here are the spreads featuring my interview and artwork.

First Published Bookcover

So my first published book cover is out now on Amazon.com, Itunes, and Barnes & Noble's website! The book is entitled The Forbidden Bean, and is the first book of AJ Tillock's Grinding Reality series.

Here's the cover, and synopsis:

When lifelong misfit and coffee store manager Tee Rutledge investigates a hidden bag of coffee beans, she disregards the warning label and accidentally swallows one. Consumption of the bean temporarily transports most of her thinking, rational self into the body of an insect, but just enough of her is left behind to allow operation of her human body on auto-pilot. Her existence becomes wildly complicated because once she is whole again she has no memory of her behavior as a human during that time.

While Tee temporarily inhabits the body of a fly, a cockroach or a spider, she inadvertently flies under the radar of her fellow humans and unwittingly becomes privy to dangerous knowledge she otherwise would not have but which compels her unwillingly into heroic action.

Soon she is on the trail of a ragtag group of Eastern Europeans involved in gun-running and human trafficking; her long absent father walks back into her life to warn her away from pursuing them; and a serial killer feels the sting of her unique brand of justice.

Addicted to the magic beans but also teetering on the edge of sanity, Tee begins to embrace the power she discovers within herself as well as the undaunted courage of her superhero alter ego. 

Now Available at Amazon.com, Itunes, and Barnes & Noble

The author's website

New Work

So here's some things I'm working on. I may possibly be getting a solo show at the Passional Boutique in Philly, so I'm trying to get work done for that. Watercolor and ink seems to be a nice quick way to build up more pieces for that. And I'm contributing a piece to Crimson Stained Lace's Have a Heart For Horror Cookbook.


My Have a Heart For Horror piece...aiming for the cover

Serpentine Dreams

The internship is going better. I just need to stop stressing myself out.
Finally got the time to finish up a painting I first started back in May. I'm actually very proud of it. The scales took FOREVER, but I'm glad I took the time to paint all of them.

Studio Space!!

I finally turned an extra room in my house into a studio space! I'm so excited!! Now I can finally have my own area to paint, without having to worry about family/friends/or dogs distracting me. I love them all, but it's hard to concentrate when they are around since when they are I just want to drop everything and do something with them. Well, not anymore!

Horned Girl

So I've got some exciting things that may be happening soon. Got commissioned to do 5 side show banner pieces, may have a teaching job alongside pop art artist Perry Milou, and may have a macabre children's book job. Hopefully I can get all three and get some money! Haha.