Her Side and Personal Effects (plus Juggling)

Originally published at jaredaxelrod.com. You can comment here or there.

I’ve been slack with the whole Balticon-recap business.  Blame the injury.  Here, to obfuscate things further, is a picture from Miss Vivid Muse herself that pretty much expresses the whole weekend in a nutshell:

Gotta keep those balls in the air at Balticon.  And look nice while doing it.

But the real reason I’m writing has nothing to do with Balticon, or juggling, or me. The lovely and talented J.R. Blackwell has teamed up with the lovely and talented Mur Lafterty to bring us Her Side, a multimedia fiction project. I’m a sucker for words and pictures coming together, and the two artists involved have used that potential at its utmost. Both the written work and photos involved tell a story on their own, but brought together they create something powerful. It’s free to veiw, so everyone should.

Such a project ought to be enough for anyone, but in addition to all of this awesomeness, Mur and JR are helping out the lovely and talented J.C. Hutchins. I know you’ve already bought/preordered your copy of J.C.’s book Personal Effects: Dark Art–why wouldn’t you?–so you’ll be interested to know that if you send an electronic copy of your receipt, you’ll  be entered into a weekly random drawing. For what, you ask?  Only a one of a kind 8×12 print of one of the photos, and a signed copy of the portion of the story that goes with the photo, from J.R and Mur.

Free fiction, free artwork and, if you’re lucky, free tangible peices of the project itself. You couldn’t find a better deal if you tried!