Welcome back to the Monday Blog! This is the final posting for the month of July. To finish off the “When A Series Comes to an End” theme, I wanted to share some little known facts about each series.
Fortune’s Wing:
Both Demetri of FW and Rafferty of Valentine share the same character design. Their characteristics were inspired by Joseph Mascolo, the actor who played Stefano DeMera on the daytime soap, “Days of Our Lives”.
Fortune’s Wing was the first W.E. book to use humans as characters.
Verdonna was inspired by Hinoto from the anime film, X.
On the cover of the first book, there is a light shining from within a cave in a mountain. The light was created with a White-Out pen.
On the cover of the second book, the clouds on the Earth were created by stretching out cotton balls, which were later glued to a hand-drawn image of the Earth.
Valentine:
Book one if the Valentine series, were originally written as 2 separate books.
Val’s pink hair was supposed to be blond, with pink highlights. While working on the illustration for the first edition of the book, I accidentally colored all of her hair pink. But it was a happy accident.
The image of Val that appears on the first edition of book one, was meant for another book I was working on.
Valentine was inspired by the anime series(s) Noir and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
At five feet eleven inches, Jo Fuentes is the tallest female character in the series.
Jo Fuentes is the first LGBTQ WE character to appear in a PUBLISHED book.
Our Lady of Righteous Rage:
One of Amy’s songs, “Come For the Wake, Stay For the Funeral”, was originally written in 2009.
Before appearing in the Our Lady series, Amy, Dee, Vanessa, Carmen, Yvonne, Nyda and Erin all appeared in my sci-fi super hero series, “Enos”. Rob was the lead character in the super hero series, “Degenerate R”.
When Amy was first created, her name was Charlotte.
Vanessa is named after my aunt, Vanessa.
Speaking of the unpublished W.E. books, Amy has appeared in more books than any other W.E. character.
Part of Amy’s character design was inspired by Emeraldas from the anime, Queen Emeraldas, and Fam from Ruin Explorers.
Benjamin Cardozo, Rob, David, Amy and Dee’s high school, was my mother’s high school.
Until next week….
