BAD KITTY! The BARBAROUS Chapter 6 bumper concludes!

We're starting a new BARBAROUS side story called Fated Meetings, written by Ananth & Yuko and illustrated by J.R. Doyle!

J.R. Doyle is also the artist of PIXELS OF YOU, our newest book! PIXELS OF YOU is OUT NOW! Written by Ananth and Yuko, illustrated by J.R. Doyle, and published by Amulet! Available in book stores everywhere! Here's what Publisher's Weekly had to say about it:

Check out the PIXELS OF YOU book trailer!

(The trailer was edited by Shannon Strucci.) 

PIXELS OF YOU is written by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and drawn by J.R. Doyle! Thanks for your support!

Find the 16-page PIXELS OF YOU preview here:

You can order PIXELS OF YOU on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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PIXELS OF YOU IS IN STORES TODAY!

We're so excited! We're doing a PIXELS OF YOU Virtual Event with Mysterious Galaxy Books! It's on February 17th at 10 EST/7 PST! It's going to be a fun time, and I hope you can virtually attend. Register for the event (and perhaps get PIXELS with a signed bookplate) here:

Here's PIXELS OF YOU on a list over on Bookshop.org!

And here's what the School Library Journal had to say about PIXELS:

Check out the PIXELS OF YOU book trailer!

(The trailer was edited by Shannon Strucci.) 

PIXELS OF YOU is written by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and drawn by J.R. Doyle! Thanks for your support!

Find the 16-page PIXELS OF YOU preview here:

You can preorder PIXELS OF YOU on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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Another Chapter 7 update! This time it's Leeds, in a new look. Chapter 7 is coming along, and we'll keep you posted as it goes. In other news:

We're doing a PIXELS OF YOU Virtual Event with Mysterious Galaxy Books! It's on February 17th at 10 EST/7 PST! It's going to be a fun time, and I hope you can virtually attend. Register for the event (and perhaps get PIXELS with a signed bookplate) here:

Here's PIXELS OF YOU on a list over on Bookshop.org!

And here's what the School Library Journal had to say about PIXELS:

Check out the PIXELS OF YOU book trailer!

(The trailer was edited by Shannon Strucci.) 

PIXELS OF YOU is written by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and drawn by J.R. Doyle! Thanks for your support!

Find the 16-page PIXELS OF YOU preview here:

You can preorder PIXELS OF YOU on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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These updates will be going up in the run up to Chapter 7! We're hard at work on Chapter 7, and the first thing that happens after scripting is creating references for the various characters in major scenes. This chapter has quite a lot! 

Here's PIXELS OF YOU on a list over on Bookshop.org! Check it out!

And here's a quote from the Publisher's Weekly review:

You can watch the PIXELS OF YOU book trailer below! PIXELS comes out on Feb 8th, 2022-- you can  preorder it at the retailer of your choice!

The trailer was edited by Shannon Strucci. 

PIXELS OF YOU is written by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and drawn by J.R. Doyle! Thanks for your support!

Read the 16-page PIXELS OF YOU preview here:

Again, you can preorder it on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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Pixels of You was written by Ananth Hirsh & Yuko Ota, and drawn by J.R. Doyle.

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Hi everyone! We have something exciting to share with you-- a book trailer for PIXELS OF YOU! The book comes out on February 8th, 2022-- if you're interested, please preorder it at the retailer of your choice!

The trailer was edited by Shannon Strucci. 

PIXELS OF YOU is written by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota and drawn by J.R. Doyle! Thanks for your support!

If you missed the preview, you can read it here:

Again, you can preorder it on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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This is the last week of our PIXELS OF YOU preview! The final page goes up on Thursday. We really hope you've enjoyed what you've seen, and if you're interested, you can preorder it on the landing page from the retailer or bookseller of your choice. Thank you SO much for reading! Happy holidays!



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Today's preview page introduces one of our sleeper favorite characters! It's Fawn's mom! This is the first of a few appearances that she has in the book. There was a lot of talk about her appearance and presentation between us and J.R. Doyle... the contrast of the faceless head and the cozy cardigan is really fun. I won't say too much more this time around-- I'd rather let Fawn's mom's personality speak for itself. 

Thanks for keeping up with the preview! Page 16 will be the last one, so we'll be wrapping next week! Happy holidays!



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More silent pages.

I wanted to share today an article that helped me understand the difference between AI and neural networks. It's a short read. The big takeaway is that AI and neural networks are not one and the same. The mythic idea of AI that we see in fiction is an AI with general intelligence-- the furthest from where we are now. AI today tends to be highly specialized for specific functions, like winning chess games. So, there's a gap to cross-- how do we go from AI highly specialized in one function, to general intelligence? This is where neural networks come in. I recommend you give the article a quick read-- it's a great, concise explanation. 

We did a lot of reading that informed how we approached Pixels of You in order to get the feel right, but the story itself is very light sci-fi, so don't expect pages of technological explanations. We were more interested in how things play out at a social and cultural level-- basically, how do people live in this world. 

More next time!



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A short post today! We just wanted to say, thank you for following along with the PIXELS OF YOU preview and hope it's piquing your interest! We're a little more than halfway done, so stay tuned.

PIXELS takes place in New York! It moves between Manhattan and Brooklyn. We had a lot of discussion on how far to take the future jump visually, and in the end we kept it simple. The new tends to get built on top of the old, and also tends to not be as sturdy as the old either. It didn't seem realistic to do a visual overhaul of the city either-- change is slow, and incremental, and mired in bureaucracy. Even today, the city doesn't look too much changed from 10 years ago-- it looks the same, just littered with Revel and Lime bikes in gutters and haphazardly on street corners. 

The thing that lends a futuristic quality to the book, then, is J.R. Doyle's visual choices, both in terms of abstraction and color choice. It feels near, but different. J.R. really got the story in a way that we could have only dreamed of. 

That's all for now! Let us know if you're curious about something, and maybe we can make it the subject of one of these posts. Thanks for reading!



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