Michael Emond

The secret to my creativity? I never outgrew that part of me from middle school that would imagine AMVs of my OC's duking it out whenever I listened to music.

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"The sound of the bumpy and uneven dirt roads underneath hummed outside the car."

Trails or roads, they're both pathways you use to get places.

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"Ready? Then show me!"

I had a tutorial on cel-shading pop up on my TikTok FYP, and I just had to give it a shot with an unfinished sketch of Chun-Li I made back in 2023.

Rare TikTok W, TBH.

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Some more drawing practice I did this morning. Far from perfect, but I learned a lot fiddling in ProCreate today.

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"Such straightforward compassion was something that never came naturally to him, nor was it something he ever had the luxury of utilizing."

From my WIP, How Do You Free a Caged Bird?

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Finished writing the first draft for my second book. \o/

It's a bit of a hot mess, and there is a mountain of editing that needs to be done, but I've earned myself a pat on the back for now.

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One of things I find the most challenging as I write my first over the top thriller is striking that right balance between plausible and acceptable breaks from reality for rule of cool reasons.

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Nightwing

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“I became a monster, and now I have nothing to show for it.”

From my WIP, How Do You Free a Caged Bird?

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How it feels looking at the progress you made after pushing through writer's block to write for an hour and a half.

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I was skeptical. Bennet’s explanations all sounded so far-fetched, like something out of a low-budget fantasy anime. His explanations all defied basic human logic. “This sounds made up,” I said. Bennet's eyes narrowed, his expression both amused and mischievous. “To any onlooker, a boy who can see monsters that no one else can sounds like something straight out of a work of fiction,” he said. “Often, the only people who can see Specters and Others are mages from particular bloodlines—bloodlines that are, to put it bluntly, rapidly dwindling to the point of nonexistence. Yet here you are, with no trace of any such bloodline and in defiance of that truth. You’re like a freak of nature.”

"Yet here you are, with no trace of any such bloodline and in defiance of that truth. You’re like a freak of nature.”

An expert from my debut novel, Specters: Echoes of Despair, now available to purchase on Amazon.

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"If you wanted to excel at information gathering the way Viper did, you needed to be able to put on a charming facade and lie through your teeth as easily as you would breathe."

From my WIP, How Do You Free a Caged Bird?

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"Leon desperately tried not to think about the voices of his past victims begging for their lives or the stench of blood that always lingered afterward."

From my WIP, How Do You Free a Caged Bird?

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Making that final push to finish the first draft of my second book, and I'm constantly having to remind myself that the first draft is always going to be a hot mess, and that's okay.

It's much easier to edit a messy draft than a blank one.

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WIP but its so cute. Im still playing around with details but I gotta go to work so hopefully I can return to this soon.

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Working on some details & textures! 🏁
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Testing new marker brushes & textures in Procreate with this figure sketch!
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Once again, my debut novel is now available in paperback format and is free to read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers!

If you like dark fantasy, be sure to give it a read!

Link to purchase below:
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Some quick and dirty portrait practice to keep from getting rusty.

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Me: "Geez, why am I so tired and lethargic?"

Also me: *Stays up until 3 AM playing video games/working on book writing.

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My debut novel, Specters: Echoes of Despair, is now available for purchase in paperback format!

Link to purchase on Amazon: a.co/d/4CYZd3Y

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✏️ Some recent life portraits I did at the Manifest Drawing Center!
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About halfway through the first draft of my second book project.

This piece is quite a bit shorter than my last novel, Specters, but it is shaping up quite nicely.

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Me telling my friend about my next novel:

"Oh yeah, this project won't be as dark and depressing as my last one... It'll be darker!" 😀

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Positive Affirmations in 2025:

"This is fine."

"Everything is fine."

"Keep saying everything is fine, and everything will be fine."

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🎴Politoed Hanafuda!
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It's a dark fantasy coming-of-age story, loosely modeled after the five stages of grief, that follows someone who can see ghosts made of human despair after a near-death experience as a child.

I just released my first ever novel, so ask me anything!

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Specters: Echoes of Despair Amazon.com: Specters: Echoes of Despair eBook : Emond, Michael, Colby, Scott: Kindle Store

My debut novel, Specters: Echoes of Despair, is available for free to Kindle Unlimited Subscribers!

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Thank you! I designed it myself.