Sorry, been a very strange last couple of months but I has pictures!

First, a timeline of Glycerin as the lead guitarist of the band evolves over four volumes.

Next, a couple of Tsika posters for the recent shoot preparing for the release of volume 4.

Say hello to Kpau, energetic drummer and goofball goblin for the band. Modeled by Chimera, mua/costume by Elisanth, photography by Zatsepin.

And a few candid moments from my visit to Prague where I got to roam the town with Mamiko and Lady Sariel - who model Tsika and the newest band member Nadia Kawa respectively. That is the rest of my extended family in the elevator. My elder son has a challenge to Mamiko in Counterstrike when she gets her home Twitch studio running. Prague was a *great* vacation destination.

Got back to the US where within a few days my wife and I were t-boned by a high speed vehicle that totaled our car and left us banged up. Life is random. Need a new car, we didn't have to "go on the cart" like in Monty Python.

Facebook has become a strangled disaster for reaching people. More energy here.

Visual character evolution: Glycerin

From left to right, the image shows Glycerin as she starts out in a sort of sad clown neo-mod scheme, grows into a dark brutal look, then reboots in bright retro themes. I sometimes say the series is actually about Tsika and Glycerin with the others (including Blar) as catalysts. If I picked a single protagonist, it might be Glycerin and her labyrinth journey between light and darkness. The six foot tall lanky creature that Kpau calls "her favorite space alien" is complicated in ways even her closest friend Tsika does not realize as the series begins.
Pick up the series in paperback via any book retailer (they may have to order it), or in Kindle format at Amazon. Working on getting the Nook readers updated with the latest versions. You can catch on daily babblings by me (story excerpts, print and poster works, etc) on Facebook.

B H Branham on Facebook

I'm also lurking on Twitter, Instagram, and most other platforms as "bhbranham".

Kpau lurking, and Glycerin reading.

I'm in the middle of Volume 4 writing, slashing, deleting, revising, expanding ... meanwhile also finishing up on two photo shoot projects. One is done. Late career Glycerin. I particularly like this one of her reading quietly between takes on a photo shoot for an album cover.

WE HAVE KPAU! ATTENTION!
The shoot for Kpau is in post-proc but I put together a couple of teaser images. Here's one.

My model for Tsika and I are trying to work out a schedule for the next shoot where we will get to see "brutal metal Tsika" rather like the metal Glycerin on the cover of Go Go Godzilla of the Rocket Science series.

Snippet from volume 4. It's easier to spoil the comedy moments without screwing up the storyline.

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Blar peered over his sunglasses at the darkening road. The highway lighting was off on break it seemed. Kpau slouched in the passenger seat snoring like an erratic kazoo. Tsika and Glycerin were quietly curled up sleeping in the van's bench seat behind them.

Just as Blar began to think it was time to un-equip his sunglasses, Kpau's phone began buzzing the theme to an old television series called "Rawhide". She stirred, punched it off and sat up to peer around.

Grinning idiotically, she put her sunglasses on then assumed a serious deadpan face.

"It's one hundred and six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of weed, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses."

Blar glanced at the odometer, then made a face. "You spent days figuring that out and messed with our schedule just enough to make that happen, didn't you?"

"Yup!"

"You could be rich with the kinds of skills you keep bubbling up at me, but--"

"Nah, I'd rather be with you guys."

"Well, it's one hundred and five miles to Chicago now and yes, you can have pizza every meal if you want when we get there."

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7th Annual NW Book Festival this Saturday

From 11am - 5pm at the Pioneer Plaza Square in the middle of Portland, huge bricked city block with art next to light commuter rail MAX, can't miss it.

This also happens to the opening scene location in the book series "It Really IS Rocket Science" where Blar first sees Tsika in a coffee shop.

I will have all the current titles from the series available to buy and sign. I also plan to have 8x10 photo prints of the models who portray two of the main characters, Tsika (the petite Russian bass guitarist) and Glycerin (the lanky British lead guitarist).

There will be over a 100 authors, publishers, and artists, also speakers. Check the website for details. Here's a couple of example prints. There will also be prints with character quotes:

Hope to see you there.

New Cover for Volume Two of the IRIRS series, "Surfing With The Alien"

The new cover for the second volume (IRIRS, "Surfing With The Alien") is ready. It will make its way into Kindle editions and onto paperbacks in late July. We're pretty proud of it. The old cover was pretty but dead and static compared to the two Glycerin covers. Mamiko has made the character Tsika look more sophisticated and a bit gritty to reflect the Perfect Princess is a bit gritty and naughty and the quality of the image is much better, which allowed the cover designer to do more exotic things with the image.

We're shooting all the upcoming covers this summer. There will be another cover with Mamiko, reflecting Tsika's brutal metal evolution, a cover with Elisanth - showing Glycerin evolving to her own style. For a long time, Tsika chose Glycerin's outfits for her. These are looking splendid. Holding off previews until I've paid for them. ;)

And we may have a Kpau cover, shoot for that is planned in a few weeks.