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Here is a book cover I just finished for Storey Publishing. The book offers up detailed information on how to raise and ride horses in a sustainable manner. Because a good part of the book is dedicated to setting up and properly using the natural resources surrounding the horse, I figured creating the horse out of those natural resources felt...well, it just felt natural.

Our friends over at Golf Digest invited us to tee off on an illustration for Golf Digest’s “INDEX” magazine. Sporting our checkered pants and rhinestone visors, we put the ball on the ground and swung for the fences. This is where we landed.

Just thought I'd share some sketches I just finished up for the children's book I'm currently developing.

The lines are drawn, the colors are chosen, the textures are applied and the coffee pot is empty. The first of twenty spreads is officially complete. And now it’s time for a nap.

A quick little ditty for Drawing Day.

The Monkey Boys and Mutt Ink have united their forces to create “Tiki Island”, a concept for a half hour children’s show designed to help kids with conflict/resolution and to help foster respect for different cultures and their beliefs.

Being that this concept is built for TV, the movie might take a bit to download. But no worries... it’s the perfect time to grab some chocolate covered goodies to snack on while you sit back and enjoy our flick. So without further ado... click here to view.

Free blog sites work great for fledgling writers who want to get their work on the web. But at some point, you don't want your web address to be something outrageous like  www.johndoeisagreatwriter.bloghoo.googpress.com.net.

It's much simpler to buy your domain-name at that point, using your byline as your web address like www.johndoe.com. I'm not here to endorse one company over another, but my personal webpage (jasonboog.com) runs on the WordPress blog engine. 

If you have a favorite blog company, chip in the web address in the comments section. As for picking a place to keep my webpage, I used WordPress' and long, detailed list of hosting companies to register jasonboog.com and build my digital home.

Finally, as a word of caution, Chris Webb has a great essay today about how his byline address was banned from Google--without this Wiley editor (he works on the Wrox books imprint pictured above) ever breaking a rule! Check it out:

"I racked my brains trying to figure out what I had done - what had I written to cause the Google Gods to shun me? It finally dawned on me that it might not be something I had done. I started thinking that perhaps my domain name was on the ban list at Google."