Felicia Day

Today is a crazy day for book releases, I wanted to link to a few that are friends’ creations, if you wanna check out some good NEW stuffz!

The Dr. Horrible book is out today and there are amazing awesome entries into all things Horrible.  If you are a fan, this was worked on by the whole Dr. H team personally (Joss, Maurissa, Jed and Zack).  Lots of BTS, anecdotes and awesomeness!



If you follow my blog you know I LOVE@lisashearin’s Raine Bernares series. This installment really notches up the fun and sets up for another great book to follow. And, as always, the cover art is just…I mean, it’s kinda better than that last one. Raine’s face is kinda based on some CW actress this round instead of Amy Adams, and her extensions need some conditioning. And Raine uses daggers, so HELLO. But the book itself is awesome, and it’s on Kindle, so yeah!

My friend@bonniegrrl wrote this adorable Star Wars Craft book. If you have kids or are a craft fan and geek of any age, there are some super cute things in here, like a Chewbacca Sock Puppet!

Ok! Busy shooting a part in an indie movie, Rock Jocks, pre-production on The Guild season 5 (if you want to do product placement we have tons of places for the convention scenes! contact watchtheguild @ gmail!), writing Guild comics with Kim Evey and Sandeep Parikh and doing post production on Dragon Age!!! So…yeah, I’ll try to blog more after some stuff lightens up

In the last few weeks, I’ve had some amazing encounters with people who have been affected by what I do, either with my show or what I do online.  I wanted to share a few of these stories because I think they might speak to anyone who creates.  And because it shows that “entertainment” can mean much more than that, even if it is totally inadvertent.

-Leaving Emerald City Convention last weekend, Amy Okuda and I were going through security and unfortunately found that jam and peanut butter are banned items in a carry-on.  But that’s not what the story is about, haha.  During the bag search, one of the TSA workers approached me and thanked me for The Guild because, as he explained haltingly, he met his wife because of it!  Evidently, they met through friends, he introduced her to the show, they had date nights and watched episodes together, started gaming together, got married…  Then he pulled out his phone, and showed me a picture of his baby, six months old.  And then he thanked me for making a show for “us gamers”.  I left kinda quick, because I felt pretty ready to cry like a maudlin baby, but it was an amazing moment.  And a beautiful baby

-I received an email through my website last week from a guy named Mike, who was perusing my website, and read my bio last year.  He said that:

There have always been things I’ve wanted to accomplish and do well, but I never felt like they were attainable. When I read your bio it gave me a completely new outlook and drive to get up and start accomplishing the things I had put aside…I was inspired and decided to pick up the violin, again, but even more seriously than I ever had before.

To summarize, he decided to practice the violin.  For himself.  Hundreds of hours of practice later, he gave a recital (he linked me a video of his performance.) Watching the video was so inspiring, not only because he performed one of the HARDEST violin showpieces so well after 15 years of not playing AT ALL, but because, to me, the totality of his journey represents the true essence of creativity.  Whether you reach 10 or 10 million, being an artist is first for yourself, but ultimately for the world.

-We had a signing a few weeks back at Barnes and Noble in The Grove (it’s the mall I shop at frequently, so seeing the banner in the window was one of the biggest thrills!) A girl holding a beautiful art poster approached the table, VERY emotional.  I got a bit flustered, but since SHE was way more flustered and almost in tears, I told her to sit down while I finished signing and we could chat when she got her composure back.

After the line waned, she gave me the poster.  On it was a note on the back, and a printed Tweet from ME from 2009, linking to a Kotaku article about an art auction organized by the boyfriend of a girl, Kat, who was struggling with breast cancer.  He had arranged for friends of his, video game concept artists, to contribute works of art to benefit her and her medical bills.  It was an amazing story, and, like I do, I shared it.  And that’s where it ended with me two years ago, with a Tweet linking to the auction.  But it began again at that signing.

The girl with the poster was Cat, in real life.  She fought through breast cancer, and is now a survivor (as she told me her story I started crying, she is so beautiful and has endured so much). I never even put a face to her name when I linked the article, but her boyfriend’s efforts were, at the time, something I wanted to support.  The fact that my Tweet helped her through a horrible time in her life, and helped spread word of the auction, is so amazing to me.  A gesture of kindness that echoed because of the power of the internet. Cat you are still an inspiration.  You can check her blog out, Beautiful Grim and see more of her story if you like.

I would never want to get too self-important or precious about what I do, but these stories do make me stop and think.  I create entertainment, but the by-product of my work has had effects I’d never have thought of.  I think it’s important to realize that the little things we do, by sharing who we truly are, can echo through other peoples’ lives in ways we can’t imagine.

Very excited to leave tomorrow for Seattle, one of my favorite cities! Amy Okuda (Tink from the Guild) is accompanying me to do a Guild panel (with the awesome Wil Wheaton!) and we will be selling DVDs and pictures and signings stuffs together in the autograph area. Please come by and say hello to us Seattle-ites!

The Tink Comic is out next week, March 13th I think actually, and one of my fave hip chick bloggers, Whitney Mathison, got the first six pages to preview at her USA Today blog Pop Candy. Don’t read if you don’t want spoilers!!!! (The cover above is by famous artist Peter Bagge!  So cool, and realistic, har har)  I wrote this one solo, while I was shooting Eureka, and the issue turned out to be the proudest thing I’ve written.  Six different artists contributed, so it’s quite a collection of AMAZING art, as well as a story I love.  I can’t wait for you guys to enjoy.

If you’re coming to the convention, TFAW has printed a limited edition of the above Ron Chan Cover, and I believe he will be signing it at their booth during the convention. The print is FREE with purchase (Click here for all info).

I’ve been super busy finishing a draft of Season 5, co-writing the remaining Guild comics with Kim Evey and Sandeep Parikh (Clara and Zaboo issues respectively).  It’s a lot of Guild, but after going away for a while to do Dragon Age (we are just editing the episodes now, very cool), I’ve actually been re-enthused about the characters, it’s been a real treat to make words come out of their mouths after taking a vacation (after 3 solid years a LONG deserved one!)

In addition, Kim Evey and I are trying to put together other web shows to pitch, we have some great scripts, treatments and ideas in process.  Scaling upwards is going to be challenging because web budgets don’t allow us to invest in the overhead like a real office and our own production facilities, but I think we are taking the right path, making sure all our projects are slowly but surely crafted so the quality will remain high, and we will continue to keep innovating.  That’s super important to me.

Anyway, love to meet people over the weekend, and if I’m extra careful about hugs and handshakes it’s just because I’m kinda worn down and I really don’t wanna get sick, I really appreciate your understanding, and I look forward to meeting everyone!