Other Publications
Outline:
- Articles
- Illustration
- Picture Books
- Anthologies
- Webcomics
- Podcasts
Articles
Mythcreants
- The Last Jedi and the Power of Failure
- Three Movies With the Wrong Main Character
- Making Sympathetic Antagonists (And Why Thanos Wasn’t One)
- Three Genre-Defining Books With Underutilized Tropes
My Comments
List of several articles I have written and had published.
Illustration
The Haunted Quill:
An Anthology of Historical Speculative Fiction
Edited by Kate Francia
by Jordan Taylor, Laura Hennessey DeSena, Stephen K Pettersson, Henry Herz, LH Moore, Jane Nightshade, Colleen Ennen, and Caren Gussoff Sumption
The Haunted Quill contains eight short stories that explore the strange and uncanny corners of history. Featuring original stories and reprints from new and established writers of speculative fiction, including: Jordan Taylor, Laura Hennessey DeSena, Stephen K Pettersson, Henry Herz, LH Moore, Jane Nightshade, Colleen Ennen, and Caren Gussoff Sumption.
The Haunted Quill contains eight short stories that explore the strange and uncanny corners of history. Featuring original stories and reprints from new and established writers of speculative fiction, including: Jordan Taylor, Laura Hennessey DeSena, Stephen K Pettersson, Henry Herz, LH Moore, Jane Nightshade, Colleen Ennen, and Caren Gussoff Sumption.
My Comments
I contributed 3.5 illustrations to this anthology, not including the cover. I also copy edited and proofread the stories. The anthology was written up in the Mary Sue: "The Mary Sue Book Club, December 2021: Talking Cats, Cozy Murder Mysteries, and Cyber Mages"
A Nice and Accurate Coloring Zine
The Nice and Accurate Colouring Zine is a Good Omens-themed colouring book charity zine! It is a digital zine for folks to print out and color while they’re at home. This zine is SFW, and contains 89 pages of Good Omens lineart. The zine is Pay What You Will, and all proceeds from zine sales will go towards the World Health Organization COVID-19 Response Fund.
There is also a bonus merch file available, for those who donate $15 or more. It includes several Good Omens themed desktop and phone backgrounds!
There is also a bonus merch file available, for those who donate $15 or more. It includes several Good Omens themed desktop and phone backgrounds!
My Comments
I contributed a lineart illustration to this charity coloring book zine for covid relief in 2020, as Jesterbells.
Picture Books
The Tortoise and the Hare: A Great Tale Retold through a UDL lens
It's the age old story retold with a surprising twist! The Tortoise and the Hare must once again compete in a race. But they both have trouble along the way--the Tortoise because the course is too long, the Hare because it is too boring. They realize that the problem is not with them, but with the corse itself, and so design a new racecourse that plays to their strengths and challenges them to the right extent.
This is an online digital picture book made for CAST to illustrate the principle of Universal Design for Learning--designing school curriculums to suit students' learning styles.
This is an online digital picture book made for CAST to illustrate the principle of Universal Design for Learning--designing school curriculums to suit students' learning styles.
My Comments
One summer, I worked with CAST, the Center for Applied Special Technologies, who asked me to write and illustrate a book for their online Bookbuilder program about the concept of UDL, or Universal Design for Learning. Basically the idea is about creating curriculum where all students can learn through diverse teaching methods inclusive of all the students' different learning styles. Changing the teaching methods to suit the way kids learn, basically. Their idea was to portray this concept using the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, and to present that retelling in one of their own UDL programs which has a glossary, animated creatures to help along the reader, and the ability to read aloud the text to the reader. It was a really interesting project and I had many meetings talking about it with them before we finally ended up with this. Check it out!
A Light in Every Window
Inspired by a real-life incident in Billings, Montana in the 1990's, this is the story told in verse of a community that came together to support Jewish families after bigoted attacks of vandalism targeted families with Hanukkah menorahs. The local newspaper printed a picture of a menorah that non-Jewish neighbors put in their own windows to show that we are all part of the same family.
My Comments
I got a call from my grandmother, the author of the picture book Marty the Broken Hearted Artichoke, saying she had a new poem she wanted to turn into a children's book and she asked if I'd be interested in illustrating it. Several months later, here we were! The books is now available on Amazon--a grandmother/granddaughter collaboration. I was honored to be asked and to be able to be part of this project telling an important story. Check it out here!
Anthologies
#RESIST: Issue 03
..words are your weapons
ready...
...make your art alive and dangerous
aim...
...it is our job to initiate the change
we want to see in the world
fire...
...burn systems of oppression down!!!!
This edition also contains entries from the Writing Knights Grand Tournament competition and Writing Knights National Poetry Month "Contronyms" contributors.
ready...
...make your art alive and dangerous
aim...
...it is our job to initiate the change
we want to see in the world
fire...
...burn systems of oppression down!!!!
This edition also contains entries from the Writing Knights Grand Tournament competition and Writing Knights National Poetry Month "Contronyms" contributors.
My Comments
I contributed an excerpt of a poem to this anthology, writing as Judith Minow.
Unmasking: Solstice MFA Anthology 2018
An anthology by Solstice MFA Writers
My Comments
This is an anthology by students of the Solstice MFA program. I contributed a reprint of the poem excerpt from the #RESIST anthology.
Unmasking: Solstice MFA Anthology 2016
An anthology of prose and poetry
My Comments
This is an anthology by students of the Solstice MFA program. I contributed the prologue of Stones of Power to this anthology.
Cantilever: Solstice MFA Anthology 2015
Anthology of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and young people's fiction.
My Comments
This is another anthology by students of the Solstice MFA program. I contributed an excerpt from Stones of Power to this anthology.
Webcomics
My Country Tis of Me
A political satire web comic I wrote and illustrated.
My Comments
This comic was initially provoked by the rise of the Tea Party, and frustration with various other social justice crises. I couldn't draw my planned comics faster than history could move, and by the time my satirical jokes were drawn, many were already headline news. Currently on hiatus with very sporadic updates.
Podcasts
Merely Podcasters
Full cast unabridged readings of Shakespeare plays by Shakespeare nerds with educational discussion portions.
Two Shakespeare nerds, both alike in theater ties,
In audio land where we lay our scene,
From ancient idea break to new enterprise:
Bringing plays to you through your screen!
Two Shakespeare nerds, both alike in theater ties,
In audio land where we lay our scene,
From ancient idea break to new enterprise:
Bringing plays to you through your screen!
My Comments
Co-created with Grace Terdoslavich.