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Filler: Behind The Scenes of Due East

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on March 23, 2008

03-25-08 Update: Behind The Scenes of Due East updates today, Wednesday and Thursday this week!

Original blurb: Okay, it's probably going to be Wednesday before I can crank out the next page of Book 4. So, in the meantime, I found some old DE material from storage and it reminded me that this stuff is great for Behind The Scenes of Due East (DE BTS). I will be posting several more times this week at BTS but wanted to use the DE main page to remind everyone that BTS even existed!

About this page: This was supposed to be the original page 1 of Due East Book One. The final version ended up being Page 2. It was sketched/drawn in early 2003.

Sapphira was originally going to start out fat but my wife and I changed our minds. In fact, Sapphira and Brielle were originally supposed to be identical twins and both were plus-sized in our earliest story ideas. Eventually, we settled on Brielle being 16 and Sapphira being 20. Sapphira ended up gaining most of her weight after returning to Austin with her dad in Book One (between pages 1 and 17).

As you can see, the dream was much more surreal in the first version. The final version was "blurry" but seemed like a real setting. Elements of the original dream setting kind of resurfaced in the cover of Book 4, strangely (and unintentionally) enough. Go fig?

Click on the graphic below to go to the Behind The Scenes archives.




I'll reply to comments about this page on this page. Replies to comments from the previous page will return on the next Book 4 page (again, hopefully Wednesday now)!