Kat 1977 1st gradeMy name is Katrina Joyner, and I write and draw pictures and stuff. Mostly I’m currently known for creating The Heavenly Bride. I have several websites of note, but you can pretty much find everything at the main portal: http://www.apocalypsewriters.com

I throw most of my artistic concentration on two projects. (And sometimes I’ll sing and make a music video.) My theory (from experience) is if I didn’t have to pull two jobs for a living my fans would get to read my stuff on a more regular basis. It’s a sound theory. When I was younger and living off of my parents (as most freeloading teenagers do) I cranked out at least a story a week if not more. I can do it again! I just know it!

My tools include but aren’t limited to: Daz3D and other 3D stuffages, pens, pencils, origami paper, and my pen tablet. These things require: ink, paper, batteries, electricity, 3D props and shaders, and me being well fed and rested.

Current projects in order of importance!

  • The Heavenly Bride – a romance sci-fi about a celestial dragon who, upon taking mortal form, finds he has been turned into a vampire. I try to update this at least once a week online, barring real life and page difficulty. (Some pages can be complex to make!) On rare occasion these pages can be NSFW.
  • 10 Confessions & A Kiss – A romantic comedy about a young woman, Zoe, who is cursed to find her true love or she dies. I don’t get to work on this one very much, to my frustration.
  • The Demonkeeper’s Daughter – A displaced magician’s daughter must bind and seal her father’s personal demon or lose her birthright forever.
  • Red Rozie – I’m actually writing this under a pen name, Keenum Spear. It’s a children’s story about a little girl who hates to read.

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Future projects (to be begun when another finishes)!

  • Akashik (comic) – comedy sister comic to The Heavenly Bride. Taus is an AWOL soldier who wants nothing more than to be left alone. It’s too bad her former masters have other plans. You can visit the website to see latest character designs as I take a rare moment to prepare for relaunch.
  • Greylegs (comic) – this is one of my top priority stories. Based on the fairytale of Greylegs I’m in the research phases.
  • Viketa (comic) – The name will be changed, omg. It’s what I named it when I was like five years old. Viketa was raised by her deer clan mother in a small village along the shore. One day her father, whom she has never met, kidnaps her to go a-viking. I plan this to be an anthro comic.
  • Trait of Honor (prose) – I’ve actually been working on this novel off and on for years. It’s halfway written. But I’m stuck and research must come into play. Domino is one of the Demon Folk. Her father created her using the most exotic DNA template he could find. He even engineered her to have wings. She is captured by Norms while visiting the lower planet and sold into slavery. This pushes her into a journey that will not only reveal where she comes from, but change how she sees life forever.
  • Avenia (comic) – My first webcomic, I had to take it down due to financial hardships and I want to go back to it! A sci-fi set in the world Akashik, Avenia is a street rat and petty cat burglar contracted to infiltrate an ambassadorial ball and make an exchange. The ball turns out to be the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of murder, she’s on the run!
  • Hollywood Heroes (comic) – A comedy about being sorta fat, middle-aged and a single mom… and how that can give you super powers in more ways than one.
  • Blue Moon (comic) – A little mermaid takes a human lover. When she gets pregnant, she leaves him to return to her people. This is the story of her journey… and his. This entire story will be told with no dialogue if I can do it.
  • Swan (comic) – Fionnhualla was the elf king’s daughter. She and her brothers were turned into swans by their jealous stepmother. Can she break the curse or will they remains swans forever? This is based on not just the Celtic version of the tale, but the Russian version and any others I can find.

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Art creation really depends on how well my stuff is supported, alas. I work very hard trying to make ends meet. I’m self-employed. The advantage to that is if I can make money doing my own stuff I spend more time doing my own stuff. The disadvantage is I have to make three times more than your average, by the clock Joe due to higher taxes and other fun things.

Supporting my creativity isn’t that different from buying a subscription to a magazine, Hulu or Netflix. Well, there are some differences. Your support helps me with important things like food and car maintenance as opposed to bolstering up some rich CEO’s paycheck. My output depends more on your individual support than the big guys because, well, I’m not a big guy. And okay, yes, I put out slightly less than Netflix and Hulu being as I’m a one woman show versus a corporation using thousands. I admit.

Also, your support is completely voluntary. My webcomics will be free on the internet for as long as I can afford it. If something happens and you can’t help out one month, I’m not going to hold the story hostage from you. I really just want you to read it and enjoy it.