Fifteen-year-old Phillip enjoys his cozy life in Central Florida. His chief activities are video gaming and avoiding his mother's assignments of responsibility. Then, a mysterious tailor gifts him a backpack with a key to his tailor shop in Norwall. The trouble is, Norwall is not to be found on this planet. Curious, he investigates and finds that the tailor harbors deep secrets. He comes from a dystopian Victorian steampunk city. Not only does a dictator rule the town with a bloodthirsty automaton army, but the people are enslaved in workhouse prisons and factories.
When a loved one accidentally falls through the Parallax, his choice is complicated. Does he stay and enjoy his comfortable life? Or does he go into a dangerous land on a Clockwork Adventure? Although the people may look to him to lead a rebellion, he knows that if he fails to live up to their expectations, he will never go home again.
This beautifully illustrated version of The Clockwork Adventures features concept art and character development profiles critical to this story. This novel began as a children's book, and you can learn how and why the storyline developed into a full-length adventure. Enjoy the story of how a few suggestions from the illustrator led to the collision of two storylines, spanning the Parallax Contingency from modern-day Florida to eighteenth-century Victorian Norwall. In Character Development, learn how subtle choices and personality profiles led to the creation of memorable characters. The added sections also discuss world-building techniques used, the character descriptions, and the collaborative efforts of the artist and author, to bring this series to life! See the artist's rendition of the characters throughout the years and follow her journey to create the visual images!
Kay, Clara: - Clara Kay is an illustrator, concept artist, and 3D animator located in Central Florida. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media: Character Animation from the University of Central Florida.Clara is a Florida native. She has always been surrounded by the arts, having grown up on Nintendo games and Disney movies. She enjoys horror media and challenging modern storytelling techniques. Illustration and concept art are her passion, and she loves designing worlds and characters with intricate stories. She has been writing and illustrating for her own stories since she could hold a pencil. Her passion for art and design comes from growing up playing video games. She has participated in dozens of online fan-made art anthologies called "fanzines," being an active member of the zine community. She loves tabling at conventions like MegaCon in Orlando, and enjoys presenting her work to the public. Clara is a published illustrator for three children's books, and is currently working on several more.You can visit her website to view her portfolio at https: //clarabellumsart.wixsite.com/portfolio.
Rayburn, Alexa: - Alexa Rayburn is the pen name of Nan Kopitnik.Nan Kopitnik is a Board-Certified Addiction Medicine Physician in active practice, as well as an Attorney admitted to the Florida Bar. She also serves as an editor for several online medical resources. She has published articles in medical journals, lectured at national meetings on addiction, and counseled numerous families. She is the author of four children's books and The Clockwork Adventures, a young adult dystopian adventure series. She loves to weave relationship issues into exciting adventure stories. She also authors humorous stories and scripts. From the age of seven, she was a great fan of the novels of Patrick Dennis, which she read under her covers with a flashlight. She is currently completing the sequel to The Mayhem and Medical Mischief of Dr. Olivia Day, a novella detailing the adventures of a home-visiting physician and her trusty assistant Mr. MacKenzie, who encounter spooky situations in their daily assignments. The chapters, which can stand alone as short stories, come together to unravel a mystery concerning the scary "Executive Staff" who employs them. The stories are scary, but with a comedic twist! Her most recent children's book, Shy Sam the Wolfdog, chronicles the true story of a Florida family that integrates a wolfdog into their life. The book is accompanied by teaching pages for both children and adults.Her latest achievement is the completion of the Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Degree Program at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. She also is an annual vendor at Megacon Orlando, Tampa Bay Comic-Con, Tampa MetrocCon, and Holiday Matsuri, Orlando, where she sells books and merchandise from her company, TinyDog Books. She is the keeper of toy robots and one remarkable tinydog. She is the handler of five large, rescue parrots that bite with reckless abandon, and most happily the mother of two exceptionally creative and ambitious children.
