So what's been up with the Silicon Dawn Tarot? Not much, lately. I've been busy with other projects - mostly a
dirty comic book (NSFW), but also a flurry of commissions, and a few months down in New Orleans last winter consulting on an animated music video. And various non-image-oriented distractions like getting ready to move across the country.
As it stands, the deck is eight cards away from total completion - I've finished the traditional 78, obviously, along with a few of the extras the Muse insisted on, but I still have the Void court, one Fool, and three of the four 99s to finish. I do sometimes wonder if the Void court and the 99s are really part of the whole vision; sometimes they seem more like a joke and the serious counterweight to the joke. I probably need to spend a day just contemplating them and playing with sketches and notes.
And, of course, the other big hurdle is getting off my ass and hunting a publisher. It's been languishing because I am really, really terrible at writing about myself, at selling myself. I have a handful of small decks sitting around that didn't sell at the last con I went to; I'm seriously thinking of not worrying about a detailed cover letter, just a brief one and a deck, and some printouts of some of the stuff I've written about the cards in
the deck's blog as a hint to what a book written by me would be like.
(As to the Silicon Valley deck, well, the SV is long out of print. When I settled on the 'Silicon Dawn' name I e-mailed Steve Jackson Games to see if they felt there would be a conflict, and got back email saying they were cool with it.)