Category Archive: My Friends and Idols

Mar 08 2013

Mental Residue 004: Content Creators: Emotions, Expectations, Responsibilities, and Reality Dues (Essay)

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March 8, 2013

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  Play the Episode: Download the Episode (Right Click to Save): http://scottpond.com/MentalResidue/MentalResidue-004.mp3   What do we as content creators owe our public… and ourselves? I read a blog post this morning, a post that has been running through my head all day. You see, one of my favorite authors and podcasters, Jake Bible, has decided… …wait, …

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Feb 09 2013

New Limited Edition Hardcover: Matt Wallace’s THE FAILED CITIES

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February 9, 2013

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  A while ago (back in October and November 2012) I had the chance to work with Matt Wallace on his THE FAILED CITIES ebook release. For that release, we created a special cover featuring the dystopian setting from this book. Since then, Matt has been getting hounded from his fans. According to his recent …

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Nov 30 2012

New Cover Design: Scott Sigler’s TITLE FIGHT

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November 30, 2012

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I’ve talked about New York Times Best Selling author Scott Sigler‘s many works before [NOCTURNAL; INFECTED; CONTAGIOUS; ANCESTOR; and THE GFL SERIES (THE ROOKIE; THE STARTER; THE ALL-PRO; and THE MVP) and how much I totally dig his way with the written word. I’ve also talked recently about Parsec Award-winning author Matt Wallace and his FAILED …

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Nov 17 2012

Great Discussion with Scott Roche about THE WAY OF THE GUN

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November 17, 2012

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Just finished up a great discussion about THE WAY OF THE GUN with Scott Roche today (see video below). Sure I was about 10 minutes late, but you know what they say: good things come to those who wait! We talk about this new anthology project, some of my artistic background and motivations, the backstory …

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Nov 01 2012

Matt Wallace’s THE FAILED CITIES: DEFINITIVE EDITION eBook

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November 1, 2012

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  Matt Wallace is out to steal your soul! If he can’t get your soul, then he’ll settle for capturing your imagination. Six years ago, Matt Wallace had a unique idea: to write a story that would bridge the books-on-tape-but-now-on-the-internet thing everyone else was doing with episodic audio drama. That idea became THE FAILED CITY MONOLOGUES. …

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Oct 26 2012

Designing Scott Sigler’s THE MVP 16-Page Color Insert

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October 26, 2012

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One of the cool design features that really makes Scott Sigler‘s Galactic Football League (GFL) series unique is the limited edition hardcovers. Each of these bad-boys are made up of several really cool features that combine to create the great machine that is a GFL Hardcover: The dust jackets give the reader a portal to …

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Oct 25 2012

Designing Scott Sigler’s THE MVP Dust-jacket

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October 25, 2012

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There are challenges… and then there are CHALLENGES…. and this one was definitely one of the latter. Now that the excitement of the release of THE MVP by Scott Sigler has died down a bit, I figured it would be a good time to reveal some of the details about what went into creating the dust-jacket. …

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Jul 06 2012

New Cover Design: Scott Silger’s THE MVP has been sent to print!!!

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July 6, 2012

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 Awwwwww yeah!  Whose house?   That’s right, it’s our muddah shucking house! It’s official… Scott Sigler’s soon to be released novel, THE MVP, is off to the printing house. It features a cover and 16 page color insert designed by yours truly (aka Scott “Big Fish” “Pondy” Pond), interior layout by Donna Mugavero, and contributing …

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Jun 30 2012

Cover Design: A. P. Stephens’ “The White Shadow Saga-Book III Preview”

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June 30, 2012

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Recently, A.P. Stephens, a good friend of Scott Pond Design Studios, approached me to design a cover for his upcoming ebook teaser/preview release of his fantasy epic, “The White Shadow Saga – Book III”. One of the great things I like about A.P. is that 1) he’s an artist in his own right and 2) he always …

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May 31 2012

Mental Residue Podcast – Episode 001: Interview with Paul Cooley

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May 31, 2012

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Hello my friends. Welcome to the first ever episode of Mental Residue, the official podcast of Scott Pond Design Studios. I’ve been thinking about doing a podcast for my works and thoughts for several years. Around 3 years ago I came this close (holds up thumb and forefinger about 2 mm apart) to actually launching …

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Oct 30 2011

K. Gainor’s “Paladin Corps: Book 1″ Podcast is Live!

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October 30, 2011

It is no secret that we, the human race, live in a broken world. Greed, corruption, bigotry and hatred surround us, hinder us, cripple us. It is easy to bemoan the state of things; to rant and rave against the injustices of life, and meekly hope for a brighter tomorrow… But what if that hope was …

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