a new year and new plans!

Project 2016 is GO!

Now for the careful reader, some might say: "dont you mean 2015?" and the answer to that will be no. The reason why i call this post "Project 2016" is because i've hit a point in my work where i like what and i draw and what i write. On top of that i've collected some excellent friends to help correcting my english in the books.

When talking about the artwork i have two examples to show you, the one is a frontcover illustration the other is a back cover:

Front cover test, for "Elias & The highspeed train"
Here shown with the title in Danish.

A sketch for the backcover of "The story of Dagmar"

Now as you can see, the artwork is starting to look better than it has ever done before. This is the result of hard work which started back in 2012. 

What is the plan for 2016?

The plan for 2016 is having one or two books out in December on the 22nd. However priority is with the danish edition but i'll try the best i can to have the english translation run parallel to the other. Should i manage doing that it'll be a double language publish that year. 

Until i have more news, this is what i can tell you so far. The books have never been this close!

Until then, take care!

TDRS releases a snippet!

Read the snippet from the upcoming book Elias & the stories of the accidents part 1 here:

Snippet

get you 2015 calendar now!

screenshot of the new calendar

The danish railway series is proud to pronounce that a new 2015 calendar is available at Lulu.com. Each month will feature a different type of rolling stock and its history.

new artwork, new titles

Hey all
first off i'd like to say sorry for not keeping this website updated all the time. I'm doing my best but as it is there is much going on around education and such. However i'm progressing in terms of the artwork on the books, so far book 2's front cover illustation is progressing smoothly and so is the one for the book about the D-class dagmar. Examples of both can be seen below. I hope to have more news soon.
sincerely
Sebastian

The illustration for the book "the story of Dagmar"

The front cover illustration for Book 2 "Elias and the stories of the accident"

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news 30th july 2014

Hey folks, now there's news again!

An idea of ​​change in the histories has occurred and a major buch of rewriting has commenced. What this change means I will not reveal yet but so far I just want to let you know that work continues.

regards
Sebastian

a major change might be coming...

Okay folks, now comes possibly one of the biggest changes ever!

the TDRS have long been aware that this project is to some extent similar to Thomas and friends (also know as the railway series) and it's something that the TDRS are extremely conscious of.

Therefore, Book II and the subsequent re-release of Book I may result in "Fredrik" disappears from the title, this does not mean that he is not in the books merely that he has a different position regarding story telling.

About wether the changes will occur is not known yet it must be planned first, but it does so that the work on the books is going to stand still for a while.
hope to write more news for you soon!

sincerely
Sebastian

a small delay :/

During the work for book 2, i've switched layout software (InDesign) and decided to use the opportunity to rewrite some of my stories that i've lately have found either historically incorrect or not satisfied with the way i wrote them in the first place. The rewrite is expected to delay the project a bit, that and the fact that i'm not gonna be able to start with the illustrations before the layout is done, so i don't expect the book to be published before december 2014 or january 2015. I'm sorry for anyone who would have hoped the book would be published sooner.

Sincerely
Sebastian