FACE 2019

Next month, November 6th to be exact, will mark 35 years since I first modeled for a figure drawing session.  It's still difficult for me to believe that I am old enough to have done anything professionally that long.  And honestly, I am only 53 now since I got such an early start modeling.

To celebrate those 35 years, I will be traveling to Williamsburg, Virginia to model at the Figurative Art Convention and Expo.  FACE 2019 runs from November 10th through the 13th, and on the evenings of the 11th and 12th, they have what they are calling the "world's largest art studio" with up to a dozen models posing on different platforms, some clothed and some nude.  The whole thing sounds like so much fun that I just had to apply to be one of those models.  Yes, I will almost definitely spend more on the trip than I will make at the convention, but I'll also be able to write off as business expenses a lot more than I spend on my taxes thanks to the standard rate of mileage expenses on Schedule C.  All in all, there were just too many reasons for me to do this than there were to skip it.

Check out the FACE 2019 website at:  https://figurativeartconvention.com/

And check out this promotional video here:

Life Models

My novel Life Models has been live and for sale in paperback and Kindle editions for about a month now.  I was very pleased that the artist Katy Hamilton allowed me to use her incredible drawing of me as the "author photo" on the back cover of the paperback edition.  The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733090800

And here is the full paperback cover:

New book "Life Models" Cover Reveal

My novel Life Models is finally coming in early July, and I wanted to reveal the cover here in my long neglected art modeling blog.  So here it is...

Audio Book is On Sale!

It has been awhile since I updated this blog.  I am still modeling, but it seems as if the modeling work has slowed down lately.  I've also switched careers in my full time work, which may make taking more modeling gigs difficult, but I can never give up modeling.

The good news now is that the audio edition of The "Volunteer" is now out.  Danielle, the main character in the novel, takes up modeling for art classes during the story.  Here are the links to purchase the audiobook:

Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/The-Volunteer-A-Novel/dp/B077YR8NSY/

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Erotica-Sexuality/The-Volunteer-Audiobook/B0785NJCZN/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-volunteer-a-novel-unabridged/id1322630342

Upcoming Audiobook

I am very happy to announce that the audio book edition of The “Volunteer” is now in production.  It is being narrated by the talented voice actor Loral Miller, who sounds like I envisioned Dani’s voice sounding.  We hope to have the audio book live on Amazon and Audible.com some time in March.  The “Volunteer” continues to be available in paperback and Kindle editions, of course.  In the meantime, here is the cover for the upcoming audio edition…

Carrie Fisher (from my author blog)

I posted this on my author blog at http://dhjonathan.com but I thought I would post it here too...

Like most people my age, I grew up watching the Star Wars movies.  The original was released the summer before I turned eleven years old.  Six years later, I was better able to appreciate that slave girl outfit that Princess Leia was forced to wear by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.  She looked stunning, but then again, she had always looked stunning in the Star Wars movies in spite of the strange other-worldly hairstyles.

I never had serious aspirations to act, although I did participate in my high school theater club.  Writing was always my passion and my goal in life.  I started countless novels while finishing only a few, but everything I wrote was part of my education as a writer.  Four years after Return of the Jedi, Carrie Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge.  I remember picking it up in the bookstore and looking at the author photo, realizing that the person who had played Princess Leia was so much more than that character, and that that person had some of the same dreams that I had.  That she had persevered long enough to finish a novel and see its publication while also continuing an acting career was a great inspiration to me.

I saw Carrie Fisher last year at a Comic Con in Dallas.  The line to get her autograph was ridiculously long, and we had already spent way too much money at the event.  So we didn’t wait in that line.  Now, after her passing, I wish we had.  So long Carrie.  May the force be with you…

Author Blog

I have long been absent from this blog, and for that, I apologize.  I haven't modeled anywhere since the end of April, but I've been busy with an epic family vacation to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, a political campaign (I'm the Libertarian Party candidate for state representative in my district), and the publication of my debut novel.  My novel is published under my pen name, D.H. Jonathan, and is called The "Volunteer".  It is available in both paperback and Kindle editions here: https://www.amazon.com/Volunteer-Novel-D-H-Jonathan/dp/1534635246/

I've also started a new author blog for that pen name, which can be found here: http://dhjonathan.com.  It's registered via Wordpress, and I'm still trying to work my way through creating content on that platform.

The novel had its debut less than three weeks ago and has gotten a good response from readers (two five-star ratings on Goodreads.com and two reviews on Amazon, one a five-star and the other a four-star).  Because I posted a few months ago about my ongoing novel called Life Models, I do want to make it clear that The "Volunteer" is a totally different project (in fact, I wrote it while suffering writer's block on Life Models).  Life Models is still a work in progress...

I hope you'll visit me at dhjonthan.com and that you will give The "Volunteer" a try...