About Us
Stephanie Lantry grew up in Michigan and has been drawing comics since she was a wee kid. She has done the artwork for innumerable independent works, including Journey Into Misery, To The Power Against, and the forthcoming Manchu Park, and has created animated shorts for CBS and the Kids in the Hall. She also holds a degree in applied computer and internet nerdery.
Carrie Smith is from Virginia. She got a degree in literature before someone warned her that this was just a mean joke that colleges play on kids from the suburbs. In addition to the scripts for To The Power Against and Manchu Park, Carrie has written loads of stories, scripts, books, and fiddly bits for random television shows. Her script for Manchu Park was a semi-finalist in the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship competition.
Stephanie and Carrie are both very fond of pie and cake.
About Our Books
To The Power Against
Catalina Jones is a mild-mannered probabilistic risk assessor. Her life wass relatively normal; she had a fiancé , a cat, and one big jerk of a boss. But now, thanks to the fallout from a bizarre microwave burrito/graviton missile accident, she also has the power to control probability itself. This new power is wild, thus far unpredictable, and potentially deadly. With the help of her friend Xi Chen she must learn to control her abilities before she destroys her whole neighborhood—or worse, the universe—and attracts too much attention from the creepy guys in dark suits.
To The Power Against is available at Indy Planet »
Manchu Park
Manchu Park is set in an alternate England. At a turning point in Britain's history King Henry VIII, on a whim, adopted Buddhism instead of the Anglican Church (he really didn't care, as long as he could bang and divorce whoever he wanted without catching crap from the Pope.) Chinese culture thenceforth saturates the English countryside, blending Buddhism and swordsmanship with stiff upper lips, aristocrats, and fancy country balls.
Now it is 1812, and Fanny, a young kung fu warrior trained by Shaolin master (and novelist) Jane Austen, must infiltrate the lavish estate of Manchu Park to save their kung fu school from being demolished to make way for Lord Ponce-Wimbley's new wool mill. Fanny must win the affection of Edward, the noodle-willed, poetry-obsessed heir to the estate, and outwit Edward's fast-fisted, quick-thinking bodyguard, Fatty. Throw in some angry ninja peasants and Jane's vicious literary rivals, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, and enjoy the glorious pages of mayhem and manners as they all clash on the furious kung-fu battlefield and the fate of Manchu Park is decided.
Emogician
He's emo. He's a magician. He's Emogician. There's nothing up his sleeves—especially not the will to live. Follow along in his dragging, pouty footsteps as Emogician attempts to pull despair out of a hat, saw his hopes and dreams in half, and escape from the middle-class stink of his bourgeois audience.
Is this your card? ...not that it matters...