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Coming off the heels of a successful 2014 Kickstarter, Tellest tried out a few interesting things to spruce things up. \u00a0Among them, was a writing prompt contest with prizes that was ran for a few months.<\/p>\n
Aaron Canton was one of the winners of the writing prompt experiment, giving us a story called A Practical Warrior<\/em>. \u00a0After that, a little more communication led Michael and Aaron to open a collaboration where Aaron would flex his writing muscle and provide more tales to this growing world.<\/p>\nWith such heroes as Jadie Rivers and Laika the golem-maker, Aaron had a delightful way of telling stories. \u00a0He’s the second best talespinner by volume, and we hope to continue working with him well into the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Erika Castro<\/strong><\/div>\n
As Tellest neared its 2016 Kickstarter follow-up, Michael knew that he was going to run into some issues with scheduling everything, paying attention to various social media accounts, and so on.<\/p>\n
He was lucky enough to meet Erika Castro, a fantasy nerd like the rest of the Tellest crew. \u00a0She handles the media end of things (which have slowed since the Kickstarter), and offers up some advice when it is needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Brandi Salazar<\/strong><\/div>\n
With so many stories on the docket, it’s as important to look back as it is to look forward. \u00a0Every now and then, someone will notice an error that we’ve missed. \u00a0Brandi Salazar offers an extra set of eyes in catching those errors. \u00a0With her on board, there’s a layer of shine that Tellest can boast about even further!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Brittany Stelmach<\/strong><\/div>\n
When Michael DeAngelo and Matthew DeAngelo started Black Furnace Games, Brittany Stelmach stepped in to provide additional support within social media.\u00a0 Every opportunity she gets, she spreads the word about Quantum Quest, Merge Dungeon and Tellest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Artists<\/strong><\/p>\nLeo Borazio<\/strong><\/div>\n
Leo Borazio, otherwise known as DLeoBlack, is the artist that Michael has been using since the 2014 Kickstarter. \u00a0Nearly every cover that Tellest produces uses Leo’s artistic talents, and he’s expanded to things beyond that, including concept art and special holiday themed pieces. \u00a0At one point, he and Michael were working on various comics together, but none of these ever seem to stick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Red Pear<\/strong><\/div>\n
Arguably the second most prolific artist for Tellest (maybe even the most prolific), Red has done a vast amount of work on character portraits, as well as interim book covers for things like NaNoWriMo. \u00a0She’s been around for a long time, and we can’t express how happy we are to have her on board our team!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Horace Hsu<\/strong><\/div>\n
Horace is one of our newer artists, but he’s quickly proving to be a capable talent who is advancing at an alarming rate. \u00a0He’s quick to turn around fantastic full-body figures of our characters, and every time Tellest commissions him for new sets, you can see he’s picked up some new tricks. \u00a0He’s definitely an artist to look out for!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Francois Jooste<\/strong><\/div>\n
Francois Jooste has a very important part of Tellest’s history. \u00a0He was the one who designed the logo, and he’s a huge part of making the interface look great. \u00a0Whether he’s helping out on Kickstarter campaigns or developing new logos for side projects, he’s surely shown his worth for years!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Paul Davies<\/strong><\/div>\n
Paul is an incredibly busy man, but every now and then we get the awesome opportunity to work with him again. \u00a0He was doing the titling for us for everything that came out in the Child of the Stars trilogy and the Tales of Tellest set, he did a cover for Nace Phlaux’s Becoming a Man<\/em>, and he has given us some amazing concept art for the races of Tellest.<\/p>\nHe’s got a lot of talent to spare, and we hope to see him flex those artist muscles for Tellest more and more as we take off a little higher into the stratosphere in the future!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Audio Producers<\/strong><\/p>\nBrandon McKernan<\/strong><\/div>\n
Though he technically was our second audio guy, Brandon\u00a0was<\/em> going to tackle one of our bigger books. \u00a0He was all set to start working on The Bindings of Fate<\/em> before we took him off it. \u00a0We weren’t entirely happy with the book in its current state, and it was our plan to clean it up, but after a while of sitting on it, we determined it was better to let it go unnarrated.<\/p>\nInstead, Brandon’s first official work with us was for Son of the Storm. \u00a0His command over different voices is tremendous, and we’re very, very happy with what he’s accomplished for us over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Mark Ryan Anderson<\/strong><\/div>\n
Mark opened us up to audio when he recorded his take on Mageborn<\/em>, featuring Adelia Kreegan. \u00a0He’s since done some work on The Tinker’s Tale<\/em> as well, and we’re looking forward to working with him again soon!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nCristina Cruz<\/strong><\/div>\n
The newest member of our extended team, Cristina’s first big audio release is going to be dropping in January of next year. \u00a0She is going to go back and give some of our older short stories a dose of awesome by narrating them. \u00a0We’re going to have them free on the site for now to see how that goes, so keep your ears open for those releases!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Michael DeAngelo cannot do everything in Tellest on his own, but luckily, he doesn’t have to.\u00a0 Thanks to some amazing creative minds, it’s becoming a place that’s been put together with a lot of love from a lot of people.<\/p>\n
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