Wilde Oats Gay and Bisexual Magazine

CONTENTS

FEATURES
Fiction
Coming Issues
Non-fiction
Art Gallery
Letters
Submissions
Links
Archives


CONTRIBUTORS
Authors 
Artists
Team
Contact
Advertising

artists logo
Reese Dante's Award Winning Covers
Ever since I can remember, I’ve loved art.  There wasn’t a safe piece of paper in my home.  I doodled everywhere and everything…papers, magazines, envelopes, brother’s homework.  Then I started sketching people.  I’d go through a magazine and rip out ads, preferably in color, then try to redraw them in a pencil sketch.  I’d obsess until I thought it was just as strong as the color photo…or stronger. 

I'm a self-taught artist. I went to school, but chose to get my degrees in business.  Did the corporate thing for a while (still doing it) but I find it’s just not enough.  I enjoy drawing and designing a little too much to just let it go.

I’ve worked with several friends and customers who’ve had a need for design work in the past such as music CD jackets, book covers, logos, and websites.  I enjoy doing covers the most.  I started designing cover art in December 2009. Today, I work for several publishers and occasional take on self-published and other commissioned projects.

As a teenager, my walls were covered by movie posters.  Maybe it’s subliminal after staring at movie posters for so many years.  I don’t know, but I do love a good story, especially those told by looking at a picture.

Website    | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn |



Winner of 2011 LRC's Best Cover Artist Award



Druids Dawning - Best Cover for 2011 at Alternative-Read.com 

druid's warning
City Falcon - 2011 Rainbow Award Winner 

city falcon
Designs for Fallen & Tempest's Gift won two spots in the top 10 at the annual Cover Cafe design contest for 2010 covers out of 195 entries in the category. 

fallen

Tempest's Gift

One More Soldier - EPIC's 2011 Ariana Award Winner in the Contemporary Romance Cover Category 

one more soldier

A Touch of Lilly  - EPIC's 2011 Ariana Award Winner in the SciFi/Futuristic Erotic Romance Cover Category 

a touch of lily

Placed twice in 2010 Best Cover in LRC's Reader's Choice Awards (Love Romance Cafe). 1st place with Spencer's Secret and 2nd place with Oracle 

spencer's secret

Oracle - 2010 Rainbow Award winner

Oracle - September 2010 Cover Contest Winner - You Gotta Read Reviews Blog

oracle

When the Bluebird Calls - Winning Cover by Books In Sync February - March 2010

when the bluebird calls


 


   


(c) 2009
Web design by: Alex Hogan (mostly) and Nigel Puerasch.
Webmasters: Alex Hogan and Nigel Puerasch.
The illustration in the logo is by Zaza.
Wilde Oats is published three times a year, in April, August and December. Click here to be automatically informed of new issues when they are published.



Most of our authors, artists and other contributors have their own websites listed in their bios at the top of  their Wilde Oats home pages. If you've enjoyed stories by a particular author, don't forget to visit and bookmark their website!







All work published in Wilde Oats remains copyright to the author or artist.  Publication is subject to an agreement giving Wilde Oats exclusive electronic publishing rights for four months.  All fiction, non-fiction and artwork from previous issues is stored in our archives, but may be withdrawn (or published elsewhere) at the creator's discretion at any time.