My subconscious is a strange country.

I had a plethora of strange dreams all daisy-chained one into the next, so that I'm really not sure whether they were meant to all be one or not.

I was back in college, flunking a psychology class taught by Shemar Moore. I really didn't want to disappoint him, because he was hot and charismatic.

There were secret passageways in the school.

I was actually infiltrating a local hardware store of some variety, in my role as a secretly trained martial artist from a long-hidden cult whose aims were now finally within my grasp.

My bad grades at school lost me a scholarship, so to stay as a student I had to take a part-time job as Executive Assistant to the nonhuman sentient being the anthropology department had imprisoned in their upstairs offices. It looked and sounded pretty much like Fizzgig, but with stubby little muppet limbs and googlier eyes. Only it was in heat. The job paid very well. Not well enough.

I was back in the hardware store, talking to Barack Obama, who was laying low along with some Secret Service types while someone outside was trying to kill him.

It may have been my secret martial arts cult that was trying to kill him; I'm not sure.

Artists with Spare Time: a call for help!

So, I'm currently working on what will be, in three to six months, an e-published (and MAYBE self-published through Lulu, if I have an interested customer base) gaming sourcebook, The Periodic Tome of Elementals.

Ideally, I would like to have some illustrations in this book, and I know that many of you have amazing art skills.

Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy or commission pieces of art.

What I can do, if anyone is interested, is to offer royalties. 1% (potentially, negotiably higher) per each illustration; so that someone who drew ten elementals for me would get a dime out of every dollar I make off the book. In the end, I'm hoping for 30 to 40 illustrations. The .epub version would be selling for $10 or $15; if a printed version sells, it will be going for $20 to $30. Obviously I have no guarantee that there will be any money whatsoever, but enough people have oohed and aahed over the concept and the work I have done so far that I am reasonably confident I can net a few dozen sales.

Does this sound interesting? Does it even sound like a good deal? I don't want to be cheating anyone, so I'd like to be totally up-front and honest about the process from the start. It's my understanding that usually illustrators get paid a flat rate per picture rather than having any percentage of sales go to them, so this could *potentially* be a good deal, but if the book sells poorly or not at all I'm basically asking people to do art fro free, and I recognize that. (Although in that case, I'll be out a little money and probably about two hundred hours of labor myself, so. Equal risks).

What do you think?