Dana L Pride

Where to buy things I've created

My Zazzle shop with colorful masks and more
My Etsy shop with amazing Zoom Backgrounds
All my books on Amazon
Ready Reply App for iPhone
My vector art and more on Adobe Stock
My infrequently updated writer's blog

I love to create!

I started writing as child. I wanted to be a novelist, hiding in a house and writing. In high school, I discovered photography, capturing life on film. After graduating from college, I worked in video production at 3 different TV stations before I helped establish a TV station for the Deaf (every program had open captions, or was in sign language, or both) which I eventually ran as programmer/producer/director, with the help of a few enthusiastic students. I also produced hundreds of videos for our church, which were shown on cable TV in 5 cities for more than 20 years. Plus...

• I learned to use computers
• taught staff and teachers how to use computers/software
• set up and managed computer network on school campus of 10 buildings
• created multiple websites and databases
• fell in love with computer graphics, Photoshop and Illustrator
• began writing, editing and publishing books
• learned to animate using Photoshop and After Effects
• learned to create cinemagraphs
• learned lettering animation