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Group Read is Live!

Here's the link for the group read!

https://docs.google.co...

Beta Reader Alert!

I'll be finishing the draft of Surela 2 tomorrow, and will probably wrap up my personal revisions on it by the end of the week. Which means if you're interested in being on the beta reader team, yo...

Meta-Conversations: Wisdom

            “There are two ways to fail the trials that deliver a priest of Shame to the full use of his powers.”

...

Fireborn's Legacy Book Doodles

People are starting to receive their hardcovers, so I can share some of these! I got some interesting prompts this time.❤️

All Clear, and Roof

We have come through the storm! And our roof already needed replacement, and now that I am picking pieces of shingle out of the yard, it seems a good time to sell more things. Here is a discount co...

Back in Time Tuesday: Prayer Beads

I don't remember who this elf is, because this gouache piece is at least twenty years old, but I seem to recall him being a priest? A lot of similar imagery led eventually to the character of Amhri...

Hurricane Milton Impact

Don't want to belabor this, since there's no knowing the impact of a storm until it arrives, but this one is likely to create some issues for me personally. In that spirit:

• I won't be...

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NecronomiCon 2024

Last weekend I decided to return to my local convention, NecronomiCon, after over eight years, to see how things had chang...

Birthday Jaguars

I wanted to say something deep and thoughtful, but it's a sunny day and I have coffee and an apple turnover, and people on Discord are telling me about their first experiences with my art or writin...

Meta-Conversations: Children of the Fire

            I am sitting on a bench, looking out over a pond, when he slides onto alongside me, and even without looking at him I sense t...

Meta-Conversations: Taming

            “Me? Tame Kherishdar?” Tsevet’s laugh ripples, but like music on the verge of cacophony. “I’m hardly l...

Meta-Conversations: A Younger Kherishdar

            “I’d like to meet the Measure,” I tell Haraa.

           &...

Meta-Conversations: The Challenge

            “What an interesting creature you are.”

          &n...

Meta-Conversation: Fasting

            “How do I not have a word for discipline?” I ask, and it is Haraa who answers.

    ...

Back in Time Tuesday: Willow, the Night, and Moon

My first big original sale, this gouache piece is of... I think? an old RPG character? I can't remember? Mostly I wanted an excuse to paint hair, though, and paint hair I did! So much hair! XD

Chimerical Update, September 6!

It’s September and as usual I have no idea how that happened. So much stuff happening! Let me tell you all about it!

FireBorn’s Legacy is now out on retailers! So if...

Proto-Taylitha

Going through my old files (and tossing a lot of them, yes, even the art), I am stopping to scan some of the more notable pieces. This one, from 1990, is one of those, because it's one of the first...

book book book book

The kickstarter's funding period is over! The staggered launch continues!

• Backers have their ebooks/ai-audio already;

• the author's edition is 2024-08-27 13:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Changing Mental Gears: Launching Direct

           It’s been a while since I did a business post, so here we go! and it’s about my decision this year to shift focus to direct sal...

BIRB

I did this one for the Kickstarter (seven more days!) as a cover image for the bonus story... and thought everyone would appreciate seeing the full-size version without the text. Bryer (on the righ...

Back in Time Tuesday: Guardian of the West

This seemed a good one for stormy August: my picture of the Le'enle Silent Chain, the Emperor of the West of the Compass Rose. His sash is the Le'enle-sa word for knowledge, because that was his ae...

State of the Jaguar, August 2024

What a week! Things are crazy here so I wanted to bring you up to date on it before we crash into the weekend and the new school year, which starts Monday.

 First of all… it’s August...

The Kickstarter for Qora's Novel is Live!

And we're already at the "vote for stretch goals" phase! There are art tiers and book tiers and "I've never read your work, help, where do I start" tiers... just about anything I could think of. So...

Gamelit 33 (just where you left me)

            Ray’s phone woke him up, which he didn’t appreciate because anything before 10 in the morning was too early, and 4 am def...

Just For Fun: Redraw, 32 Years Apart!

I found this breezy-looking sketch from 32 years ago of my first D&D character, a half-elven rogue, riding a weird hippogryph-unicorn thing I'd designed, and thought it would be fun to redraw i...

Gamelit 32 (just a game)

           She hated hospitals, and her diagnosis had been so minor that every hour she’d been trapped in one had felt like punishment. But ...

Just for Fun: Fan Poetry

While going through old papers, I found this poem about Lisinthir by Elizabeth Barrette. Enjoy!

MidJuly News

FireBorn’s Legacy is done! I’m currently hip-deep in prep for its Kickstarter, testing my new “launch via kickstarter/direct sales, then go to retail” strategy. In support of that, my direc...

Gamelit 31 (convergence)

            When the alarm went off at 7 am, Mollie was still under her froth of pale blue blankets. The scent of espresso wafted from th...

Back in Time Tuesday: Shaft of Sunlight

A rare and interesting piece for me, because it's a B&W piece in marker that's handled like it's watercolors, and I really like the effect! At the time my backyard was a wilderness and had tons...