I stopped by the micro-art store the other day, which I haven't in ages because the new, big art store is so much nicer, and there I found an amazing treasure: they had a stack of the paper I used to ...
2017-11-19 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I just unearthed this tiny toned sketchbook and it had this really nice unfinished piece of the Slave Queen in it. I wish I'd finished it! Though maybe I should have put it on watercolor paper and pai...
2017-11-17 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, but we had an enormously long conversation on the chat server about Kherishdar, thanks to yesterday's post. I got a lot of word requests! I didn't get to them all, because I spend a lot of time p...
2017-11-16 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You know how people give off little signs that they're under too much stress and are about to pop? Everyone's tells are different: one person might get Super Polite. One might start forgetting things,...
2017-11-15 13:28:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I... have no idea. Doodling, I guess? Also, don't know why Clip Studio inverted the text layer. Maybe it thinks it needed added interest.
Um, anyway. A guy!
2017-11-14 03:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostI have inflicted the basic set-up for the fansite on the chat members, and now it is time to inflict it on more people so I can continue getting feedback about it! If you're interested in posting to t...
2017-11-13 22:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Subtitle: "Lol, I'm hilarious!" Because she likes to say that after making me laugh with some ridiculous joke.
Speaking of ridiculous joke, this is the one going around my household (and the holt, a...
2017-11-13 11:45:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Lookit all that Peltedverse stuff coming. *rubs hands together* I hope you’re as excited as I am.
In between writing and editing and writing and putting together marketing fluff, I’ve been...
2017-11-10 19:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post
In which I break out the water soluble oils (they are my compromise, since I don't have a properly ventilated studio for proper ones) to finish the final cover for Princes' Game. This is one of the fe...
2017-11-07 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
*eyes graphic* Okay, so. In October, I WROTE. *checks last progress* In fact, I wrote 71,431 words to finish the draft of PG6.
There you go. I won NaNoWriMo one month early. ...
2017-11-06 15:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone asked for Vasiht'h in Eldritch garb, so... my best attempt to throw a centaur into something out of Dangerous Liaisons. >.>
It's been a productive weekend; all the Kickstarter digital ...
2017-11-06 00:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night was a good sketching night, and of all the ones I liked this was my favorite.
Was listening to this while drawing, for those curious about the scrawled lyrics: 2017-11-04 13:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The folks on the chat server told me they love seeing unfinished sketches?? And I'm all 'okay'?? So here's my page from the "Creating Alien Cultures" panel. Yes, I was sketching while sitting at the t...
2017-11-03 16:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post
After a trip to the Container Store and a trashbag of stuff, I feel like I'm sort of getting my office under control. (Note I don't actually have a room with a door--I'm the only person in the family ...
2017-11-02 21:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Inevitable aftermath is inevitable.
Kickstarter ends this morning! And wow, what an ending. Four dollars off of $4300! Good lord!
Google Docs has fixed their outage! Come on back to the playground! :D
2017-10-31 19:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post
No, it's not you (or me). We've been hit by this:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/31/google-doc...
2017-10-31 18:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This is what happens when jaguar novels run over their word count
Significantly over their word count
aaaaaaaaaaaarghomnomnomgrrrrrrrrrrrr
2017-10-30 00:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought only cats on the internet did stuff like this.
Oh wait my cat is on the internet
"Dear Mom: Thank you for the cake. I am writing this to you while eating crackers spread with my own artisanal goat cheese aged in casks in my cellar. I am kind to animals, make thousands of gold a da...
2017-10-23 23:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I am maybe two weeks from completing the draft for From Ruins (PG6). If you'd like to first-read for this series and want time to re-read any (or all!) of the previous books, I would start no...
2017-10-20 01:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
...and... uh... 235% funded, 7 minutes in? But all the prizes are still available except the original artwork for the wallpaper?
Go look, anyway! This is for the print editions of my fantasy romance...
2017-10-18 15:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The folks in the JaguarHolt got me into Stardew Valley, and I am trying to decide if I like it. I used to love the bits out of the Ha...
2017-10-14 12:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Because you all were so nice as to give me suggestions! I didn't take them all, but I did some of them!
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2017-10-10 20:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We have hit (and passed) the beginning of October! Which means it's time for progress reports, starting with productivity.
So, September was broken up painfully by Hurricane Irma and my surgery, whi...
2017-10-09 17:56:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Michael Anderle got this shot of me working between seminars at the conference this weekend and kindly emailed it to me. I think it's a cute photo. :D
Anyway, I finished the piece for the Kic...
2017-10-08 14:45:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Brought my painting of Clouds to the NINC Conference (for writers) and got a lot of work done listening to a couple of promotion seminars. The conference so far has been more notable for the chance to...
2017-10-07 10:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Having never had a cat before, I am endlessly... appalled? Astonished? At the positions they sleep in. How is this even comfortable? o_O
Anyway! Chat Day was fun! Thank you all for coming! We fell b...
2017-09-30 12:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that I'm back to my usual writing routine, I am outlining/thinking out loud with a pen as I work, planning ahead to scenes to come. Here's a quick pen doodle from the car-line, working on Princes'...
2017-09-26 20:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I am getting back into the groove of working, post-operatively, and spent a profitable morning writing PG6; so good to get back to that (and so many good things in it! Vasiht'h fans will be pleased, p...
2017-09-25 23:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post