February is over! As most of you know, I got placement with Bookbub on February 8th: my deal was Earthrise, free.
So, January of this year, I gave away 128 (free) copies of 2017-03-04 16:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post
More color for those of you who are missing spring.
2017-03-03 21:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Some color for those of you laboring without it.
2017-03-02 21:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post
And y'all get the news first! More or less! Here's the link, which will take you to all the retailers so you can pick the one you lik...
2017-02-24 20:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Putting together something for y'all, and for the mailing list (lots of new people have joined it!)... but finishing that up will be my treat to myself for finishing the novella edits, so no cookies f...
2017-02-21 23:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The WOES of the perfectionist artist. >.<
(The foil is my pile of kosher salt for salting the paper, not a snack. Though come to think of it, a snack sounds great about now!)
When last we left our fearless Jaguar (ha!), I confessed to the lack of a plan. And in fact, compared to ye...
2017-02-20 17:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
...a father, so I thought I'd try for the set.
2017-02-18 13:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
No idea, but I've painted two layers onto this thing and now, in accordance with the instructions on the bottle, I am waiting 24 hours.
I have left the picture uncropped so you can enjoy squinting a...
2017-02-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We are now at the painting stage. Or we were, until I discovered that I had (again) painted on the wrong side of the paper because this particular manufacturer puts its watermark on the opposite side ...
2017-02-16 23:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Working on the cover for the novella. I spent a day on these profiles, and I'd say 75% of that time was me trying to decide what Mike Beringwaite should look like and making sure Alysha was on model.<...
2017-02-16 19:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought this sketch might be relaxing to ink, and it was! Now I hope it is relaxing to color, and here it is. Download and enjoy. :)
(For those who like "the lore"... the Le'enle go thr...
2017-02-15 20:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Listening to old Mike Oldfield albums today (Amazon, Songs from Distant Earth) made me want to revisit the Le'enle. Alas, not much time to sketch today so I didn't get too far.
2017-02-14 19:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Alysha novella should be done this week! First Readers who'd like to help me find errors should wave their hands at me. Familiarity with the existing Alysha stories would be helpful, particularly ...
2017-02-13 18:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostPoliteness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ~Abel Stevens
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Bar...
2017-02-12 17:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s the free download numbers, then, for the promotion that ran Wednesday (as of 9:30 AM EST this morning):
I decided to go back and clean up the Chronicles of Prydain fan art a little. I liked Taran's face, so I left it as-is, but Eilonwy needed a lot of work (I like her now!). And Gurgi is impossible! Des...
2017-02-11 15:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting my experiments with art styles for the illustrations. Yes, Marda looks like a lilac point Siamese. :)
2017-02-10 19:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostFirst scene of chapter one! I am writing this one slowly, stopping to think about things like "should I be doing spot illustrations" and "what should I name this particular thing". I feel the sort of ...
2017-02-10 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to yesterday's chat, I now have a name and theme for the YA school! Accordingly I am working on the map.
2017-02-09 18:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So final download numbers from yesterday's promotion: 28,417. Today there's some follow-on downloads... it's at 2200 or so right now, and when I checked I was still #1 in the fr...
2017-02-09 15:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
...and Earthrise went from giving away 1-2 copies a day to giving away 22,000 in less than eight hours. I'm almost a little scared to stop checking it for the rest of the night, but it's my p...
2017-02-08 23:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my mental state right now watching the number of Earthrise downloads increase.
2017-02-08 19:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post
No lunch bag today! Daughter was sick yesterday, so she's taking the porcupine bag with her to school today. Instead, here's a doodle of my priest from WoW. Whom I miss, but Legion is not my WoW. *sad...
2017-02-07 12:14:57 +0000 UTC View Post
If all is going well, I sketch what I'm working on. Alysha's novella is 75% done, so I have sketched her, signing in the water to her Naysha crewmate.
2017-02-06 19:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt
2017-02-05 17:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Other people post howling wolves. This is what I got. (And yes, if you get near them they really will put their heads back and bark out the most astonishing noises!)
Photo taken from my car, w...
2017-02-04 13:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Coracle is the MG/YA setting!
Anyway, here are the heads of the various roles of the order. (The equivalent, I guess, of the heads of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, etc). These are older men and women, but...
2017-02-03 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
