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Resistance is Futile: The Jaguar's AI Experiment

Yes, it’s true: after much gnashing of teeth and a token resistance to the inevitable, I decided it was time to do serious experimentation with AI, especially after hearing multiple reports, all ...

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Gamelit Novel, 15

Amanda unfolded herself from the nest of blankets her pony-self slept in while the caravan lumbered down the road. Getting off a moving wagon was fun when she didn’t have to worry about breaking ...

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Back in Time Tuesday: Ocean Wedges

Another from the archives, this beachy girl is a Le'enle (my kirin species). I thought it would be fun to do a seashore-themed palette for her. And yes, as you can probably tell from the scan, I pa...

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Gamelit Novel, 14

Even had Jonah not trained her with an understanding of human emotion, she would have sought that information on her own, the better to execute her function. Fortunately, Jonah had foreseen how vit...

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Gamelit Novel, 13

Nick sent them an entire line of random emojis and tossed the phone aside. Another muffin, a shower, and a drink later, he set the wireset in place and sank onto the bed. The forest emerged first a...

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Qora is Dancing!

This is a preview of the planned frontispiece of the new book (obviously unfinished)!

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Gamelit Novel, 12

Ray leaned back in his chair and exhaled with all the satisfaction of a job done amazing.Not only had the game spun up a miniboss for them to fight in the Veilgrove, but it had improvised ...

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Orange Cat Sticker KS is Live!

If you want a sticker (or the original), go grab one. International backers, this one should be affordable for you too!

2024-02-20 16:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Gamelit Novel, 11

Being able to taste things in the game was amazing, so of course, his mother had to ruin it. “I’m not sure how I feel about all this.”

“I don’t know why,” Nick said. “It’s the...

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Back in Time Tuesday: Nouveau Plenty

One of the Jokka (and an anadi to boot) from my archives, with a bowl of... stuff. Alien foodstuffs, I guess. Just an excuse to paint more nouveau stuff, and I thought an anadi deserved to be seen ...

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Natural Materials

This weekend my latest round of brushes gave up the ghost in the push to finish the book cover for the next novel, Fireborn’s Legacy. This set has been holding out for a year or so, supp...

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Gamelit Novel, 10

Video game characters couldn’t cook.

Amanda wasn’t shocked by this. She might not have been a gamer, but she wasn’t an idiot either. If the point of games like this was to kill things i...

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Incoming Cat Stickers!

I'm planning on launching this one at the end of February... maybe the 20th? So if you're into cat photos, stickers, or art, you can use the link to be notified when the project goes live. 😸

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Gamelit Novel, 9

Thinking of making this my patrelocals serial! Updating every two weeks. Previous episodes here, via the gamelit novel tag, or the collection:

2024-02-02 20:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Reminder: Newsletter Survey!

I'm trying to clean up my newsletter and make sure more of the people who stay on it are getting only the news they're interested in... if you're subscribed, please fill out my form!  And if y...

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Mocking up Fireborn's Legacy Cover

Leaning hard into 'weird book cover vibes', here's where I'm at with Fireborn's Legacy (Qora's novel, and the final Fallowtide book... also Fire War #0).

I'm trying to avoid doing the cover *...

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Fleet Heraldry, and Worldbuilding Rabbit Holes

A brief digression now about why it’s taking me so long to make myself a Stardancer cup like the ones Taylitha’s always filling at some meeting… because not only have I drawn her and...

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Back in Time Tuesday: Hadara and the Sun King

Going through my archives... here's a painting of a Changeling character, Hadara, and... I have no memory at all of what she was like or why she's apparently romancing an elven king, but there you ...

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Short Story: If She Could Go

Kickstarter backers funded this short story about how Reese's relatives came to live on Escutcheon... I hope to one day use it as a seed for a new collection about Reese's activities during the Fal...

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Serialization Q!

Say I'm serializing a long form story here. Tell me your preference!

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Happy New Year! And Reese's Relatives

I hope everyone's having a great start to 2024... let me contribute, with the draft of the Kickstarter-funded short about Reese's relatives! This is the draft... if you'd like to wait for the clean...

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Jaguar at Work, mid-December Edition

It was my plan to spend December goofing off, and instead somehow I’ve been knee-deep in projects. How did that happen? I think I got tired of my own complaining, to be honest. I was doing the eq...

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Marda Audio!

I continue to experiment with the Amazon AI beta, which I broke three times now, but it's (sort of) working again. They added four more voices, and one of them was a sweet-tempered British girl so ...

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Jaguar Catch-up, Christmas Edition!🎄

December’s not usually a busy work month for me, but this year I have a bunch of projects simmering! Here's what's up:

2023-12-06 17:21:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Poem: Wool-gathered Child

Wool-gathered child, who walks

as if through cloud-cloaked air,

and dances thoughtlessly

in dreams that shroud the light:

you forget your flesh,

and then in slow naive...

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Time for a Reader Poll! Surprises

What's better...for big reveals to be known to the reader before the characters know, and to see the characters figure it out... or to be surprised at the same time as the characters?

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Family Likenesses

I used tracing paper to extrapolate Jeasa's profile from Jahir's... and had so much fun I figured I'd add Kolvin (on the left) and Amber (on the right, behind Jahir) as well.

Amber's supposed...

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New Species Lineup!

After years of saying I'd update the species line-up for the back of the Pelted books, I finally picked up the sketches I started three years ago and finished them! The results are much higher qual...

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Space Nouveau Alysha

Trying to return to old habits of just randomly finishing things without any attachment to how they turn out and what they're for... so naturally, it was a picture of Alysha.

Believe it or no...

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Kitty Empress

My little doodle of my game character from the con. XD

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