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Haley's Paperback

I've also got a hardcover proof coming, I'm curious how that'll look when it arrives.

This looks good to me, except the back cover has a temporary blurb. I'll fix that before it goes on sale ...

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Zafiil 2 is Out!

Go get it! https://books2read.com/zafiil2 

If you'd like to reserve an autographed paperback, let me know... I've g...

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Livestream tonight!

Come by, say hi! 7:30 PM EST!

https://youtu.be/5Jlk4MgxYLQ

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Ancient Zafiil Art: Tristan

We're nearly at the Volume 2 release! To celebrate, from 1994, here is the original version of Tristan!

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Ancient Zafiil Art

From the early 1990s this time!

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Zafiil Sketches: Green Dreams

Things that didn't make it into the backmatter of book 1.

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Doodling in Zafiil paperbacks tonight!

Come by!

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Child and I are Streaming in 15 Minutes!

Come join us for silliness and drawing!

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Meet the Jaguar Daughter!

For those of you who've heard about her for years and wondered what she's like... Daughter crashed my lifestream last night at the 30 minute mark and stayed for the remaining half hour, resulting i...

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Book Launch: Zafiil, Volume 1 - FIREBORN UNPAINTED

Enter into the heart of an alien race in the first historical novel set in the Peltedverse...
Thousands of years ago, the God of the Faulfenza prom...

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First Readers: The New Short Story!

If you'd like to read this one, it's up! (LitRPG readers, in particular, I am curious about your reaction).

Because this short story is going to KU, and therefore will be subject to the exclu...

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Wiki Guidelines Reminder

There have been days in the past week where 3-4 people have been working on the wiki at one time! This is great! But I thought I’d re-iterate some guidelines:

Not everyone has to be...

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Friday Sidebar: Wiki and Incoming Stories

While waiting for some issues to resolve, I've been trying to do some housekeeping. Today it was 'find every reference you've made to a halo-arch in the canon and jot those things down', so I did t...

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Medimage Platform

Someone asked me to draw Jahir in scrubs and I thought 'great! I'll draw a scene of him in surgery!' And that made me realize... I have no idea what a surgical theater looks like despite writing ab...

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Possible Mindtouch Cover Refresh

I'm not married to this idea, but for a while now I've been wanting to revisit the Dreamhealers covers and make them match Heartskein: painted with gouache, rather than done in pen and ink and mark...

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Prompts for the Next Kickstarted Collection: Reese in the Fallowtide!

My next collection, I suspect, will happen after I finish writing Surela 1 and return to the Fallowtide, but this time for stories revolving more around Reese (since Reese figures as a recurring mi...

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Zafiil Pre-Orders are up!

With lovely covers by Pixel Operative. I don't usually do pre-orders but I need to put deadlines on these so I won't endlessly iterate them. There's no making anything perfect, and in the end, I am...

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Faulfenza Art!

We are getting super close to the book launches! I have a lot of backmatter to compile first though.

The first one I did during my livestream last weekend, so if you want to watch me draw it,...

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Meta-Conversations: Amath

“What’s wrong with your eyes?” I ask.

“Do they bother you?”

“Yes,” I say, because Kor has taught me the futility of lying to any of Kherishdar’s Shames. And also, “No,...

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Peltedverse: Children of the Fallowtide

In case you wanted to keep track of all the various children being born or growing up during Liolesa's ten-year grace period!

Alas, Patreon has no live chat, but you can read the transcript o...

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Random Pretty: New Inks!

Somebear enabled the purchase of way too many pretty things and they arrived today! And then I had to use them all.😂

I'm definitely going to review one for my next ink review video... whic...

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Planning the Peltedverse Holiday Collection

I know, this is a bit out of season, but if I want it ready for Christmas I need to do it before then! So, question: who would you like to see holiday stories about, within the Peltedverse?

T...

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First Reader Call! Zafiil, Vol 1 + 2

I'm done with my re-read and will be done inputting edits in the next couple of days, so I am now seeking first readers for this story! Link will go out midweek, this week.

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Timeline Stuff, and Earthrise Schematics

So, some fun stuff....

First, my attempt at cleaning up/sorting the timeline for what happens on Escutcheon during Surela's first novel. (Chronology people, if I failed something here, let me...

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Zafiil Edits Begin!

I'll be working on it this month. First readers, if you're interested, I'll be calling for you in a couple of weeks, probably. This one is two volumes, so be prepared!


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Ontine Cathedral

Or at least, pretty close? I scraped up all the information I could out of the existing stories (like the fact that the nave is laid out east-west) and tried to patch it together with the vague ima...

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File Systems for Writers

I was asked recently “how do you keep track of 50+ books from a file system perspective” and I realized… that’s a good question, and the answer is going to be specific to the author in ques...

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April 2022 - Earthrise, Surela, and More!

I’ve been going through Earthrise and its sequels while updating the wiki, and it occurred to me: I started serializing Earthrise on Livejournal ten years ago. That makes the ti...

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Doing Some Worldbuilding Backfilling

I'm going through the wiki and making a list of things I'd like to add, and thought I'd ask you all... what questions do you have about the Peltedverse world? (Not so much 'please write this story ...

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Why Video?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how our relationship with visual art has changed. In the ancient before-times, when there was no internet, access to visual art was constra...

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