Go lock in your copy now! It's at all retailers, not just Amazon: https://books2read.com/shieldmatron1
Though there are two other books planned in this series, I'm glad I wrote this one to end neatly. My family's lost its health insurance...
2023-06-23 13:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps on my mind because the Jokka books were the first ones to come off of their KU exclusivity period and I've restored them to wide sale (and had to redo the epub of Bloom in the process, because it was messed up). Here's a bit of history from 2003!
This is an actual cut scene, not something I wrote after for fun t...
2023-06-19 13:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to get back in the habit of daily art by drawing things that don’t matter as much to me…So have some random World of Warcraft characters 🙂
2023-06-16 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
If you want to listen to me ramble about worldbuilding with a genial and interesting host!
2023-06-12 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostStill going through old files, found this poem from at least twenty years ago? Something like.
OCEAN'S DAUGHTER
Ocean's daughter, born in fever-red --
The forever-magic glows brilliant in your veins.
Conceived for heaven's singing, you were bred
motherless, ...
2023-06-09 12:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one of the first sketches (ink drawings) of Taylitha I can find, from 1990 (that makes it 23 years old, good lord). Even back then she was the put-upon everywoman of the crew.
For those of you interested in such things... this would have been inked with technical pen (not the disposable kind, but the metal-tippe...
2023-06-05 15:13:24 +0000 UTC View PostYou'll find it in the google doc, and if you've been reading up to this point, jump to 1234 to read the end of the book. Don't forget to tell me what you think!
I have some stuff to handle and will be offline for a week or so (including email, chat, and DMs). I'll leave some content scheduled, though, so hopefully you w...
2023-06-01 16:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to keep all of you up to date on what’s going on, so here’s a quick rundown as we head toward the end of May:
As a way to keep going (because this is where the outline gets adventurey and I always get nervous writing actiony things), I've started quasi-serializing the remainder of Surela's novel by posting chapters as I finish them up. If you'd like to continue reading in this style, just hop on over to the Google doc and search for ...
2023-05-16 21:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I keep forgetting that I’m in the middle stages of moving my entire workflow to a new ecosystem and this is one of the reasons I’m moving like molasses (the other being that we’re heading straight into the last few weeks of school and Every Event is happening). But to catch up, here are some news and reminders:
The first ten from the Kickstarter. I'll be livestreaming these all week until I'm done with the 40! I've been doing them on youtube at 6 PM EST (so I'm about an hour out from starting tonight's).The first ten from the Kickstarter. I'll be livestreaming these all week until I'm done with the 40! I've been doing them on youtub...
2023-05-09 20:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to do a piece of art for fun (!), unrelated to any current project, and with a media I haven't messed with seriously for decades (color pencil). Here's a Le'enle mom with baby then, and magnolia flowers. I really like her!
I'm wondering if I should bother with prints or stickers or what have you. Do you want a...
2023-05-01 15:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs per usual, I evaluate my progress partway through the year to see if I’m track for my goals. This year, in particular, I was worried about lost time, but… it appears nothing’s changed. I’m still on track for five books this year. Here’s the schedule for 2023:
This is an alpha read opportunity, because Part 1 and Part 2 of this book happen two years apart, and Part 1 is the most fraught in terms of connecting with the existing timelines. It starts at the end of Laisrathera and runs concurrent with the end of Princes' Game... so help with continuity on this one *early*, while I'm wo...
2023-04-24 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the full piece isn't visible on the book, here's Giliriel and Arianhrod, and the events of the multiple stories in the frame around them. I did most of this one with a 4/0 brush, which is four sizes than a size 0. It is... not big, and not possible without the magnifying lamp, so go go Cyborg Jaguar.😄
2023-04-18 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt is a thing I return to, and that becomes more urgent the older I grow and the more work I’ve made: what it means, to have such a consistently released body of work, representing decades of personal change. Write one book every five or six years, and you don’t have to answer for much. Write three to five books a year, y...
2023-04-11 13:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post...is done! Check out the draft if you're into that... the group read comments on this one are already good: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j2m-kUdjBfYR8b_u8Y0lRMpSPmLC4RDKtBxhwutqBe8/edit?...
2023-04-05 12:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this case, I found this page from a year or two ago that I never got around to filling in, and here we get to some conlang process stuff. Typically when I want to make new vocabulary, I do it at my computer with the spreadsheet open so I can search the lexicon for similar words. But real languages have homonyms (words that...
2023-04-03 15:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostStill working on stories for the next collection... if you'd like to read this one in advance, it's up!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-077-IhDQqVuyyXAWoL5kVF37jmKBjrAJGKU2taUg2g/edit...
2023-03-30 15:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone asked me which characters would go in the 'cinnamon bun grid meme' and I had no idea what they were talking about, so I looked it up... and was amused. But I also thought it would be more interesting to ask my readers... so I am! Where cinnamon bun is (sensibly) a sweetheart, what characters would you fill in which sq...
2023-03-27 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I set these up a while ago so you'd have some entertainment in my absence, so enjoy!
This week is Kediil, done in an Art Nouveau style, sort of? At least that was the plan. I think her hand is fun, obviously, since it's the part I spent the most time on. She's blowing leaves since she was an herbalist/healer.
Kedi...
2023-03-21 15:49:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello, aletsen! I've been putting off this post in the hopes that matters would resolve, but they haven't so: my posting will be erratic for the foreseeable future due to family concerns. I appreciate your prayers and well-wishes, but I don't have the spoons to reply to anyone personally, so I will say in advance: thank you! ...
2023-03-14 18:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostI think I may have mentioned in one of the recent updates (or maybe on the Kickstarter project blog?) that my PC has been making unhappy noises, and in fact, I can no longer count on it to boot up if I make the mistake of turning it completely off. When I mentioned this to Spouse, he suggested we get ahead of the inevitable f...
2023-03-13 15:14:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been working on this one for three days! And it's as done as I think it's going to get. Here's Morgan, Amhric, the various genets, drake, horse and hunting cats, escaping from Suleris in Book 1 of Heir to Thorns and Steel.
2023-03-02 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm getting closer to done on the Blood Ladders art book (while juggling the Kickstarter stuff), and it's time to make a decision about the size of the book.
On one hand, I can make it a 6x9 hardcover, which means it will be the same size/shape as the novels in the series. But it's an odd size for an art book.
... 2023-02-27 16:37:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Posting this from a coffee shop because the internet died in my house and estimated repair isn't until mid-to-late week (fun!), but the Kickstarter is doing well and wraps up this Friday, so that's great news.
I'm also turning this old Kickstarter gift I found into a retail-ready hardcover. And of course, an ebook, for ...
2023-02-20 15:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostGo play!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcahogarth/to-the-court-of-love?ref=391nyf
2023-02-14 16:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe final story I wrote for the collection prior to the forthcoming Kickstarter! Go enjoy everyone's comments. :)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEHGnW-odfwpVuyCmyeOz38ZXVC0BKwOkc4BZG...
2023-02-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the first of your notices: the next Kickstarter is tentatively coming next week, and appropriately I'm going to kick it off on Tuesday the 14th, because it's for 'To the Court of Love', the next Peltedverse collection. It'll run for ten days, so we'll wrap up on the following Friday. Here's the preview link, and you ca...
2023-02-06 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
After many technical and legal difficulties, I have finally gotten my audiobook catalog onto Bandcamp, including these full series:
