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 at the end of August.
2022-07-29 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostGo get it! https://books2read.com/zafiil2
If you'd like to reserve an autographed paperback, let me know... I've got some coming.
Join me tonight for a celebratory livestream at 7:30 PM EST!
We're nearly at the Volume 2 release! To celebrate, from 1994, here is the original version of Tristan!
2022-07-25 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Things that didn't make it into the backmatter of book 1.
2022-07-11 13:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Come join us for silliness and drawing!
2022-07-02 22:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in Mother-Daughter comedy hour as she drew post-it note critters for the people in the chat. If you need a laugh, I highly recommen...
2022-06-29 13:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 promised His people He would send a messiah to lead them into a Golden Age, alongside the Others: aliens who would be to them as broth... 2022-06-28 10:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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 exclusivity thing that Amazon does, I'll be taking this link down in August. Until then, feel free to read it for pleasure even if you ...
2022-06-23 13:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere 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 good at everything: if you don’t understand how a particular wiki function works (like templates, or categories), it...
2022-06-22 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 that. (And didn't make links out of the references, but I'll get to it if someone doesn't beat me to it). 2022-06-17 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 about all the technology for decades. So. I did a diagram. And wrote this for the wiki!
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While traditional modalities...
2022-06-13 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 marker, and paying stricter attention to the symbols in the arches (something I only started thinking more seriously about after Mindl...
2022-06-07 13:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy 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 minor character in Surela's trilogy, for obvious reasons). My notes call it 'Tales from Forecourt' (to make it sound somewhat like '...
2022-06-01 19:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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 happy with them.
Volume 1: https://book...
2022-05-30 13:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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, here's a link to the video: https://youtu.be/GrGuXS845J4
2022-05-26 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“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,” because… what else? I am an artist.
This Shame settles onto the stool facing me. I’ve known two priests of Shame now...
2022-05-26 01:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 of the one I hosted when I previewed this image here: 2022-05-23 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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... which should I pick??
I've put all the ink reviews in their own playlist here so you can see which colors I've already done: 2022-05-17 16:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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?
This collection is going to put together all the existing stories (even if they're duplicated elsewhere), but I want some new ones....
2022-05-16 16:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostI'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.
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 know.) Don't look too closely if you don't want spoilers for existing/available novels, because I think I mentioned an event from...
2022-05-04 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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 image in my head to get a layout.
That bottom thing in the left isn't supposed to be part of the courtyard, it's my 'where's th...
2022-04-25 16:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 question. But I can tell you why I chose my method, and maybe the why will lead people to ask the right questions for themsel...
2022-04-20 14:39:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 time ripe for a 10th anniversary edition, wherein I fix the handful of typos reported to me over the years, add backmatter with art,...
2022-04-14 16:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 about this thing', but more like 'when were genies invented' or 'what do telegems look like' or 'where was so and so born' type th...
2022-04-06 14:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostLately, 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 constrained. You could buy magazines or art books or postcards with cool images on them. You could see cool things on TV or in movie thea...
2022-04-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
