I'm aware we missed a lunch bag on Thursday, when JaguarChild stayed home with a stomachache. To make up your RDA of cute animal drawings for the week, thus, I am appending these chalk animals. We decided to go draw outside, and of course, I spend much, much longer on mine than she did on hers...
(I did the crow and dragon. You can just see the edge of one of her scribbles on the right there.)
C...
2018-05-12 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
April was busy! Mostly Day Hobby busy, but for those of you who missed the announcement, my last day there is in June! I am looking forward to freeing up those mental cycles. In the mean-time, though… let’s talk about what I was up to in April, and therefore, what you can look forward to soon!
Writing Progress
With Dreamstorm done (and launched!) last month, I tur...
2018-05-01 13:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I get sooooo many requests for pronunciation that I'm going to do a bunch of these and link them on my website. In the meantime, here's my take at the first!
2018-04-29 16:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Looking regal in his nest of cyan fluff. Cat, connoisseur of napping places.
2018-04-28 13:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostSome news first:
For those who missed the announcement when I mentioned it originally during All Fan Chat Day… I have given notice at Day Hobby. My last day is June 15th. While I am by no means a Kindle millionaire, I am now at the point where I believe the hours I spend in someone else’s office (or, appallingly, in traffic, to the tune of almost an hour a day each day I drive in) can be more profitably employed in writing another book, running another Kickstarter, or attending to all the marketing and adver...
2018-04-23 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My daughter has been using her iPad like this for half an hour. O_o
2018-04-21 15:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Since we started the week with lunch bags on a lunch bag, we must naturally end it with lunch bags of unicorns with lunch bags of jaguars with lunchbags of unicorns with lunchbags of lunchbags.... on a lunch bag.
Got all of that?
Good.
:D
2018-04-20 10:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's do the thing! *dances*
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcahogarth/dreamhearth-a-cozy-slice-of-life-science-fiction-n
2018-04-16 15:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It is already April! Goodness gracious. Let’s see what I was up to in March!
Writing Progress
As you can see and I predicted, I spent all of March pushing on Dreamstorm so I could have it ready for you this month. (It’s out, if you missed the launch post! Go get it!). I wrote roughly 30,000 words to do that, putting every other thing on hold. Then I edited about 10K ...
2018-04-05 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our final return to Jahir and Vasiht'h's early life debuts today, with the final book in the Dreamhealers saga: Dreamstorm!
Jahir and Vasiht’h have spent five years together in practice on Starbase Veta, and their life is everything they’d hoped: their practice is fantastic, their social standing great, and their domestic life a blissful routine. So when Vasiht’h discovers his partner has “accidentally” accrued enough continuing education credits to become a lice...
2018-04-04 21:52:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is your link:
This link grants a temporary membership and expires in one day, which means:
I'll be looking for first readers for this next week! The usual criteria apply:
And no, that's not sarcasm!
I do not love Patreon as a content provision system. From things you all have mentioned, you don't love it either, particularly the poor commenting system, and the fact that the app's gotten harder to use.
However! the Patreon Wordpress plugin works, which means I can now post to Wordpress instead. You login with your Patreon credentials to see the content. If I do that, though, the only content that will end up here is a weekly recap of what happened on my we...
2018-03-14 20:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Because someone on the holt asked about making Ciracaana taller, and so naturally I had to draw one in platform shoes.
Also, since I was asked if those are fish in there... yes, they are. I got the notion from the movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, but apparently they were a real thing: https://www.thebalance.com/fish-tank-shoes-myth-4049899
Anyway, some brief news!
... 2018-03-11 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you are new, and maybe haven't read Spots... if so, it's in a fantastic Storybundle today, with a bunch of other splendid SF books!
If you haven't tried a storybundle yet, it's great! You pay what you want for a bundle of four books, and if you pay over $15, you get an additional six (including Spots!) You can also choose how much of you money goes to the authors and how much to th...
2018-03-08 16:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s time once again for the monthly report! In which I divulge to you, readers, what I’m doing, so you know I’m working hard on your behalf. Well, on mine too, because I love what I do. <3
Writing Progress
Dreamstorm is my area of focus until it’s done. I hope to polish it off at the end of March, so that’s been where most of my work’s going… but I’ve also got a “one chapter of Coracle a month until Dreamstorm is done and frees you...
2018-03-01 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Speaking of news! To help offset the costs of the print layout for the new business book, I am starting to put up the originals for various Three Jaguars comics and illustrations on Etsy. You can find those here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioMCAH?section_id=19173801
If there's a particular illustration or page you want, let me know. <3
2018-02-20 16:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
So here is a thing I did not anticipate saying.
That whole Patreon debacle, where Patreon implied with its actions that $1 contributors were not its focus and shouldn't be the focus of its Creators was... actually based on a real problem. Which is that... $1 pledges do cost a lot. This is not something I really thought about until someone asked me what my transaction fees were like and I realized my total transaction fees are... higher than all my $1 pledges combined.
Not only that, but ...
2018-02-19 21:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I was thinking over the weekend that the Three Jaguars--all supposedly me--no longer have my hair? Marketer would love my hair, it is totally Marketer chic. Artist would have to keep the long flowing locks, because Artist. But maybe more obviously idealized?
And then we got to Business Manager.
Marketer: OH MY STARS
Marketer: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU
Business Manager: I shaved it off. It was more cost effective.
Marketer: 😱
Okay, so maybe I'll leave them how they w...
2018-02-19 13:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
...that is a good thing.
I also really liked the blurb Bookbub wrote for me:
A++ Bookbub, that is good blurb right there
And the chat day went awesome. I sleep now, but I had a great time talking with all of you and sharing sales figures and answering questions and discussing food and fandom and business stuff and completely random things. Plus, several of you converted to Discord Chat reg...
2018-02-17 01:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I am sooper busy, but! Some cool stuff/reminders:
It was my plan to sell a few cameos in Dreamstorm (same as I did in Dreamhearth!) because making you all part of the canon is excessively fun. I priced out the first one and was about to put it up for sale when someone decided to sponsor it!
So! This time, the cameo is free! We'll be raffling off the appearance, which is for a teen girl, a school friend of the hospital girls'. If that's up your alley, go read more and fill out the form!
I did a soft launch yesterday to see if I could keep from blowing through my goal too quickly and... that didn't work. Lol. Anyway, here's the link! Go pick up a copy if you want one. Remember, I'm going to be redoing the cover on these, so this is your window to pick up one with the author's art on it. :)
Even if you don't plan on buying, check out the video. It's a timelapse of me sketching, I think it's pretty fun. <3
2018-02-08 14:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post
From a Discord server chat about who everyone would be as a Pelted teen. This was someone's off-the-cuff guess about themselves and I couldn't resist. >.>
I put a lot of commentary into the image itself this time. All totals are for e-books across all retailers, except the middle column on the right, which conflates the audio and print edition sales. Examine at your leisure!
Some notes:
Messing around a little with tablet ergonomics today, and didn't want to be doing anything important, so I just doodled this TRAGIC EYED GIRL. With horns. As one does? Maybe? *shrugs?*
2018-02-04 22:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
