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Your coupon is POCKETCHARS, recall, for your 10% off. :D
I have about three more of these to finish up and then I... don't know if I'll keep doing them? They do sell, but a...
2017-08-12 22:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
...as in future Chatcaavan fashion, after meeting up with Eldritch culture. Someone asked me about this, so I dug some up!
The little white spikes over the wings are holographic projections. Because if you live in a magitech culture, why wouldn't you use technology to project shinies onto yourself?
2017-08-12 14:16:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the last one! Not because it's the last in the series, but because I haven't written the final novel so I can't write a summary for it yet. And this one is... well, it's complicated. (Have any of them not been complicated, I guess.)
Having finally written the entire thing, though, I am going to now tidy it up and prep it for delivery to you all. The formal version won't go out until the series is done and I can add Book 6. But you I'll give you all an e-edition of what exists so far, a...
2017-08-09 16:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Come on over, everyone! I'll be awake from about 7 AM EST (ish) to about 8 PM EST (ish), with some idle periods while I do things while drive, commute, deal with real stuff. You know how that goes. :D
We are in the #audiencehall channel, so click over to that if you end up somewhere else! And recall our code of conduct! http://mcahogarth.org/the-jaguarholt-discord-server/
So July! Let's talk numbers.
In my June post, I mentioned that I was running a couple of experiments in July. First, a non-US territory Bookbub for Mindtouch (an ad only in the UK, Canada, Australia, and India), and the release of Dreamhearth, which I wanted to compare against the release of In Extremis to see if there really were more fans waiting for Dreamhealers books than for Princes' Game books.
You'll immediately see I messed up my experimental parameters...
2017-08-07 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBack to vocabulary check! These are the ones I highlighted recently. Do you know them without looking them up? :D
Check your answers:
So, some quick important things:
It is time again for Candle Friday! I will be going to light one for intentions later this afternoon. Thanks to last Candle Friday's watchstanders: Rion, Grey, Ann Marie, Medic, Maigen, Mandy, Anastasia, and Petrov, along with people who might have done so anonymously. ❤️ Your help is appreciated. Feel free to share your candle photos on the community wall if you wis...
2017-08-04 13:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Doodling in the coffee shop yesterday while listening to Holt-chatter. Y'all keep me company. 💖
2017-08-03 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As usual, with the beginning of the new month, we look back at writing progress and sales for the previous month. Today is the writing progress! In which I confess that I didn't do much writing at all. The Synopsis project went from "idea" to "almost done" during the month of July, which was surprisingly time-consuming. PG6: From Ruins gained about a thousand words (all of 1% of its estimated total!). And I did some ancillary writing, like the new introduction to the business book. But ...
2017-08-03 14:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostI have been makin' some changes to my Patreon, and they are relevant to your interests!
Apologies for my absence... lots of stuff going on, and I am dragging through it. I'm working on content for the week, though, so I think I'm coming back online (in the "computer waking up from sleep" sense).
Meanwhile, have a picture of Ron Weasley. I did not particularly want a cat (or even another pet--I think putting my dog down broke my heart into too many pieces for me to put back together, petwise). But this one jumped up on our windowsill and asked piteously to be let in, and a week of...
2017-08-02 11:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I still have this unfinished Kickstarter to run to get Thief of Songs and Cantor for Pearls their print editions, and Pholy asked me to have an electronic reward that wasn't the e-books for the folks who've already read them. So... I am working on a wallpaper (and also a sticker). Because naturally I should be drawing a hermaphrodite sorcerer who is partially shapeshifted into a dragon...? Because drawing normal people isn't hard enough?
Anyway. Several Korean models (male and female) went int...
2017-07-28 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing with the Three Jaguars roles, here's the first: Business Manager!
Primary Workmode: Practical and Administrative
Your Business Manager self needs to channel an inner Virgo (if you have one): meticulous, data-focused and completist. This is the self that makes lists and does chores and says, "Uh, no" to things like "Can I buy a crazy-expensive thing that we can't afford." Since I don't have an inner Virgo, I think of the Business Manager as my inner Parent; they both say ...
So, as promised, I am reposting the business columns as I re-read, edit, and re-scan the art for them in preparation for the book. I am really glad I'm doing this, because a lot of the art needs fixing--like, more than I remembered. (This is my glum look.) Also, Patreon's not the best place for this, because it still balks on huge posts/inline images... like it will let me post a few, and then lock up.
However, I still think posting it in bits is better than not posting it at all! And it's def...
2017-07-25 12:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like these are getting harder the further I get along. Maybe because I'm closer to them? Or because they're just getting more complicated? Lol, I don't know. Anyway, thank you for feedback on the earlier ones! I've incorporated it into my master copy. Keep it coming!
Here's Book 4. Read on, as you feel ready to!
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Book 4: Only the Open
Rating: R. Back to rape, slavery, and violence.
“The b...
2017-07-24 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My existing crows have flown on, leaving me with some stragglers who like to bark at me at 6 in the morning. (The old crows were politer, and waited a little longer for me to wake up, and didn't continue barking if I didn't come out fast enough.) Since I don't like being ordered around by guests, I've been ignoring these crows until I feel like coming out, and then I talk to them and tell them, politely, to talk to me politely or no peanuts will be forthcoming.
I have no idea if this works or ...
2017-07-23 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ursula was telling me about how to make these dog tag pendants when I was admiring them at her table... I loved the delicate tiny-ness of them, when you print your art onto something that size.
Anyway! I want to do this. But my printer needs... a rather astonishing amount of ink, and at $80 a cartridge this is not a minor proposition. (Archival ink cartridges for giclee printers... not cheap.) So I have been talking with the chatfolk about running a really quick "feed my printer, get a pendant...
2017-07-22 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Character development for Twin Kingdoms 3. "Dumpling hips" was my mental placeholder for her body shape, big and soft.
2017-07-21 15:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I've decided we all need more stickers in our lives.
2017-07-21 00:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
IS IT BRIGHT ENOUGH
FOR SERIOUS ARE YOUR EYES BURNING
DO YOU WANT ONE
lol :D
2017-07-20 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Stickermule is having a big sale (50 die-cut stickers for $19), so if I can finish a few designs by Friday I am thinking of jumping on it. This one is for the Jokka! It... uh... got out of hand with all the fiddly bits. >.>
2017-07-19 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, finally I got everything straightened out and a good, clean copy of the book is available at all retailers! Buy at your favorite retailer with this link: https://www.books2read.com/u/31gEAa
This is Book 3 of Jahir and Vasiht'h's first series, which introduces them and tells the story of how they met and started a xenotherapy practice together. These are gentle stories, slice of life, friendship forever, quiet sort...
2017-07-19 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Noah Overholt recorded some of the Anthrocon panels and put them on Youtube. I am... scared to watch them because I am such a derp and I'm totally sure I will flail at the sight of myself flailing but! They were good panels and my fellow panelists said lots of insightful or funny or interesting things! So here are the ones that I know about that got online. The one above is the Advanced Writing Topics panel (which resulted in the word "feasting!" being a thing for the whole con).
There's also ...
2017-07-18 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Moving on to Book 3. Wow, Book 3. I didn't realize until I struggled for almost a week on this summary how much is going on in this book. I think I internalized too many people who waved it off as a distraction from the main story. I should know better, right. I never do one thing at once when I can make a story do sixty things at once. >.>
Anyway, here is the synopsis for Book 3. As before, comments welcome both from people who've read the book and people who haven't.
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2017-07-17 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
During Chat Day Friday, several people mentioned an interest in seeing the "non-species-specific Pelted portrait" of Rexina Regina, the romance author in Dreamhearth. So here she is and she is full of STARS and SPARKLES. <3
It was fun, trying to do a Pelted picture that you can't pin down to any species. I should color her. :D
2017-07-16 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, yesterday was awesome! I can't even! We got lots of visitors throughout the day... I got to meet new people and chat with people I haven't seen in ages! <3 And it went on... pretty much all day (and past when I went to bed), from about 9 AM EST until 1 in the morning! Our Q&A sessions never developed into full Q&A sessions though I did field a couple of questions when they cropped up. Most of the day we spent chatting about random things. I took everyone to breakfast with me (inc...
2017-07-15 13:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
