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!
2022-07-28 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 recommend giving it a listen (and if you'd like to see more of our silliness, let me know and I'll make sure she stops by more livestreams!). Or leave her a like/comment on the v...
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 brothers and sisters. Not a generation has passed without longing for the fulfillment of that Promise.
Zafiil Paidiiza Qodii has dreamed of finding the... 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 don't want to check it for problems, particularly if you don't have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. (And if you want to prep a review for it, I wouldn't be displeased!)<...
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’s fine to leave that to the people who do. I don’t even do most of the categorization functions; Madamebadger understands it so much better than I do that I let her ha...
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). https://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php/Medicine
I also wanted an August release, so I'm trying ...
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 of surgery are used in the Alliance, the most advanced surgical platform available is the medimage, which uses a variety of technologies (including the breakthrough that...
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 Mindline).
I'm planning on refreshing all the book covers, and for the most part making them look more modern/similar to existing ones. The Dreamhealers covers are the o...
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 'In the Court of Dragons,' which it would be similar to), and I'll probably run a Kickstarter for it within the next 6-9 months.
I've pulled out all the story reques...
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://books2read.com/zafiil1
Volume 2: https://books2read.com/zafiil2 <...
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—three, if you count Kef, and I suppose I must though we aren’t well-acquainted. Tsevet, the first, was a wiry ascetic with hollows under his ribs, vibrating with pas...
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: https://studiomcah.locals.com/post/2154749/sneak-peek-children-of-the-fallowtide
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: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH8klg1Z-Z2rHIZJvfGXV_7TuvWOPErhT...
2022-05-17 16:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostI 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. Here's the TOC so far (did I miss one?):
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.
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 Scions' Flight in it.
And yesterday I uploaded schematics for the Earthrise, developed after poring over the books for details about the layout. I did three sketch...
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 the bell tower, oh, it must be right over the center of the transcept' quick sketch.
I don't know if it's quite right, and of course, there are all the underground le...
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 themselves.
Because I write multiple series in multiple settings, my organization system is based on a hierarchy, and it starts at the very top with whether a setting is M...
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, and maybe smooth out some of the issues with characterization that trip up new readers. Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother editing a book this old, but Earthrise is...
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 things.)
If I find any of the results sufficiently interesting, I'll repost them here, for those of you who don't visit the wiki. :)
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 theaters (but you couldn’t do that on-demand—you had to see what was playing at that moment, or if you were lucky, you could record it on a tape and play it back later). ...
2022-04-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
