While I book a few months out for custom cover work, there are a hundred premade covers in the shop! Affordable, free of AI, available as soon as you have a title. Single books as well as duologies and trilogies (and you can always book sequels). Various genres, and new covers added periodically!

Share a gif from a western you love.

I wasn't planning it, but I think the character named Heldrain is going to need a hyphen. Because Held-rain is the only even *I* am going to parse it correctly!

I need to do a better job of remembering my meetings and video calls. At least past Glynn set the reminder for this one at 30 minutes instead of 10!

This. So very much this.

These books were SO VERY GOOD.

This is easily the sexiest thing on Bluesky today.

Just one day left of the Changeling Chronicles Kickstarter campaign! If you like epic urban fantasy packed with magical monsters, pulse-pounding fight sequences, and a sharp-tongued heroine, I hope you'll check it out before it's over!

As of tomorrow, OMENS OF CHAOS will have been out for two weeks. And we have already done SO MUCH. #9 on the New York Times Bestseller list. A full-ass BIBLIOPLEX and dozens of girls and women coming to learn Magic in a shared, welcoming, inclusive space. A dedicated team of passionate supporters.

Heads up: Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1), by @annleckie.com, is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

I did not realize the Batman reference until I said Thulia Ghuld's name aloud to pick up my preorder.

Pheasants in the yard! I hadn't seen them in a while and was worrying a bit. And now there is seed to encourage them back. Cat TV is required, after all.

I have THOUGHTS on this but I also am trying to clean the kitchen and perfect a blueberry cake for Patreon, so just in the meantime, buy Michelle's "HOW DARE YOU PULL THE RUG OUT" series because god forbid readers understand the genre they're reading without dragging their teehee sexism into it. 🚬

The joys of modern computers. I had something open on my desktop that was important but very short term, so I didn't save it and left my computer to go to sleep. And windows decided it was going to restart and apply updates overnight. Thankfully, excel autorecovered the grocery list :P

Reposting to see if anyone in the morning crowd has some info I missed XD

OMG ADORABLE SPIKE BALLS

Weird, very niche, question. Does anyone know if there's an Astrosynthesis file floating around for the Solar System? I could have sworn one of my template files had known planets as well as stars, but it doesn't look like it.

We were getting ready for bed last night when Freya snuck into the bathroom. Not sure what she wanted in the tub (not water, we checked) but she was very polite about it, as always.

What's your favorite Bible verse (wrong answers only) Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. -Tennyson

Hey folks! An Alberta animal rescue has opted to decline a donation due to the origins (there's an entire history with that business). People are already harassing the organization on Facebook for not caring about the animals, etc. If you can, please donate: tailstotell.ca/donate/

The problem with having both good and bad guys who use variations around "blood red" and "crimson" for colors, both in decoration and their magic, is that I am learning all KINDS of new words for types of red. Incarnadine works surprisingly well XD

Le Serment du Chasseur, livre deux de Le Sang du Changeling, est maintenant disponible! Bonne journée du livre à moi! books2read.com/changelin2

"What radicalized you?" The Salvation Army. Twice. The first time when they taught me that everyone deserved love, respect and help. The second time when they, as an organization, blatantly and publicly failed to meet the values I learned from them.

Ah, I see Calgary continues to want to remind me of why I wrote a nasty spring snowstorm into Changeling's Fealty.

I want a hot chocolate. I am going to have a neocitron so I hopefully don't wake up coughing in the middle of the night. Sigh. Who made up this adult and self care thing? I don't like it 😹

I'm not sure quite what it is, but I've been feeling super-bruised by the general review/survey/internet culture commentary on my books the last week or so. Not much of it is directed at me specifically (really just the exit survey today) but it all grinds just a little bit. Need a thicker skin.

Sigh. It's useful to have an exit survey on Patreon, yes. Most of the answers are super-valid. And then you have folk who decide the books are no longer for them (which is fair!) and that they need to throw cheap shots on the way out...

Freya seems to approve of my managing to get to the living room and fall down on the couch.

3am neocitron can be very necessary but it has unfortunate side effects. I am not awake yet

So hey I just had to pay a bunch of self-employed indie author taxes and uhhhh if you're looking to buy some widely-enjoyed books about super gay magical girls having adventures in Portland, and suggest to your friends to do the same, it would help me out a bunch 😅😅😅😅😅 magicariot.com/buy

Ooh, now I'm getting AI-summarized spam from "a small network dedicated to putting stories in front of video producers." They're upping their game.

Angry Star Wars fandom was all "Where did Snoke come from? What's his story?" and the whole time I was like "the Avengers movie already answered this. Why waste time on it?"

While I like the first Avengers movie a lot, and for many reasons, this I tell you true: I will watch it solely for "There are _always_ men like you."

read my new book magicariot.com/fullbloom

I mean, aren't the astronauts tracked pretty closely in both cases? I'm sure it's at least theoretically possible to work out who were the two humans who were furthest apart. I'm pretty sure fanfic writers want to know...

Not shabby at all.

Ooh, Viktover huh? Congratulations Hungary.

I was really hoping we were into brown-spring instead of white-spring, but I was wrong and drove to my FLGS in snow. Oh well. I nearly missed my turn, but I can't see any way to blame that on the snow!

Sigh. I know that, as a guy writing a female lead, I have to step carefully on certain topics But am I wrong in that for a woman with a large chest who ends up in a situation where hand to hand fighting is expected, having a sports bra would probably be high on her agenda after immediate survival?

I was supposed to run D&D today but while I feel about 90% I am still coughing a whole bunch. Which made sleep hard and I do not want to share, so no D&D for me :/

Got home, opened Blue sky. Wall of parachute and lander photographs. Well done everyone.

Thousand Sons mirror match this eve. 750 point game, so always going to be swingy. 70ish percent of our armies were the same, too. I had robots, he had bird mutants. Basically came down to who lost their expensive brick of terminators first. Good game for my first time out with the Thousand Sons

You don't hate new music, it just doesn't hit you like it did when you were 17 because you're not 17

Warhammer 40K and a bunch of other tabletop wargames are too wedded to the D6 as the resolution mechanic. Moving to a D10 or even D12 based system would allow for significantly greater granularity while leaving the core engines unchanged.

Sigh. After two days of emailing with support, sometimes it becomes very clear it's time to find a new vendor Especially when I'm 90% sure I can get the new system up and running before they can get me into my old account...

Absolutely this.

Welp, tried to get a glucose test done on my cat. She is a sweetheart, which means that no blood was drawn... But drawing *some* blood was the point. Squirm, scream, cover me in fear fur. I now feel super guilty and don't even have the data

Okay, with that slew of panic, vellum work, and uploads, I have exactly one (1) task left for the French translations of the Changeling trilogy. The paperback for L'Honneur du Noble. And since that isn't out until June, I have some breathing room there. Need to uh, write a different book first.

Yeah... This guy is almost certainly not getting painted to the level of detail he's modelled with. But he's very cool (Winged Daemon Prince of Tzeentch)