Back in April I had a jiujitsu competition, and as promised in my subsequent CSA post, here is the write up! If you’re new to my BJJ saga, buckle up: this post is an Origin Story as much as it is a recap. If you’re new to my art-and-writing saga, you can read that Origin …
Greetings and Happy New Year’s Day! Today marks a turning point in my work as my online studio, Heliopause Productions, has officially moved into its new digs on the internet. From now on your go-to place for all my finished work (from books, prints, audio, and more) will be… <insert drumroll> heliopause.pro Go forth and …
Hello everyone! This is the cover for December’s short story, which CSA members will have received a link to earlier this week. It’s about a girl who becomes a hero by saving her world’s version of a dugong.
It is also the last monthly short story for… a while.
W H Y ?
Because starting in January 2023 I’ll be bringing CSA members monthly audiobooks. Well, or parts of one. Here’s the juice:
I’ve wanted to make audiobooks of my stories for a long time. I love doing voices and narrating my fiction. Problem? Time. (Of course time.) Solution? Become answerable to my CSA members! So starting January instead of a monthly eBook, you’ll get a monthly Raw Audio Special. These will be one chapter (or one short story) of a book, delivered by a link just like the eBooks. They will not be edited beyond the pure basics, because the point here is to get me recording and sharing, not spending hours trimming off my sssses. I can do that after I have the raw audio for a whole book ready to release to the public. Which, when the finished audiobook is ready, all current CSA members will get a copy—just like new releases of eBooks.
Not an audio person? Not a problem! Once I get a chunk of audio recorded I’ll go back to sending out monthly eBooks. So either way you get a bit of story every month. But I’m excited to start recording again, and if you want to hear some of what’s to come, go check out the audio specials on Heliopause that I did for Driving Arcana Wheel 3.
For my first audio special project I’ll be recording Professor Odd: the Complete Season One, one episode per month, over the first half of 2023. I’m excited, and I hope you’re excited, too!
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First, the bare business bones: I will not be attending/vending at AnthroCon this year, despite having a membership rolled over from 2020. It was a hard and gut-wrenching decision, I will miss my friends there deeply, and I sincerely hope the con does well, and everyone has a great time and doesn’t get sick. Second, …
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Last month I bid farewell to my dear and beloved assistant, companion, and all-around heart-healer, Aether the cat. Aether was first discovered, along with his sister Nyx and brother Chaos, as kittens in the shed behind my parents’ house. My brother and I tamed them and adopted them. They were great cats. Aether and Chaos …
I am running a Kickstarter for the third volume of Driving Arcana, and so far it’s going very well. The project funded in under three days, but the campaign runs until April 27 and I have some really exciting stretch goals to reach for, so I’m hopeful people will keep backing and spreading the word. …
When the statewide shutdown of Washington was announced, finally terminating plans for Emerald City Comic Con, I was disappointed. Of course, I was disappointed. I was all packed. I had contingencies in place for either a last-minute acceptance into the Artist Alley or a weekend spent selling Purrmaids for my friend Kiki. I had a …
As I write this, Bend Oregon is heading into its fifth consecutive day with a median AQI of over 400. That’s on beyond Unhealthy, Very Unhealthy, and solidly into the Hazardous zone. It looks hazardous, too. Particulate matter is so thick the trees across the street are cloaked in haze and Pilot Butte, normally visible …