On my way back, I met many people and passed through many places I had seen while heading in the other direction. I realized that their stories hadn’t ended when I left, any more than mine had, and I wondered what had changed in the home I left behind. 2022-12-07 14:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The man tore off one of the beast’s arms, and chased it into the darkness. While I was certainly grateful for his intervention, I did feel that perhaps the monster was somewhat misunderstood, since as far as I could tell, it was only protesting the rather raucous natur... 2022-12-05 14:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course, once I decided to go home, I still had one final journey to take. Let me tell you about the adventures I had after a mountebank slipped a sleeping potion into the evening wine at the castle of Baroness Elisabetta von Hasenpfeffer.
-Lady Cha... 2022-12-02 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Next week I have a project that will take all of my focus. I'm trying to get ahead by a few chapters, so hopefully you won't even notice. After that, my goal is to get at least four chapters of GT out each week. I expect it to be less than fifty chapters (which is about how long each of the LF bo...
2022-12-01 16:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostI once spent a month lost in the jungles of Pallapalla. The indigenous peoples were lovely, if you ignored their propensity for eating each other, and while I could not convince them to change their culinary habits, I did at least lead a cultural revolution in hair bows. By the time ... 2022-11-30 18:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post
While traveling, my choices were generally spur of the moment, or driven by little more than boredom and idle curiosity. It took me years to realize that in spite of all my adventures, I was still running away from home.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey<... 2022-11-28 17:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a couple of images of Maria and Tia on Artbreeder (with a little help from Photoshop, especially Tia). As always, take with a grain of salt, but they're close to what I imagine they look like.
The lord of this place was known as the Vashmatallafinisthia, and while his title was terrible to pronounce, his given name was even worse. I shall not mangle it here, but suffice to say that after a pleasant meal of crumpets and jellied eel, he kindly permitted me to ca... 2022-11-23 17:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The longest journey I ever took was the two hours I spent locked in a carriage with my father on the way to my wedding.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey
Tia hugged Maria a little too tightly as she watched the carnival wend...
2022-11-21 19:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostHome is defined differently in every culture. Some believe it’s wherever your family is, while for others, it’s a building, or a country. The giants of Malla Palla, however, believe that they are the dreams of a sleeping god, and that when they themselves sleep, they return home ... 2022-11-18 19:50:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Any morning you wake up is a good morning, but I still prefer a nice lie-in with a cup of tea and someone to rub my feet.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey
Sunshine streaming in through the opened canvas flap wo...
2022-11-15 21:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs I'm sure you all remember, toward the end of LF, FantumHat aka Philip Clayton Harris III is holding a gun on Bree. At this point, he calls her a bitch. Now, I've waffled quite a bit about this. The books are rated age 12+, and I know 'bitch' is a word that kids - at least here in the ...
2022-11-15 00:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen faced with an impossibility and an improbability, the impossible is almost always more entertaining.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey
Maria lay curled up on something soft and warm. As she blinked her eyes open, she re...
2022-11-10 18:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostOn the other hand, it is when things seem the darkest, that we discover what we are truly made of. Hopefully, only in a metaphorical sense.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey
Maria held her breath for as long as she could. Th...
2022-11-07 17:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostI don't have any chapters of GT written ahead, so I won't be able to maintain a daily chapter schedule. I will do my best to get three chapters written a week, but it will probably only be two sometimes. Still, I'm writing as much as I can, and I hope you're enjoying Grimalkin!<...
2022-11-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe ebook for Harvest is up on Amazon for preorder, and will go live on November 15th. Which is a Tuesday, because apparently major publishers release new titles on Tuesday, so People In The Know look for new books on... wait for it... Tuesdays!
Actually, I just figured the 15th would be go...
2022-11-02 00:00:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe greatest danger comes when we feel ourselves the safest.
-Lady Chatterwick’s Journey
The canvas top of the wagon was pleasantly warm, and once the two cats assured themselves that they were in no danger ...
2022-11-01 19:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, I have found myself in unexpectedly dire straits more than once during my journeys. While the actual experience of being chased by giant, carnivorous beetles was terrifying, the memory is quite invigorating. So my advice to any young adventurer is this: do whatever you must ...
2022-10-31 20:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostToday's chapter is a kind of a choose your own adventure (except everyone has to read what I pick). I've been pondering it for a while, and there are really three options for what to do next.
1. Have the boys find the girls, and resume a fairly sedentary journey, making the adventure parts ...
2022-10-31 14:51:47 +0000 UTC View PostHarvest went to my formatter a few minutes ago. I expect to publish it sometime around mid-November, so people can actually have a little while to anticipate it, but I'm done with editing! Woohoo!
My daughter has tomorrow and Friday off school, so I'm going to focus on her for a few days, b...
2022-10-26 16:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostJust finished chapter 33 (out of what should be 41, or 40 + epilogue). Aspen has returned from the dead, and they're chasing Akuji. Part of the edits for that battle will include explaining more about how Akuji is much less (intelligent, strong, etc) than he was before Chester left, which is why ...
2022-10-24 19:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostBoth the ebook and the paperback are uploaded and being processed on Amazon. The ebook page looks a little wonky at the moment, so hopefully I just haven't looked at one at this stage before, and it'll be fixed when the book is live. I'm hoping the paperback will be done today as well, though it'...
2022-10-17 05:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
When my formatter starts working on a book, the first thing we work on is the chapter header. Khor's arc is in this book, so he gets to be the star. I'm thinking about putting Rouge's Mambele in the last...
2022-10-16 15:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostI want to get Harvest to the formatter by the end of October, so I can focus on other things in November and December. One of those things is working on Grimalkin. My goal is two chapters a week starting in November. By January, I should have enough to start posting to Royal Road, if I d...
2022-10-13 14:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostI just finished editing Cultivation, which brings Rouge and Aspen home to the farm. I still need to work Khor's arc into appropriate places, but I should have this book to the formatter sometime today. Woohoo!
That means four books will be done, and only one more to go, which in tu...
2022-10-06 16:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostNot that I wasn't working, since I went to the ABC Day festival in Washington. Lots of people, but also lots of booths, so mine got a little lost in the noise. I did all right though, and it was fun!
My goal for this week is to get Cultivation edited and off to the formatter. C...
2022-10-03 15:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post(Ha ha....)
I had a great time at Recruits Con, as did my daughter, who helped me hand out free bookmarks. I'm still working on Cultivation, and I'll be at All Bethel Community Day in Bethel, WA on Sunday, October 1!
2022-09-26 17:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A friend suggested pulling some LF quotes and making memes so I'd have something to post on a regular basis. I always feel strange acting like anything I wrote is "wise" or particularly funny, but the Head Librarian is pretty smart.
2022-09-23 18:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working hard on Cultivation, and hope to get it to the formatter by early October (I'm aiming for the 4th, but don't quote me on that). I do have a book signing this weekend at Recruits Con in Lee's Summit, MO. Next weekend I'll be in Bethel, WA, at All Bethel Community Day.
Ho...
2022-09-23 15:04:15 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF2Z613Y
Aspen, Rouge, and friends have finally arrived in Bright. Aspen hopes to wrap up a few loose ends and head home as quickly as possible. Rouge s...
2022-09-12 22:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post