(Note: this is the first part of a multi-part Stone and Azure story I'll continue in the next couple of Patreon posts, depending on how long it turns out.)
Most of the time, Stone didn't remember there had been a time without Azure.
She had come to Indigo Cloud as a fledgl...
2016-06-28 14:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostJust a note, I'll be at Comicpalooza in Houston this week, so the next Raksura story (#16) will be posted on June 28.
Celadon asked, "Did you ever remember anything else?"
Moon shrugged his spines. He said, "No, nothing," and hoped she dropped the subject.
They were sitting out on one of Indigo Cloud's larger gar...
2016-06-07 15:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostFrost didn't understand why the teachers were all so agitated. Queens had visited the Indigo Cloud nurseries before. Jade and Pearl, of course, but once Zephyr from Sunset Water. It was nothing new. And Frost was a queen, and so were Solace, Sapphire, and Fern, though they were still too small to do...
2016-05-24 15:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostJust a note, everybody, that the next Raksura story will be posted on May 24th. That will give me a bit more time to work on it. The next novel, The Harbors of the Sun, is due on June 1, so the last half of this month is going to be a bit busy for me.
In the meantime, there was a ...
2016-05-15 17:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostJade said, "So, that... Didn't go like I thought it would."
Balm had to agree. They had assumed Malachite was just a queen trying to get an advantage over another court. They had been so wrong, so stupidly blind. Balm blamed herself, she had given Jade bad advice. She said, glumly,...
2016-05-04 02:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Moon always took the Sky Copper clutch out himself. Not that he didn't trust the Arbora and warriors, but he hadn't been much older than Thorn when he had first learned to hunt and he thought that insight might make it easier to teach the clutch.
Also, ...
2016-04-19 17:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been flying all night, taking advantage of a strong south wind, and Moon was relieved when Stone circled down to the valley. It wasn't an ideal place to stop and rest, but at least it was there.
The terrain was mostly barren sandy ground with sparse grass, punctuated by low rises and ...
2016-04-05 03:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post(Since this is the release week for The Edge of Worlds, I'm cross-posting this. I'll be posting new eleventh story snippet here tomorrow, April 5.)
(Raksura week: It's like Shark Week, but not as commercially successful.)
This is the official release week for The Edge of...
2016-04-04 16:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostJade took one last look at Moon. He lay sprawled face-down on a low couch in the center of the open court, his hair still wet with saltwater. The white clay walls reflected the sun and made the court baking hot, perfect for half-drowned Raksura. Jade hissed to herself and stepped back into the adjoi...
2016-03-22 02:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostBark and the other Arbora arranged the bower and the tea set as if Ember's life depended on it, and it took Ember several tries to shoo them out. "She's my birthqueen," he reminded Bark. "It's too late for me to impress her."
Bark plumped another cushion and adjuste...
2016-03-07 15:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor people who don't follow my blog, I wanted to post this here too:
I'll be doing a signing for The Edge of Worlds at Murder by the Book in Houston, TX, on Saturday April 9 at 4:30, where I'll be co-signing with J. Kathleen Cheney. If you want to be there but can't attend, y...
2016-02-26 22:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Jade climbed down the wall toward the garden of the teachers' court. She stopped above the doorway, clinging to the stones of the vine-covered lintel. She could hear the Arbora inside talking in confusion, excitement, dismay.
Jade knew how they felt.&nb...
2016-02-16 14:32:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Rill, are you down there?" Bramble called. She stood in one of the large curving wells in the bottom of the tree, below the work areas and store rooms. The walls here had no carving, the wood left rough, and the floors hadn't been smoothed. But the combination of artistry and utility was obvious in...
2016-02-02 02:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostMoon was warm and buried under the blankets, Jade curled around him, when
someone said quietly, "Jade?"
Jade sat up and leaned over the side of the hanging bed. Still half asleep, Moon shoved himself up to see it was Blossom, standing below the bed.
She looked upset, a...
2016-01-19 02:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostBalm looked up as Jade dropped into her bower from the ledge above. Her expression and the angle of her spines made what had happened plain, but Balm said, "I guess Pearl wouldn't change her mind?"
"No." Jade's spines twitched as she paced. There wasn't much room for it even though Balm's bowe...
2016-01-05 00:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostFlying over the plain was hypnotic, the wind sending waves and ripples through the tall grass like a deep green dryland sea. The day was so dreamlike, seeing the sky start to darken toward sunset was almost a surprise.
They had been sleeping atop the occasional stone pillars that st...
2015-12-21 15:23:20 +0000 UTC View PostI want to thank everybody again for supporting this Patreon. I'm scheduled to get the roof leak fixed tomorrow, and this really helped make that possible.
The next snippet post should be on December 22, and please feel free to keep making suggestions. It's really helping spark idea...
2015-12-10 17:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostMoon had one of those questions. It was something that seemed obvious to him, but knowing how tricky Raksuran customs, particularly Aeriat customs, could be,
he decided to ask Chime about it. "When I give Jade something, is there anything I should know?"
They...
2015-12-07 20:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for the wonderful comments! I'm glad you guys liked it. Though I do want to come up with some snippets that are more up beat.
For December I should be posting snippets on the 8th and 22nd.
Note: This is set between The Serpent Sea and The Siren Depths
"We knew there was a block somewhere around here," Snap said as he led Moon and Chime down the spiraling ramp.
Moon was willing to look at whatever it was, but Chime appeared to be suspicious of S...
2015-11-17 03:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostThank you all for the comments! This is fun. :)
I'm thinking at this point that the second snippet should be ready to post on November 17th.
Cloud woke slowly, conscious only of being curled on a fur pallet in a warm bower. After days of tense, rapid travel through the suspended forest, with only brief stops for exhausted sleep in the rain on marshy platforms, it was a luxury. Still drowsing, he rolled over and stretched. That was when h...
2015-11-03 12:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to update everyone and let you know I'm almost done with the first snippet, and I'll be posting it here on Tuesday, November 3. Thank you!
Thanks so much to everyone who signed up! The response to this has been awesome and I really appreciate it. Thanks to everyone for all the kind words in your comments.
We hit both goals, so I'll be doing two new snippets per month, starting in November. I'm going to keep it to two sn...
2015-10-27 14:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, here we go! I'm still figuring out how this works, but I'll start working on the first snippet post and we can go from there. At some point maybe we can figure out extras and rewards and things like that that people might be interested in. If you're a patron feel free to comment wi...
2015-10-26 15:30:54 +0000 UTC View Post