Category: Art
New dragon art for a smokin’ book birthday!
Happy book birthday to DEBUTS AND DRAGONS (2019), a fun underdog story about a drab dragon! Here’s some art I’m working on of one of the characters, Pinnacle Smokebelcher:
He’s not a major character or anything, but with that name I couldn’t resist doodling him! Read DEBUTS AND DRAGONS today and see a ton more weird dragon names!
Celebrate BULLDOGS ARE BEAUTIFUL DAY with fun digital wallpaper!
April 21st is Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day!
So I made some digital wallpapers to celebrate the breed! Inspired by my FASHION FRENCHIES book series, FETCHING FRENCHIES (hand-drawn by yours truly) combines the cuteness of Frenchie faces with a fashionable and fun pattern! Comes in 12 color variations for device and desktop, including “Puppy Vuitton”, “Funky Freeze Dark” and “Goldscaled”.
Get it today from my Gumroad store!
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Happy Birthday, Queen!
Today’s the Queen’s birthday (costar of my science fantasy STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM), so I thought I’d post some of my drawings of her to celebrate.
She’s been around a LOOOONG while so I have a lot of art of her. Here’s two newer sketches of her, a detailed charcoal portrait I did of her back in The Day, and an equally ancient 8-bit? 16-bit? pixel sprite (not animated).
Of course, this is just the way *I* imagine her…your mileage may vary, and that’s A-OK by me!
(Click images to embiggen.)
Cover Makeover: THE BUREAUCRAT
As one of the first short stories I published, The Bureaucrat got the best cover I could make at the time (2017). And while I still like the vibe the original acid green cover brings to this Twilight Zone-esque tale of just deserts, I thought it was time for an update that brought the human(??) element to the fore. And thanks to artist Christian Bunyan, I’ve now got a new cover that ups the creep factor by ten!
Here’s the before:
And the creeptastic AFTER!
The Bureaucrat: An Uncanny Satire is available now in ebook (digital retailers) and paperback (Amazon).
Click here to read an excerpt here at Pixelvania Publishing.
New Fantasy Adventure release: THE CAPRAMANCER NEXT DOOR
There goats the neighborhood!
Down-to-earth mage Will Schafer has her hands full moving into a new house while keeping her mischievous herd of magical goats in line. Meeting handsome gardener Rickert Nash takes the sting out of moving…until his shadowy past comes roaring back to bite him in the butt.
Now Will and the herd must step in to save their neighbor from getting mulched—but can a girl and her goats defeat a formidable hunter…or are they all about to buy the farm?
Called “a wonderful read!” by GoatsLive.com, The Capramancer Next Door is an upbeat fantasy adventure sure to leave you smiling.
Read an excerpt here at Pixelvania Publishing.
I got to thinking about how hard it is to keep goats out of places they wanted to be, and came up with this portal-generating herd.
Cover reveal: HELLO, WIZARD
This moody short story should be out soon…in the meantime, enjoy the ebook cover!
The perfect last-minute (digital) stocking stuffer – MIDWINTER MAGIC
Once upon a time, magic left the world for a night. It sighed back in through the scullery door in the morning with the cat, but by then, the Queen of the Northern Elves had fallen into a deep sleep, and, greatly diminished, the returned magic could not wake her.
From the author who brought you The Purrfect Christmas and A Gingersnap Cat Christmas comes an enchanting collection of three original yuletide fairy tales, written in the tradition of Jane Yolen and Ursula Vernon.
A little Christmas present from me to you. If you like reindeer, Santa Claus, elves, and mythic origin stories, you’re probably gonna dig this.
Buy from your favorite eBook retailer here (includes Amazon)
More info and excerpt here on MIDWINTER MAGIC’s Pixelvania Publishing page.
New horror novella for your Halloween reading pleasure
Apartment walls are thin.
Reality may be thinner.
Ray Belga lives in the ugliest apartment building in town—but at least it’s quiet. Until a mystery neighbor’s fridge starts acting up.
At least…Ray thinks it’s a fridge. But he’ll soon learn you can’t trust everything you hear through apartment walls…
I hope you enjoy this (slightly twisted?) story about a guy with noisy neighbors.
Buy from your favorite eBook retailer here (includes Amazon)
More info and excerpt here on THE GIRLFRIEND’s Pixelvania Publishing page.
Just released! Bite-sized medical horror short SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY
An unknown disease is killing a little girl. Her family’s only hope is a strange new medical procedure.
But the cure could be worse than the disease…