web novels and illustrations
Happy Tuesday everybody!
Here’s what’s coming up in the next few weeks!
The as-yet untitled World’s Fair book will begin posting, as well as belated illustrations for The Tembelaka Voyage, an updated World map, and some other extras, like additions to the Glossary.
For this week, here’s a portrait of Kara, drawn by the amazing Asher Dumonchelle. I cannot recommend enough how worth commissioning this artist is.
Being a glossary of places, languages, and terms used in the World of Shandor stories, arranged alphabetically. Spoilers beyond the cut!
Continue reading “Glossary”
So there’s the end to The Cambriol Riddle, which was supposed to be a short story between two books. Hmm.
Jessica will be posting part 1 of something much more short-story-like tonight. She’ll start us off back in Shandor with Tam. If you’ve been reading along since the Tembelaka Voyage, you’ll remember that something’s up with him.
So without further interruption, here’s the new story.
Kara woke, choking and coughing. She hated all this nearly drowning, and how hard it was to move with her clothes wet and heavy. Continue reading “Chapter Eight, Bodyguards”
Kara was dimly aware of being carried over a shoulder. Past the crook of a swinging arm she could see Seilu being dragged along by the same man who’d hit him with the blackjack. She felt so angry at herself for letting the fellow with the club get the jump on her while she was kicking his comrade that she half forgot to be worried about Seilu. She couldn’t tell from here if he was alive or not, but the bodysnatchers didn’t seem worried about him waking up, and that was a bad sign. Continue reading “Chapter Seven, Bodysnatchers, continued”
The new chapter will be up later today!
Anyone going to Youmacon in Detroit this weekend, come say hi to Ruth at The Five Wits booth at the Cobo Center!
Hello all! We interrupt your regularly scheduled chapters to invite you to come by and see Ruth at New York Comic Con in booth 3074, with The Five Wits and Cactus Mafia.
No chapter this week and probably next on account of a 3 day drive and a 4 day con followed by a 3 day drive. Also adventure. There will be lots of adventure.
Kara was deeply annoyed. She was flattened to the ground, hiding from grave robbers who were hiding from noises, and the long grass made her nose itch. The grass was wet, like everything else here in Cambriol, and she did not want to be arrested as part of this miserable group of grave robbers. Continue reading “Chapter Five–New Friends, Old Enemies, continued”
Djaren stopped and ducked behind a rain barrel, quieting his breathing and thinking fast. He might be able to convince them that he was local, but he had only one name to reference, and no strength or martial skill to back that with. He didn’t know what he’d say in class to excuse the bruises. He checked his pockets and found only a few coins. Would they be insulted he had so little money? Djaren hadn’t been mugged before, and he wasn’t sure how it was done. Continue reading “Chapter Five–New Friends, Old Enemies”
