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Saturday, with Chalk

I'm aware we missed a lunch bag on Thursday, when JaguarChild stayed home with a stomachache. To make up your RDA of cute animal drawings for the week, thus, I am appending these chalk animals. We decided to go draw outside, and of course, I spend much, much longer on mine than she did on hers...

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Caturday Photo: Nose

*boop*

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April Progress Report: Traveling Far (Little by Little)

April was busy! Mostly Day Hobby busy, but for those of you who missed the announcement, my last day there is in June! I am looking forward to freeing up those mental cycles. In the mean-time, though… let’s talk about what I was up to in April, and therefore, what you can look forward to soon!

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The Species of the Peltedverse

I get sooooo many requests for pronunciation that I'm going to do a bunch of these and link them on my website. In the meantime, here's my take at the first!

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Weekends Are For Cat Pictures

Looking regal in his nest of cyan fluff. Cat, connoisseur of napping places.

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Call for First Readers: Dreamhealers Short!

Some news first: 

The Full-Time Jaguar

For those who missed the announcement when I mentioned it originally during All Fan Chat Day… I have given notice at Day Hobby. My last day is June 15th. While I am by no means a Kindle millionaire, I am now at the point where I believe the hours I spend in someone else’s office (or, appallingly, in traffic, to the tune of almost an hour a day each day I drive in) can be more profitably employ...

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My daughter has been using her iPad like this for half an hour. O_o

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Lunchbag Art: Final Bagception

Since we started the week with lunch bags on a lunch bag, we must naturally end it with lunch bags of unicorns with lunch bags of jaguars with lunchbags of unicorns with lunchbags of lunchbags.... on a lunch bag.

Got all of that?

Good.

:D

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Kickstarter Go!

Let's do the thing! *dances*

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcahogarth/dreamhearth-a-cozy-slice-of-life-science-fiction-n

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March Progress Report: ALL THE THINGS

It is already April! Goodness gracious. Let’s see what I was up to in March!

Writing Progress

As you can see and I predicted, I spent all of March pushing on Dreamstorm so I could have it ready for you this month. (It’s out, if you missed the launch post! Go get it!). ...

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Book Launch: Dreamstorm (Dreamhealers 4)

Our final return to Jahir and Vasiht'h's early life debuts today, with the final book in the Dreamhealers saga: Dreamstorm!

Jahir and Vasiht’h have spent five years together in practice on Starbase Veta, and their life is everything they’d hoped: their practice is fantastic, their social standing great, and their domestic life a blissful routine. So when Vasiht’h disco...

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Almost There...

Next week!

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Next Print Edition!

Y'all get to vote! :D

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All Fan Chat Day!

Here is your link:

https://discord.gg/jCjqjy

This link grants a temporary membership and expires in one day, which means:

  • In 24 hours it stops working, and you once again have to be a $5+ Patreon patron to hang out on the server. This part is working as intended!
  • If you logout at any point today, you'll ...

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First Reader Call: Dreamstorm

I'll be looking for first readers for this next week! The usual criteria apply:

  • Must be familiar with the canon, particularly Dreamhealers.
  • Must be free to read within relatively quick timeframe.
  • Looking for typos, wordos, and continuity errors (within book and within the series; bonus if you can do it within the entire Eldritch novel canon).
  • Also taking a few Ad...

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A Very Important Poll

And no, that's not sarcasm!

I do not love Patreon as a content provision system. From things you all have mentioned, you don't love it either, particularly the poor commenting system, and the fact that the app's gotten harder to use.

However! the Patreon Wordpress plugin works, which means I can now post to Wordpress instead. You login with your Patreon credentials to see the content. If I...

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News! And Bonus LolArt

Because someone on the holt asked about making Ciracaana taller, and so naturally I had to draw one in platform shoes.

Also, since I was asked if those are fish in there... yes, they are. I got the notion from the movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, but apparently they were a real thing:  ...

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Spots Available in this Month's SF Storybundle!

Some of you are new, and maybe haven't read Spots... if so, it's in a fantastic Storybundle today, with a bunch of other splendid SF books!

https://storybundle.com/scifi

If you haven't tried a storybundle yet, it's great! You pay what you want for a bundle of four books, and if you pay over $15, you get an additional six...

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February Progress and News

It’s time once again for the monthly report! In which I divulge to you, readers, what I’m doing, so you know I’m working hard on your behalf. Well, on mine too, because I love what I do. <3

Writing Progress

Dreamstorm is my area of focus until it’s done. I hope to polish it off at the end of March, so that’s been where most of my work’s going… but...

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Marketer's Dreams of Creative Empire

Speaking of news! To help offset the costs of the print layout for the new business book, I am starting to put up the originals for various Three Jaguars comics and illustrations on Etsy. You can find those here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioMCAH?section_id=19173801

If there's a particular illustr...

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C-C-Changes

So here is a thing I did not anticipate saying.

That whole Patreon debacle, where Patreon implied with its actions that $1 contributors were not its focus and shouldn't be the focus of its Creators was... actually based on a real problem. Which is that... $1 pledges do cost a lot. This is not something I really thought about until someone asked me what my transaction fees were like and I realize...

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Three Jaguars (Modern)

I was thinking over the weekend that the Three Jaguars--all supposedly me--no longer have my hair? Marketer would love my hair, it is totally Marketer chic. Artist would have to keep the long flowing locks, because Artist. But maybe more obviously idealized?

And then we got to Business Manager.

Marketer: OH MY STARS

Marketer: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU

Business Manager: I shaved it o...

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This is a Thing

...that is a good thing.

I also really liked the blurb Bookbub wrote for me:

A++ Bookbub, that is good blurb right there

And the chat day went awesome. I sleep now, but I had a great time talking with all of you and sharing sales figures and answering questions and discussing food and fandom...

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All The Cool Stuff

I am sooper busy, but! Some cool stuff/reminders:

  • Our All Fan Chat Day is this Friday! That's in two days! Stop by the Discord server if you're inclined! (I'll have an invite up in the morning, don't worry!)
  • Friday is also the Mindtouch Bookbub promotion! We'll be watching the sales numbers together. Also (obviously!) that means Mindtouch will be ...

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Dreamhearth Cameo Raffle!

It was my plan to sell a few cameos in Dreamstorm (same as I did in Dreamhearth!) because making you all part of the canon is excessively fun. I priced out the first one and was about to put it up for sale when someone decided to sponsor it!

So! This time, the cameo is free! We'll be raffling off the appearance, which is for a teen girl, a school friend of the hospital girls'. If that's up your ...

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Kickstarter Go!

I did a soft launch yesterday to see if I could keep from blowing through my goal too quickly and... that didn't work. Lol. Anyway, here's the link! Go pick up a copy if you want one. Remember, I'm going to be redoing the cover on these, so this is your window to pick up one with the author's art on it. :)

Even if you don't plan on buying, check out the video. It's a timelapse of me sketchin...

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Teenage Karaka'An Debate Team Girl

From a Discord server chat about who everyone would be as a Pelted teen. This was someone's off-the-cuff guess about themselves and I couldn't resist. >.>


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Book Sales, January 2018

I put a lot of commentary into the image itself this time. All totals are for e-books across all retailers, except the middle column on the right, which conflates the audio and print edition sales. Examine at your leisure!

Some notes:

  • Last month's Bookbub for the Her Instruments box set was late enough in the month that most of the sales bled over into Januar...

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Tragic Doodle

Messing around a little with tablet ergonomics today, and didn't want to be doing anything important, so I just doodled this TRAGIC EYED GIRL. With horns. As one does? Maybe? *shrugs?*

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