Hi folks, I’ll be tabling at Emerald City this weekend. Myself, Kory Bing, and Meredith McClaren will all be at table 20201. We will have a wide variety of monster and fantasy books! And I’ll have some new totebags.
I mentioned I will have new totebags at Emerald City. After the show I’ll have them up in my store. I just need White Squirrel who handles my store fulfillment to take pictures of them. So it might be in April that they go up. Here’s the design. Like my other totebag, I worked with the great folks at Unicorn Empire. It’s a quote from Rebecca in Fame & Misfortune. So I asked Unicorn Empire to looks at art deco patterns, so it would match The City Between’s general look.
For the monthly full moon movie chat, I’ve rented the new Wolf Man movie. I don’t have high expectation for the movie, but maybe it will be fun to watch as a group. It will be March 14th at 3pm PST. Click here if you wanna join!
And I’ll still be streaming on Twitch:
- Tuesday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Art times
- Wednesday at 4pm – 6pm PST – Art times
- Thursday at 3pm – 4pm PST – Wolf & Bones Comic Club
- Thursday at 4pm – 6pm PST – Art times
- Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Baldur’s Gate 3
All these streams will be on my twitch, so stop by!
Last month, as mentioned on my friend Bones Leopard and I started a twitch show/podcast where we read Berserk. We’ve done two episodes live. I’ve been posting them on my youtube. So you can catch up here. I’ll make a public/free post on my patreon the morning before we go live. So you’ll know when we are coming!
Also, to promote Bones and I’s new show and Glass Diamonds I was a guest on War Rocket Ajax.
Also, I answered all the questions in this silly meme on Blusky.
Last month was about prepping for Emerald City and recovering from the crunch time I had at Seven Seas. So once Emerald City is out of the way I’m gonna give Glass Diamonds most of attention. I just have the final scene to write. I might end up writing it in the Emerald City hotel room.
While working, I was catching up on various TV shows. One of which is the 5th season of Fargo. One thing I really appreciate about Fargo is it always has one element that is vaguely supernatural in each season. And that supernatural element always reenforces one of the major themes of the season. Like in this season, the characters are constantly talking about debt and what people owe one another. So when one of the criminals is 500 year old sin-eater who talks in cryptic lines, they are about how he returns what he is given (whether kindness to an old woman he stays with or violence directed at him by a corrupt deputy) and how he is burdened by the sins of the rich he was forced to take on. And it adds a good texture the story, especially when the main character pushes back against his older views on debt and payment. I think without that spice of the supernatural, the story might be easy to dismiss as something more straight forward.
When I think of a lot of my favorite stories, they are ones that use the magical or sci-fi elements to reinforce their metaphor rather than there for the plot or world building.
That’s it for this month. Everyone, take care of yourselves.