Queer Fantasy and Weird Tales for the People
I didn’t have time to scan/render this one, but here’s a pencil sketch of a temple built into the side of a cliff and a giant robot skeleton embedded there. As always, my Patreon is only $3 a month, and you get access to early chapters and bonus art. Plus, you get to support an independent creator and keep her cats happy.
I’m currently scripting the first issue of Chrysanthemum Dawn! It’ s happening! After that comes storyboarding/thumbnails, and then the actual drawing.
The Deep has claimed him.
Mark my words: it will soon be revealed that his death was closely tied to the sea and its foul inhabitants.
I’ve done a bit of cleanup over on Patreon, and now everything is organized into collections. Collections and individual posts can be accessed for a nominal fee ($3 or $6), or you can subscribe for $3/month. Subscribers will get early access to new episodes of The Well Below the Valley before they show up for free reading here, as well as new pages of the comic (pretty soon), and exclusive unpublished concept art and sketches. I’ll be working on some more rewards, also.
I mostly spend the money on acquiring inventory for markets, but with some upcoming collaborative projects (don’t tell anyone, but the audiobook of The Book of the New Moon Door is or will shortly be under way), it will also help me pay fellow creatives for their work.
You may notice that all the previously published episodes of The Well are gone. You also may not have noticed that, because I think one person ever opened them. This new version is better in almost all regards (pacing, editing, characterization). I still have copies of all the old annotated PDFs, and when the script is completely done, I’m looking forward to re-adding all the marginalia for the print version. In addition to the eventual audio production, I want the script book to be a bit of an art piece in itself.
Formatting is a NIGHTMARE on Patreon, but I have done it for both the first episode and this new episode to make them available for you because I love you. If you’re interested, or just want to take a look around, here’s the link again.
If you can’t spare the $3, fear not: this episode will be up here to read for free sometime next week.
You can see all of this image, unblurred, on Patreon. My Patreon is only $3 a month, and you can support an independent creator and her cats while getting some bonus art, new chapters/episodes a week before blog readers, and some other stuff that’s still in the works.
“I had to cross the whole world again,” I said. “I thought you might not have waited.”
Chapter LXVIII: The New Phyreios
This is it! The last chapter of the serial version of Journey to the Water. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
“You look like you’ve been to the deepest hells and crawled your way back,” he said with a shrug.
“You’re more correct than you could possibly know,” I said.
Chapter LXVII: The Long Way Back
It’s the penultimate chapter of Journey to the Water! You can read it right now on Patreon.
He took my hand and stepped forward. I had no choice but to follow. I would have followed even if I’d had a choice.
Chapter LXVI: The Crumbling World
Eske ventures through the world beyond the world to arrive, at last, at his destination–but there is danger even here at the end. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
“This is not what I would have wished for you. You’re alive, Eske. You should be among the living.”
Chapter LXV: The Long Walk
This is the fourth chapter from the end! Eske has passed through the gate of bone, but more dangers lurk here in the world beyond the world. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
This man’s eyes, however, were a bright, metallic gold, the color of a new coin.
“Welcome home, child,” he said in Khalim’s voice. “You’ve been wandering a long time.”
Interlude Six: The White City
We’ve arrived at the last Interlude of Journey to the Water, in which Khalim returns to the citadel for answers. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
The timbers creaked as the sail unfurled, but I trusted my boat. It would carry me to the gate of bone.
Whether it would carry me back remained to be seen.
Chapter LXIV: The Gate of Bone
Eske is off on what might be his very last voyage. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
I had walked the tundra and the steppe. I had crossed the mountains of the North, starving, mad, and alone. This would be no different.
Chapter LXIII: The Last, Lonely Harbor
We are racing to the end of Journey to the Water! You can read this latest chapter right now on Patreon, or wait until next week for it to show up here.
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