#WealdandWen cover and I made it. >.>

She flared brighter still; hotter, filling the small space with thin tendrils of smoke. “I’s hot, I’s broke ans I’s empty! A fleck. A fleck more craggy games ans,” Articulating each word with a gnashing of jagged teeth and greater bright, Mitra cracked louder, wincing as it bounced back, “CHOMP CHOMP GOES YOUS BRANCHES!” Her cage shuddered and peeled open and Mitra grinned. She cackled, standing taller on her single leg, unaware of the switch stretching out behind her. As the switch flicked, Mitra’s backside cried out with a fractured pop before her smug grin slapped against the dried sediment of a weathered rock three strides away. With pursed lips and dwindling pride she shook off the indignity and muttered, incoherently, as she fluttered onward, toward the sickly green light wavering through the fog. Despite what it signaled, she found herself elated by the sight of those greens. As monstrous as her brother was—had always been—he was family…and the closest thing to a friend she could claim. At least since the Lady, her core whispered, drawing her from what would be, what was, into what never could be again. Sinking into that reverie, she drifted all too sweetly on a sea of memories, only passing aware the trees were shifting... Cavernous laughter echoed through them, scattering what few creatures dared hunt so close, but Mitra heard no such laughter, no such terror. Weary, dreamy and absently munching on her hair, she wafted over howling chasms, under haggard bridges of crumbling rock and beyond the dried pit of a starving lake. Before a familiar whirring interrupted her bliss. “Din’d eyes!” she spat, following the sound to the ocular. A round, metal device just bigger than she, hovering as easily in the threads of fog. The beaming red dot of its eye swiveled with her shout, to stare. To study. It grew and shrunk, clicking and chirping as it captured her image—storing it for her brother’s more eager eyes.

Cover art for Weald and Wen: Book One of Children of Mar

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Delgrij asking 'By the Lady's glare, why!?'

Faerai asking her shadow what you are.

Mitra referring to you as shinies

Parnamyr drooling to see you, saying, "Goodlight, delicious!"

Four is a monstrous number, also a significant one for #WealdandWen, so here's a 'happy four months released' sale.

Get the ebook for $4 everywhere until the 4th.

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Parnamyr doesn't need sleep but he does have many, many beds that look designed for it.

As for problems, yes. Sleep is a problem, as is lack of sleep and it comes up often in #WealdandWen because I am a monster.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a large building Alt: gif of Robert Downey Jr. saying 'maaaaybe' in a somewhat flirtatious manner

Okay we're going to count.

1. Delgrij and the Napyr in #WealdandWen
2. The dryads in #BeforeDeluca
3. The Goddesses in #PaleBlood
4. The Bloodtongue in #ALastRequest
5. Frith in #Everybody'sPet

Last two are erotica, if that matters.
Five stories with 'sexy' trees...

Do I have a problem?

#WealdandWen ones it is! Let's see what a bunch of not at all humans would do in modern day human world.

Everyone is screaming. All parties.

Faerai has killed the car, and a few others... Delgrij is trying to explain and scaring everyone. Mitra's chewing on hubcaps. We lost Parnamyr.

Ooh, how did I not see this ask. >.>

Delgrij of #WealdandWen thinks he is the worst being in existence and no one should be as nice to him as they are. He is also not entirely wrong... depending on who you ask and how you look at it.

Delgrij of #WealdandWen is a terrible liar when he's not employing the vocal tricks, not luring treats to his colony. He stutters, speaks very quietly or uses simpler words.

Everyone can tell but they let him have it half the time because if he's lying it's probably for a good reason.

Did you know #WealdandWen is an epic fantasy, and a dark fantasy, but not at all a horror novel?

What an odd thing to learn about the book I wrote and categorized in a very specific order for the BISAC settings with my distributor.

Makes one wonder what stores use to determine these things.

sketchy colored piece showing a very old design of Mar

sketch of the world discs of Myr and the world egg of Mar

black and white simple illustration of a closeup of the spine with all parts generally noted and a small diagram of mar

I don't think the map insert should count but I'm sharing it anyway (it's in #WealdandWen and canonically drawn by Mitra).

Some names have changed, as you can maybe see. There's more than these buy I can't find them. I've been drawing this world for like twenty years or so.

Stupid egg.

drawing of a hand holding a small crystal gremlin, there is a book in the background suggesting the hand snatched the gremlin from the pages

Author have gremlin if you have coin.

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#SelfPublished #DebutNovel

illustration of a hand holding a glowing crystal gremlin with an open book as background

Would you like a handful of gremlin?

Mitra has been plucked from #WealdandWen, which you can kinda see in my cheat-y background there.

The way out. I mean I suppose it'd be neat to feel the paradoxically warm and cool spray of the ichor falls. Maybe poke a glowshroom...ride on a nuru.

But mostly I'd like to go home because the #WealdandWen are scary places not meant for squishy meat creatures.

cover for Weald and Wen

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Ehehe... #WealdandWen & #WakeandGlaer characters.

Delgrij is the victim (all of his life).
Mitra's the killer (it was an accident, he is just so flammable).
Parnamyr's the red herring (murder is beneath him, like he'd prefer the nectar to be).
Faerai is the detective (only one with any sense).

We have all the friends we need, strange thing. We are lure enough without extra meats on our tails.

Little light collects shinies, but we collect pain. If strange thing wants pain, can follow. If not. Go. Run. Find safe hole to burrow in and wait for screaming to stop.

#WealdandWen

Whoever wanted #WealdandWen on their shelf this month...

I love you and please remember Parnamyr isn't real. He might follow into your dreams though, I hear he's been doing that. Just laugh at him and he'll go away.

#WealdandWen has the entire main cast. Parnamyr with anyone, Mitra with him(and common plants and animals), Faerai and her entire species. Delgrij and Auru, mostly.
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cover of horror fantasy novel 'Weald and Wen' featuring a dark gray background framed in gold trees and mushrooms beset by shadowy claws

As I am writing #WakeandGlaer, I feel I should remind that #WealdandWen is out and available in #ebook and #print.

So, if you enjoy #horror, #fantasy, forged families, trauma, monsters, monsters with trauma and stolen gasps of joy:

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Bookshop is taking quite a bit to accept #WealdandWen and #Infog as ebooks... which has me wondering if they actually check for keywords or something to denote content.

>.>

<.<

They won't make it if they do.

Someone bought a copy of #WealdandWen yesterday, if that was you...thank you for the smile today. ^.-

cover for 'weald and wen' featuring golden trees and mushrooms beset by shadowy claws

Amazon took the paperback (only one they had) of #WealdandWen down, no notification or reason it's just gone. So, that's fun. I'm talking to Draft2Digital to figure out why but in the meantime it's available at the other places in this link list.

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Working on the sequel to #WealdandWen today and Peter Gundry has not release any music in the the three years it took to write that one... however will I title my chapters.

I kid but I do need to find new music to write to.

Anyone know composers of dark, moody, music what elicits ocean vibes?

I've sold five copies of #WealdandWen since it came out on the 1st, and about that in pre-orders. Which may not look great to the bank account, but...you know...I wouldn't even be comfortable with that many people in a room with me.

So, if you were one of them: Thank you for taking the chance.

Someone else bought #WealdandWen. The monsters are working. Luring all of you into a false sense of secur--ahem--I mean:

I love you and thank you for buying my book.

Yes.

Enjoy it.

Many pleasant things inside (this is not a trick at all).

Mitra beckoning you into her arms, or mouth, it's unclear. She's calling you her shinies.

Parnamyr holding his face, and barely his drool and delight, as he gazes at you, saying, "goodlight, delicious!"

Delgrij is incredulous asking, "by the Lady's glare, why!?"

Faerai is curiously poking at you while Ozma seems disinterested, she is asking it, "Oret li le, da?" Translated as "What is it, da?"

I have all for now. I will play with them later.
#WealdandWen

An incredulous tree man asking, "by the Lady's glare, why!?"

Delgrij wants to know why anyone would buy the book he's in.
#WealdandWen #art

Colored sketch of a winged crystal gremlin with her arms out and mouth wide in a delighted grin. A dialogue bubble reads 'SHINIES!'

cover for Weald and Wen featuring a design of simple trees and mushrooms beset by shadowy claws

Rolls ins pages ans peaks me shiniest hideways ans flyways in #WealdandWen. Oh, oh! Ans me other shinies! Little beastie will glow bright for new friend, bitey tree too me holds...in a turn or two.

I's holds piles ans piles of shimmers to share!
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( #horror #fantasy )

Sketch and color bust of a puppet-like creature holding his face with one needled hand and grinning in a somewhat salacious manner, another of his hands is bent at the wrist as if to tickle his own chest, two more arms are visible with one holding his waist and the other crossed over his torso. A speech bubble reads "Goodlight, sweet treats!"

Know who I am? Desire to?

Perhaps you would prefer my pebble of a sister or the hapless bites she collected during her fanciful imitation of heroics. All are available to you in the following pages:

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#WealdandWen

And remember, delicious... you are safe here, with me.

It's the last day, so sharing a snip from the prologue, and one of the more uncomfortable scenes. Questions of parentage are not answered in this book because it's complicated and distracted from the plot but they're relevant next book.
Feel I should apologize. I'm sorry? >.>
#WIPSnips #WealdandWen