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So today is my birthday (that's not the announcement), and I keep forgetting that it is and then being reminded. I celebrated it on Wednesday, because too much is going on this weekend.
One thing that went on this weekend was that I got a positive pregnancy test*.
Yep. Baby. Baby is a thing that will be happening. I am pretty excited, needless to say.
This will affect my sewing business a bit, though. Assuming that it's a normal pregnancy, nothing goes wrong, I don't need to be put on bed rest, etc. I should be able to finish all my current commissions pretty much as scheduled. The baby is due in March, which coincidentally is when my commission list is full until. Pregnancy itself won't keep me from sewing, so all those projects should get done. Any future projects that people commission going forward, though, will be happening during "brand new baby that I need to care for" time, and thus I will be unable to offer any guaranteed deadlines of any kind.
I will still be taking commissions, and I will still guarantee that they'll be finished eventually, but I have no idea how much actual work time I'll have and how much time the baby will suck up, and how long it'll be before I have the energy to do anything like my normal work load. I don't make promises I can't keep, so I just won't be promising any deadlines at all for some time.
Anyhow, this is still pretty awesome, even if it is going to turn my life upside down. But I figured I should let people know. :3
*A few of you may be confused because I have answered to "he" and "him" and so on. I am "genderqueer", to use the simplest possible term for it. I'm totally happy with people assuming I'm male, I feel very masculine most of the time. Right now, for obvious reasons, I'm feeling more like a woman than usual.
But male pronouns are still fine. Or female. Either way, really, I don't mind.
One thing that went on this weekend was that I got a positive pregnancy test*.
Yep. Baby. Baby is a thing that will be happening. I am pretty excited, needless to say.
This will affect my sewing business a bit, though. Assuming that it's a normal pregnancy, nothing goes wrong, I don't need to be put on bed rest, etc. I should be able to finish all my current commissions pretty much as scheduled. The baby is due in March, which coincidentally is when my commission list is full until. Pregnancy itself won't keep me from sewing, so all those projects should get done. Any future projects that people commission going forward, though, will be happening during "brand new baby that I need to care for" time, and thus I will be unable to offer any guaranteed deadlines of any kind.
I will still be taking commissions, and I will still guarantee that they'll be finished eventually, but I have no idea how much actual work time I'll have and how much time the baby will suck up, and how long it'll be before I have the energy to do anything like my normal work load. I don't make promises I can't keep, so I just won't be promising any deadlines at all for some time.
Anyhow, this is still pretty awesome, even if it is going to turn my life upside down. But I figured I should let people know. :3
*A few of you may be confused because I have answered to "he" and "him" and so on. I am "genderqueer", to use the simplest possible term for it. I'm totally happy with people assuming I'm male, I feel very masculine most of the time. Right now, for obvious reasons, I'm feeling more like a woman than usual.
But male pronouns are still fine. Or female. Either way, really, I don't mind.
Blood and Fire - new gay romance novel out!
Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom. But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd. Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life ... if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head. But even faced with Kelwyn's death -- or undeath -- Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun. Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future -- and family. ----- My latest novel is out! You can buy it at all kinds of places, but the cheapest is through JMS Books
Writing and other WTFery
First, for the record, I *loathe* the new DA. Ugh. I am not among those who hate it visually, I think it looks fine, though it's nothing special. But *functionally* it is just a nightmare of unexplained and inexplicable decisions. It took me several days after it was crammed down my throat for me to even figure out how to browse the stuff I watch properly. AUGH. I've got that part, but posting will be an all-new adventure, no doubt. Thing is, I'm no longer posting directly for the most part, I've picked up postybirb, so it does all the fiddly bits for me and lets me post the same thing on a heap of sites without spending all day re-pasting things into fields. I did this because as part of my further dedication to try to make a "real" career out of writing, I am trying to self-promote and upload what stories I can (read: what stories I'm not sending to a publisher who wants first publication rights) for free. You're seeing the fruits of that here already, as I've put up several
I finally got a scammer.
They're moving from leaving comments luring in fans to PMing artists, it seems.
If you don't know, DA is currently being flooded by a scam where people are told they've won some kind of prize. The actual prize is being phished, of course. Don't follow the link if you get a post like that and certainly don't give any personal information whatsoever to randos on the net who've said you've won something. That little tip there is "interneting 101", really. It's not that you can never trust anybody on the internet. I ask people to trust me with their money at all the time, for starters. It's never trust total strangers who are giving you som
My novel is out in paperback now!
I know you all follow me for the art (and I'm trying to get better about updated that, but you know, spoons, life, things) but I figured a few folks here might be interested in my writing as well.
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For years now the harvest has been less than it should be. Last year the people of Oisin's village sacrificed a goat, but their god did not come. Now, in desperation, a human sacrifice has been suggested, and Oisin, recently orphaned and feeling life is not worth living, volunteers.
But the god Belinos is not quite what he seems, and Oisin's sacrifice will not be what he expects, for Belinos first came out of the darkness to drink the sacri
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