Behold, a new pretty!
It’s been a hell of a couple of weeks, but this picture right here fills me with happiness despite all the other things. “Pretty” does not do it justice. It is a thing of Great & Terrible Beauty.
Designed by the most excellent & talented Dex Greenbright on commission for me, because the concept would not leave my brain and I needed it in my life.
Hope will fuck you up if you disrespect its power.
I’ll order stickers with this imagery soon, hopefully in time for Minicon. I’m tempted to make a hoodie for myself because I love it that much. First I have to find a place that will tell me what brand sweatshirt they print on before I order. I can’t stand the feel of a lot of them.
And it’s sorely, SORELY tempting to also do this up as 8” round window clings & 12” square prints because both those options are surprisingly less expensive than I imagined.
But I have less than zero idea whether this has only niche appeal (like, me and a few other people) or if it would be a thing con folks might like to buy off my books table.
And in case anyone’s wondering, I am noodling around with a Rollover story including this visual concept so I can justify it as a book-related product. Not that anyone else needs me to justify it that way. I’m pacifying my own brain. Plus it’s fun to play with story concepts.
And now, the best part of any post: Cat pic!
Pippin sprawled across the whole of the napping bed. That’s the very picture of comfort. (Annoyed expression due to being pestered whilst trying to snooze.)
Okay, that it until later.
What’s on your bookshelf?
This is the part where I talk about my books.
Relics From A Traveling Show
The newest of the new! A collection of all my short fictions in one handy volume, available now from your favorite booksite or local shop.
Or! OR! if you like your local library, you could request a purchase. Free for you, sale for me, everyone wins.
Most libraries need the following info for ordering print books:
Title: Relics From A Traveling Show
Author: K. M. Herkes
ISBN: 9781945745201 (paperback)
Every library system does things a little differently, but most want their collections to serve their communities, so most of them are very responsive to patron requests.
If you like novels more than short stories, I recommend my series The Rollover Files for hopepunk tales of about an alternate world where moms with midlife crisis superpowers have been saving the world and making the military nervous since 1943.
I also have a completed, quirky slow-burn science fiction thriller duology with a romance chaser: The Stories Of The Restoration.
All my titles are available from Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Hoopla, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Overdrive and many other fine booksellers.
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Be a potato.
" Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)