Willow Wednesdays: Art To Play!

Welcome to Willow Wednesdays! Featuring art by Willow, the cover artist for the Monkey Queen series, with her kind permission! Read on after the cut!

introducing...the new me! (sort of)

I said this would be happening on Sunday, and here it is! Calomiel has finished the art for my new avatar!

If you missed Sunday's post: Calomiel is a talented French artist and photographer! We've been interacting on Facebook recently, and I thought her style would work for my avatar. I was right! (And I should also add that she's very nice and lots of fun to work with!) Find out more about her at her blog, where you can also read her delightful BDs/comic strips and see her GIFs and process posts! It's in French, but it's worth the effort to translate, and you can enjoy her art regardless; as she says in her header, "Comics are the universal language". And Calomiel? Merci pour ce merveilleux nouveau avatar!

do I have to blog this all over again?

We'll start this Sunday catchup with news that I actually mentioned on Facebook earlier this week: My tentative writing plans are in place for 2016. These include three more Monkey Queen books (not counting Redblade, which will hopefully debut in the next few weeks), and the first three books in a new series. It'll be fantasy adventure, set in the same multiverse as the Monkey Queen stories. Since I won't be writing just about Michiko and Beth, I've changed the name of my Facebook page to "Robert Dahlen - writer". If you're on Facebook, please like my page; I try to update or share there every day, and I'd love to hear from you, here or there!

More, including spoilers and an artistic surprise, after the cut.

little gold bear who had his left shoe stolen

Well, shall we check in after the cut to see what happened to the little milk chocolate gold foil bear? Yes, we shall!

Willow Wednesdays: Safe Journeys!

Welcome to Willow Wednesdays! We're featuring art by Willow, the cover artist for the Monkey Queen series, with her kind permission! Read on after the cut!

Big news for those of you in France who have not yet picked up Willow's debut novel The Journey Of Earth - it's now available to buy online through the French Amazon store!  Click here to get your copy! You can also get one direct from Willow; just contact her through her Facebook or DeviantArt pages. I wish my copy would get here... Anyway, here's another lovely drawing of Earth and Moon to celebrate!

Art © 2015 by Willow. All rights reserved; used by permission. You can view Willow's extensive gallery on DeviantArt, see her works in progress by liking her Facebook page, follow her on Twitter, and buy prints and much more at her Society6 webstore, including exclusive Monkey Queen items!

Big sci-fi and fantasy book giveaway!

Just wanted to get in a plug for the big science fiction and fantasy promo taking place all day Tuesday, November 3! 52 e-books, all the first in a series, are FREE! Many of them will stop being free when the promotion is over, so get them while you can! Click here for the full list and Amazon links. Hope you find something you like!

shorty blogwell, be friends with me

We'll open this Sunday catchup with something of interest to all you readers of sci-fi and fantasy: There's a big promo coming this Tuesday, November 3, with over 50 e-books being offered for free! With this many titles, there'll be something for everyone! Click here for more details! More after the cut.