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Today, here in Australia, it’s Mother’s Day – possibly an adaptation of a British religious festival dedicated to the Virgin Mary, or possibly a feminist creation taken over by the greeting cards industry. Either way, in my opinion it’s both good and right to have a day to celebrate one of the most important people… {read more}

Hi everyone. I’m afraid you’ve missed out on a long, slightly rambly post about Understanding Your Characters that I started writing this morning, because I ran out of steam and got bored with the whole thing. So I’ll boil it down to the very, very short version: I was watching this video, and that got… {read more}

As you know, this week The Shadow’s Heir goes to the printer’s. This week I also had a horrible time at work. Customer service means always having to say you’re sorry, even when you didn’t do anything wrong. In the meantime, here is a stuffed werewolf I made. It turned out to be quite difficult… {read more}

And now, another stuffed griffin. Two in one day! Boy did you guys get lucky. This one isn’t so nice to look at, though, but that was intentional. Meet Skarratt, the four-winged dwarf griffin you may remember if you read The Creature. She’s been lying around my room for a while with no wings, but… {read more}

Last week I got a happy email and phone call from my new editor Deonie, who had just received the “welcome to being my editor” gift I sent her. But before I mailed it off I took pictures, so here you go! This is Kraego (sitting on my messy desk, if you’re wondering). And believe… {read more}

Hey guys. That was a pretty cool mask, huh? I gotta get around to hanging it up. I also have to stop playing Skyrim until the small hours of the morning, but oh well. Anyway, the university semester is about to go back so I’ll soon be busy with studying again. Not as busy as… {read more}

Hey there everyone, and Happy Australia Day! There was a much longer posting here originally, but I have decided to remove it for decency’s sake. Basically, the short version was that I explained how Cymria, like my own country, was originally inhabited by a different race – until the ancestors of its current occupants arrived… {read more}