You all know by now that I love maps for fantasy books. Each time I draw one, it’s a little different, but I always try to do something. Unsurprisingly, I drew a map for my newest book, The Assassin’s Bride, which comes out this Friday. Exciting!! This was a new… Read the rest...

Across a good portion of the summer break, my daughter was in love with painting. A lot of what she did was watercolor, but she enjoyed acrylics too. Somewhere along the way, she asked me to join her. I did my best, but honestly, it’s been a few years since… Read the rest...

As I tidied up my desk this week, I found myself flipping through the pages of my 8.5×5.5 sketchbook. It’s the one that contains a lot of cover sketches, concepts, and character chibis I’ve drawn for the Snakesblood Saga. But it also contains a lot of the rough concepts for… Read the rest...

I’ve talked before about how much I love maps in books, but I haven’t really mentioned another thing I adore: little icons at chapter headers. So today, we’re going to take a peek inside a bunch of my paperback books so I can share what I did with the headers.… Read the rest...

During 2021, my husband indulged in what me and my friends have been referring to as The Tableting, Part 3. Now and then, he goes through phases of wanting a new art tablet and ends up trying… uh, a lot of different options before he finally settles on one. This… Read the rest...

When I was working on the sticker sheet of Vahn to go with the release of Snakesblood #3, I realized it would be a lot more efficient if I made all my stickers at once. So I went ahead and sketched out the stickers that will go with the rest… Read the rest...