Last month, Sean showed off a fan cover for Eyrie that fans fell in love with. Since Eyrie‘s ebook edition is usually free for some of December, I got to talking with Sean, and… we have a gift for you!
If you’d like a DRM-free version of Eyrie using Sean’s cover, you can grab it now =] This link will work until the first week of January.
I realized there were no ace pride stickers in the Eyrie Hearts pack, so Kittrel aka YoteNotes was kind enough to create ace stickers for Chert and Xin =]
Happy Valentine’s Day! By popular request, Kittrel has added a Whisper and Flicker valentine this year. Aaaaw, look at everyone’s favorite goth/cottagecore lesbian couple.
You can find the other eight previous years’ valentines on the Goodies page. If you click on them, it’ll open a higher resolution version for printing and giving to your friends, sweethearts, pets, strangers, or anyone you’d like to!
Glenn and I both caught a cold, so we’ll be spending Valentine’s Day eating chocolate and watching movies curled up on the couch with NyQuil, but I hope everyone has a great holiday.
I’ll be back in a few days once this cold has passed because there’s new fan art to share! Physical fan art, even. I need to send a thank you note to the artist first =]
Best kittens, Vale
Henders and Foultner
Turresh the Shark and Younce of Snowfall
Turresh the Shark and Rorin the Hunter (for the fanfic writers)
Satra the Kjarr and Mignet of Snowfall
Pink Paw and Xavi
Ninox of the Strix and Cherine Metalbeak
Deracho of Hoarfrost and Thenca of the Kjarr
Askel the Phoenix and Triddle the… Douser? the Wet? the Water Phoenix?
Today’s update to the fan art page is Maeve, AKA the CockatielForger! In this case, her dedication to fan art has produced so many works that only a few show up on the main page, and she gets an entire subpage to herself you can find here.
In addition to having turned the prologue of Starling into a comic, she’s written 19k+ worth of fanfiction retelling the same events from the frame of “What if Ferrick had survived the bog?” You can find that fic, two more GryphIns fanfics, and even some Song of the Summer King fics on her AO3.
If you enjoy her artwork or stories, leave a comment on her AO3 letting her know =] And to close out this update, here’s a few more of my favorites of hers. Though it was hard to pick!
For a limited time only, all GryphIns audiobook boxed sets are just $9.99. That’s three full audiobooks per boxed set, or $3.33/book. (Apple Books discounted them even further to $7.99, wow!)
Gryphon Insurrection Boxed Set Two: Reevesbane, The Ruins of Crestfall, The Crackling Sea ($39.99$9.99) On sale at: Apple, Barnes & Noble, Chirp, Google Play, and Spotify!
But wait, that’s not all! An ebook boxed set of Eyrie, Ashen Weald, Starling, and Blue Eyes & Other Tales is available in a bundle to help the Furry Writer’s Guild. (There’s a lot of gryphons & dragons in anthropomorphic literature, and it’s a great chance to help them out! The proceeds go to the Furry Writer’s Guild plus the authors involved.) It also includes Tales of Feathers & Flames, stories set in the world of Dire. That set has a full scary gryphon novel by me, Coldbright, about a snarky small opinicus and his dire ex-boyfriend gryphon trying to solve a mystery in a misty valley buried under a snowstorm. Saylor Ferguson’s Dragons of Time is also in the bundle, and Tales of Feathers & Flames includes her beak-cute lesbian love story. There’s a lot to love in the bundle.
Guard Captain Henders and ex-Clover Ranch Employee Foultner
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and it’s been a few years since we’ve had a new card. Not only have people been requesting a Foultner+Henders card, they’ve also wondered why those two never got chibi heart stickers. Oops! Well, thanks to Kittrel, we’ve remedied both of those problems this year.
You can download high definition versions of this card and the seven from past years over on the goodies page. And yes, there’s even a Tresh and Rorin card for you fanfiction writers! If there’s a GryphIns couple you’d like to see show up on the 2024 card, use the contact form or social media and let me know.
On the writing front, the Opinicus (#7) audiobook is in its final checks (patrons got their copy already) before going out to stores. Pridelord is still going through edits. I’ve been moving a little slow because we’re going to need to change health insurance, and navigating that with the current treatments is a little tricky. (January was light on edits, but I had my co-pay reduced by $12,500 a month, so I feel pretty productive.)
On the up side, every time I read Pridelord, I love it. On the down side, I just started going through edits again two days ago. Hopefully, it’ll reach you all soon. I’ll keep everyone posted.
Oh! I had a few requests for a convention appearance page. I need to sit down and work with Glenn (my husband, dragon author) on that. Generally, with treatments taking up every Saturday and Sunday this year, it’s tough for me to do conventions unless they’re local. He usually goes and attends them for me, selling copies of GryphIns I sign before he leaves, his own dragon books, Dire/Tales of Feathers and Flames by John Bailey, shirts/stickers/maps/art prints, fountain pens, and ink. If you’re going to attend a convention he’ll be at, I can sign and personalize a book for you ahead of time and send it with him. And hopefully, by 2024, I’ll be feeling well enough to travel again.
If you’re coming to Tails and Tornadoes this weekend, here’s how to find the STET Publishing booth! Glenn will be there again and has his dragon books, my gryphon books, and John Bailey’s Dire… plus some early copies of Tales of Feathers & Flames, a gryphon and wyvern anthology! (I’ll talk a little more about it when it releases later this month. But it has a lot of your favorite gryphon authors: Alexander Bizzell, JFR Coates, Glenn Birmingham, myself, Saylor Ferguson, and M. H. Wolfe. Also includes a Dire Rada interior art piece by Maria Puenchir and a brand new wyvern cover by Fleeks.)
We’re booth 29 on the right. If you stop by, be sure to let Glenn know if you think gryphons or dragons are cooler.
If you’re at DenFur this weekend, come say hello! Glenn Birmingham and Jean Kidd are handling the STET Publishing table, and they’re selling my gryphon books, Glenn’s dragon books, John Bailey’s Dire, t-shirts, stickers, bookmarks, and more!
They’ll even have the very popular flash drives in the shape of wooden books with a gryphon logo on them that contain: -Audiobook editions of Eyrie, Ashen Weald, Starling, Blue Eyes & Other Tales, Reevesbane, The Ruins of Crestfall (great for listening to on your way home from the convention, Reevesbane and Crestfall aren’t available in stores yet on audio) -Ebook editions of GryphIns 1-7 (+Blue Eyes), Dragon Source, Dragon Bound, Dire, and Tales of Feathers & Flames (not yet available in stores) -The map of Belamuria for anyone who wanted to take a close look at it
There’s also smaller clip flash drives that have just the ebooks.
I’m not quite well enough to attend the local cons yet, but hopefully next year. I spent this month doing health things so I can get a higher level of treatment as we narrow in on the right dose. In the mean time, I appreciate Glenn and Jean selling my books alongside their own =] Tell them hello if you’re at the convention.
If you’re at AWU this weekend in Utah, feel free to swing by the STET Publishing booth and say hello to my spouse, Glenn! He has copies of my gryphon books, his dragon books, John Bailey’s Dire, Fleeks’ gryphon pride t-shirts with Cielle on the front, bookmarks, and more!
At past conventions, a few people asked for the ability to buy the audiobooks and ebooks on a flash drive or with a code, and we have both. (If you get the audiobooks, they even come in a wooden USB drive in the shape of a book with a gryphon on the front.)
I’m looking forward to attending some local conventions as it gets safer, hopefully later in the year. Being immunocompromised makes it tough for me to attend conventions, but Glenn has been nice enough to handle both of our books when he attends them. And here’s where you can find him:
