I have let myself drift back onto Tumblr after two weeks, am deeply affrighted and excited at the idea that anyone has drawn my kids (I had an AMA on Reddit and as said there, my editor every so often hollered into my inbox about amazing shit people were doing, but I was too busy complaining back to him that my face had gone numb and that I no longer slept, but instead the darkness of the grave claimed me for four to five hours each night). Thank you so much to anyone who has already done this. Many people on my team have yelled and yelled.

Back early on in the piece I made a document for him about what characters looked like in terms of basic ideas/outlines for copyediting, covers and sense purposes, and I’ve dug out that document and slapped it up here for general delectation. As a note: I imagine specific things when it comes to my characters (I am a Kiwi: I write Kiwis In Space as a default) but as I have nothing but joy in my heart for how anyone would want to draw these characters, feel free to glance over this, then toss it out the window. It would bring tears of beauty to my eyes if anyone was like “Yes, but when I was reading I imagined Naberius Tern as a huge monitor lizard,” because absolutely yes, Naberius Tern was just a huge monitor lizard, godspeed.

I had only described below the specific cavalier-necromancer pairs, so that’s what you’ll find below, sorry if anyone wanted Teacher.

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Thank you so much for your Extremely Nice Words, which mean a great deal to me – making people feel things with a capital FEE is honestly the best thing I can ever hope to achieve. I figured your message was an extremely good jumping-off-point to note:

1. I’m so grateful for everyone who reads my writing and gets something out of it, even if that writing is the Animorphs parody I wrote when I was eleven years old that solely makes fun of the X-Files movie, a cultural touchstone that has not aged well;

2. I haven’t abandoned my fannish writing, and though TSG may not appear in the same format as before (I’m so happy fandom lately has taken to posting “What Would’ve Happened” outlines) it ain’t dead;

3. There are links in my ABOUT page to all my current work, though I gotta update it with a couple of reprints coming out that are nice and accessible. I am partcularly fond of the Pseudopod podcast done of a horror short story I did a few years back, “The Magician’s Apprentice”, read by the absolutely incredible Louise Ratcliffe;

4. Lastly, the reason why I have been inactive is because I have spent every spare moment of my last year that I could finishing up an extremely large project. I can only reassure you that this has been the inactive silence before a garbage storm of such huge and rubbishy proportions that it will make people reverent. I have been creating a huge trash receptacle, packed full of refuse. If you have ever enjoyed my bin leavings before, I can only assure you that this debris tub* is FOR YOU.

* I wrote a novel.

Thank you! I mean, I feel that this series has a lot to offer – I am certain the next logical step is a thematic comparison with, say, Lutz’s “My Father’s Long, Long Legs” – but if you can see its potential too I’m very pleased.