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AETHER TORRENT: a new YA fantasy adventure novel, out September 2, 2025!

AETHER TORRENT, 94,000 words of YA fantasy adventure, is launching September 2nd, 2025 and is now open for pre-order at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and major e-book retailers!

Even in a world of magic, the economics of exploitation still rule.

Tori, a disenchanted atheist stealing treasures and suffering through retail, wants to turn her black-market boss's ill-gotten treasures into a life-affirming museum.

Avani, a devoutly religious fugitive blamed for her temple's violence, wants to evangelize safely distant from the influence of her temple's zealots.

Cirrus, a flying, shape-shifting tiger woman coerced into mercenary violence by her military, wants help for a private mission of her own.

The three women help each other fight their way out of their respective bad situations and into a new goal: reaching Tori's mother in a distant city where, Tori hopes, all of their wishes can come true.

Read AETHER TORRENT and enjoy LGBTQ-friendly adventure!

And if that wasn't enough...

None other than Trick Weekes -- Narrative Designer at Bioware, lead writer for the Dragon Age series, and author of Dragon Age: The Masked Empire, Feeder, and the Rogues of the Republic series -- was among the book's first readers, and had this to say:

This story is cinematic as all get-out. It gives us a likeable cast and keeps moving as Tori, Avani, and Cirrus move from one train wreck to the next, leaving chaos in their wake. It's a ton of fun, and you also have a unique world filled with magic and crime and shark people and giant crabs. It's got a ton of different moving parts, and everything is bursting with life.

Pre-order now!

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ah, my art PC will no longer boot up. That is. Unfortunate.

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This was meant to be just a doodle but it got out of hand?

First art of 2025!

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In case anyone was wondering, this is what an ambulance ride costs without insurance in the United States. In October I called an ambulance and went to the ER with symptoms that could have pointed to something life threatening, before I had my new health insurance card.

I still don't have the ER bill yet.

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the line from me to you

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falling in love with them again

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It's you!

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Fast lives and high crime I'm only here for a night, pass the neon lights yeah I've traveled too far to go back to the place that I started

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I am so Normal about him

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working on an ambitious thing

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They left my girl in the same outfit for four games when she could have been serving, smh

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"It's been a tough ride."

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WIP. Did someone order some Angst

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wip

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There are a lot of things about the future that Jak and Daxter could do without. Coffee is not one of them.

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There are a lot of things about the future that Jak and Daxter could do without. Coffee is not one of them.

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There isn't enough Jak and Daxter merch so I'm making my own