Horse Feathers Chapter 16 and the Hathgar and Horace Random Illustration Challenge!
LJ was down yesterday, so while I posted the new chapter on time, I wasn't able to let everyone know about it. But Horse Feathers Chapter 16 is up!
In other news, purely for the fun of it, I've opened a "Hathgar and Horace Random Illustration Challenge!" on Deviant Art. It's kind of like Whose Line Is It Anyway? everything is made up and the points don't matter deal.
Lastly, I'm putting this behind a cut, because some people prefer not reading too much behind the scenes information. But I thought I should explain how some of the thieves' names came to be.
Jonhan has always been Jonhan. I really couldn't tell you where his name came from other than it popping out of Phillip's mouth very early on in the first draft of Seventh Night.
Fierson is a merging of "Fierce" and "Son" Fierce's Son = Fierson ...if you read it as "fear" or "fire", no harm, those could work too.
Tor came from me attempting to find a synonym for "rat" and discovering the word "Potoroo". Potoroo was too long for my tastes. Roo seemed too Australian and didn't fit my naming patterns. I tried "Poto" but discovered it had a dirty meaning in some other languages. That left "Tor", which seemed like a good name and is also one of my favorite publishing companies.
I needed more names, so I thought it would be fun to make use of other publishing companies. "Baen" is another one I like, it fit well with my naming patterns. I've pondered using some other publishers, but I wanted it to be a quiet nod rather than a distraction.
And then the chapter was done, and I started thinking, hrm...I hope people don't read too much into the "Thieves" bit. It wasn't done to say anything negative about those companies but because I like them as fantasy/speculative fiction publishers.
Maybe no one will notice, but if you do, that's the real story behind the naming choices.
In other news, purely for the fun of it, I've opened a "Hathgar and Horace Random Illustration Challenge!" on Deviant Art. It's kind of like Whose Line Is It Anyway? everything is made up and the points don't matter deal.
Lastly, I'm putting this behind a cut, because some people prefer not reading too much behind the scenes information. But I thought I should explain how some of the thieves' names came to be.
Jonhan has always been Jonhan. I really couldn't tell you where his name came from other than it popping out of Phillip's mouth very early on in the first draft of Seventh Night.
Fierson is a merging of "Fierce" and "Son" Fierce's Son = Fierson ...if you read it as "fear" or "fire", no harm, those could work too.
Tor came from me attempting to find a synonym for "rat" and discovering the word "Potoroo". Potoroo was too long for my tastes. Roo seemed too Australian and didn't fit my naming patterns. I tried "Poto" but discovered it had a dirty meaning in some other languages. That left "Tor", which seemed like a good name and is also one of my favorite publishing companies.
I needed more names, so I thought it would be fun to make use of other publishing companies. "Baen" is another one I like, it fit well with my naming patterns. I've pondered using some other publishers, but I wanted it to be a quiet nod rather than a distraction.
And then the chapter was done, and I started thinking, hrm...I hope people don't read too much into the "Thieves" bit. It wasn't done to say anything negative about those companies but because I like them as fantasy/speculative fiction publishers.
Maybe no one will notice, but if you do, that's the real story behind the naming choices.
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