“Do you have a name?” asked Gerta. “I do,” said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. “I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God.” Gerta blinked a few times. “That’s…quite a name.” “I made it myself,” said the raven, preening. “I stole the very shiniest words and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
I keep pulling rabbits out of this hat. It was fine at first. People were grateful. Nothing wrong with that. But I kept pulling them out. And now they’ve gone strange and there’s something wrong with their faces. I don’t like the way they look at me. But what can I do? People still expect […]
I am not dead! I am busy, very wretchedly busy, but not yet dead. Among the many irons I have jammed in the fire, I have lately been working on a retelling of the Snow Queen. I thought it was a novella, but we have made 11K without getting Gerta more than a few days […]
So Scholastic approached me awhile back to do an illustration for their “My Favorite Teacher” campaign, and this is what I came up with. Even though I am basically as busy as a human can possibly be without dying, I forewent sleep for this one. Partly because of Ms. Faunce, my high school freshman […]
…which is a local SF magazine. But this thing is on-line. They wanted an article for their column “The Hardest Part” about the tough part of any given project, so here’s T. Kingfisher talking about the hard part of assembling Toad Words. The Hardest Part If you have an itching to purchase Toad Words or […]
(There was a call to make an LJ post today, so since I was thinking about how Hufflepuff gets absolutely no love the other day, you get my sorry attempts at fic.) “Help!” cried the very junior wizard, falling down on the doorstep of the medium-sized cottage that would someday be Hogwarts. “Help! The giants […]
First doodles with new version of Painter. I wish a new user interface only emerged every seventeen years…