coils of light

Comic book artist, writer, & illustrator // Worked on THE LEGEND OF KORRA: RUINS OF THE EMPIRE // TERMINAL HOPE coming from First Second in 2026

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A traitor prince and a forsaken hero.

Characters I have been rotating around in my head for fun lately 👁️👁️

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Handed in a revised draft of this to my agent but I still had some creative energy to burn :)

Working title: A Cleric's Guide to Necromancy

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i just finished rereading house of the beast. i suffer a lot from guilt just like alma, and a past relationship i struggle with healing from felt eerily alike to how alma and aster were.

i love the acknowledgement that alma and aster could never have a happy end no matter how much they wished for it. i loved that alma's dreams of closeness with aster, as they get true over time, becomes more and more harrowing and horrifying. twisted love really does that to you. it captured so much of my confused feelings and put it in front of me to read. it was really sobering.

thank you for letting alma live, for far too many stories of characters ridden by guilt redeems themselves by self sacrificial means. im just so grateful that alma was allowed to live, and allowed to make amends. theres just so much hope by the end of the story

i love how increasingly horrid and detailed the descriptions get throughout the book. i feel like i had been swept away to another world that i feel so curious to have been in to experience. if the animation industry in LA ever felt the need to adapt a book into a 3 hour long NC16 CG animated epic, House of the Beast has to be its first contender. what i mean to say is that you have created a world so intriguing with such vivid action that it just absolutely ignites my imagination!

while i wish and am so eager to see how alma's story continues, how she navigates a new life and herself without aster, i am also so utterly charmed by fion and curious about kaim that i am eagerly (and patiently) anticipating wake of the gods. congrats by the way!!

and thank you for sharing your gifts of imagination and art and writing to us. house of the beast truly healed a part of my soul.

Thank you. This really means a lot to me. I shall keep this message close to my heart for a long time to come <3

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A little drawing of Fion and Kaim to celebrate before I dive into edits! WAKE OF THE GODS will be the sequel to HOUSE OF THE BEAST, following Fion and Kaim's adventures post-Pilgrimage and also expanding upon their childhood growing up in House Avera.

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hello! I just read house of the beast (checked out from my library) and LOVED it. I wanted to know if it’s still possible to get the preorder prints if you purchase the deluxe limited edition from mysterious galaxy? They still have that in stock, but I’m unsure if the prints come with. If not, do you ever plan on potentially selling prints? I want to hang them on my wall. Thanks so much, and it was really really good!! I’m gonna be thinking about the characters and world for awhile.

I'm probably super late to answering this, but thank you so much for this lovely message. I unfortunately don't think I'm allowed to sell the preorder prints separately, at least not the ones from MystGalaxy. Maybe later, I could ask my publisher if it's possible to sell some of the artwork I've done for this book separately. It means a lot that there is interest!!

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Hello! I bought House of the Beast last month and I really really love the art and the writing!!

It got me right back into reading after so many years and it's been a great motivator for me, I can't describe it well enough into words but here's a reaction pic... Super cool!

What an incredible compliment!! Thank you so much <3 I hope you enjoy the book!

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A god and his faithful vessel.

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Works in progress for a work in progress :)

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Evander

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Evander and Lyall

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Read an Excerpt From House of the Beast by Michelle Wong - Reactor

An epic dark fantasy of revenge, forbidden magic, and a twisted romance with a mysterious god...

I'm so thrilled to announce that House of the Beast has become a Sunday Times bestseller! My debut dark fantasy novel about an angry girl and her elder god is out in the US next week. For anyone interested, Reactor has an excerpt available on their website!

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Kaim, Alma's ambitious asshole cousin and fellow vessel of the Dread Beast, and Fion, his aide.

I'm very very fond of these supporting characters from House of the Beast and can't wait for people to meet them!

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Hi! Question about the Google Play Books pre-order of House of the Beast, there's two editions, a cheaper one releasing on July and a slightly more expensive one releasing on August. What up? The descriptions on the app are identical, same number of pages, everything except price and release date.

Also, are there any other options for purchasing a digital copy aside from Google and Amazon? Looking forward to the release! Congrats!

Hello! The one releasing in July is the UK edition, whereas the US edition releases in August, and that's the deluxe hardcover so it's more expensive :)

You can purchase ebooks from bookshop.org! Here's a link to the page for the HOTB ebook.

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do you know if the hardcover of House of the Beast has a dust jacket? i know sometimes hardcovers doesn't, and as someone who doesn't like them, i'd like to know :)

It does unfortunately have a dust jacket :')

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It's already June, which means that House of the Beast comes out in the UK next month!! 😱 Which is terrifying, but I am also incredibly excited to share Alma and Aster's story with you all.

You can preorder and find more information about my debut illustrated dark fantasy novel here!

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Hi, hello, I hope you're having a god day. I have been a huge fan of the comic book series Tomboy (2015). I wanted to ask would there be any future of a continuation? If so, I would love to write for the series one day

Hello and good day to you too!

I'm afraid I don't have any information on that front! The story belongs to Mia Goodwin :)