#wellakh

[dduane]

Holy Powers, just how tall IS Roshaun? And now I'm picturing Dairine getting tired of getting cricks in her neck from talking with him and just pulling a step stool out of her other space pocket.

He’s tall, yeah. Compared to most Earth-humans, Wellakhit are routinely considerably taller. And Roshaun and his dad both run a bit short, as Wellakhit go. I need to doublecheck, but I seem to remember that Miril is taller than Nelaid.

[shortforemily]

More alien queen Dairine (of course). I'm assuming she's participating in some kind of Wellakhit ceremonial function.

[dduane]

As if you don’t have enough on your plate already, but what other setting and characters are you planning to make for your YW universe? Because I’m really interested in what Roshaun’s palace looks like 👀

It's fun to think about, but I suspect there's only so much gold-and-precious-gems stuff I can stick into a given image without seriously taxing the abilities of my present graphics machine. (Not to mention that I'd have to invent a whole alien artistic aesthetic... but then there's at least some of that already in the Roshaun novella in Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal...)

...Leave it with me and I'll see what I can come up with. :)

[shortforemily]

Alien Queen Dairine remix, curly hair edition.

[dduane]

I'm very glad to hear that you're doing better. (And as a Wellakh fan I might indeed be screaming inside.)

Well, one can only hope. :)  ...As usual, no sooner was I done with work on the new version of that that it began raising new questions...  :)

[dduane]

Ready now: “On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid”

So here’s the first bit of what will be published in a month and a bit as Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal. Roshaun’s story is now 45,000 words long -- three times what was originally planned -- and I don’t think anyone’s going to mind. (There was just more story there than I originally thought. Such is life.)

...Let me clear up some procedural business first. I’ve taken down the sales pages at Ebooks Direct for IE2 as a presold / whole triptych volume. Yes, I will be bundling the three works together in a single ebook “volume” (and yeah, as a paperback), but I’m not going to further market them that way until I have the other two works complete and in hand. As detailed here, while I was ill I was still able to get a fair amount of dictation done, and the other two works have both become longer and more complex as a result. I’ll finish them (Mamvish’s section first, then Ronan’s) and release each one as a standalone as they become ready, and finally the three together in the originally intended bundle.

For those of you who purchased the “presupport” version, you don’t need to do anything (except please, again, accept my thanks for presupporting and for your patience. Jeez, I want the month of July back. But whatever...). The system is sending out updates even as we speak, and everybody who presupported should be getting the 45K ebook file with the cover above. As the new sections are finished, they’ll go out to you in the same way. (If you don’t see an update mail with your refreshed download links in the next twelve hours, or you need more downloads made available, please, get in touch with me via the EBD contact page and I’ll get you sorted out.)

Measntime: if you want Roshaun’s story, here it is! And I hope you enjoy it. :)

Thanks, all.

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Buy On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid

[dduane]

It’s not that he doesn’t look good this way, but I don’t know about putting Roshaun on a cover like this. I think I’m going to have to get this boy a shirt. (Annoying: Daz 3D is a bit short on Wellakhit leisurewear. Right now he’s wearing cowboy jeans...)

...This is in aid of the Interim Errantry 2 business. An update post about that is here. 

[shortforemily]

Okay this is out of control. Can't stop drawing Alien Queen Dairine. I'LL NEVER STOP. This one is Future Dari, I think, giving the stink eye to some Wellakhit nobles.