NEW WRITING
1. I wrote four new novels: A Bloom in the North, Mindtouch, Mindline and Rose Point.
2. I wrote two new short stories, currently unreleased. I also wrote five new case studies (“Wet,” “Knife,” “Swimming,” “Finite” and “Piano”) and four chapters for The Ai-Naidari Guidebook.
3. I wrote a couple of articles for SFWA and Lord knows how many blog posts and vignettes, including the “Lair by the Sea” fluff and some backstory for Even the Wingless (“The Usurper”) and Black Blossom (“Three Suitcases”).
4. And for fun I did a count; this year I discovered 68 new Ai-Naidari words with your help.
Total Count (Fiction): 481,390 words

NEW ART
1. I drew 88 comics.
2. I did 4 full-size paintings: “Protection,” the Art Deco Alysha for the cover of Alysha’s Fall, and the back and front cover for The Godson’s Triumph.
3. I did 12 paintings for the children’s book interior.
4. I did 2 color pencil pieces for the covers of Mindtouch and Mindline.
5. I did 10 B&W interior illustrations for The Godson’s Triumph and Claws and Starships.
6. I did 14 micropaintings (I believe! I sold them all so I don’t recall).
7. I did a lot of sketching, which I didn’t keep track of, in both tiny sketchbooks and large; in the car, at restaurants and bars, at home.
Total New Finished Art: 130 pieces

BOOKS/STORIES ISSUED
1. I released six new e-books: Pearl in the Void, A Bloom in the North, Earthrise, Mindtouch and Mindline, The Godson’s Triumph.
2. I released four new print editions: Claws and Starships, Mindtouch, Earthrise and Rose Point.
3. I released seven audiobooks: The Kickstarter book, “Unknowable,” “Anadi Dolls,” A Rosary of Stones and Thorns, “The Blade to Your Hand,” Even the Wingless, and Earthrise.
4. I published two short stories in anthologies, “Improved Cubicle Door” in Unidentified Flying Objects 2 and “Second” in What Happens Next.

SERIALS
1. I concluded the Earthrise serialization!
2. I started the serialization for An Heir to Thorns and Steel.
3. I have posted, ad hoc, entries in two quasi serials, “Lair by the Sea” (5 entries) and “The Usurper” (5 entries).

KICKSTARTERS, LIVESTREAMS, APPEARANCES AND NODS
1. I ran two Kickstarters, and prepared for two more.
2. I attended one convention, NecronomiCon, more for enjoyment than anything else!
3. I ran two livestreams! Wow, lol. I was quiet this year.
4. I did one twitter chat for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Chat folks, and did a chat presentation on cover art for SFWA.
5. I started a newsletter this year, and have sent out 2 quarterly updates so far.
6. I got my own Wikipedia entry! *beams* Feel free to add to it if you like.

Um, yeah, apparently I have a tendency to forget to update my random galleries elsewhere. But honestly, I still live! I have been very busy getting my backlist of short stories and collections up on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00448EEPQ) and Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mcahogarth). Most of these are furry-friendly.

You can check those out by perusing my writing page (http://stardancer.org/writing.html), which gives you a short synopsis of each setting/group of stories and a reading order, with links to buy.

I'm also hard at work on another paperback collecting my existing Jokka short stories. That project is almost ready for sale. You can read about it at http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/937749.html.

And that's about all I got right now, I think. Art uploads when I figure out where I left off!

--M.

I'm on my way to Midwest Furfest 2010 on Friday! Where I'll be hanging 20+ pieces in the art show, including a lot of the work in this gallery! I'll also be hosting three panels in the Art & Literature track: a kaffeeklatsch on Friday afternoon, a panel about business for artsy types on Friday evening, and a panel on writing in the e-book age on Saturday at noon.

I hope to see some of you there! :)

Every few months I go through my old sketchbooks as part of a "100 Sketchbook Retrospective" project; I look at themes and trends and talk about where I was as an artist at the time. Today I've put up the latest installment for Sketchbooks 66-70, done in late 2001. It includes links to 118 sketches and finished pieces of artwork, many of them furry (or scaly!). If you're interested, you can find it here: http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/860028.html

You can catch up with the earlier editions of the project at this web page: http://stardancer.org/project/100sk.....kretrospective

Or you can just scroll backwards through the 100 sketchbook retrospective tag on livejournal: http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/.....0retrospective

I hope some of you stop by! :)

I've been slowly getting my backlog of work (mostly furry, some alien) up on Amazon and Smashwords for people with e-book readers. Some of it is free, some 99 cents and the big books are $4. If you'd like to read the stories I used to publish in furry fanzines (along with the award-winning stuff that got picked up later by SF magazines), you can now take a look!

For people who like shopping at the Kindle store: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00448EEPQ

For people who prefer a broader selection of formats for different e-readers or their computers/phones: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mcahogarth

Samples are enabled for everything, everywhere! So you can try before you buy. :)

If you enjoy the stories, pass the word around! Royalties pay for my daughter's lunches when I am tired of cooking. >.>


--M.

Please pardon me while I get used to the place. :) I haven't really been involved with a furry archive since Yerf, so I'm rusty with interfaces and... wow, things have gotten a lot more complicated since then. Lol. :)

I am planning on uploading only finished work here... if you'd like to keep up with my sketches and works-in-progress, my website has an archive of over 3000 pieces. You'll be browsing for a few days. o_O

Anyway, feel free to check out my twitter or livejournal, too. And thank you for the welcomes. :)


--M.