When I finished the first draft of Otherbound, I got myself a little gift: a drawing of one of the two PoV characters, Nolan. That drawing has been gracing the Otherbound page for a long time now. I love it, but he’s a little lonely.

So when the book deal happened, I got myself another little gift: a drawing of two other major characters. The artist is Nicc Balce, who’s done commissions for me before, and I am ever so pleased with the result. Meet Amara and Cilla:

Is that awesome or is that awesome? (hint: IT’S AWESOME~)

(Also, I guess not everyone has read this book yet, given that it’s… not out for another year… I keep forgetting that. SO ANYWAY, the girl on the left = Amara = the mute servant girl from the pitch = the second PoV character. Girl on the right = Cilla.)

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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My very last Showcasing Shinies post. Phew! I really hope you’ve enjoyed looking at the pretty art, being able to put a face to the characters I mention on occasion, and have maybe even contacted some of these artists about commissions. They more than deserve it, and you’ll have something pretty to show off!

Anyway, I already showcased my character Yunupaya twice earlier; I’d like you to meet her delightfully scrappy, loud, and occasionally violent sister Len.

Who is slightly lacking in fingers. What is it with me and scarring my poor characters?

Len
by Diana Mallery

Len
by Tien Hee

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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The last of my Always Read the Fae Print-related art: pancake restaurant waitress extraordinaire, cheeriest of all sidekicks, wannabe-Goth and offensively faux Wiccan, She Of The Many Names — including Merel, Femke and Imke…

Yeah, that chick.

Femke
by Darci Robbins

Femke
by Shawna Mills

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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Showing off the rest of Yunupaya’s pictures:

Yunupaya
by Diana Mallery

Yunupaya
by Shaun O’Neil

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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You’ve already caught a glimpse of Roy, the main character from Heirs, when I posted the pictures of my beloved Nina. Here’s a couple more of my favorite ever deaf demon hunter… what do you mean, there’s not a lot of competition there?

Roy
by Samurai-PET

Roy
by Diana Mallery

Roy
by Shaun O’Neil

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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Last time I only showed half of the pictures of Lillian, the main character in Always Read the Fae Print; here are the others. I’m actually surprised I have so few of her, given how long this book has been my main project. Ah, Lillian. It’s been fun making your life miserable <3

Lillian
by Peter V. Nguyen

Lillian
by Darci Robbins

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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Yunupaya, the main character’s name, is just a working title for this book; I’ve rotated through a number of other titles, most notably Stranger, from when I started writing the book a couple of years ago during NaNoWriMo. Since then, I’ve overhauled my plans a dozen times — adding and removing PoV characters, combining characters, rethinking the plot, stretching it into a trilogy, etc.

Because of all those changes I’m still nowhere near ready to actually write the book, but I somehow still ended up with a good collection of art done of these characters. Here’s a couple of the aforementioned Yunupaya, with others to follow next week:

Yunupaya
by Niccolo Balce

Yunupaya
by Hugh Freeman

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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I showed you the boys from my first novel Wielders a couple of weeks ago; now meet the gals.

Lynne
by Diana Mallery

Emily
by Courtney A. Bernard

Emily
by Shaun O’Neil

Since I’m in Seattle from June 17th to July 31st to attend Clarion West, I’ve written a number of blog posts beforehand to post while I’m gone. I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments, but might take a while to respond.

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I wrote most of the first draft of Heirs in August; the rest, uh, I haven’t written yet at all.

This book has been incredibly loud as of late, though, for several reasons. Chief amongst them: Nina.

Nina is one of my favorite characters ever. Since she’s not the main character in this book, though, I don’t have quite as much art of her as I would otherwise.

Nina
by Diana Mallery

Roy and Nina
by Niccolo Balce

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While I mostly try to group these pictures by character, in some cases, I have too many drawings of a single character to fit into a single post.

It probably won’t come as much as a surprise that Lillian from Always Read the Fae Print is one of those.

So here’s half of my Lillian stash, with the others coming up soon.

Lillian
by Dan Howard

Lillian
by Courtney A. Bernard