https://mcahogarth.bandcamp.com/
After many technical and legal difficulties, I have finally gotten my audiobook catalog onto Bandcamp, including these full series:
• All of the Stone Moon Trilogy, starting with The Worth of a Shell
• All of the Blood Ladders Trilogy, starting with An Heir to Thorns and Steel
• All of the Godkindred Saga, starting with Flight of the Godkin Griffin
• All four of the Kherishdar Books, starting with The Aphorisms
Additionally, I have these partials:
• The prequel and books 1-4 of the Alysha Forrest books (so, Alysha’s Fall, Second, Who is Willing, Sword of the Alliance, and Either Side of the Strand). I’m only missing Faith and In Good Company.
• The first two full novels and half of the third of Princes’ Game (starting with Even the Wingless)
• A Standalones album that has 11 shorts that are part of ebook collections I haven’t done full audio editions of… things like Broken Chains, some of the Jokka shorts, some of the Alysha shorts.
I also have a continually updating “From the Author’s Mic” album where I drop my various behind-the-scenes and ‘how to pronounce’ guides. There are a handful of audiobooks I haven’t added because I’m dithering on whether I want to get them re-recorded, including Claws and Starships and the Her Instruments books… but other than that, what’s there is everything I’ve got!
Because Bandcamp lets me keep so much of the money, I’ve priced them lower than most retailers would set the price: $10 for novels and $5-7 for novellas or chapbooks. Some other cool stuff about the site:
• When you buy from Bandcamp, you own the album. You can download the whole thing (or stream it if you prefer from their app/player). No more ‘I think I’m buying this from Audible but it might disappear tomorrow and I’ll have no warning, because it’s actually a rental.’)
• Bandcamp lets customers pay more if they want. So if someone wanted The Aphorisms (at $5), and wanted to pay $6 or $10 or $100, it can totally be done.
• There’s an option to allow people to buy your entire catalog at once for a discount, so if you wanted all 21 audiobooks you could get them in one fell swoop for 35% off. That’s all of them for $120 or so, I think.
• Bandcamp has ‘Bandcamp Fridays,’ where they don’t take a cut of the sales: all of it goes to the artist. The next one is February 3rd… today! You can read more about Bandcamp Fridays here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update
• Bandcamp not only lets me set prices, I can also give discount coupons and freebies. I can even set albums free, or ‘free but you can choose to pay’ (which I did with my ‘From the Author’ album).
• I can also let people buy tracks separately, so if (say) you wanted to buy the bonus track from the end of On Wings of Bone and Glass, you could pick that one up and not bother with the rest of the album.
I’m not sure whether my audio catalog will make it to other retailers in its entirety because of technical issues—Findaway, my other distributor, has more stringent audio requirements that would force me to edit every single file before uploading—but Bandcamp will always have my full catalog, and I’ll put new audiobooks there first. So if you’re an audio listener, this is your bookmark.
I want to thank all of your for your patience while I swam through the morass. I’m so glad to be on the other side of it, and able to offer these to you at last! And for fun, please check out the From the Author album, where you can listen to the ‘How Do You Pronounce That’ audio I recorded last week, just to kick things off. It should be free!
Or at least, I intend it to be relaxing. Hopefully it delivers.
4:22 minutes
Materials:
- Pen: Moonman Starry Glass dip pen, Mars: https://www.jetpens.com/Moonman-Starry-Sky-Glass-Dip-Pen-Mars/pd/31536
- Paper: Strathmore Writing Series 500, lined: https://www.jetpens.com/Strathmore-500-Series-Writing-Pad-8.5-x-11-Lined-50-Sheets/pd/15322
- Ink: Robert Oster, Rose Gilt Tynte: https://www.jetpens.com/Robert-Oster-Rose-Gilt-Tynte-Fountain-Pen-Ink-Shake-N-Shimmy-50-ml-Bottle/pd/25170
In which I talk about the paper, the paint, and the experience of oils versus gouache. Fun stuff, will do more.
Thank you Locals supporters! Your contribution to my art war chest here is what's powering these experiments and videos. For now I'm keeping them public but I may start doing some subscriber-only videos if you all are interested.💖
Thanks for your comments yesterday on the business post... all very provocative, in a good way. I'll try to respond to all of them today.
Some Alysha misc now, since I'm gearing up for the results of the Kickstarter!
Petrov is giving away coupon codes for every book in the Alysha series (and has some leftover coupons for Marda and the business book). You can pick those up here (and please do! The books are bought already, someone should use them!) https://twitter.com/PetrovNeutrino/status/1457344535843987461
Our own @JudasComplex sent along a sample of the Faith in the Service audiobook, which I've attached for your delight! I... haven't had a chance to listen to it. Don't ask me about my past week and a half or so. Putting it here will guarantee I get to it.
After hearing the amused comments during the livestream, I went ahead and added all the ship type illustrations I have inked from the 90s to the wiki. Glory in the rampant adorableness of their anthropomorphic stylings! See those ...
A little comedy today, at least in the link. Transcript follows.
Hi, all. Welcome to this episode of The Jaguar’s Heart.
A while back I was introduced to a comedy sketch about Cuban coffee by a Mexican comedian, Gabriel Iglesias. ( The sketch begins with him greeting all his fellow Latinos and then backing up to say ‘but we’re all different, aren’t we’ which is a segue into a demonstration of how different Hispanics speak Spanish.
It is hilarious. First, because I am a Spanish speaker and a linguistics hobbyist, and his portrayal of various accents resonated with my experiences in trying to make sense of them myself… Not always easy, since from culture to culture, slang and accent are often totally different (and sometimes grammar! Spaniards use a grammatical construct that has died out in many other Spanish-speaking countries, the plural “you.”)
I also loved it because the Cuban coffee part is real. I grew up with Cubans. I know how we are....
One of the most common things I hear (and say) right now is "the asymmetry is the story." Here's one about how none of us are innocent of the sins we hate in others.
Hi, all. Welcome to this week’s episode of The Jaguar’s Heart.
It’s been weeks since the Baen’s Bar incident and I’m still thinking about it... because the longer I do, the more I feel, overwhelmingly, that it’s obvious that the problem is deeper than “this forum was saying stuff that offended us.” We have to back up to the glaring fact that people on opposite sides no longer consider each other human. Nothing I say will matter because the people disagreeing with me don’t think I’m human. They have denied my humanity; they have not bothered to listen to my beliefs, or have fake-listened to them in that way that people do when they’re so ready to prove you wrong that they’re only using your speech to provide talking points for their own ideas.
We have forgotten how to listen.
Increasingly, we have also ...
What if I told you that, after years of requests for the return of my Stardancer.org gallery, I was in the process of recreating it?
Because I am…! RIGHT NOW. flail
CHALLENGES
First, let me tell you why I haven’t had an online art gallery since stardancer went down:
I did not want to put thousands of images on free gallery sites (like DA) because it would be a ton of work, and I wouldn’t have any control over the site (“what if they go down one day”, “what if they start charging per-upload fees”, “what if they have copyright policy changes I don’t like”, “what if they start using their corpus to train AI”, etc, etc, etc). Can you imagine dumping hundreds of hours into uploading stuff only to lose it because the site owners made questionable decisions? Ugh.
I wasn’t capable of coding my own gallery and I didn’t like the gallery plugins for various content management systems. I could have installed a package on my hosting service, but none of the ones I saw were customizable enough, or did ...
I'm just about done collecting all my notes to begin "Red Honey", a lot of which involves looking for sketches... and this one, I overlooked until just now, is of Kediil and Serel. I love toned sketchbooks! They are so satisfying.
Anyway, next week, we begin!
We’re just about at the midpoint of 2025, so I thought today would be a good day to do a Jaguar check-in! What a weird year it’s been. Very busy, family-wise, with lots of both good and challenging changes; I am using up a lot of time on that, but how is that news? You know how it goes.
My current major project is finishing up the second Jokka collection and mailing all the Kickstarter prizes. That should be wrapped up next month sometime, when we start the Red Honey serialization. I tell you, it’s a wild to be scanning old sketchbooks, only to find sketches of the Red Honey characters from the 2000s! This story has been on the backburner a long time! I also unearthed a lot of sketches from the development of the jokka.org website, which I used the wayback machine to archive (as much as possible). I’m thinking of restoring some amount of it to my current website, which is my other major project right now: my website. I feel like ...
We once allowed our neuters to rule us; they raised up a glittering kingdom, one that rotted from its core the longer we permitted that offense against nature to continue. When we refused to address that imbalance, the Brightness and the Void Themselves smote the World, so powerfully that nothing was left of that time save fearful rumors, whispered across generations.
To this day, the World suffers from the blow Its divine siblings struck against It. We should be more careful of our virtue… or we may not survive the second lesson.
