L.T. Getty's Blog

I realized last night that I updated Instagram and Facebook, but not here. Oh well.

Again, Hannah Sternjakob is the artist. I like her work so no surprise I love this; Caleb’s pauldron reminds me of Guts from Berserk haha. I could go on about how irked I get when covers aren’t cohesive in the same series but, I feel like I’d be preaching to the choir.

I’m still working out the official back blurb, still got a ton of work to do but yes, the rough draft is done. Mostly it’s the final fig...

I was gonna photoshop out the “AI Generated” in the bottom, I found a feature on my phone that let me do some clean up without the use of Paintshop. No, it doesn’t say “The Pir” Or whatever; the AI guessed it’s “The Puppetmaster Duology” like Book 1. AI was only used to take out some of the rough bits on my phone, honestly it’s easy but a little too easy, if that makes any sense. I know some basic comic-style coloring techniques and occassionally goof around with other features, so if someth...

              Twelve days off!

               Champagne Books is going through some changes, and I have asked for the Rights back to Rogue Healer. Titan’s Ascent was supposed to come out this year, the short is I never felt like the series was at the right house. I think people who are unfamiliar with fantasy as a genre want to lump all of it in one massive category, which hey that’s fine if you’re okay with me saying the same thing about westerns or romance, but I am well read enough to know...

               I always have a hard time with thinking of young adult literature as its own thing because I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and Pippi Longstockings at the same time. Books for me were either for kids learning how to read, or they simply were books. Don’t get me wrong, I knew certain books would be read around certain grades, but generally speaking nothing was really off limits. Yes, I read some books like Dune too early to really understand what was going on, but I never gav...

               Smeckin’ around the forces of hell? I don’t think you have to be especially religious to find a group of guys who would suit up and blast demons back to the pit from whence they came.

               But what happens when one of the characters is half-demon? I’ve seen this done before and depending on how it’s depicted, as a rule this makes me nervous, mostly because so many bad depictions of trying to make the forces of darkness misunderstood or some rubbish. I watched this mov...

This is the second part of the previous article; that one deals with what we’re measuring and, I got into a tangent on bartering. I always like to consider how economies work as part of the world building, so most of this will probably seem straight forward and more of a general guide.

I’m back to work after the injury, not saying I’m 100% but I’ve injured myself before so right now I’m in the cautionary working out phase. I shouldn’t reinjure but I have one more tour after this one, then a w...

               I had this topic come up several times over the past few weeks and I don’t disagree with the premise, but the practicality. The idea is how many stories use references that don’t make sense. If I have a fantastical world, referring to a day of the week as Tuesday or referencing a distance in leagues or kilometers sometimes takes you out of the story.  I have no problem with the idea that Tolkien is translating a text, so it doesn’t bother me when Frodo wakes up on October the 21 i...

               I don’t have a lot of markets this year but not for lack of trying, but this year I have books in two stores: The Cozy Fox in Selkirk and Poor Michael’s in Onanole. Not a lot of copies but remember these are small stores. If you go looking for something another author says they have copies and there don’t happen to be any, ask the people running the store so they know people are looking. The Cozy Fox has really fun local stuff and the old owners of Poor Michaels used to bring in s...

If you’re traveling this Easter Weekend/Passover week be safe! Hope you get to spend time with you and yours. Me, I hurt myself so I’ll be spending more time with the family than anticipated. Nothing serious, but shouldn’t be lifting patients.

I don’t think it’s a secret that I enjoy theatre masks, I briefly used a masquerade at the beginning of Dreams of Mariposa, but given it’s a vampire novel that’s hardly groundbreaking. When developing A Fable of Wood and String my niece wanted to ...

I was going to include antagonists in the title, but the definition of antagonist is they oppose the protagonist. Go see the last post if you need a quick refresher.

For the sake of this article a hero is someone who behaves in a virtuous way according to the author’s intent. I think it goes without saying that not everyone agrees as to what the highest virtue is, or that virtue is universal – for instance, a Viking may have no problem mowing down a weaker foe, for his culture the virtue is s...