Showing You The Bird

Drawing is my form of meditation because sitting cross-legged, going Ooohm and telling my brain to stop braining has never worked for me. So I drew a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet for our Unravelogue community and filmed the whole thing, start to finish:

I could never have guessed what happened next. Jennifer, one of our members, posted this beautiful oil pastel piece she’d been working on:

The Silence Architect is now with Tom, my proofreader, and all Backstage Pass holders will have it in their hands in April, three months before everyone else.

I’m spending a week drawing wildlife to reset my brain, and then…drumroll, please…

Full-blast diving into book 5 of the 1/2986 series, which is convinient because in about 3 weeks, we’re leaving the Canary Islands to head north toward the Arctic, disappear into the wilderness and live out of a tent 🥶 Best background research, ever!

YESSS, we’re meeting via live video in our Prose & Pastries Café to talk books. Bring your favourite read! If votes are overwhelming, you might convince me to read from The Silence Architect. Anyone with a Backstage Pass has access!

Travelling off-grid means no printer. So our Ink & Elsewhere subscribers get something much better: ORIGINALS! Postcard-sized original abstract art cards made by hand from wherever we happen to land or get stuck, and can’t set up our small printer.