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And another new illustration - a character portrait of the mysterious October Queen. Lots more on the way!

Forgive the delay, everyone. Still catching up on things, but here are links to the next two short sections of the rewrites --

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ij9ub7jxburrl3t/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter3-5.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbehjmwb3gius3g/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter4-1.pdf?dl=0

Lots more on the way!

Hope you all had a lovely long weekend. Here's a link to another short section of the rewrite while I work on the illustration for this chapter! --

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dc065bls68blon2/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter3-3.pdf?dl=0

Next part is up on Dropbox! Chapter Three, Part One --

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ywfjedy506pg16u/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter3-1.pdf?dl=0

And the rewriting continues: here's a link to the rewritten Chapter Two, Part One --

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73z957v47owqqjn/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter2-1.pdf?dl=0

And here's a link to a PDF of the revised version of Chapter One, Part 2 on Dropbox if anyone is interested. As always, feedback is welcome --

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0tlnf7ervzgsxv/NightFolk_FinalDraft_Chapter1-2.pdf?dl=0

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If you'd like to read them, click HERE. (No... Read more

Had a great time at the Albany Children's Book Festival yesterday.  Talked to a lot of people, did my best to promote NIGHT FOLK and the Kickstarter campaign with the... Read more

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It's good to have talented friends...

After we posted some of the photos from Ian Struckhoff's cover shoot, my friend and sometime collaborator Michael Gaydos sent me this -- a... Read more

Here's a sneak peek at another illustration of one of the NIGHT FOLK characters -- Victoria's new friend Sebastian.

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(Here's a look at the next part of Chapter Two.  It's a quick section, but as you'll see, this is where things start getting interesting.  I'll have the next part... Read more

(And here's the next part of Chapter Two.  More of Chapter Two later next week.  I'm going to try and have all of this chapter posted by next weekend, as... Read more

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Another sneak peek at one of the characters from NIGHT FOLK -- Hobb.

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Here's a little sneak peek at the first section of the novel.  I'll be posting the first chapter in pieces here over the course of the NIGHT FOLK campaign, and... Read more

Another sneak peek at an illustration from the novel, this time featuring our main character, Victoria.

Here's a sneak peek at one of the interior illustrations I've produced for the NIGHT FOLK project, and a look at our main villain, the mysterious Mr. Balloon.