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Anime Your Characters: The ‘These Other Doors’ Edition (part 1)

Thea van Diepen

Back in June, I found a dress up game which I pretty much immediately used to create pictures of major characters from my forthcoming White Changeling series. Part one of this can be found here. And part two is here. Well, earlier this week, I was bored and had some time on my hands, so I created anime versions of the main characters of the short stories planned for These Other Doors. Plus two other characters. Um. I’ll explain: I’ve

Bus Phobia (Story Idea)

Thea van Diepen

First off: I forgot to mention that Green Girl got an official title. It happened during the Expo, while I was getting it ready as a free download. It’s now officially called The Tree Remembers, and I mentioned it in my last post without explanation, so now you have it. Here’s what its personal cover looks like: The picture’s pretty; the text is tiny. Whatever. I’ll get over it. I only had half an hour and thank goodness I had that

What’s Next After the Expo?

Thea van Diepen

Hello! I apologize for the radio silence ever since the launch for The Illuminated Heart. As soon as I’d finished that, I had to concentrate all my energy on getting ready for the Edmonton Expo. There was so much to do that I didn’t even manage to get another post in to tell you about it, even though I’d put it on my to-do list. (Note to self: Next year, start getting ready for the Expo earlier than a week

Eseteij (a Storm-Dance poem)

Thea van Diepen

The following poem is inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s book, Always Coming Home, which has a lot of poetry in it, and the poetry does a very good job at giving a sense of the main culture of the book. And, since I’ve been reading it, I decided to write a poem from one of the cultures I’ve made up for some stories I’ve been working on. In this world, there are magic storms, called eseteijo (eseteij in the singular), which

Announcing: These Other Doors (an anthology in progress)

Thea van Diepen

Good news! Remember the two short stories I talked about a bit two weeks ago, codenamed Green Girl and Psychic Bookstore? Well, I’ve decided on putting them together with a couple other stories into an anthology! The reason this announcement is happening now is because I wanted to wait until I had a really good title for it first. Before we get to that title, though, I want to explain how this is going to work. It’s not going to