marylowd

marylowd, 13 days ago to random

“Voyage of the Wanderlust" is out today!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVDPQD4R

If you like Star Trek, cats, dogs, squirrels, giant space turtles, cyborg rabbits, or sentient mushrooms, this is for you!

Janessa Carroway, a Norwegian Forest cat, is finally promoted to captain, but her first mission goes awry…

Thrown to the far side of the cosmos can two enemy crews work together to survive? Do they stand a chance against a fleet of attacking Zakonraptors? And why is that squirrel so charming?

marylowd, 21 days ago to random

The feeling when your brain fog finally begins to fade, and your mind starts to feel a little like your own again.

marylowd, 2 months ago to random

This sheep could not be more ready to go on a hike — she has everything she could possibly need, including a sheep dog to watch over her.

marylowd, 2 months ago to random

This garden grows in the glow of a deep red sun.

marylowd, 2 months ago to random

This Xolo warrior will defend the jungle from any rogue archeologists who belong in a museum.

marylowd, 2 months ago to random

The sunflower sun.

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

On Threads there’s an AI prompting game where each new player adds a word that needs to be included in the prompt.

So, this is a robot otter diva driving a futuristic car through the sunshine in an abstract ray tracing style.

And yes, I’m the one who added “otter.”

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

Narcissus as a cat—
Drawn to his reflection
But repelled by the water
Locked in perfect stasis
As his fur grows flowers

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

A truly extreme sport — if you fall off your board, you fall into the heart of a gas giant!

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

Jellycorn.

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

My book, THE ANCIENT EGG, has its first review!

I voluntarily reviewed this book after receiving a free copy. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book, so was excited when given the opportunity to read this one. The author has created a futuristic society in which the pets we know and love are more human than animal. They are our children. Janice has returned home with more adopted family, back to the space station after escaping the hell moon. Traumatized, but surviving, she and her family believe they are finally safe, but of course the monsters are back. The book does a very good job handling Trans characters, and death. How far would you go to protect and save your loved ones? What terrible actions would you be willing to live with? How would you deal with an innocent child of the monsters who have haunted you? Who took almost everything from you? The world and characters are detailed while not being overworked. The plot does conclude, but leaves you waiting for what will come next for Janice and her family.

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

When your space station architects are really into an art nouveau aesthetic…

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

Trugger loves his new shoes and says that the fish on the soles will disguise his footprints so that anyone trying to follow him will think his trail was left by a school of fish instead!

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

I can hear the ice
Falling from trees all around
An eerie sound
Like breaking glass
Or sudden rat-a-tat-taps
A firing gun as branches break
Cracking all at once
Then tinkling like aural glitter
As every shard
Rattles through ice-sheathed
Bracken
On its way down
To the snow
Below

marylowd, 3 months ago to random

Trugger’s song at the open mic is almost entirely about fish. Kipper should have expected that. She asked him to write a song about space travel… but somehow fish metaphors entirely took over his lyrics.

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

Swirls and curls
Rainbow ringlets
This unicorn gets
Lost in a world
Of pastel imaginings
Following closely
Wherever a wandering mind leads

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

“He lived in this world, and he didn’t feel like mourning an old one. A world he’d never lived in.”
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Chapter 1 of “Nawry the Noodlebeast” from COMMANDER ANNIE AND OTHER ADVENTURES: http://deepskyanchor.com/nawry-1/

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

“Commander Annie and Other Adventures” illustration outtake…

This Noodlebeast looks like they’re about to found a religion.

A NOODLE religion.

So… I guess… kinda like Flying Spaghetti Monster. Hmm.

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

“Inspiring younger cats was one of her goals, and it warmed her heart to know she’d succeeded with at least one.”

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Otters In Space 4 ch. 10: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois4-ch10/

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

“Sequoia was in space, for the first time, closer to the stars she loved than she’d ever been before, and yet her heart was distracted by the presence of a ridiculous mop-dog who probably thought of her as less than a full person.”

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Otters In Space 4 ch. 9: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois4-ch9/

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

Blossoming from the ashes.

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

I’d like to be…

marylowd, 4 months ago to random

I have a lot of work before me — a whole lot of new covers to create — but I thought it would be fun to share DALLE3’s first take on Otters In Space, based only on the blurb for it.

Obviously, it’s full of problems and there’s a long ways to go, but it’s a pretty cool start.