Short moving account, art, and my book review

Blogger has been down, so I hadn't been able to publish. It would always give me an annoying error message... However! It's working now and I have quite a bit to write.

We finally got the move over with last weekend and I am not sorry to see it past. I don't like the location of the current house, but the house itself is quirky and fun, as Mom says. It has some particularly random traits that don't make sense. Like a storm door leading into the garage and NO storm door leading to the backyard. It has a large pool, but the whole thing is only 3 ft deep. The master bath tub is sunken into the ground. It's all fairly amusing.

The move itself was the worst so far. Kitty #2 escaped while we were trying to pack him up, so I chased him out of the yard, through a cactus patch (in flip flops) and to the canyon wall, where he disappeared.

It was my fault because I was the one who let him go.

Fortunately, I went to the house the next evening and he was sitting outside looking very confused, so I caught him.

It was hard on my poor mom, too, because several of her favorite things got broken, even though the box was clearly marked "fragile."

Also, this morning, I got my review of The Five Trials this morning from Karissa!

She pointed out a few small mistakes that I hadn't noticed (never would have noticed without someone telling me haha) but gave me a great review. I'm so glad. I was pretty nervous, but now I think I will, finally, attempt to turn over the book to mom for the tearing of its life so I can send it to publishers. I need her help to write the outline and letter and everything... One of the perks of having a writer for a mom :D

For art-related news, since the last time I posted, I've finished several things...

First is piece # 1 for the Fire Emblem collab, which has been on the sidebar for about a week. But I'm posting it here now!

It is, in fact, watermarked. I just made it a ninja watermark that you have to really look for XD I haven't even started piece #2. I'm at a bit of a loss for ideas at the moment.

The next bit started off as just a practice drawing and then became fairly detailed.

And finally, I just decided to post this about five minutes ago. It's a preview of a large chibi piece I'm working on of the entire cast from my books. It was supposed to be quick and easy, but apparently I can't do anything that way anymore. I've been working on it for five days now.

Chibis are fun :D

The armor and hair shine doesn't really show up on blogger, but you'll be able to see it when I post it on deviantART.

Well, I guess that's it for now!