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About Alis

Find out about Alis, her projects, where she’ll be, and what she’s reading.

Books

Alis occasionally writes books. Find out more about them or even buy some.

Freebies!

Short fiction, book excerpts, and more. Who doesn’t love a free read?

Updates

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UNNATURAL ORDER interview season.

Lyss and I answer a bunch of questions about the Unnatural Order anthology. Including some Hot Tips for those of you thinking of submitting a story!

Adventures in booth manning.

GAMMA.CON, spending money, and obligatory UNNATURAL ORDER mini-update.

UNNATURAL ORDER: The Kickstarter!

The UNNATURAL ORDER Kickstarter is live!

Hugos Homework: Best Short Story.

Return to the Desert of Hard Passes.

Hugos Homework: Best Novelette.

This one actually has some international authors, so that also makes it our first voting category! Woo!

Hugos Homework: Best Novella.

Still not blown away, honestly, but there's more here for me than the novels category. So... that's something?

Oh yeah. The thing I mostly did today while booth-manning? Worked on coloring bigboy/-non-gendered-demonic-entity Lee. I'm actually kind of happy how the linework turned out on this, so now it's just, like... trying to figure out how to actually color lineworked art, since I, like. Don't. Normally.

Tentaplush!

Mum’s tentacle monster plushie prototype for the Unnatural Order Kickstarter. […]

Leelee!

Aa-aa-and mascot number two! This is, of course, a chiibified version of this guy, albeit with a more goatish face. Also: tentacles are fun! Lighting is not fun! Boo, lighting!