I was busy enough yesterday that this went out on Bluesky, but not yet here on my own site!

I am teaming up again with Avery Liell-Kok (one of the artists from the pattern deck) to make Lady Trent’s Field Journal: A Dragon Coloring Book. Ten images of dragons in the wild, accompanied by excerpts from Lady Trent’s scholarly writings — my way of answering a question I’ve gotten with surprising frequency, which is “Will you ever publish any of her scientific work?” I have yet to come up with any complete ideas in that regard that would be interesting enough to pass as a short story, but as pairings for her drawings from the field? Sure!

The dragons featured here are a deliberate mix of old favorites you’ve seen before, dragons which got mentioned but never depicted, and new beasts created entirely for this project. The Kickstarter campaign will offer the writings and images in three formats: a file pack you can print at home or color in digitally, a loose-leaf pack to facilitate sharing around or hanging on the wall, and a paperback book — that last coming in both a regular and a Scholar’s Edition, which will be signed and have an additional quick sketch from Avery. I’m also including add-ons for bookplates and signed paperbacks of the novels in the series!

Right now we’re in the pre-launch phase. If you’d like to be notified when it goes live (or you just want to support the project in the eyes of the algorithm gods), just click the “notify me” button here. It won’t be long!