On the Blog Hop front, Erika Lindsen is hosting Mina Kelly today here, in a discussion of Mina’s book Inescapable.
On the art front, last week I took on an urgent free commission from Kadorienne, a long-time friend and beta reader. I owe her: for dragging me back into fan fiction 13 years ago, for endless beta reads of original fiction, for stupid jokes, for sending and receiving some extremely warped and questionable fan-related cards, jewelry, and collectibles. Friends like that are important, and not merely for the toleration with which they greet my particular insanity.
She’d written a smart, emotional, funny, and in-character M/M Avengers Frostiron novel. It was going to ‘zine publication and needed a cover.
So I did about six hours of 40% photo-manipulation and 60% hand-drawn digital art in Painter, and here is the result, sans text: 
Stolen Relics is now available in print here, and will be on Agent With Style’s table at the upcoming MediaWest*Con at the end of May, 2013.