Hi, everyone!

Some of you have heard of this already, so a brief explanation. For my little sister tencups_i_swear 's birthday the other day (ahem. Happy Birthday, tencups!) I gave her copies of our favourite books, The Thief and The Queen of Attolia. Before I sent them, I printed off some chapter headings kindly translated from the Japanese edition of these books by ninedaysaqueen , and illustrated each heading with a scene from the chapter, and slotted them and some other surprises between the pages.

Those of you who know tencups know that she's a MUCH better artist than I, so my efforts aren't anyway near such entertaining caricatures of the characters as hers are (try http://goat-foot-baa.deviantart.com/gallery/#Queens-Thief ) but here they are!


( The Thief illustrations )
( The Queen of Attolia illustrations )Tons of thanks (and international cookies) to everyone who contributed to the present, and also to the people whose work I used without warning them, namely peggy_2 (for the original Japanese photos) and ninedaysaqueen . Also, thanks to thelasteddis for her very helpful feedback on the pictures. She'll have noticed that I didn't take her advice, for which I can only defend myself by saying that I ran out of time, and ink drawings unfortunately don't lend themselves to much last-minute revision. But it was very much appreciated :D

Also, I *am* aware that I spelt 'thief' wonky. Mea Culpa!

Those of you who know tencups_i_swear  may also know that she has a Deviant Art page on which she posts quite a LOT of Queen's Thief art. http://goat-foot-baa.deviantart.com/

Being her big sister, I'm biased, but I think a lot of it is quite good. She's also made a Queen's Thief picture meme! Now, I don't even draw, but I had heaps of fun filling this in, even with all the ink and scanner and cropping dramas it entailed.


I do apologise that it's so tiny. Clicking will bring it up larger, but I can't figure out how to make it bigger on the page...
 

I finished my map!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I officially have too much time on my hands, and so I tried to research and map the geography of Eddis, Attolia and Sounis. And tried. And tried. And screwed up drafts and threw them at the walls.
And finally, I have something geographically coherent. Even if the river does run uphill. 

Anyway, I'm going to wait till the results of the song contest on Sounis are up (lol. I can't wait to see who wins!) and then I'll post it on there. I just wanted to celebrate!

Here is a snippet of what the finished map looks like:


Since I drew it longhand and scanned it in, the colours are just slightly off - a bit faded, I think. Ah well!


Edited: Exclamation mark overload, anyone?

Hello all - here is a fan-fic I wrote a few years ago. It focusses on Harry's daughter, Cass - a girl who wants to know EVERYTHING. Feedback would be VERY much appreciated.
*crosses fingers that the LJ cut will work first time around*