It was a simple job.
Use stolen bearer bonds to buy illegal weapons from a black marketeer, get them somewhere safe, then steal back the bonds and put them back before they're missed by their owners.
But the buy got shot to hell.
Now the bonds AND guns are in the wind.
Get em back.
Simple, right?
Before a blue-washed cityscape at night, stands a tall and powerful black man. He's skinny as a rail but his shoulders are broad, his fists clenched, and he blazes with an aura of sky-blue power. His long hair is just slightly streaked with gray, and tightly braided. His eyes are covered by round, green glasses. His mouth, behind a short and neatly trimmed beard is set in grim determination. He wears a purple button down shirt and gray slacks beneath a sweeping long black leather duster. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him, against the sky is the text: "They want you to believe you are wrong, and the world is right. Always. You won't realize your power, until you know in your gut that often, they have it backwards. -Rock"
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
Digital art ad for the Flame & Claw trilogy by Devlin James. It features a checklist of ticked off items: Contemporary fantasy set in Seattle, Diverse cast of characters in a found family, Badass magical girl main character (girl is crossed out and woman scribbled atop it), All book published - no waiting for sequels, Bi romantic triangle, and of course talking cats. Check it out at devlin james dot com slash f a c.
They want you to think you are small.
You are.
Like the single bit of snow, that spawns an avalanche.
Ideas can change the world. Believe in your own power of creation, and craft the future.
Always appreciate pitties and illusory portals to realms of imagination. Both are necessary for life.
We have four human souls further from home than at any point in our history.
For those who don't quite understand why that's incredible, consider this.
(Again, thank you JMS)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU41...
#babylon5 #ToTheStars #Space
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
♥️
The gentleman to the right of the heart is Steven G. Love. He's wearing a Sailor Moon lanyard.
His name also happens to fit my favorite Lyn #Minmay ear-worm.
"Ste-ven G Love, Ste-ven G Love,
4, 3, 2, 1, Ste-ven G Love!"
My kinda people! 😁
#Macross
Before a blue-washed city scape at night, stands a young Asian lady. The sides of her head are shaved smooth, with a long Mohawk dropped over to her right. She's wearing a ragged white tee-shirt under a black vest and gray jeans. above her fingerless gloved right had floats a common wrench, which is slowly dissolving in a ripple of cyan sparks and dragon fire. Beside her is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above her against the sky is the text:""Perseverance is picking yourself up off the ground one more time." - Lucy Okuda"
Before a blue-washed city scape at night, stands a young man. He's wearing bluejeans and suspenders with a gray button shirt open at the front and flapping in the breeze with a black t-shirt underneath that reads "Blue Man". Appropriate because his skin is brilliant cyan and purple. He's smacking one fist into the other palm and looks like he's gonna start some trouble. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him against the sky is the text: "Disney said it was fun to do the impossible. Well then, let's have some fun!" - Cam Williams
A young man hovers before a blue-washed cityscape at night. He's wearing gray slacks but otherwise is naked to the waist. His blonde hair is tousled int he breeze as he floats in midair on cerulean blue dragon wings. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him against the sky is the text: "Forget energy drinks. HOPE gives you wings. Hope is why I fly." - Patrick Fisher
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
Yesterday was #TransDayOfVisibility.
I waited until today to say:
I saw you yesterday.
I see you today.
And I will see you tomorrow.
Always.
No one's opinion (certainly not mine) is as important -or as beautiful- as you simply being YOU.
So go forth, and be beautiful.
Before a blue-washed city scape at night, stands a young Asian lady. The sides of her head are shaved smooth, with a long Mohawk dropped over to her right. She's wearing a ragged white tee-shirt under a black vest and gray jeans. above her fingerless gloved right had floats a common wrench, which is slowly dissolving in a ripple of cyan sparks and dragon fire. Beside her is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above her against the sky is the text:""Perseverance is picking yourself up off the ground one more time." - Lucy Okuda"
Before a blue-washed city scape at night, stands a young man. He's wearing bluejeans and suspenders with a gray button shirt open at the front and flapping in the breeze with a black t-shirt underneath that reads "Blue Man". Appropriate because his skin is brilliant cyan and purple. He's smacking one fist into the other palm and looks like he's gonna start some trouble. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him against the sky is the text: "Disney said it was fun to do the impossible. Well then, let's have some fun!" - Cam Williams
A young man hovers before a blue-washed cityscape at night. He's wearing gray slacks but otherwise is naked to the waist. His blonde hair is tousled int he breeze as he floats in midair on cerulean blue dragon wings. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him against the sky is the text: "Forget energy drinks. HOPE gives you wings. Hope is why I fly." - Patrick Fisher
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
Yesterday was #TransDayOfVisibility.
I waited until today to say:
I saw you yesterday.
I see you today.
And I will see you tomorrow.
Always.
No one's opinion (certainly not mine) is as important -or as beautiful- as you simply being YOU.
So go forth, and be beautiful.
Digital art for "DnA Agents of Chaos" by Devlin James. It features the main characters of the series Dani and Amy standing back to back with a brick wall behind them and a spotlight shining down on them. Dani has a pistol up and ready, Amy is using her cybernetics to hack something remotely.
Digital art of for "Sea of Stars: The Odyssey Begins - Zero Margin" by Devlin James. it features the main character, Kinu Ogawa - callsign 'Silk', standing in her flight suit against a starry sky, as her fighter swoops around her. Kinu is echoing the fighter's movements with her hand.
THIS is a heck of a week to become a Citizen of the Galaxy!
(www.patreon.com/c/de...)
Today, we added the second Chunk of "DnA: Agents of Chaos" - a fantastic cyberpunk tale.
And Wednesday, you'll get access to "Zero Margin", an incredible sci-fi novella!
Not bad for $5, eh?
I was once sentenced to the Nintendo Product Testing department for a couple years. Whenever we had a GB project, we'd argue over who got to work with the Magica Riot platform. ;)
COOL! Welcome to the 'Sky!
Folks, I did voice work (and a bit of writing actually) for this group back in the day. They did anime-based podcast fic with full casts.
I thought they closed up shop during Covid, but if they're coming back then I'ma do Daffy Duck handsprings all over the place.
NBC's MLB scorebug for Pirates vs. Mets, where the logos and scores spell out P-0-N-Y-0 (or Ponyo, like the Studio Ghibli movie)
PONYO
A young man hovers before a blue-washed cityscape at night. He's wearing gray slacks but otherwise is naked to the waist. His blonde hair is tousled int he breeze as he floats in midair on cerulean blue dragon wings. Beside him is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above him against the sky is the text: "Forget energy drinks. HOPE gives you wings. Hope is why I fly." - Patrick Fisher
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
It has been a ROUGH couple of weeks. In addition to all the hell going on out there, My laptop died, and needed new fans and a battery replacement, hence my silence.
*sigh*
Here, have a shot of the God of Sexy Lawyers, Patrick Fisher. ;P
#FlameAndClaw #FaC #UrbanFantasy #BookSky
If 'woke' is now a bad word... (Being awake and aware is somehow a negative? ) then I propose the opposite is 'shroom'. Because the person espousing this concept wants to be kept in the dark and fed on, well...
DON'T use AI slop. There are tons of folks who will do art, cover design, or anything else a starting out self-pub author needs for a lot less $$ than you think they will. You'll get a better end product too.
You ever think about how it's been 5 years since Macross was going to be internationally distributed yet we still don't have blurays for any of the TV series'
(over an image of the map of 3,000 No Kings protests planned for March 28) TOTAL NUMBER OF NO KINGS 3 EVENTS 3,000
It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day.
That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history.
Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
Before a blue-washed cityscape at night, stands a young latina. She's a warm pink burrton down shirt and dark gray slacks. Beside her is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above her against the sky is the text:"Taking care of others is taking care of yourself, too. Because when you help others, they help you in return.-Maria Garcia Flores"
Above a blue-washed cityscape at night are the words "Welcome to Fudge-It Friday (feel free to fwap f-words). Today of all days, remember that your most important important social contract is the one you make with you. If it's not bleeding, on fire, or demanding food, you've my permission to say 'Aw, Fudge It' and take time for YOURSELF."
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
Combining the usual Friday thing with a new affirmation to form Voltron: Defender of Your Positive Feed! ;)
#FudgeItFriday #FlameAndClaw
I am sickened and saddened by the blatantly political actions of my country and the state of Israel at the expense of Iranian civilian lives.
This is a blood soaked smokescreen pushed forward in the dead of night by weak men hoping to distract our eyes from their crimes.
It will not work.
Digital art of Sara Osborn, the main character of the Flame & Claw trilogy, riding on the back of Diane the Wondercat. Diane is in her transformed state, a large black tiger-like form with a flaming cyan mane and streaming tail as the pair zip through evening traffic under an ominous reddish sky.
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
Happy #Caturday from Diane, the Wondercat!
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
We are all of us born into a family, even if it doesn't seem like it. But if we're supremely lucky, we get another, one made of the people we love and who have our backs. THAT is family that isn't found, it's forged in fire.
Before a blue-washed cityscape at night, stands a young woman. She's wearing bluejeans, green tee shirt and a black leather jacket. She's also wearing bits of scaled armor on her lower legs, her hands and wrists, and a circlet at her brow. The armor is mottled blue and puple, and it is wreathed in fire of the same hues. Beside her is the logo for the Flame & Claw urban fantasy trilogy of books. Above her against the sky is the text: "Out there, on the streets, bonds of genuine friendship are rare. Something you don’t even dare dream about when you’re on your own. I’d spent seven years alone, just me and my cat. But now I had these beloved strangers, this collection of oddballs that part of me had known for so many centuries. I wasn’t on my own anymore. It wasn’t me against the world. It was us. " - Sara Osborn
Digital art ad for the Flame & Claw trilogy by Devlin James. It features a checklist of ticked off items: Contemporary fantasy set in Seattle, Diverse cast of characters in a found family, Badass magical girl main character (girl is crossed out and woman scribbled atop it), All book published - no waiting for sequels, Bi romantic triangle, and of course talking cats. Check it out at devlin james dot com slash f a c.
These affirmation posts all come from scenes that were deleted form the text during editing. Except this one. This comes from the first book, "Peacebreaker" and it's the heart of everything I tried to do with the trilogy.
Digital art flier for the Flame And Claw trilogy of urban fantasy novels written by Devlin James. Above a blue-washed nighttime cityscape of Seattle, Washington floats the series logo, along with the covers of: the first book, Peacebreaker; the second book, Lightbringer; and the third book, Worldender. Below those are the words "Magical Girl Themes, Found Family, Bi Romantic Triangle, Angels, Dragons, and Trolls! Oh My! For fans of Persona 5 , Sailor Moon, urban fantasies, Comic books, Anime, and authors like: Seannan McGuire, Jim Butcher, or Leigh Bardugo. Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!"
The state of our union is finding that no, we're not alone in rising up against a tyrannical power who see people as nothing more than resources to exploit for their own power.
In reality and in these fine books I wrote (clumsy transition, I know)))
www.devlinjames.com/...
#urbanfantasy #booksky
Cannot express enough how much it helps us authors when y'all leave reviews on storefronts and tell your friends about our work ✨
AMEN. It's like a tropical sunbeam finding you on a cold, snow-locked morning while trudging to a job you hate, but do so you can write in the evenings.
In other words, it's like magic.
UGH! some art thief put an original piece of mine through an AI slop generator and posted it and the original on reddit.
I'm torn between wanting to puke and ripping them to bits.
Folks, don't steal from others. it's not nice, it's not cool. It doesn't make you a creative, it makes you a slopper.
A rare outtake.
We gotta do SOMETHING to counteract the burritos... ;)