Cover Rough and Drama (Patreon)

So, the good news first.  Natasha has the rough draft for the Aberrant Magic 6 cover done.  I love it.  Covers are so important--the tell the reader that I am willing to invest money in producing a good product. Hopefully it tells them that I'm equally willing to invest in a good editor.  I love this because Art looks so aggravated.  He is just DONE.  And Zach looks at Art like he's the center of his world and it all fits in perfectly with the other covers.  And Art actually looks like what I imagined. I love the Kavon model on the others, but I still see Kavon as being much darker and edgier.  Anyway, here's the rough draft (for your eyes only)

And other other news, just as I'm getting ready to write mpreg, apparently the internet has exploded over mpreg being anti-trans (because why not put a transman there and have a realistic pregnancy) and anti-gay (because so many gay people suffer because of their inability to have a child and the financial and emotional barriers put up when they try to adopt).  Yikes. That's a lot of baggage, and I can see why people want transman mpreg and I can see where gay couples and asexual individuals have many barriers to parenthood while drug-addicted het couples pop them out only to lose them to the state.  Yep. That hurts.  

I'm still going to do my mpreg.  And I'm still not sorry that I did my Sentinel sorta-mpreg (although with that, Blair was intersex and could contribute the eggs).  I will say I have a problem with mpreg that has no plausible explanation for existing just because I require a certain realism to be able to get into a story.  Alien tentacles? Check.  Intersex with a surrogate? Check. Transman? Check.  Randomly having a genetic male get pregnant for no reason?  Yeah, I can't go there.  My brain just starts sputtering and going, but... but... but...

However, I plan to stay out of the drama on Facebook and Twitter and keep my opinions to myself.