For those who don’t visit the Literotica forums ( probably most of you ) I thought I’d post the little images I’m putting in my signature there to advertise new or upcoming chapters of SOTM, since it doesn’t actually have a cover image just yet.  I’m still working on it.

The one I put up for Ch. 14 actually has a little of the imagery I’m working on for the cover, showing headshots of Danica and Celes.

This one is for Ch. 15, and it is meant to depict something specific from the chapter.  Too bad you can’t really see the glowing heiroglyphs in this small image, but they’re actually there.  Every little blue area on the skin is a different heiroglyph.

I’m going to warn you that — while tiny — this image is NSFW ( not safe for work )

I’m trying to provide a little space to hide it, should you choose to do so.

As long as you’re not using a higher screen resolution than me, this should do it.

Here it is:

I saw an email notification pop up while I was finishing this image, which tells me that Roust has finished the edit of Ch. 15.  I’ll go through his suggestions here in a little bit, and if necessary, send back the changed draft for him to give one more look through.

That’s the (almost) final step to get it ready for posting.  I actually do a lot of manual HTML formatting to the stories I post on Lit, and I’ll have to do that before it’s completely ready.

I did a read through Chapters 16 and 17 of SOTM, but those aren’t the final reads.  When I do those, I change the font, which helps me catch errors.  This was just making minor adjustments.

I also renamed the previous draft of Ch. 06 of Lowborn to “bak” in preparation to rewrite it from scratch.  Never know when something I did write might come in handy, even if I don’t use it in the story I’m working on at the moment, so I save a lot of that stuff.  Once I eventually get around to restoring the sections of the website, I’ll probably put a lot of that stuff up on a “cutting room floor” page again.

For now, I’m going to put on the Chrono Cross soundtrack ( the game was just okay, but the soundrack is pure awesomeness! ) and get back to Heart of the Wood.