Here we go! The commencement of Chapter 13 is now! You can read page 115 right this very moment.
Do you still need to get caught up on the story so far?
You can read the whole thing online right here on the Valley of the Silk Sky page or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Chapter 13 picks up immediately after the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Valley of the Silk Sky officially returns next week!
I will resume my previous practice of early access for my $1+ Patreon subscribers, and then release to the general public a few days after. On Monday, August 31st, $1+ Patreon subscribers will get to read page 115, and on Thursday, September 3rd it’ll be available to the general public across Patreon, Tumblr, and the Valley of the Silk Sky website. I’ll also post the pages here on Studio NDR as I have done in the past, but the priority goes to the other sites listed first, so if you are impatient those are your best choices!
New pages will drop on Mondays for $1+ Patreon subscribers, and on Thursdays for the general public.
So, yet another a reminder to get caught up on the story so far if you haven’t already done so!
You can read the whole thing online on the Valley of the Silk Sky website (or here on Studio NDR) or you can acquire book collections of Parts 1 and 2 in either print or digital formats. Please note that the events in chapter 13 immediately follow the events in chapter 11, which is not included in the book collections since it’s in Part 3. So be sure to read chapter 11 as well, lest ye be confused as to what the hell is going on.
Why yes, I do actually have some new comics for you. First up, a short diary comic called “Stimuless.” I guess you could say this is an AUTO-bio comic, har har. But yes, this is more or less the sequence of events that occurred, though the real life version had less anthropomorphism.
For the last few weeks I’ve been running a Valley of the Silk Sky short story over on the VotSS website. (I typically only publish pages from The Long Run here on Studio NDR; any VotSS extras and short stories are to be found on VotSS.) Well, that short story, “Extraction,” is now complete, and you can read the whole thing in one go. So go:
Finally, I’ll be vending at a virtual convention this weekend, Rainbow Space Magic Con. There will be a bunch of readings and panels with various queer authors of genre fiction, so if that’s of interest to you, come join us this weekend, March 12-14.
I’ll have a vendor pop-up slot on Saturday, March 13 (PT 2:00pm / MT 3:00pm /CT 4:00pm / ET 5:00pm / UK 10:00pm). In addition of a quick run through of my various wares, I’ll also be doing a live reading of some of my comics, so be sure to tune in for that!
Best of all, registration is free, so get yet butt over to the RSMC site to sign up:
Chapter 13 is in the works, but it’s early days. I had to design a new environment which required researching some Things, and then figuring out how to retrofit those Things to the technology available to the fine folks in the Valley.
All for an element in the background that is unlikely to garner much notice, ha ha. BUT IT WILL BE A FUNCTIONAL BACKGROUND THING, OKAY.
Anyhow, thumbnailing has commenced. As per usual, I’ll be posting work-in-progress stuff for my $1+ Patrons, so if you want to follow along, a single dollar a month is all it takes.
This was my go-to page for posting work-in-progress images for my $1+ Patrons (you can find those posts here, here, and here). So if you enjoy that kind of thing and can spare a dollar a month, consider becoming a Patron!
If you’re thinking that landscape looks kinda familiar but you’re not sure why, you may wish to review Chapter 9. Could be relevant, I dunno ….
If you desire a refresher re: what the heck is going on here, please turn your attention to Chapter 7.
Something Tyv knows that perhaps you the reader might not (because it’s not SUPER important to the narrative, just a bit of background detail) is that Bantri’s big skill is disguise. Within Cobb’s crew, that largely amounted to pretending to be a traveling merchant (or, rather, several different traveling merchants, busting out a new costume as circumstances warranted).
This chapter introduces some new characters, of whomst you shall glimpse one here. Tyv is something of a famous burglar, well-known across the Valley for deploying a dramatic flair when xe steals stuff. Hence the fan club of Bad Kids intent on making off with xer wanted poster as a souvenir.
Regarding one of the other posters in the background, imploring people to halt the spread of sweetberry bush, I just wanna say this was written pre-pandemic and is mere thematic coincidence. I’d already figured the Valley would have issues with people complying (sweetberry bush spreads because the berries are tasty, and if you’re hungry, what are you gonna do), but actually stropping the spread for real would require coordinated governmental action and can’t be left to individuals to stop. Didn’t expect that to be quite so on the nose, but here we are.
If you’re needing even more of a refresher than that, might I suggest hitting The Valley of the Silk Sky landing page to start at the beginning or to choose a chapter at will.
