King critical or king positive? The choice will save or end your immortal life. Character gallery: Hunters 6-9; Meet Maidie, Tsula, Kenzie, Eddie, and Weeds.
I’ve redesigned my website in somewhat coordination with the upcoming release of Keeping House and want to share my first post in a highly-visual series of character designs, beginning with a few of the Hunter fey. Ignore their expressions or lack thereof and try to read what’s beneath that, if you’re able. Or, if you think you understand fey, you know they hide beneath expressions: disdain, neutrality, or distant amusement might cloak happiness, ill intent, or something even more sinister. The rest… well, read their bios and try to discern if they’re King Critical or King Positive, but choose carefully. Your life might be at stake.
Keeping House: An Appalachian Paranormal Fantasy, novel two in the Appalachian Elementals series will be released on July 8th, 2019, and in preparation for the release, I’m sharing the first installment in my characters gallery, my rogues’ gallery of sorts (seriously, many of them warrant the title of rogue) in groups of 2-6. The overall gallery is very much a labor of love. It’s where I’ve gone when I didn’t know what came next, what one my of my characters might be thinking, how they might react. It’s where I’ve been honing my design skills for the past year.
Beside each character image, you’ll learn a bit about them, including their ages, occupations, gender identity and sexuality. Why the last two? Well, Keeping House is queer fantasy as much as it’s Appalachian Fantasy, meaning the main character, Cent Rhodes is queer and many but certainly not all of her friends identify somewhere along the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. As for the Hunters… Yes, a lot of them identify as queer if only because King Dane is drawn to those like herself, meaning queer people.
Name: Tsula Gow
Age: 434 (B: 1585)
Point of Origin: North Carolina coast
Sexuality: predator vs prey
Gender Identity: queer
Pronouns: he/him
Relationship Status: every other Hunter knows better
Occupation: gatekeeper
Quote: “I know my place ’round here well enough.”
Name: Kenzie Gow
Age: 175 (B: 1844)
Point of Origin: Embreeville, Tennessee
Sexuality: Gay
Gender Identity: Cis
Pronouns: he/him
Occupation: ironworker and welder
Partnered with: Balgair Gow
Quote: “But I was gonna share him with Balgair.”
Name: Eddie Gow
Age: 100 (B: 1919)
Point of Origin: Greeneville, Tennessee
Sexuality: Gay
Gender Identity: Cis
Pronouns: he/him
Married to/ Partnered with: –
Occupation: ironworker, welder, bookkeeper
Quote: “It’s fun.”
Name: Weeds Gow
Age: 45 (B: 1974)
Point of Origin: Los Angeles, California
Sexuality: Bisexual
Gender Identity: Cis
Pronouns: he/him
Married to: Dotty Gow, involved w/ Tucker Gow
Occupation: ironworker, welder, drug dealer
Quote: “Can I have my joint back?”
Want to read more about the characters in Keeping House? Tomorrow I’ll be sharing three more Hunters: Conall, Bea, and Brinn.
Right now, the ebook version of Cleaning House, the first installment in the Appalachian Elementals series, is available for only $.99, so get your copy now.
Cleaning House is available at Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and most other ebook retailers.
