Pencil doodling

So, I spent tonight working on finishing up the art piece for the Behind The Walls cover. I am pretty pleased with it… 🙂 And because I’m a tease…

Off the coast, in shallow waters, a basalt slab rises from the choppy sea. Known as Watchman’s Stone, it was once used by the Seawatch Order. Now it lies long-derelict… or does it?

Thaddeus Moore is doing wonderful, iron-on patches. He did some The Midderlands ones for me, and those will be up on my website at the start of the year. In the meantime… You can get hold of these following the instructions here: To quote Thad: “Buy an OSR patch because I made a lot of… Read More

MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing was represented down at DragonMeet by Peter Regan at Squarehex, who I would like to thank for his work during (and either side) of the day. Peter did a great job and sales were glorious. Thank you to everyone who purchased products. Your support of myself and Squarehex is invaluable. Hat… Read More

Thanks to a tip off by Mark Nolan… Check this out!! This is most definitely gameable and relevant to my next Kickstarter project… https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-murder-map  

It has been a long time coming. The old site served me well during my time as a minnow. Now, I need a bigger pond to swim in. The old site was littered with PayPal buttons, nooks and crannies. To find anything was a chore. But no more. A better layout, a better shop, a… Read More

When I was 13, I played the TSR UK modules, The Sentinel and The Gauntlet. The maps were wondrous and I loved the style of the cartography. There were many other maps in the TSR UK series that had this cartographic style, such as O2 Blade of Vengeance, I8 Ravager of Time, CM6 Where Chaos… Read More

Fantasy author, Sarina Langer writes about her experiences using maps in her novels. You can check out her website here: https://sarinalangerwriter.com/. Everyone knows that we all judge books by their covers–but what about their maps? A map in a fantasy novel is pretty much an instant sell for me–and bookworms and reviewers (aka your audience)… Read More