The Gryphon Generation Book Five: Chimera Affliction by Alexander Bizzell has been added to the Gryphon Reading List!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gryphon-Generation-Book-Chimera-Affliction-ebook/dp/B0FM4KST7X/

Gryphon Reading List: https://kvalenagle.com/gryphonlist

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Here's a fun typo that's specific to creature fantasy authors. If you pluralize opinicus as opinici instead of opinicuses, do a search for "opinici" in your manuscript and see how often you accidentally used that form as an adjective. It should be "opinicus lovers" and not "opinici lovers."

I've edited maybe twelve gryphon-adjacent creature fantasy books at this point, sometimes just doing a proofread as a favor, and the moment I see an opinicus show up, I perform that search and I always catch something.

Funnily enough, I'm not sure where using opinici as an irregular plural began. During the early days of the pandemic, I replayed some old 90s video games for fun, and I was surprised to see the irregular plural even back then in lines like "Feral opinici and masterless golems roam the highlands. They would make a valuable addition to our army" in Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber.

And if anyone doesn't know what an opinicus is, it's a different type of gryphon. The heraldry definition is any gryphon who lacks external ears, but it can also mean a male gryphon (in heraldry, that sometimes means without wings, or with light spikes for wings). Really, though, in modern fantasy, opinicus is the most common term for when you have two species of gryphons in the same fantasy setting.

In GryphIns, the series leans into the lack of external ears and makes opinici more-avian gryphons. In Feathers & Flames, it's the opposite: the opinici are fully feline gryphons and even have kitty ears.

It's a popular secondary gryphon species term for a reason: the other gryphon 'cousins' all have goofy names like keythongs or alces!

Anyways, if you're writing opinicus books, which you should, do a quick search for opinici and see if you accidentally used it as an adjective somewhere. Most likely, you did! And if not, you're a better writer than I am =]

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I got home from a walk today and Glenn asked if I'd like to spend the afternoon writing a Rorin standalone novel together for a few hours =] Of course, I said yes!

(Rorin art by @fleeks )

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Smashwords is having their 16th annual Summer/Winter Sale, and they're running a 50% off discount on all of my gryphon books, including the boxed sets!

From now until July 31st, grab any book (before Pridelord) for half off. Smashwords offers a DRM-free version you can put on any ereader/tablet, including Kindle, Kobo, Nook, or any app you want, really.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/stetpublishing

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I feel like I just got rewarded for scrolling Tumblr instead of writing =] I should get back to edits, but it's a delight to see GryphIns fan art. Thank you, The Silent Saphira.

https://www.tumblr.com/bigrebelturkeydream/749333171058999296/rorin-and-tresh-with-their-harnesses-and-flippers?source=share

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Today's #GryphIns fan art is inspired by the fact that I say the URL as "Biski dot App." As such, please enjoy this Biski fan art by Risuquin. When I was going through some tough medical issues, she sent me this medicine gryphon to keep me safe =]

Risuquin can be found on www.instagram.com/risuquin/

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