Category: Tattoos
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Saturday evening post: Recalcitrant demons and tattooed males
So I’ve gotten to that point in my latest work in progress where all the pieces have fallen into place, and I know exactly what’s going to happen from here to the end…except for One. Little. Thing. It’s a fairly crucial thing. My demon character Belphagor is supposed to have a plan that he unveils…
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Saturday evening post: Young Belphagor
Ooh. I just found my young Belphagor: Isn’t he sweet? Of course, he should have dark brown eyes, and young Belphagor had no tattoos, until…oh, right. You have to read the second trilogy to find that out. Sorry for the horrible tease. (notsorry) To make up for it, here’s a brief excerpt from young Belphagor’s…
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Bonus post: Friday flesh
And because I just happened to have some spare nekkid tattooed people “lying about,” I thought I’d post a few bits of candy for everyone: Personally, I don’t think he’s nearly as hot as Mateo, but…OMG…I’m typing right under his groin! Seriously, though, I prefer this one: And in keeping with the theme of my…
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Throwing Chora
So an interesting thing developed while I was writing the Queen of Heaven series. The beginning of The House of Arkhangel’sk opens on a card game. It was one of the first images I had of this world: a den of “iniquity” in heaven, where an angel of the ruling House of Arkhangel’sk, disguised as…
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Looking for Belphagor
Belphagor turns out to be much harder to find than Vasily…and I never thought I’d find Vasily. Sigh. But here’s a model who has a certain Belphagorian look to him: Is that a gun in his pocket, or…? And here’s another one; no tattoos, unfortunately, but he has a little something of Belphagor in the…
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Of plum blossoms and body ink
Several years ago when I finished writing my first novel I started a tradition: each time I finished a book, I would get a tattoo. The first tattoo was my blue moon. This was for my novel Blood Maiden, and represents a carving on a dagger that one of the characters carried (though hers had…