As the world’s only supernatural researcher, Jill Hamilton is determined to continue her quest to analyze ghosts and document paranormal phenomena, no matter how terrifying they appear. But her mission takes on a new urgency when she discovers that she has contracted a supernatural illness—one that not even her learned bodyguards, Selene and Clara, know a cure for. Time is running out and she must use her investigative skills to solve her own terminal problem. Oh, and catch a demonically possessed serial killer too, of course.
Driving Arcana: Rotation Five continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country in their big red truck, rescuing fairy-cats, talking to mermen, and scientifically categorizing demons. It includes the second rotation of Driving Arcana, Wheel 2:
The Heliopause table at last year’s BLFC. Hoping for another great weekend!
In a couple weeks Heliopause Productions will be at Biggest Little FurCon in Reno, NV, May 17-19. I’ll be sharing a vendor table with Mary “Moth Monarch” Capaldi, and you’ll probably be able to find us by the tower of wire frames we’ll erect to show off all the goodies we’re bringing to town. You can find an assortment of Moth’s wares over on at their shop, and I’ll be bringing lots of books, prints, greeting cards, and some brand new merch that will be available exclusively at conventions.
Weekday Cat sticker sheets
I love stickers, and I love sticker sheets as an easy and economical way to collect stickers. The Weekday Cats give you a kitty for each day of the week, all on a handy A5 sheet. This item goes for $10 per sheet, and is already listed on the online store if you absolutely cannot wait. I will also have fine art prints of each individual cat available at the con!
Art Cards and eBook Cards
Clockwise from top: Escape from the Celestial Palace, Rhondi, Furry Umbrella, Star Walker’s First Steps, Parhim, Nebula, Merman with Octopus, and Mist Spinner.
According to my printer these are “postcards” but the quality is so good I don’t think anyone would want to send them through the mail without an envelope. Really they are more like super-sturdy art prints, and I have them in a variety of my favorite pieces. These are $10 each, can be signed and customized on the back, and are not currently listed in the online store.
Also debuting at BLFC, for the first time ever I am selling eBook Art Cards! These are the same quality as my art cards, but with the book’s cover on the front and bonus art on the back. With purchase of a card, you also get the book associated with it delivered right to your inbox as an epub or mobi file (or both at no added cost). Cards are signed and can be personalized, just like a traditional book, but if you prefer to read on your tablet or phone, you don’t have to lug the whole book around. I’ll have cards forDriving Arcana Rotation 4 and Professor Odd: The Complete Season One available at my table. These will be available exclusively at conventions, and are $10 each—eBook included!
The Professor Odd Season One eBook Card has the season cover on the front, and one of the six single release covers on the back. Pick your favorite cover art, get the whole book!
New Barn Owl Charm
I love acrylic charms, and I’ve adapted one of my favorite Strange Owls as such. Meet the Strange Barn Owl charm, perfect for looking after your keys or decorated your bag! They join my growing collection of charms, including the Strange Elf and Great Gray Owls, and the Andromeda Galaxy Cat. The Strange Barn Owl will be available first at BLFC, and for orders online afterward.
Con Exclusives
As always, my table at a convention is the only place you can commission me for sketchbook drawings. I can also do original commissions on 9″x12″ bristol board, for those of you who don’t have or can’t bring sketchbooks. Currently conventions are the only place where I can take commissions, so keep that in mind! My prices for a standard size sketchbook (8.5″x11″/A4/9″x12″) start at $25 for an Artist Choice quick sketch, $50 for a pencil drawing, $75 for an Artist Choice brush pen study, and $100 for a fine inked piece. It’s 50% more for each additional character or detailed background, and there may be a surplus charge for extra large sketchbooks or complex characters. There may also be discounts for small sketchbooks. All surplus charges and discounts are made at the sole discretion of the artist. Chatting and estimates are always free, and I try to deliver commissions by the morning of the following day.
My li’l original display from WorldCon—each of these is one of a kind, so my display at BLFC will include new and unseen pieces!
My convention table is also the only place where you can buy from my Li’l Original Gallery—these are quarter sheet brush pen sketches on Lokta paper, and are all $20 each. You can also get one made to-order for $25—simple prompts only!
Moving On…
After BLFC my next convention will be at AnthroCon in Pittsburgh, PA, July 5-7, where I will have a full table to real show off everything Heliopause Productions has to offer. Hope to see you here or there, and if not, take care!
With supernatural occurrences becoming increasingly common after the disruption in St Louis, the ordinary lives of common citizens are becoming increasingly uncommon. Which isn’t all bad, as far as Jill Hamilton, supernatural researcher extraordinaire is concerned. When walking trees and magically irradiated mutants practically throw themselves into her path she is more than ready to take samples. And, thanks to the continued efforts of her monster hunter bodyguards, Selene and Clara, she can survive to study the data. But it’s not all spooky plants and haunted houses when they encounter a being so powerful that its very presence wrecks havoc on reality.
Driving Arcana: Rotation Four continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country in a big red truck, fighting monsters, hunting ghosts, and taking very detailed notes. It includes the first three episodes of Driving Arcana, Wheel 2:
Greetings folks! If all the promotional emails in my inbox are anything to go by, the holidays must be upon us. Everyone’s offering discounts and bundles and stuff but here at HpP we’re doing things a little bit differently.
Starting today (November 23) and until December 16, all orders placed at the Heliopause Online Store have the option of gift wrapping and personalization at no extra charge! Just add in the notes section of your order which items are to be gift-wrapped, and what goes to who. I will confirm all personalization via email so that there are no mistakes. I can even ship gifts directly to their recipients for you!
Furthermore, from today through December 16, all purchases of $100 or more (before shipping) will receive a FREE original brush pen drawing! I usually only sell these at conventions, but just for now you can have one as a gift with a purchase of $100 or more.
My li’l original display from WorldCon—note that some of these have already sold! Yours could be a new one!
Originals will be artist choice, but the $100 can be spaced over multiple orders, provided they are all placed between November 23 and December 16 2018 (so be sure to use the same contact email and/or credit card/PayPal so I can keep track!)
To begin, just head on over to the Heliopause Online Store. Select your items and, when going through check out, add this information in the notes:
[Name of Item] add gift wrap, personalize to [name of recipient]
Do this for each item that is to be a gift. If you run out of space in the form simply send me the same information at heliopauseweb@gmail.com and reference your order number.
I WILL CONFIRM ALL ITEMS/PERSONALIZATIONS WITH YOU PRIVATELY VIA EMAIL.
If you would like me to ship a gift directly to the recipient, put their address into the “ship-to” field but use your contact info (email/tel. #). My store doesn’t support separate billing/shipping addresses, but don’t worry, it’ll go through just fine. Please also put in the note that the package is going directly to the gift-receiver.
Unfortunately I’m not yet able to split orders between recipients. You’ll have to make a separate order for each shipping destination (but presents in the shipment can be made out to different people at the same address!)
FRIENDS OUTSIDE THE U.S.! (Or friends who want to pay via PayPal!)
Square, which handles payments for my online store, doesn’t accept non-US cards—but I can still help you! Just send an email to heliopauseweb@gmail.com and include the name and quantity of the item(s) you’d like, plus gift wrapping info, the shipping address and your PayPal email. I’ll send you a bill via PayPal, which will handle the currency conversion. It will also allow you to pay with your credit/debit card, PayPal balance or bank account—all of which are handled by PayPal. One order per shipping address, please!
Once the bill is paid and the address confirmed, I’ll ship your goods! Easy-peasy!
Again, for free gift wrapping and personalization, order from the Heliopause Online Store (either direct or via email) by December 16 (that’s a Sunday)! Order $100 or more to get a free original! Also, print prices will be going up in 2019, so take advantage of them while you can!
Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide), and by request at your local bookstore! Paperback ISBN: 978-1-945781-11-7
Description:
A train in outer space is hijacked. Luckily, Professor Odd is on board. Unluckily, the hijackers know her of old and the situation quickly becomes dire. Jill, Selene and Clara come to the aid of a grieving woman haunted by ghosts, and Bouragner Felpz manages to coax Corianne out of retirement one last time in order to find a lost university student and solve a mystery that has lain dormant for forty years.
These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2018, the tenth and final issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.
Mesohelion 2018 includes:
“Cerberus Retired” Parts 1 and 2 (Professor Odd #12)
“Half Lives” (Driving Arcana #12)
“The Peculiar Case of Professor Odd” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #3)
Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide) and by request at your local bookstore!
Note: Apsis Fiction will retire following this issue, but Professor Odd and Driving Arcana will continue in their own independent publications. Season Three of Professor Odd will begin with “The Angels of Tyson-4,” coming as a single from Heliopause in 2019. Driving Arcana will continue Wheel 2 with Rotation Five, containing “Critical Magic,” “On the Surface Die” and “Free Man Running.”
All Professor Odd wanted was show her friends a marvel of engineering: a train built to run through outer space between planets! Then the train is hijacked by pirates, and it’s up to her and Elo and Alister and Dave to save the day. But the marauders have a sinister connection to Professor Odd which could prove disastrous—especially for her friend and protegé, Alister Bane.
“Cerberus Retired” is the finale of Season 2 and the twelfth episode in the otherworldly adventures of Professor Odd and company: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and Dave, the mysterious green tentacle creature.
Acrylic charms of the Strange Elf and Great Gray Owls, now available from the Heliopause Webstore!
We have acrylic charms of the Elf and Great Gray Strange Owls, plus the Andromeda Cat! There are also signed prints of the entire Kimaerha series, in easy-to-frame 5″x7″ dimensions. Each once comes with a little legend about the character.
Kirhi, the desert Kimaerha. Available as a 5″x7″ signed print, with character legend!
(Clockwise from top-right) Venus, Saturn, Death and the Cat, Gaia, and Jupiter prints, signed and awaiting trips to their forever homes!
We are currently out of Bouragner Felpz Volume I and Professor Odd Season One, but will have those back in stock following WorldCon 76 in August.
We do have plenty of Professor Odd Season Two singles, if you need to catch up!
You can find all this and more at the Heliopause Webstore! All books and prints sold through the webstore are signed, and if you would like yours personalized simply put that in the note along with your order. If you would like to ship your order to someone else, simply put their address in the shipping info, and leave your name and email and note that it is being shipped as a gift.
If you are outside the United States, please contact us directly at heliopauseweb@gmail.com and we can take care of you!
Our next convention is WorldCon 76 in San Jose California. We will be in the Dealer’s Room, and Goldeen will have a panel in the Art Show. We look forward to seeing you there!
Andromeda Cat acrylic charm, exclusively from the Heliopause Webstore!
Welcome to a world where the natural and the supernatural mingle—sometimes with devastating results. Selene Shields and Clara Nordstern know this world, have seen everything from werewolves to witches, ghosts, ghouls, and even an angel. But they’ve never seen anything quite like Jill Hamilton, a grad student from UC Santa Cruz, whose reaction to losing her boyfriend in a rabid chimera attack is to go out and study the very things normal humans are supposed to ignore.
So begins the saga of Driving Arcana: three women in a big truck, chasing unicorns, interviewing vampires, and hunting monsters—to fight evil, protect humanity, but mostly, for science.
BY MOON AND STAR contains all the stories from Rotations One, Two and Three, plus a tie-in short story that further illuminates the subversively magical world of Driving Arcana.
Something is amiss at the Deep Bore Research Base in Antarctica, and though Lieutenant Hutter would dearly love to get back to brewing moonshine and wooing the surly Technician Spalecki, it quickly becomes clear that their remote and vulnerable installation has become the target of an alien invasion so deadly they need to put out a multiversal distress call. But when help arrives, it is a colorful woman with a frighteningly average assistant and a talking dog.
There is also something in a barrel called Dave.
“Davebot” is the eleventh episode in the fantastic adventures of Professor Odd and company: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and most of all, Dave, the bright green tentacle creature.
Twenty long years have passed for Corianne Birch since the disappearance of her friend and guardian, Bouragner Felpz. In that time she has married and divorced a husband, and born and raised a daughter. No longer the spritely, opinionated teenager who once trailed—if sometimes reluctantly—upon the purple coattails of that famous magician, she has matured into a staid, if no less opinionated, woman. So when a capricious fairy makes his home in a nearby park and begins enchanting the populace, and old friends from her adventuring years reappear, she is more than ready to re-enter the world of wonder, danger, and magic that once dominated her youth. Yet for all the excitement the fairy brings, he is but the harbinger of an even more magnificent event: the return of Bouragner Felpz himself!
This second volume of The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz collects twelve stories of dazzling magic and haunting wonder, as Corianne Birch returns to the biographical tales of her exceptional friend with all the wit, charm and vivacity that her teenage self ever had. Spanning almost forty years, this volume contains everything from haunted hills to legendary dragons, a rare glimpse into Felpz’s early days, and an exclusive introduction by the noted dracologist (and daughter of the narrator), Milain Clifford Birch.
