Snow by Night

We hope you all had a wonderful New Year celebration. Our colorist, Naty Baaklini, created today’s holiday sketch of Ald, the Grumpest Elf. Also, Brittany has prepared a holiday special for everyone. She has turned her holiday sketches into desktop wallpapers (five sizes: 728×1024, 1280×1024, 1680×1050, 1920×1080). You can get them as gifts for donating to Snow by Night. Just follow the link on the sidebar to the right. Pages resume on January 7!

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No almanac entry this week. Instead, I’ve got a couple announcements. First, in response to feedback we received through the comments, Naty and I have made a few tweaks to Law of the Riverside Part 2 to make it a bit clearer which scenes are flashbacks. We shifted from the blue tone to sepia, removed the panel border, and gave the words a brownish tinge. We believe this should clear up any confusion as to the flashbacks and improve readability of the vignette. We’ll get to part 1 in the near future.

Second, on Wednesday, we uploaded the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for the website. You can see the links to them down at the bottom of the page. When we opened the online store (hurray, we have a store!), I needed to create some policies to cover my rear. First up is the Terms of Use. It covers things like don’t steal our stuff, don’t hack our site, and don’t be abusive to other commenters. It also makes clear that the site is provided on an “as is” basis and the update schedule is a guide and not a guarantee. The second is the Privacy Policy. In short, we have to collect some information to provide you services on the site and for analytical purposes, but we will not sell your information to other parties. I recommend you give both a read.

Thank you all for your support. We couldn’t do this without you.

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Almanac References: Maison, Nightwork, Ouah

Chapter 5 Page 5 is up. Mathilde goes to see Blaise. We haven’t seen Blaise’s apartment yet so we’re in for a treat. I hope you can hear the Jaw’s theme music when you read this page because the sharks are circling Blaise. To see a preview of next Monday’s page where Mathilde makes a discovery, vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics. And now, I’ll hand things over to Diane for a huge announcement.

TAH-DAH! The Snow by Night Store is finally here! It took quite a bit of code wrasslin’ and some sharp shootin’ against tricky e-store sites to get us here, so I hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor. In the store, you’ll find the first three chapters in wonderful full-color print, prints of each of the main characters and the cool alchemical gun, as well as a dozens of buttons. Those prints come in a variety of sizes so be sure you’re looking at the size you want when you order. The colonial slang buttons are some of our best sellers at conventions.

I spent most of the long weekend sick in bed, and I’m still a bit wobbly, but it’s a happy relief to be able to finally share the Store with you.If you notice any errors or bugs in the site code, please do point them out to me so I can fix them. I’ve scoured the site myself, so hopefully that’s a non-issue, but when you’re manually updating hundreds of pages, human error can catch you unawares.

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Hello all! My thanks to Diane for the Webpage updates on Friday. Did you find her new page? The present she left for you was just adorable. The new page is now present on the nav bar across the top. It’s Extras. This is where we will be posting our fan art submissions and various other goodies that will be cropping up in the near future.

As part of our Fan Art Rendez-vous, Brittany received a lovely sketch of Mathilde with Fan by Nadja. To see more of her fine work, check out her Tumblr and Deviantart site.

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Hi everyone! Webmaster Diane here, reporting in for Journal duty. I know there’s supposed to be an Almanac update today, but I told Eric to sherry off so I could update a bunch of our graphics.

The most obvious update you’ll see is a font change. Eric and I have been frequently complaining to one another about Caswallon’s surprise swirl attacks, where we’ll be happily typing up a new header and suddenly – BAM! One of the letters turns out to be ridiculously swirly and it completely doesn’t fit with the rest of the font. We were jumping through hoops to dodge the surprise swirl attacks when we realized, uh, this is our site and we can change the font whenever we want to. So we have! Introducing our new BFF (Best Font Forever) Cochin-Archaic. I have to admit that I didn’t like Cochin at first, but it’s grown on me… mostly because it doesn’t attack me with unexpected lettering issues. I’m the kinda gal who appreciates that.

The other update is not obvious – yet. I’ve got a new page in the works and it’s going up tonight, but it won’t be linked anywhere in the site until Monday’s update. There’s a teensy bonus for anyone who decides to go a-huntin’ for it.

Also, if you haven’t yet voted for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics, please do so! Voting incentive at the moment is a sneak peek of Law of the Riverside, Page 2.

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Hello everyone! Diane and I are continuing to work on website improvements. So instead of an almanac entry this week, we’re upgrading the Links page. I’ve been meaning to do this for some time. I’ve broken the links into two sections – one for comics and one for gaming. I’ve asked Diane to add a lot of new links for us. These links include Paradigm Shift, Erstwhile, Baldman Games, and Going Last.

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Almanac Reference: Aileon, Cienan yr Tuathal,

Chapter 2 Page 5 is up and we meet Cienan who is one of my favorite characters. As you might have guessed from the name, he’s not from Saronne. I’ll give some more details about him on Friday in this week’s almanac entry. But I won’t give too many. Cienan’s past is cloaked in mystery which is just the way he likes it.

Otakon is this weekend. I’ll be there with Brittany and Diane. Many of our friends will be there as well — Jen Zyren Smith from LaSalle’s Legacy and Shazzbaa from Today Nothing Happened and Runewriters. For a full list of Artist Alley attendees, check out Otakon’s list.

If you wish to see a preview of Jassart’s reaction to the conversation with Cienan, be sure to vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

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No almanac entry today. Instead, I have a ton of other updates and a lot of news. First, we are putting together our first chapterbook. This 40-page book has all of chapter 1, the Feathers and Frost vignette, and three pages of new material only available in the chapterbook. While doing the layout for the chapterbook, I came across numerous formatting and lettering issues. I’ve gotten a lot better at lettering since we started so I went back and fixed the lettering throughout the entire chapter. This took the time I had allotted to write the almanac entry, but I felt that this was necessary. The changes have made the pages much easier to read and more pleasing to view.

This brings me to the next bit of news. Brittany and I will be attending Otakon on July 29-30. We will have the brand new chapterbooks and lots of cool buttons. In addition, Brittany will be taking commissions during the convention. We are at table U07 in the Artists Alley. You can find us on this handy map of the Otakon Artist Alley. So come by and have Brittany draw you in colonial garb.

GenCon is also rapidly approaching, and I will be attending. I’m a huge fan of tabletop RPGs. D&D is one of my favorite. I have written a D&D adventure that is premiering at GenCon for the Ashes of Athas campaign. It’s titled AoA3-2 The Veil Parted ,and you can find it in the Sagamore Ballroom with all the other RPGA adventures. If you’re attending GenCon, please give it a try.

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