Behold my ADD.

Check it out! I did the line art on paper, then did the shading and coloring on my tablet (I’d never done that before and boy was it a learning curve), and finally added the lettering in Adobe Photoshop CS2. You used to be able to download CS2 for free from Adobe at https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3088&fileID=2908, but sadly it looks like it’s no longer available.…

Okay, I’ve uploaded the first chapter of The Jascian’s Toy to Patreon. Jascian will always be free to read, so no payment required. 🫶🏽 If you have problems accessing it, please let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it. The Jascian’s Toy – Chapter 1

Google: (tells me the weather). By the way, I can now answer more complex questions. Just enable Gemini in the Home app.

Me: Hey Google. I like you just the way you are.

Google: Aww. Thanks. I like you too. Want to know why?

Me, apprehensive now: Why?

Google: Because you're the sweetest.

Flow: I was ten when Charlie Davis showed up on our doorstep. He was only a year older, but in my eyes he was cool and kind and mature. He’d barely taken a step inside before I was head over heels.Small problem: The older we got, the more his talent for music pulled him in one direction, while my talent for…uh…sex pulled me the other way.Bigger problem: The reason he was at the door in the first…

Sorry, LL Cool J on the brain for some reason. I used to have my novels at several different indie publishers in an attempt not to have all my eggs in one basket. Then the mega corporation THAT WE WILL NOT BE NAMING HERE BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE THE CASH FOR A LAWSUIT put all of them out of business. I don’t want to submit previously published books (this go around there’s at least one that will be…

This poor post has gone through a website that absolutely did NOT work for me, to the free WordPress blog I used to mirror the previous because apparently being able to comment and subscribe is an entirely new concept. Now it’s here, with the domain name rowanmcbride.rocks, because moving pretty much everything to a site where I can actually do the things that I’d like to do is awesome. It’s a…

Chapter OneOriginally posted 4/01/05 on The Evolution ForumLast edited 11/25/10The Jascian’s Toy © 2005 by Rowan McBride. All rights reserved. This story may not be reproduced in whole or in part without author’s permission. I awoke to a strong hand pushing on my shoulder.“Blake?”Bleary-eyed, I turned in the direction of the voice and hand. Seeing a strange, half naked man in my room woke me up…

There are some things I really love about the new website (rowanmcbride.rocks). The domain name, obvs. And… And the color scheme is nice, although I keep changing it. But some things make no sense over there. How do you have a blog feature that can’t take comments and has no way to organize the posts? They said it would be easy to post my stories serials on there, and it certainly is NOT. I’ve…

If you got here via my website, then my quest to jerry-rig a connection between my site and here worked. Thank you for visiting! If you got here via the interwebs, welcome! Feel free to visit my site if you like stories that are wicked and weird. Back to RowanMcBride.rocks

I’ve been gone a crazy long time, yeah? There were a lot of health issues (including two near death experiences) followed by a bout of pretty serious depression.Then one day I started to (horrendously) play piano again, then draw again, and finally write again. Mostly I’ve been revising my existing books and self-publishing them. So far I’ve got “One Good Hand,” “One Good Year,” and “Lone”…

Well hell. I'm not even 💯 on why one link came out one way and the second came out another. Oo

Should I post the cover here? I'm just gonna post the cover here: