Hey there, Arium Factors!We're back from QuestCon, and wow, what a ride! We created a new large-scale setting: five different Arium tables, each creating an asteroid with its own biome, complete with ...

3x Ennie-Nominated Collaborative Tools for Any RPG Group.

It's what the title says, my latest ambient soundscape album, Forgotten Frequencies, Volume 2: Territories is out today! Huzzah! Forgotten Frequencies is an auditory exploration of the world of the Bell Forging Cycle. As before, all of these are all long looping tracks, each around ten minutes in length, designed to be environmental aural impressions of the Territories. That's right, in this second volume, we've stepped away from the warrens of the big city and into the wilds beyond.

Buckle up mapmakers, it's history time! Between 1567 and 1570, surveyor Robert Lythe worked in Ireland on behalf of the British government to assess how best to garrison and colonize their latest conquest. Much of that work was never widely distributed in his time; but those surveys would later go on to influence a great many cartographers, including the Flemish cartographer…

Well, I just hit publish, so it's official. My next album of soundscapes is dropping next Wednesday, July 1st, 2026. Eight new 10-minute looping tracks take you from the scrape and span of Lovat's shadowed streets and onto the wild dust-choked trails of the Territories. Cover for FORGOTTEN FREQUENCIES: VOL. 2 TERRITORIES album I'm excited about this one. I think you'll all dig it.

Not every fantasy cartographer has Photoshop, GIMP, Procreate, or any of the other design software that can read and use Photoshop ABR files. There are still plenty of people using other tools, and often those tools use transparent PNGs as assets: Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, and many others. Up until now, unlocking those assets as a Mac user was difficult. Photoshop actions take forever.

The Alexander household has grown by one. This week, we welcomed Greta into our home. She's an 11-month-old rescue pup from Texas. (Her birthday is next month.) She's a Australian Cattle Dog and Poodle mix. She is a very happy lady, seems really smart, loves people and dogs, and is really eager to please. She's very active and wiggly so getting photos of her took a bit of time.

Today I am excited to announce that I'm releasing new PNG packs of some of my oldest brush sets! If you've been using my asset for a while, you've probably noticed I started shipping PNG sets alongside every brush set starting in 2023 with Moronobu Gansai. Before that, I used to ship enormous and unwieldy PNG files. Moving to individual PNGs took some sorting out—more on that later—but I have a good system now, so going forward the plan is to releasing sets for the back catalog.

On March 2nd, our boy turned two years old! He's settling into life here at Briarness. His routine remains the same as before. It's often shocking how smart he is. He still loves walks in the woods and playing with his buddies. He's impossible to keep clean. Still loves TV time—he quite enjoyed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms…

When the British crown was restored in 1660, King Charles II received an enormous atlas as a gift from Professor Joannes Klencke. Enormous is not an understatement here. The Klencke Atlas is one of…

Graffiti is the oldest form of human expression. Even before humanity developed a written language, we were drawing on walls, leaving a mark, and letting the world know we were there. Graffiti has been found everywhere, in Egyptian pyramids, Myan ruins, Roman excavations, Chinese caves, and if you have kids, probably on your walls...

The Huánghé (黄河), or the Yellow River as we know it in the West, carries rich cultural significance in China. The sixth-longest river in the world, the second-longest in China, it's traditionally considered the cradle of Chinese civilization. Given its cultural relevance, it's no surprise to find it as a subject in historical Chinese cartography. That river, and the Grand Canal…

I was laid off last week. A few months shy of thirteen years. Totally unexpected. Still processing it. If you told me when I started that I’d have so much fun designing enterprise software for nearly thirteen years, I wouldn’t have believed you. My experience over that time was shaped by the amazing people I was lucky enough to work alongside.

Hey, Happy New Year! We made it through 2025. As always, thanks for hanging out with me, reading this blog, and taking an interest in the work I share here. I had big plans for 2025, and somewhere along the line, it got away from me. While we got a lot of home projects done, I left 2025 feeling less creatively fulfilled than I had hoped at the start of the year.

Last year was a bit of a low point for me in terms of novels finished. This year was a slight improvement, and I managed to read some ponderous tomes. Any improvement is good, and overall, I had a good year, reading-wise, but I still feel I'm falling short of where I'd like to be. I'm at my best when I'm reading regularly.

Since 2013, I've shared my reading list at the end of every year on this blog. Tomorrow I'll continue that tradition and do just that. But today I am starting something new: this year, I started tracking all the media I consumed over the twelve months of 2025, not just books but also movies, television, albums, and video games. And like my reading list, I thought it'd be fun to share what I consumed and pick a few standout favorites.

In many ways, 2025 was a reset year for us. After the chaos of last year, with cancer and a fairly stressful move (among other things), taking a year to refocus felt necessary. That doesn't mean we rested. In true Alexander fashion, we took on a bunch of projects and spent time learning about our new island community. Thankfully, this year wasn't as disruptive as 2024.

After way too long, my office buildout is complete, and my store is finally back. You can browse the goods over at store.kmalexander.com. If you ever wanted to get signed paperback copies of my books, merch mugs, or selected stickers, now is your chance. Hit the link above and get buying! Please note that for now, I am only shipping to the US.

I am elated to introduce the tenth edition of my List of Lists for 2023. Just as in times of yore, together we shall unearth an abundance of accoutrement and a plethora of paraphernalia for the weird-fiction fanatic, cosmic-horror connoisseur, or mythos maniac in your life. But I have not toiled in isolation during this season of malediction. This year I have enlisted your help!

If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…

For a recent scary story night, I decided to explore a setting that had been rattling around in my head for a while. REM State is unrelated to The Bell Forging Cycle, but it shares a similar DNA. I like massive cities and weird creatures, what can I say? I don't write short stories all that often, but instead of filing this one away and forgetting about it, I figured it'd be fun to release it.

For Kari-Lise Alexander, her artistic practice enriches her role as a gallery director, and vice versa.

“And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the American eagle put its talons on any other land.” Mark Twain

He's now a year and a half old, and we've had a significant summer! Uly got fixed in June, and as is common in large breeds, he also underwent a gastropexy to prevent GDV. As a result, the beginning of the summer was a bit slow. We did get him a little suit to keep him from picking at his sutures, and as a benefit, it made him look like a little man from the turn of the century, about to go for a swim and an egg cream at the beach.

YouTube video by owen reiser

YouTube video by GeoGuessr