Official Home of Chris Howard

 
 

Official home of Chris Howard, author of Thornfall, Dryad, Seaborn, Salvage, and a bunch of other books, stories, and essays—published by Juno Books, Masque Books, Prime Books, Penguin, and others. I'm mainly a writer, but I also run a studio called Lykeion where I illustrate books and comics, paint cover art for books, working with individual authors and publishing houses.

 


 

 

Featured Books and Short Stories by Chris Howard

 
All Tomorrrow's Starparties by Chris Howard
Thornfall by Chris Howard
Dryad by Chris Howard
 
 
Saltwater Witch by Chris Howard

Seaborn by Chris Howard

Sea Throne by Chris Howard
Salvage by Chris Howard
Teller by Chris Howard
Nanowhere by Chris Howard
 

Short Stories and Essays in the following Anthologies

 
 

Pen-Ultimate Anthology by Chris Howard

Pen-Ultimate 2 Anthology by Chris Howard

Now Write

Now Write

Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep by Paula Guran

 
 
 
 




Here’s a Dungeons & Dragons Character Sheet I created a few years ago, and revised recently. It should work for 5e (2014) and 5.5e (2024). There are dozens of cool compact character sheets out there, but I made my own, with some additional info and a layout format that I prefer. Mainly, I wanted an easy to read sheet that I can use for pregens, for new players, one that I can fold up but contains as much info as I can fit into two sides of a single Letter size printable page. You can theoretically run with this up to level 8 (with 4th level spell slots) but I have not used it with characters above level 5.

DnD Character Sheet © 2026 by Chris Howard is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Download here: DnDCharacterSheet-ChrisHowardWriter.com.pdf
Note: Print double-sided, fit to page.

I focus primarily on narrowband deep sky imaging, nebulae and supernova remnants, some of it in RGB color, with the occasional dip into lunar and planetary photography.  See my astro blog and Youtube channel.

Art

 


I work in digital, watercolors, ink, charcoals, and other traditional media.  My art has appeared on dozens of book covers, art cards, interior illustrations for publishers, authors, and Kickstarter projects. You can also find my art in Shimmer, BuzzyMag, various tabletop RPGs, and on the pages of books, blogs, and other interesting places.

 
Discworld character studies
Sergeant Angua of the Ankh Morpork City Watch. She’s one of my favorite characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. Delphine Angua von Überwald is the only werewolf in the Watch–that we know of.
Sergeant Detritus of the Ankh Morpork City Watch. Another one of my favorite Terry Pratchett characters. Detritus is a troll who’s pretty green as we follow him through the book Men at Arms, but he’s already a sergeant in Feet of Clay. One of the weapons he favors is a re-purposed siege crossbow named the “Piecemaker” that he’s modified to shoot multiple bolts at once.