@obrackenbury
https://www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel Author / Screenwriter / NESS Magazine Editor and head of Brackenbury Books. Podcast Host: So I'm Writing a Novel, Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection. (He/Him)
Picture of store shelves at Possum Punks with issues 5, 6, and 7 of NESS on a shelf beside Heavy Metal magazine.
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🏬Are you a store who'd like to sell NESS magazine & books?
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Did you know the Merril Collection holds a real Hugo Award?
Judith Merril began her own biography but didn’t finish it. Her granddaughter Emily Pohl-Weary completed Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, which won the Hugo Award in 2003. She donated the Hugo to the Merril Collection! #sff
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
An important academic update
Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast
Same, tbh.
A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine. Live tonight at 7pm EST, free admission, all ages.
🎹 SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY IS TONIGHT!🔮
🎶💀Starting at 7pm EST, and hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social. There will be interviews with and live performances by several cool characters from the Dungeon Synth scene!💀 🎶
Watch it here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2026
be bad at your new hobby who cares
respectfully: awooga
Samurai dog meme
One of the best things about gamastering a TTRPG session is your head is so full of what you're doing you're guaranteed a break from thinking about anything else.
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Väinämöinen carves the first kantele from the jaw of a giant pike. Illustration by Pasi Leinonen.
The greatest hero in Finnish folklore is Väinämöinen, a mighty warrior, shaman, and musician with a magical voice. He once slew a giant pike and made the first kantele (a traditional Finnish plucked-string instrument) from the pike's jaw and a young lady's hair.
🎨Pasi Leinonen
#WyrdWednesday
▶️ Please enjoy this wonderful interview with Oliver by James Mills! Our editor was kind of a great mix of punch drunk, passionate, and having had a beer right before they started. 🍺
youtu.be/RrhVHBSBK-E
✍️A pledge for the latest issues and a NESS pin would get us there, and that backer would receive a short story critique from @jpaknelson.bsky.social!
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One of the best things about gamastering a TTRPG session is your head is so full of what you're doing you're guaranteed a break from thinking about anything else.
Spaced Out Library, Palmerston Branch, 1974. In the late 1960s, Judith Merril donated ~5,000 books to Rochdale College and an endowment grew into the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy at the Lillian H. Smith Branch, now 80,000+ items strong.
#sff #tpl #toronto #scifi
Okay what the hell here's the free version if you have nothing better to do
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.
An open empty earbud case beside an mp3 player beside a one and a half inch metal pin with the new edge sword and sorcery logo.
It is...wee!
An imposter? I'LL KILL 'IM....wait
My new mp3 player arrived!
Can't wait to hold the physical edition in my hands.
Way to go!
posting is free and therapy is expensive
💪Yesterday you unlocked that raise!⚔️
The next goal unlocks:
✍️ 9c/word for our authors.
📃Flash fiction by @breadsonja.bsky.social for all backers to enjoy.
📖A short story critique by @jpaknelson.bsky.social for the lucky backer whose pledge unlocks the raise!
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Comic cover with the title "THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO" in a jagged, flowing script. The image shows a broken statue in the middle of a desert, leaning off its pedestal and half buried in sand. Details of the statue suggest it may not be depicting a human. The long, bony legs of an unknown creature creep out from behind the statue.
Five triangular comic panels depicting a fist-sized insect approaching a sitting man, a huge ruined temple with flying creatures nesting in its destroyed upper level, a salt-lake shoreline with a multilimbed creature visible behind a salt pillar, a red rock canyon filled with strange, broken statues, and a violently red sunset over a blasted desert landscape.
Four panels depicting a man, wandering in a desolate waste, noticing an uncanny shadow behind a rock.
I've completed a comic adaptation of one of my favorite Clark Ashton Smith stories, THE ABOMINATIONS OF YONDO, which turns 100 this year! It's my first comic in full color, which was a hell of a learning experience. It's available now digitally or in print by mid-March.
lizardbrainart.bigcartel.com
It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.)
Spread the word #booksky!
www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021
