If you missed it, I released my sword and sorcery short story "Abhartach's Castle" as part of Michael Stackpole's "Chain Story" project yesterday! If you're looking for a story about witches traversing a desolate and dangerous land to fight evil, check it out! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/abharta...
The Chain Story project has just released Abhartach's Castle by @aaroncanton.bsky.social .
Please enjoy, like and take the time to share. (Sharing really helps the Project a lot. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/abhartachs-castle
And if you like my story and want to check out the novel it's drawn from, it's available on Campfire here: www.campfirewriting.com/explore/TheW... . I hope you enjoy!
If you want to see more of the Chain Story project, the main site is at: www.chainstorycore.com
My sword and sorcery story "Abhartach's Castle", part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project, is live! It features three student witches traversing a desolate and dangerous wild to obtain a powerful artifact before evil witches grab it. Link: www.chainstorycore.com/blog/abharta...
And of course I'll link my story "Abhartach's Castle" tomorrow when it goes live. I hope you enjoy it!
Tomorrow I will be releasing a new short story tie-in to my fantasy novel "The Witch of Knightcharm!" This is part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social 's 'Chain Story' project which features Sword & Sorcery fiction from many great authors. The project is available here: www.chainstorycore.com
Turned in my short story submission to the Views from the Overlook anthology. Guessing a bunch of folks will be making submissions. This was a fun project to research and totally visited a spooky old hotel a few times to hear about their ghost stories.
Yep. I have both, but lately I've found I'm enjoying my physical books more. It's nice that I just own them and don't have to pay for never-ending subscriptions, as you say. And there's also something tactile about holding a book and physically going through it.
Got my story submitted to the "Views from the Overlook" anthology. That's four short stories for the year! Going to swing back around to the YA high fantasy novel I drafted last year--aiming to have that ready to pitch by mid-summer or thereabouts.
StoryCon was a lot of fun! It was great getting to teach people about freelance writing and game writing. And listening to the other talks and classes, especially Brandon Sanderson's, was incredible.
Picture of myself, with my name (Aaron Canton), labeled as a presenter at StoryCon.
As a reminder, I will be presenting two talks at StoryCon this coming Friday: one on freelance writing / work-for-hire projects, and one on game writing. I hope to see many of you there!
Thank you!
Excited to announce that my historical fantasy short story "Law and Power on the Waves" will appear in the sea-monster themed Opal Kingdom anthology "Tentacles and Tides!" This is my first sale to Opal Kingdom and I'm excited that soon you'll all have the chance to see it.
Back from
@ltuesymposium.bsky.social
! Fantastic conference. Did some pitches and got some partial / full requests, had a good career talk with John Goodwin, met up with friends like DJ Butler and @gallowglas.bsky.social, and attended some awesome panels!
The Chain Story Project has just released its latest: Terror Above Icehenge by Malcolm T. North!
Please enjoy, like and, especially, repost. It really helps. Thank you.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-for-deep-winter
Awesome! Josiah and Dr Euan ride again!
Coming March 13th…
#madscience #booksky #kidsadventure
@superstarswriting.bsky.social was fun, but now it's time to get back to writing--using what I learned at the con, of course. Got a first draft of a sword and sorcery short (~10K words) that's due for a round of revisions and editing. I'm enjoying writing this one.
Back from @superstarswriting.bsky.social! Fantastic conference -- I learned tons from the panels, had great pitch meetings and career counseling talks, and thoroughly enjoyed signing and selling the new anthology "Requiem: Tales of the Undead," which has my story in it! Can't wait for next year!
"Requiem: Tales for the Undead," the 2025 @superstarswriting.bsky.social anthology, debuted-and my story "Symphony for Solo Strings" is in it! We sold out at the conference, but it's available online. If you want a great anthology--including a #dybbuk story by me--check it out! tinyurl.com/RequiemA
At @superstarswriting.bsky.social! Looking forward to meeting up with some friends, seeing some of my favorite authors, and attending some great panels! Also to signing copies of the conference anthology since I've got a story in it. This is going to be a great week!
Made a honey walnut cake. Very happy with the results.
Made a chocolate babka for the first time. It was a very successful experiment.
Also saw 30 notable movies from all sorts of genres, read 79 books, met some day-job and health goals, and so on.
All in all, I'm very happy with how the year turned out.
My 2025, writing-wise:
* Wrote 10 short stories, 4 accepted.
* Wrote 4 game writing commissions, all approved.
* Wrote 2 novel drafts.
* Wrote 91,500 words (completed fiction) + 74,500 words (novel draft).
* Attended 8 conventions, spoke at 1.
It was a good year. Hope 2026 is great too!
#amwriting
20 of the books I read this year.
One of my goals for this year was to read more, and I did, completing 79 books! 20 of them were physical books, and I photographed them below. I liked most of the books I read, and I'm looking forward to more reading next year! @kundalinisteve.bsky.social, @michaelastackpole.bsky.social, etc.
I especially loved reading the "This Dark Descent" and "Our Deadly Designs" duology by Kalyn Josephson. Excellent high fantasy novel with stellar usage of Jewish lore and legends. I also started reading #Discworld this year (got through about half of it) and am loving that too.
I loved Shadow Hunter. Never got to Coruscant Nights, but maybe I'll go back and check it out at some point -- I've heard it's a good noir take on #StarWars.
The last chapter of Jim Thompson's "The Getaway." ("Getaway" has been adapted twice, but both adaptations cut off the last chapter, which is a massive genre shift from the rest of the book. Whereas I think you could get an awesome movie out of *just* the last chapter.)
So something like "Repeaters"? (The 2010 Canadian thriller movie).
