The news is out! DELIGHTED to be introducing the enigmatic @nickbrucker.bsky.social to the literary scene — add this to your reading list for 2027 folks.
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The news is out! DELIGHTED to be introducing the enigmatic @nickbrucker.bsky.social to the literary scene — add this to your reading list for 2027 folks.
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Cover art for Cleopatra Bones by Jonathan Emmet and Ed Eaves
Does this golden retriever murder lots of Nazis? Because that would actually be a pretty fun picture book for me
For me to try your shit I don't need a sprayed edge or a blog or an interview or a substack or a baffling patreon or a winsome insta story or trending audio.
In this house we make vibes based assessments on: book cover; one line pitch; if your casual posts make you seem like a sicko
Natural history museum London, and in foreground the new lower gardens with lots of palms and a cafe
Man the new (actually who knows, I've been away for ages) gardens at the NHM are lush.
Came for the dinosaurs, stayed for the big whale.
On today's episode, we are chatting with the brilliant @drgonzo123.bsky.social of @arcdreampublishing.bsky.social about writing for TTRPGs like Delta Green, and discussing his masterpiece, Impossible Landscapes.
Watch now: youtu.be/mac7vcPaCHc
Or listen: linktr.ee/narrativedam...
Hard same, I know it's a marketing gimmick (I hope like most marketing gimmicks all this booktok shit evaporates in the cleansing light of day) but the "tropes checklist" is one of the worst things to happen to the public's relationship to books, every time I see it I feel the call of violence
A picture of my copy of "The Dead Man's Empire", with a copy of "The Last Blade Priest" just behind it, resting against a badly decayed Chinese screen.
"The Dead Man's Empire" is released on 26 March - this month! Available to pre-order now, or for reviewers to request on Netgalley! A vast and vivid sequel to "The Last Blade Priest", taking the action from the battlefields of the Hidden Land to decadent Miroline and cursed Monize.
I may have to have a word with my bank account :) If i do mine can get passed to someone else who can spread the word as well. Honestly one of my books of the year, and right into my all-time top ten of speculative brain fuckery :)
oh it is like, not a very successful book commercially so there are still some of those out there!
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but what is more punk than a beaten up paperback?
The @clarkeaward.bsky.social judges said this would be a future classic of the genre. FT said it was one of their SF books of the year. Interzone said all kinds of nice shit.
It is now cheap. Buy it, think about direct action and punk and the climate and hope wrapped round a brick
Well, it's out about in the world now, it seems!
Check out the US cover for the next big novel, EXHUMATION, out October 2026.
A giant jammie dodger
I have been out of the UK for 2.5 years, but now I am back.
I was not ready. I have clearly been left behind
Mosaic lion with big sideburns
Lemmy lion
So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽
Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗
@solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤
It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel
In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures
If you’ve not yet read either now is the time!
Congrats to all the finalists.
I'm really loving these, power to your elbow
New LotR post is up! This time, a chapter of Treebeard and a chapter of Gandalf, with a lot of exposition and some properly mythic narrative.
Coffee shop AU when
Warhammer models painted nicely
3 way Termagants vs Space Wolves vs Chaos Marines.
A chaos victory! Which is all the more sweet having borrowed the victorious army to play with from my pal, having never played chaos before, and having insisted on using the 'useless' heldrake as the model is gorgeous
All vibes no tactics 🤷
Authors and reviewers, if you fancy an ARC of my next book then give me a bell.
It is fun, someone gets beaten to death with a pair of boots, there is a mouse with cobalt fur and gem eyes, naked swordfights, iguana-men assaulting pirate castles.
As you can see I need quotes for marketing...
Authors and reviewers, if you fancy an ARC of my next book then give me a bell.
It is fun, someone gets beaten to death with a pair of boots, there is a mouse with cobalt fur and gem eyes, naked swordfights, iguana-men assaulting pirate castles.
As you can see I need quotes for marketing...
Roman ruins amid a spray of yellow flowers under a blue sky
A thousand worled stones sticking up through flourishing grass, and further away ruined Roman buildings and rolling hills
A big tree growing out of Roman ruins
A ruined Roman city with grass overgrowing it
A few old pics of the ruined Roman city
Cuicul in Djémila, Algeria. Caught them on a beautiful day in spring, with friends.
I lived in Algiers for a couple of years and was lucky enough to see a bit of the country (not enough).
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Cracking cover indeed.
I've been lucky enough to read an early version of this and what's inside is also awesome. Rich and wickedly sharp-edged epic fantasy.
new fantasy trilogy! Same world as first trilogy, but Robin Hobbing it and jumping to far side of the globe with new characters, places, etc. No prior reading necessary
cover of the novel THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED by Ian Green. A sea serpent raises through dark water, surrounded by blod red coral and kelp. Above the water a small ship fights through waves under ominous skies
Lets talk covers!
My new book THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is out in August, and @headofzeus.bsky.social designer Simon Michelle with illustrator Marcela Bolívar have done a wondrous job.
Whats your fave fantasy with a monster/god/BEAST on the cover?
Pre-orders are live now- geni.us/TDATDcovrev
"It is a piece of sage advice, a writer’s mantra, that I have made good use of through the years and that I now pass on to you: Ah, fuck ‘em." lithub.com/alice-mcderm...
