Working past the second act wall in the fantasy WIP by shaking off some screenwriting rust on a project whose time has come. #calicokids #streamingseries #retro #80s #scifi #mystery #horror

We're fine, but dang... #atmosphericriver

It's time! Today through January 1st, 2026, all Deep7 Press ebooks (including my fiction) are 25% off from Smashwords! 🎁🎄☃️ www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Raising a belated toast to Leigh Brackett on what would have been her 110th birthday (Dec 7). Brackett was the Mother of Space Opera, a gifted author, screenwriter, and one of the foundational pillars of my own retro scifi work. #scifi #author #spaceopera #retro #raypunk

My entire fiction catalog in ebook format will be 25% off on @Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale 2025 starting on December 8! Be sure to follow me for links to the sale when it kicks off in just a few weeks! #indieauthor #AirshipDaedalus #CalicoKids #EoYSale25 #Smashwords

‪28K on the new #Arrowflight novel, finished with chapter 10. Ratcheting up the peril. (And anyone who's read my Airship Daedalus series knows I take my peril-ratcheting seriously.)

I've always been proud of my #TTRPG work, but the quality has seen a big jump in the past 3 to 5 years (in both prose and art).

A thing my brother and I have been working on for a couple of decades is finally out. #scifi #ttrpg legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5312...

25K on the new #Arrowflight novel, jumping into chapter 9. 40+ years of worldbuilding on the TTRPG, a film, a comic, and finally the first novel set in that world.

Happy Cosmic Birthday, Space Mom. ❤ (Carrie Fisher, born Oct 21, 1956)

Always nice to get the thumbs up from a fellow genre author!

Renegades of Mars is now available in paperback from Amazon and IngramSpark (and available to retailers via Ingram as well!)

10/10, no notes.

Thrilling! 🚀🔫 a.co/d/auAgGLm

Wrote this sentence in the WIP today and it made me chuckle... But it wouldn't be a proper religion without some strange and unsettling lore.

Author copies arrived today! They look great! Paperback available on Amazon, and coming to retail (via IngramSpark) on Oct 17th! #indieauthor #1930s #retro #scifi #raypunk

Fair Winds, good lady. Thank you for your tireless work to help us understand our world. ❤ www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Happy Renegades Day to those who celebrate! 🚀 Ebook & print! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS7WXTK9

Suddenly, autumn.

Coming October 1st. www.todddowning.com Rockets and rayguns and robots, oh my! Also N@zi baddies, a gorilla scientist, and plenty of pew-pew!

Sitting at just over 15K words into the #Arrowflight WIP, and haven't even begun the main mission. I'm loving the process of getting to know my MC couple and their weird connection. A very different process from my usual pulp adventure material, where 15K would be a quarter through the story.

Can confirm.

Renegades of Mars is back from my first editor. Just waiting on the second! The next phase of the AEGISverse is almost here! #indieauthor #pulpadventure #retrofuturism #1930s #scifi

Almost at 12K words on the new #fantasy WIP (based on the #Arrowflight #TTRPG). Feels nice to let the setting breathe a bit.

My brother Matthew would have turned 55 today, which is a surreal concept. His death at far too young an age was a tragic loss, and yet, he's always been with us - even with my younger siblings who didn't know him. Love you, Matt. Always. ❤

Todd Downing has entered the #HorrorWritersChat. PNW based, mixed-genre author (mostly sci-fi & pulp adventure with cosmic horror seasoning). Latest book: Summer, 1984. X-Files meets The Goonies meets The Thing in a sleepy riverside town in rural Oregon.

Drop some COWBOYS • COWGIRLS

Stupidly up at 4:30am, so why not record some #audiobook narration while it's cool and quiet? #indieauthor #ReturnOfTheCalicoKids

Getting proofs for an upcoming #ttrpg release never gets old. Still need to fix a few details, but on track for a November release.

When I worldbuild a setting, I build the friggin' WORLD. #CalicoKids www.todddowning.com

Good morning from the #pnw

Fair Winds to acting legend Terence Stamp, whose body of work is a diverse collage of genres and periods, and who remains the most compelling General Zod committed to the big screen.

This is possibly the most Frazetta photo ever. Courtest of the Frazetta Girls FB group. 1983, pictured with his original Fire and Ice painting and his daughter Heidi.

Dean Cain is the Scott Baio of Kevin Sorbos.

So I've been a fan and admirer of Hayley Williams since Paramore, but her new stuff is lyrically on a different level. She ain't playin' in her indictment of American "Christianity", and I'm here for all of it. (Be sure to read the lyrics in the description.) youtu.be/a5Uy5vDXhKI?...

just normal old shit happening in the USA. Nothing to see here.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Dale is clearly taking in the view. "Flash" Gordon indeed! (artwork by Alex Raymond)

Raising a glass for our late mate Ryan Potter as we kick off a session of Grimmworld. #ttrpg

I made a thing (with the help of some talented gents). If you're into #filmnoir and #TTRPGs, this might be for you... legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5273...

Three #TTRPG titles so far in 2025, with another one - and a new novel - on the way. (To be fair, these have been in the works for some time and are finally seeing release.)

A few of the #TTRPG titles I've worked on over the past 25 years. Not complete by any stretch (and doesn't include work for other publishers).

I think it's hilarious that my spellcheck wants to replace "Waffen-SS" with "Waffle-SS". #indieauthor #pulpadventure #scifi #1930s #raypunk

Civic duty = complete (until next time)

Something else I've been working on is coming this fall... #ttrpg #spaceopera #milSF #indiepress

Emmett Till would have turned 84 today. 💔