My very first original (and not fanfic) story, The Sun Is A Dish Best Served Cold has been audiobook-ified by the marvelous Colyn of @coldopenstories.bsky.social and a team of talented voice actors! I'd like to tag them all, but I only have @stephswanquills.bsky.social on my list. #Booksky

In 2025, our small publishing team focused on helping authors find their voice, mentoring and publishing 80+ stories. In 2026, we’re giving those voices a new medium, returning to audiobook and full-cast drama productions. But I'll admit... the landscape’s shifted...

Final call ✨ Today’s the last day to submit your manuscript. If you’re a new or aspiring author with an original piece, I’m here to help you workshop it, refine it, and get it published. Don’t sit on it - send it in and let’s do something great in 2026!

Very excited to share that my original Warhammer 40,000 flash fiction piece 'The Quiet Hours' was selected as an Editor's Choice inclusion for @coldopenstories.bsky.social 24th Warhammer fast fiction contest, themed 'The Enemy Within'. 40k.coldopenstories.com/the-quiet-ho...

🧿 The internet’s longest-running Warhammer fanfiction contest returns with The Mind’s Eye. 🧿 Explore telepathic warfare, psychic intrusions, and dangerous powers waged in silence. Mind over matter isn’t metaphor here - it’s lethal. Enter ➡️ 40k.coldopenstories.com

🔴 For 5+ years, we’ve proudly supported new and aspiring authors - offering editorial guidance and a platform for original storytelling. To account for the busy holiday season, we’ve extended our call for submissions! We look forward to meeting you 😌 coldopenstories.com

Pleased to have once again been selected for publication in @coldopenstories.bsky.social latest fast fiction contest: The Enemy Within 40k.coldopenstories.com/the-man-in-t...

My #wh40k #Drukhari story was selected! If you like dark eldar, check out my love letter to the messy hedonists, and a big thanks to cold open stories for loving my story as much as I did

Seasons greetings! Santa Colyn is here to tell you that ‘The Enemy Within’ winners have been revealed!! 📚 To all who entered: thank you for daring to explore the depths of the 41st Millennium once again. Find the winners at 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction...

💀 📣 This is your reminder that our Fast Fiction writing contest ends THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! Get to scribblin', boils and ghouls! Learn more about our Warhammer 40,000 competition and enter before the end of Oct 31st ✍️ 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

Two weeks left to enter our Warhammer 40,000 writing competition! Https://40k.coldopenstories.com

Nightbound - a dark tale of unending night, shapeshifting horrors and the promise of dawn. Produced by one & only @coldopenstories.bsky.social and performed by the talented @stephswanquills.bsky.social! (And written by me.) #booksky #audiobook #halloween

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨ We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward? Read now at coldopenstories.com #ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing

🌑 Night Mode has arrived! 🌑 The site now has a brand-new Night (Lord) Mode option for easy reading in the dark. No more straining your eyes in low light — just click the little moon icon in the bottom right corner and let the shadows take over. 40k.coldopenstories.com

✍️ The longest-running Warhammer 40,000 Fast Fiction competition is back — and we’re thrilled to announce our community judge for this edition: Gabriel of Fenris Workshop (@fenrisworkshop on Instagram). Get started on YOUR submission and enter before the deadline on Halloween night 🎃

Looking at the @coldopenstories.bsky.social 2023 Editors' Pick- and I have TWO stories that the editors like. One is DI YU (Chinese for HELL). The other one is The Damned Hound. Also check out the stories too! 40k.coldopenstories.com/stories-we-l...

After marinading in the #BlackLibrary for the past year, it was time to try writing some! Very proud my story “A Peaceful Transfer of Power” was an Editor’s Choice in the latest @coldopenstories.bsky.social flash fiction competition. 🤘 40k.coldopenstories.com/a-peaceful-t... #Warhammer #BookSky

My latest #Warhammer40k Fast Fiction, "Irreversible" has been published by @coldopenstories.bsky.social as part of The Scouring competition. Praetor Cestus, hero of Ullanor, favoured of Gulliman, hunts the Word Bearers as they flee the failed Siege of Terra. 40k.coldopenstories.com/irreversible/

🪦 After a long silence, where only echoes and haunted things roamed the crypt, the *Sanctum Librarium* is once more accepting submissions. We’re calling on aspiring authors from across the galaxy to share bold, character-driven... 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

⚠️ Not every war is fought across trenches or void-choked battlefields. Some conflicts begin quietly. In the hidden corners of the soul. In whispers behind locked doors. In the hesitation before the trigger is pulled. Enter the contest ✍️ 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

Victory is forged in words ✍️ The winner of our latest Fast Fiction contest has been crowned — marking the end of our competition on The Scouring! Read the winning entry, the official selection, and editors choice now: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction...

A lone Imperial Fist space marine against a hive ship full of biological horrors. Can he prevail against the odds and avenge his fallen battle brothers? Read ‘Hagen’s Legacy’ this #FictionFriday. 👉 40k.coldopenstories.com/hagens-legacy/ #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings @coldopenstories.bsky.social

🚨 Submissions are open once again for the internet’s LONGEST RUNNING #Warhammer Fast Fiction competition. Join aspiring scribes, each testing their storytelling skills by crafting gripping, character-rich tales within 1,000 words. Enter now at 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

🌲 On Mars, ecologists watch over a manmade forest inside a biodome. But when a figure from Slavic folklore begins appearing among the pines, they realize the forest may be protected by something far older—and far less human—than science. 🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/where-a-fore...

🌘 A shattered moon bleeds in the sky. Humanity prays to the void. In this poetic and haunting tale of cosmic horror and rebellion, one woman flees the cult she helped build—taking with her a child destined for sacrifice. 🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/what-she-did...

🦎 Spanning three generations, this epic sci-fi saga follows Captains Stone, Bazin, and Jones as they battle a terrifying enemy that mimics humanity’s every move. To win, they must become the one thing the enemy can’t copy: unpredictable. 🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/wayfinders-w...

✉️ The survival of humanity depends on one fragile supply line. Haunted by his brother’s death, Lieutenant Williams joins the fleet’s most notorious pilot—Captain Sato, callsign Charon—for a high-risk supply run through alien-held skies. 🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/last-vital-l...

Humbly pleased to have won a featured slot in @coldopenstories.bsky.social latest fast fiction writing contest. My thanks for including my submission, Roar 40k.coldopenstories.com/roar/

📣 The results are in - read the *No Limits* winners from the longest-running Warhammer community writing competition! Now available online at 40k.coldopenstories.com

My most popular fast fiction has passed 500 hits and is nearing 600. For a story of a thousand words, that's pretty awesome. 🤯 Ad Finitum was published on @coldopenstories.bsky.social as part of the "Everything Ends" FF competition and it tells the story of the final moments of the Chaos Gods. 💀

Just treated myself to the story from @jolantru.bsky.social here and will definitely be back for more. Chaos corruption stories are my comfort food. #Warhammer #Nerdlings

It’s #FictionFriday and the Tyranids are everywhere! But there’s just enough time to build “The Last One Hundred Lasguns”… Check out my audio short story: 👉 youtu.be/SRNUsAF4mpM #WarhammerCommunity @coldopenstories.bsky.social

In the world of "Nightbound", daylight's but a memory & monsters from the dawn of time hunt freely once again. However, Dawn is coming... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx6N... I've had the honour last Halloween to see my original story released as an audiobook by @coldopenstories.bsky.social! Enjoy! 🐺

In our first writing contest of 2025, NO LIMITS invites authors to explore ANY faction within the grimdark setting of Warhammer 40,000 - be it stories of epic battles, small personal conflicts, strange discoveries, or the moments between larger-than-life events. Enter at 40k.coldopenstories.com

📚 New year, NEW Anthology! We're thrilled to share 9 Warhammer 40,000 stories in Short Fiction XV, the latest in our unofficial Black Library collection. 🔴 Discover new grimdark tales NOW at 40k.coldopenstories.com/40k-short-fi...

My story "Hunt" is up and running on @coldopenstories.bsky.social. 40k.coldopenstories.com/hunt/

My latest #Warhammer40k fanfic has been published on @coldopenstories.bsky.social! If you like rivalries, heretic Astartes, warp powers, strange xenos and a bit of an adventure to tie them all together, this story's for you. Hope you'll like it! 40k.coldopenstories.com/unlikely-all...

I have written my fast fiction for the @coldopenstories.bsky.social fast fiction contest. No prompt! Let's take advantage of this! Submit before January 31st 2025, 11:59pm (PT)! 1k words max. Thanks to guest judge @jolantru.bsky.social Details here: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...

In our first writing contest of 2025, NO LIMITS invites authors to explore ANY faction within the grimdark setting of Warhammer 40,000 - be it stories of epic battles, small personal conflicts, strange discoveries, or the moments between larger-than-life events. Enter at 40k.coldopenstories.com

And while I figure that out - listen to this wonderful Warhammer 40k story produced by @coldopenstories.bsky.social and narrated by me! Always such a treat to hear the sound design and editing on release www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBM...

Everything Ends ❌ Year 5’s season is coming to an end. Join us for the last two episodes, and learn more about our 2025 casting call at coldopenstories.com/voice #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #voiceovercastingcall #voiceactingauditions #voiceacting #wh40k #blacklibrary