Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD (And the all-important preorder links!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

Today is the last day of the @narratess.com indiebook.sale! Don't miss a chance to snag "Assistant to a Judge of Hell & Other Stories" for a buck or hundreds of other awesome indie titles that are on sale! #indieauthor #fantasy #booksky #indiefantasy

The @narratess.com Indie Book Sale is going on this weekend! My collection, "Assistant to a Judge of Hell & Other Stories" is included, along with hundreds of other books, many of which are $1 or free. It's a great time to sample a bunch of awesome indie authors. indiebook.sale

Excited to see old friends and meet new ones at #norwescon 48 this weekend! See you soon! #nwc48 #fantasy #scifi #booklover #ttrpg

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

My process varies, but if I have to make major changes to a scene, I usually find that rewriting the thing from scratch makes for a more coherent and better quality scene. #writingcommunity #amwriting #sff

We are currently open for reprints from Anthologies and Collections published, or due to be published, in 2026.* Books only, not magazines or periodicals. Anything up to 6000 words (we like flash!) escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/... (*Strictly 2026. We’ll open for general subs in August)

CALLING ALL TRANSLATORS @silverknight1966.bsky.social is looking to pay someone to translate books from English to Japanese (and possibly other Asian languages) Share far and wide!

Started watching the latest season of the Night Manager last night and I just want to shake someone. How does a plot this poorly constructed get into production? Bad writing? Changes in production? Show was filled with plot holes large enough pack a hotel's worth of explosives into.

@remymura.bsky.social and @jbkish.bsky.social rock the presentation today at Rainforest on Project Management Tools for Sustainable Writing Habits. Thnx for the pic, @phoenixbourgeois.bsky.social!

I'm a full-time professional writer. I never have and I never will use AI in my writing. You shouldn't either, because any piece of writing that you put through AI will NEVER RECOVER. It will always be substandard and not say what you really want. Here's why ... 🧵1

Hot off the virtual press, it's Issue 28 of the Writers & Robots newsletter! Will Shannon survive a week of writing in the rainforest? What new blog posts have arrived for the thirsty GM? What is Shannon Reading? Find out now! mailchi.mp/97ddadb8fbb1... #amwritingfantasy #blogging #booksky

This looks awesome!

I made a Loot the Body table with some fun stuff on it, like toenails and a magic Fedora. puzzledungeon.com/loot-the-body/

Over on my tabletop gaming feed, I shared a new blog I wrote about using project management skills as a game master. Using project management for creative writing is similar, but the one person you're wrangling is yourself! #blogger #ttrpgr #gmadvice

I wrote 14k words last week on my current WIP, "The Lost," a dungeon-lit fantasy adventure and I'm super jazzed about where this book is going (spoiler... into a dungeon). Thanks to #rainforestwritersvillage and @patrickswenson.bsky.social for hosting! #amwritingfantasy #booksky #WIP #amwriting

THE COMPANY A dungeon-lit cozy fantasy adventure in the old school style! #WSPit #Ag #NA #A #F #R learn more: www.shannonrampe.com

GODS of SKY and DUST Now on submission! A jaded treasure-hunter is offered a chance at personal redemption when he and a scholar-friend discover an ancient, sentient robot that may be key to unlocking the secrets of an ancient civilization. #WSPit #OS #A #SF #F Learn more: www.shannonrampe.com

Help us celebrate nonfiction writers from 2025! In our first-ever Planetside Reader Survey, which runs until Feb 28 at 11:59 PM PST, we are asking readers to highlight the articles they most loved. Thank you to all the volunteers who make this teaching tool for professionalizing writers possible!

Myth’s Landing – A City ’26 Project This blogpost originally appeared on The Novel Game Master. I'm excited to participate in City '26. This is the 2026 TTRPG/worldbuilding project, inspired by prior years' projects like Dungeon 23. This one was kicked off by Garblag Games and is loosely…

Over on my TTRPG blog, I've started a #City26 project detailing the districts of Myth's Landing, the setting for my dungeon-lit fantasy novel THE COMPANY.

Day 30 of #FantasyIndiesDecember My top 10 reads of 2025 are pretty diverse, and a good mix of indie and trad. I could have chosen more - it was really tough - but these were definitely the best of the best for me. #WritingCommunity

My 2025 Wrap-Up newsletter is now live! Includes recommendations for my three favorite brain-melting books I read in 2025. mailchi.mp/3b30173e3c4f...

Lots of new stuff coming from me in 2026. Stay up on the latest and greatest by joining my newsletter - sign up at shannonrampe.com and I'll send you a free ebook. We got stuff about writing, TTRPGs, recommendations, and more goodness. Free from AI slop and no spamming.

Rather than doing an ordinary end-of-year best of post, I put together 9 things I've learned running 9 different RPG systems in the past year(ish). What have you learned? www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2025/12/9-th... #osr #dnd #mothership #shadowdark #gmtips

The bloggies are coming, the bloggies are coming!

Over on my TTRPG blog, I wrote about my latest novel-in-progress, which is an OSR-inspired fantasy adventure! www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2025/12/writ...

Here's what I've been up to recently: mailchi.mp/cc60846942ab...

Final chapter on revisions of my novel WHITE BONE SPIRIT - I'm so excited to be finished with this project so I can move on to something new! It's great to be writing regularly again though. The last few months have been crazy!

HAPPENING NOW [ indiebook.sale ] 💙📚

It was a pleasure to meet you at the JAB dinner last week @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social! Looking forward to checking out Sweep of Stars. I love a good space opera!

Great meeting you and your spouse at the JAB dinner last week @aahabershaw.bsky.social! Hope you had a great worldcon!

Hi @dmoren.com - nice to meet you at the JAB dinner last week! Hope you avoided the con crud!

Great seeing you at the JAB dinner last week @erinmevans.bsky.social ! It was super cool to bump into a fellow Rainforester and role-player and discover we're at the same agency!

Hey @kacealexander.bsky.social, thanks for being a great dinner companion last weekend and for allowing me to meet your animal companion. You both were the best!

🧵🪡 I have now seen more than one 'TikTokers turning book writing into brand making' endeavours and I've noticed that all of them seem to a) value the story less than the brand, b) claim to be indie while looking down on actual indies and purporting their books as 'more akin to trad but ~BETTER~',

Congratulations, @timchawaga.bsky.social - this sounds awesome and I can't wait to read it!

I'll be @seattlein2025.org tomorrow for Worldcon! Hope to see some of you awesome folks there.

Some thoughts on artificial intelligence [sic] and its perils to tabletop gaming as a medium #osr #ttrpg

A new edition of my newsletter, WRITERS & ROBOTS, is now available. And with it comes the release of my newly redesigned website! mailchi.mp/d87cf53f2c73...

Do you like a side of witty banter and romantic tension with your adventure stories? Do you like beautiful illustrations and other deluxe additions to your books? Check out the Special Edition Kickstarter of my novel TIME TRAITORS.

Got a nice shoutout for my RPG writing today. @questingbeast.substack.com.web.brid.gy featured my blog on how the initiative and combat system in Mothership RPG helps to turn every violent encounter into an opportunity for storytelling. www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2025/05/stor...

I originally wrote this two years ago. It has only become more real (and more frightening) than I could have guessed at the time: Three Weird Futures with Generative AI: A Thought Experiment shannonrampe.com/2025/06/18/t...

Hello! I am now officially open to queries again on QueryManager. I have my very detailed MSWL for fic and non fic here susanvcolmant.com

I’m officially open to queries today! My full MSWL and QueryManager link can be found on our agency website. Can’t wait to see you in the query box! 📚 awfulagent.com/agents/chris...

Huge thanks to @ballastbookco.bsky.social for organizing an awesome event today with @mattdinniman.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social! I haven't laughed so hard since the last Dungeon Crawler Carl book I read!

Proud to be part of the estimated 1600 people in little #portorchard protesting the insanity today #handsoff

Truly excited and grateful to be part of this year's #Narratess indie book sale. Check out my collection Assistant to a Judge of Hell & Other Stories for a buck, or one of the many other titles available at indiebook.sale! www.amazon.com/Assistant-Ju...