Speaking as a reader and reviewer of fine SFFH/speculative fiction: I understand why some indie authors resort to selling through the online billionaire bookstore, but I am much more inclined to buy your work on the likes of Kobo, itch.io, or a Shopify/Payhip storefront.

Earning some "cool dad" points tonight by helping the eldest realise that the kids in her class are "6 7"

Hwat a deal! 4 issues of Wyrd Science covering everything from Ravenloft to Vaesen, Pendragon to Paranoia, WFRP to Barkeep on the Borderlands, Rivers of London to Mausritter, Blade Runner to DIE, Liminal to The Troubleshooters, Errant to Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, HeroQuest to Spire, etc etc etc

Then she leans in and whispers the two words all men want to hear: "Epistolary novel"

Then she leans in and whispers the two words all men want to hear: "Epistolary novel"

This third particularly great for Dariel on his family and personal history in a colonized country.

This week's North Sea Nexus post on the invisible boundaries in the sea most of us rarely think about, and how they came to be.

Different pen name, but this was absolutely a favorite vanity project that also felt like it meant something:

The third and final part of my interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social and @draq.bsky.social is live! We discuss some of the nuances of writing historical(ly flavored) fiction about people who've been sidelined in mainstream histories, plus writing influences and more.

I know it’s not a hot take or anything, but I get so upset by how “AI” constantly just seeks to supplant human creativity. I don’t want AI to write something for me - I love writing! I don’t want AI to summarise a book for me - I want to read the damn thing!

I will never understand the hate RotJ - aka the best Star Wars film - gets.

smdh when did THIS become sexier than THIS

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review "Chosen" by Lyndsey Holder, from the collection SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS (2015). deepcuts.blog/2025/11/08/c...

Exciting news! NWMS member @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social’s latest article Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland has now been published in the Journal of Historical Research, academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

A great example of metal as a force for good www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

📚 📺 To celebrate the upcoming launch of @alexharvv.bsky.social's Little Kingdoms: An A-Z of Early Medieval Britain, why not watch the chat we had about Alex's research on the Govan Early Medieval Podcast! Published on the 30th of Nov, 2025, by Pen and Sword Books. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUm...

Hwæt, #BookSky! Free stories! A tip jar! Potential Christmas gifts! It's a cornucopia of links! A Little Business scottoden.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Just wrote a review of @brynhammond.bsky.social and @draq.bsky.social's recent novellas. Rambling in places, perhaps? But I think these two are genuinely on to something when it comes to writing about steppe nomads and others who've been demeaned and dismissed in mainstream histories.

New volume of Classica Cracoviensia Vol. 28 (2025) journals.akademicka.pl/cc/issue/vie... #openaccess @mikeaztec.bsky.social

Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...

The early career retrospective of C. L. Moore continues with "Fruit of Knowledge," a new take on the Biblical story of the garden of Eden, and one of the few stories published under Moore's own name after her marriage. deepcuts.blog/2025/11/05/f...

New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants

A new interview blogpost from me! This time talking to @alexharvv.bsky.social about his book "Forgotten Vikings". We also touch on the importance of promoting academic history outside academia.

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

To celebrate the looming release of my next book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, I thought I’d do an A-Z! 1 letter per day, 26 days to go! A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….

New free Troika just appeared: melsonian-arts-council.itch.io/troika-numin...

In which @stevewestenra.bsky.social gives intriguing answers to excellent questions from @alexpuncekar.bsky.social at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social about his novella we're releasing next year, THE BARBARIAN AT STAR'S END! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

For a limited time, you can snag a FREE Kindle copy of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES! Take it for a spin; kick the tires, for NARY A DUCAT! a.co/d/5eqC5OA #BookSky #SwordandSorcery #S&S #HeroicHistorical

POLL: Would you enjoy a pin-up calendar of characters who've been published in NESS? Enough to buy one for a reasonable price? We're thinking all genders, and in something like the style of this NZ firefighter calendar: www.breastcancercure.org.nz/calendar/wah...

New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses. If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion. nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

How did people of the historical Central Asian steppe understand themselves as they lived in the shadows of empires? What compromises, if any, did they make with the settled states that menaced them? And how is this reflected in Bryn and Dariel's steppe-set stories? @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo #Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Delighted to add this article to my publications available to download: Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century? works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Two parts up of our three-part interview: Dariel Quiogue and I on our characters Orhan Timur and Goatskin. Interviewer E.M. White with questions on a theme of the periphery of empire sadbutbuildingworlds.blog/2025/11/02/w...

Either WordPress doesn't comprehend our socially constructed DST nonsense, or else I don't understand how to tell it what to do. As such, the second part of my interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social l and @draq.bsky.social is live!

Inaugural issue of Epic Threads (ISSN: 2819-7267) – a student-led creative journal with open access, hosted at the University of Waterloo. "Epic Threads dare to reimagine the ancient world through fiction, poetry, drama, art, and experimental writing." openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/ep...

Here the full position paper 📝 ✨ zenodo.org/records/1706...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

'Twas a little of me to not share this on/before Halloween. Anyway, for anyone who's still in the mood for dark reading/faces the incoming tsunami of Christmas music with dread, I'm sharing a slate of dark SFF/horror novellas that I recommended last year and remain just as good this year.

The new issue of The Fairy Tale Magazine is here! Thank you to Kristen Baum DeBeasi and the rest of TFTM crew for including my poem "A Troll's Feast" alongside so many other amazing works :) #poetry #fairytale #myth #troll #witchsky www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-tro...

In the dead of night New ebook, only in my Payhip store A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories Two reprints, two originals payhip.com/b/rzo4b

Interviewed by the one and only @karanthir.bsky.social Read on for chats about Frisians, vikings, Frisian vikings, and more Frisians…

This week I talk about the distinction between a king and a tyrant, featuring quotes from my hometown after the Boston Massacre, John Locke, and naturally, Arnulf #medievalsky

Two great scholars of the early Middle Ages having a chat about @alexharvv.bsky.social’s cracking book!

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review "Body to Body to Body" (2015) by Selena Chambers, from the anthology SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS. deepcuts.blog/2025/11/01/b...

This! I'm an atheist who studies the history of Christianity. I can't imagine how you do that rigorously without taking the religion and its believers seriously.