⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️ Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold! 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈

The pulpy subgenre sword & sorcery still thrives.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Thanks! Thanks so much! Thanks for reaching out! Can't wait to connect! Can't wait to hear more! Looking forward to our conversation! Looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know! Let me know if this works for you! Let me know if this works for your schedule! Let me know when you're available!

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

cookie tables

oh no, my son is a gamer.

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want (I'm cheating and giving you a paragraph). This is Wyrd City. Go and Be Wyrd.

I haven't really given the whole performative reading thing much thought but if you do happen to see me out there reading can you tell me how good and cool I look?

i guess you can't spell arc raiders without AI 😔 this sucks and if you're a dev you should be speaking out about it!

Vince Gilligan had the 'Pluribus' credits include 'this show was made by humans' "I hate AI. AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" (via Variety)

Got to play this at #MDEV and it was so dope.

You heard me

Back on the market after, uh, quite a while, so I made a little portfolio site. Feeling like an actual grown up. Please have a look!

I've got another interview out! @stevewestenra.bsky.social talks to me about his upcoming novella THE BARBARIAN AT STAR'S END, which, like, look at that artwork. I know you wanna read it.

I didn‘t forget, I just have a lot on my mind!

New awareness campaign

I have TWO interviews out today, both from incredible authors with amazing talent.

Yup, autochecked for me, even tho I unpinned and have every gemini setting I possibly can turned off. Absolute fuckheads

“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.

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Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, all coming for you this fall. Thank you, @megelison.bsky.social for the kind words! More info below

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

New to the #SoloRPG List: Final Round by @alexpuncekar.bsky.social A one page, two-player RPG about one-on-one battles and the drama between fighters CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

New to the #SoloRPG List: It's in the Vents! by @alexpuncekar.bsky.social Journal about your encounters with a dangerous creature in the darkness of space. CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

A few of my games got added to this amazing list! There's so much good stuff here.

I love retrospectives like this. We are obsessed with the same imaginary problems, generation after generation

I love librarians

I made a thing (with a lot of help)!

VOLITION - No. Not a disaster. Weave this into the story of you. Walk out of its *ruins*. Save those who still can be saved -- *I'm* on your side.

what doesnt kill you makes you the joker

Might I recommend INFIDEL by @pornsak.bsky.social, @aaroncampbellarts.com, @josevillarrubia.bsky.social, and Jeff Powell, which is, by my professional opinion, the scariest graphic novel I've ever read. bookshop.org/p/books/infi...

They are called writers

Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm

My interview with Dariel R.A. Quiogue is up at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social!

If any of the folks that worked on Star Wars Outlaws follow me, I want y'all to know I'm loving your game right now. You did such a good job. Having so much fun with this game!

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 31ST! The Speculative Detective Agency Co-Editors: Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez Call for Stories: tinyurl.com/2kw9kd85 The Kickstarter: tinyurl.com/2x4rp52h ---TRUST THE MYSTERY---

I saw Sleep Token this weekend. Still recovering.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

My interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social is up at Grimdark!

boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda

1. Joe Abercrombie books 2. Gunpla 3. Why I think Logen Ninefingers from the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie needs a Gundam *bonus: why dragoons are the best class in FF14.