Tenses. The authors eternal dilemma. 1st person past? 1st person present? Arrgghh... #cyberpunk #splatterpunk #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

Just finished my self editing process for a short story I plan on submitting to Hellbound Books. Now its off to my beta readers, then to submit. #cyberpunk #splatterpunk #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore @hellboundbooks.bsky.social

Someone -SERIOUSLY- needs to set up an "anti-AI" version of Fiverr. This is ridiculous. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

mayhemic.bandcamp.com/album/toba Chilean speed-thrash in the vein of old Kreator. Not breaking new ground, but dialed the fuck in and executed with extreme passion and conviction. Superb. #metal #speedmetal #thrashmetal #metalbandcamp #metalsky

Great write up from @zbsteele.bsky.social give it a read. (That subreddit is a really good one, incidentally... give it a sub and see) old.reddit.com/r/GrimDarkEp... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐

'Topical' goes bad faster than bananas. Thats why *most* of the jokes in Airplane! don't land anymore (geddit? eeeyyy) With this in mind, its something authors writing fiction should really avoid. Topical is the enemy of timeless. #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller 💙📚🪐

I'm honestly almost kinda mad at how much I'm enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's so self indulgent, the premise is so incredibly stupid- but I'm completely fucking hooked despite those facts. #fantasy #booksky #author #storyteller #litRPG 💙📚🪐

On the one hand, a 5-star review of my book is much appreciated. On the other hand, creating an account using my dead fathers name to do so is seriously fucked up. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

Hellbound Books Anthology of Extreme Horror is out! My short story, "Show Your Work" is included! hellboundbookspublishing.com/extremeantho... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore @hellboundbooks.bsky.social

...I think you can buy my book on Amazon now? In paperback I mean, its been up there as a digital purchase since it was first published. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐

Just matched the number of chapters between my first novel and its sequel, with at least a dozen more to go. Hope I can find a publisher, DIY is a hassle. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐

Tearsheet from my mini-interview in Absolute Underground, the Ozzy tribute issue. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller #metal

It's a hard slog, self-promoting your writing... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller #metal

Tomorrow, Sunday July 6th, I'll be joining the Comix & Stories gathering of local creators- authors, illustrators, weavers of worlds. If you're in the Vancouver area, come on in and check it out! @vancomicon.bsky.social #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller

If CONAN is doom metal for death metal fans, then MOTHER IRON HORSE is for sure stoner metal for death metal fans. Excellent energy and crunch. motherironhorse.bandcamp.com/track/old-ma... #metalsky #music #metal #heavymetal #doom #doommetal #stonermetal

To think, it was only about 7 months ago that my editor said "you should write a book", and now here it is on bookstore shelves. The bookstore is Cross & Crows in Vancouver. First I approached, first to accept, first to shelf. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐

First print run of paperbacks in hand. Shipping these is murder. Friggin' Canada Post... Makes it hard to empathize with their impending strike. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Still in need of some reviews out there for my book. Anyone active on goodreads or blogs, etc-- want a copy? Free ePub, or trade paperback for shipping only. Email me- zombosis with an at and a gmail and a dot and a com. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Doing pre-orders for physical copies of my book. Fire me an email to discuss payment and shipping, etc. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

My first ever review, from the Indigo website. Plus, I don't actually know who wrote it, so that's a plus! #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

I get wanting to be aware of world events... but several authors I love, their social media is insufferable. 3 or 4 posts a day, every day, ALL DOOM, ALL THE TIME. Ceaseless politics and negativity. Its fucking draining. Talk about your books or some shit. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

I guess I can officially refer to myself as an author now. Proof copy turned out pretty much spot on. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Throwback to that time I was in US Magazine, so I had it framed, but then all my clients seemed to think I was obsessed with the Depp/Heard divorce. Womp womp.

Just won my first short story contest! (It sounds more impressive than it is. 400 to 700 words in an /r/grimdark reddit contest in which there were 4 winners splitting the prize and only about 7 entrants total...) Still... Yay me? 🤪 #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Just finishing up the second of two short stories I'm planning on sending to @hellboundbooks.bsky.social for consideration in their anthologies. Don't think I'll revisit this corridor of horror again anytime soon though. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Oh man... awkward finding out Whispers of the Storm by ZB Steele and Tears of the Moon by Jackson Simiana both use the same font on their book covers that my cover artist used on Bones Before Fortune. Meeeep. 😬 #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

If you're a blogger/reviewer, hit me up. Looking to get eyes in front of my book. Need feedback to grow, y'all. Read and review my dark, violent tales in a world where the power of magic is derived from pain! (Uplifting stuff, mmyep.) #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

Got rejected by my first review blogger today. Hooray I guess? At least she gave me a note and didn't ghost me. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

What review sites or blogs are worth approaching for submitting my book for review? I've only tried Grimdark Magazine so far, but I don't think they're interested. Recommendations, please. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

I listened to this on steady repeat for at least the first third of the writing process for my book. Doom metal for death metal fans. I hope the tone of it seeped into the book, I mean... that was my intention. youtu.be/FxyOm6_lq4E?... 📚🪐💙 #metalsky #doommetalsky

Dot-ca over Dot-com, Kobo before Kindle, BookVault because they have a print-press here. Im not jingoistic, I just want to do what little I can to prop up my country. #Canada #booksky 📚🪐💙

Design used for my band, The Blade Itself -Yes, named after Abercrombies book. I'm no bandwagon-hopper when it comes to my love of #grimdark #metalsky

We're all in the same boat, thousands of authors who (just like me) are hoping, hustling, praying... for that one break, that one fateful *snap* of luck that catches the greater publics eye. "Validate me, senpai!" we cry out, desperate for praise and enough sales to pay a bill or two. #booksky 📚🪐💙

The pacing of a book release is different from a music release. Seems more naturally languid, like it can just build and build. With an album, its all about frenetic momentum and capitalizing as fast as you can, before its forgotten and yesterdays news. #booksky 📚🪐💙

I think they should just be honest and re-name it "Goodreads/Badreviews". (Honestly kinda looking forward to the scathing roasts by armchair critics coming my way. Rite of passage, I guess?) #booksky 📚🪐💙

Day one sales of seven copies! I know who at least two of those went to, but still... Woot! And thats just via Kobo, once it clears through Kindle and D2D, who knows how luxurious my newfound rich-dude lifestyle will get? #booksky 📚🪐💙

For your Friday enjoyment-- My first novel, Bones Before Fortune, is up on Kobo, should be up on Kindle any second. For fans of grimdark and splatterpunk, its a dark and violent tale. 📚🪐💙 www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

ePubs submitted to KOBO and Kindle, just awaiting approval. Meeeep 📚🪐💙

I'm self-publishing because I'm impatient. I don't have time to crawl on my knees, pleading for the mercy of the publishing house machine. I figure, if my work is as good as I think it is, publishers can come to me. I'd rather be courted than beg. 📚🪐💙

The final manuscript is currently being formatted for ePub and MOBI. Hope I can get the physical print run done soon. I'm so eager to release this novel, to feed those who love dark and brutal fantasy. 📚🪐💙

Final manuscript back from my editor. ISBNs assigned, all attribution and copyright notices applied... all that remains now is formatting, and... publish. Then, what, profit I guess? HA! 📚🪐💙

Couple little bammers on a seriously interesting client who comes to see me once a year, all the way from Norway. Marquesas Islands fish and Waster islands Moai bust. #tattoo #marquesas #moai

The publication of my first novel, Bones Before Fortune, inches closer and closer. Its followup, Seven Crowns of Rust, marches steadily forward. I just want to make Abercrombie, Butcher, Buehlman, Erikson, and King proud. I owe them all so much. 📚🪐💙

Trying to find new clients when everyone is broke... good times, good times. 🤘😎 #tattoo #vancouver

📚🪐💙 My editor tells me I should have my final manuscript in hand today! Im quite curious to know what the feedback on this series will be, good and bad.

It is of critical importance to me that I don't allow myself to be over-self-indulgent with my writing. I avoid cheesy 'deus ex machina', I try to dodge white-guy sexist objectification, I also try not to preach. Just dark, violent, gory escapism.

My editor is taking an unholy amount of time getting through my first book, but I think he might actually have the finish line in sight. Then its off to a formatter and I can finally publish it, albeit in digital format only- for now. Hard copy as soon as I can afford it.

I was never really very happy with this when I first did it, but I posted it because I wanted movement on my facebook and deviantart (thats how long ago I did this). Someone lifted it from my deviantart and posted it to pinterest, where it went like wildfire. Mine is the OG though. #tattoo #owl

Haida tattoo work from the late 1800s. As ancient as time, as modern as tomorrow. #tattoo #haida #canada #indigenous

Haida chief Xa'na. Tattoo is eternal. #tattoo #haida #indigenous #canada