Today is the day I start revising The Dead Man, my Mennik Thorn prequel novella. And, yes, you can pre-order it. Not long until it comes out! books2read.com/thedeadman
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Today is the day I start revising The Dead Man, my Mennik Thorn prequel novella. And, yes, you can pre-order it. Not long until it comes out! books2read.com/thedeadman
"In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law."
#Resist 🖤
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Large sections of the indie author community seem very happy with using generative AI for "writing", covers, promotion, translation, audiobooks and all the rest. I'm tired of it. It's parasitical behaviour, IMO, and it damages the reputation of us all.
Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.
Still have to finish LEGACY OF A DEAD GOD and leave a review, but I can say the whole series is fantastic. Love the MC and setting, and pretty much everything about these books! (And if this is a reposted repost of your post, ware the inevitable feedback whine!)
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
Now that Disney owns Fox, which means they own the Alien franchise, I can't stop thinking about how the Alien Queen is now a Disney Princess/Queen.
We appreciate you, sir. Cheers!
My favourite new fantasy series that I came across in the last couple of years was T.B. Schmid and R.Wade Hodges's Fate's Crucible series (beginning with Beyond the Burning Sea). I'm delighted they're working on the third book, and I can't wait to read it.
It's the last day of the Narratess Indie SFF sale. Grab some books very cheap while you still can! Here's SHADOW OF A DEAD GOD: books2read.com/ShadowGod And here's over 300 other books to choose from: indiebook.sale/ (you can filter heavily)
There is a new post up on the Lions blog at our website. lionsoftheempire.blogspot.com/2025/08/ever...
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
8/24/25💡Independence Day, Kharkiv, ignoring constant danger for one evening of singing🙏🇺🇦🙏
Blog post off the starboard bow! ... I don't know if I'm doing that correctly. I'm not proficient in snowboarding terminology.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive ― James Baldwin Night 💚📖
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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
A trip into the Empire’s (no, not THAT Empire) archives unearthed this treasure: early conceptual illustrations of the jharrl, one of the fearsome beasties of Ruine (Fate’s Crucible fantasy series). Thanks to the artist, Todd Schmid, for letting us share.
ICYMI: Last fall our judges reviewed @roguelion.bsky.social & R. Wade Hodges' Beyond The Burning Sea, a semi-finalists in SPFBO#10!-JI "A big story, with big consequences, but the authors never take the focus away from the characters who are living it." fantasy-faction.com/2024/semifin... #booksky
Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.
Me too! Found one in my water garden last summer and had to look up what it was.
Happy anniversary! Think I like the original best, but that SPFBO Finalist medallion on the last is pretty spiffy!
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them..." - Orwell the Oracle
Peter Cushing's birthday yesterday & Christopher Lee's today, so here's the best fact about them. They loved Looney Tunes cartoons, used to phone each other & do Tweety Pie & Sylvester routines, and were once thrown out of a West End cinema for laughing too loudly and doing all the voices.
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I’ve no doubt it was well-deserved :)
Do something positive today. Share a writer's books or an artist's portfolio or a musician's tracks or... Like this book, which I very much enjoyed.
Very much appreciated, my friend! And I would same thing about this one, (which I’m enjoying at this very moment)!
It's a new day. Let's make the most of it.
You rrrrang? Shame away! I spend enough time berating myself, so its nice to have company :) Very much appreciate the kind words, Patrick. I'm also enjoying 'Strange Cargo' very much! I agree with Wade's earlier comments about 'Nectar'.
Young men should adopt Lewis & Tolkien as masculine role models. Scholars, war heroes, feasting on the nectar of ancient poetry in rain-drenched pubs—and both a million times cooler than Andrew Tate.
A new blog post up on the Lions website talking about the big META heist discovered at the end of last week: lionsoftheempire.blogspot.com/2025/03/pill...
Tuna fish is my go-to, but a hearty soup can do a solid job of replenishing all of those calories burned treading the world beneath my sandaled feet…
We stand on the side of the artists and their work that was taken. It makes us angry and sad (mostly angry) knowing that it's unlikely anyone will be held accountable for all of this.
Hey! You wonder why LLMs sometimes feel almost like competent writers? It's theft. The answer is theft.
“Would that the world were as simple as the simple see it.”
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Cuz I forgot to tag the beautiful peeps at #booksky
Day 11: #booksky Yes, I “borrowed” from @defective-monk.bsky.social
Rooting around in the dusty corners of my music library and came across an old favorite: “Suite Madame Blue” by Styx. Written in 1975, the lyrics are still relevant, which oddly gives me hope: she’s lost her way before…
Have heard good things and just grabbed the audible version. Looking forward to it!
Rules? Conan break rules. Besides, it was neither explanation nor review, but a quote off the inside of the cover 😏
YES! The ultimate excuse for my overflowing collection! #booksky #books #readers #readercommunity #authors
KNOW, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of…”
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*AI sketches
*AI sketches
Working on a sketch for “Ghosts in the Mist” chapter of Beyond the Burning Sea @lionsoftheempire.bsky.social
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