André Geleynse

An unanticipated side effect of watching the D20 Live: Viva Más Vegas show is that I'd kind of forgotten how Starstruck is the best Dimension 20 campaign and now I might need to rewatch the entire thing

JND game result of 0.0026

oh yeah well TAKE THAT

HOW

How dare you beat my score

Did not expect to do this well

ALSO for sci-fi: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee; all of them for excellent galactic sci-fi politics and messing about with gender.

It's Aurora Award Season once again and I'd love if you'd consider my short story The Last Chance Locksmith; a cozy fantasy story about an artificer, her coffee, and the unfortunate adventures that keep rocking her bunker!

Vote for it here! www.csffa.ca
@augursociety.bsky.social

Bugs make the best storytellers. Short and to the point, their tales weave ancient ancestral wisdom with hard-knock lessons from a short life lived to the fullest. Not to mention the inscrutable punchlines. What tiny creature's tale has stuck with you the longest?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Some other favourites I'm not sure if you've read: The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (how to even describe?), The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed (how to even describe??), Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee (space boxing!)

For sci-fi: The Iron Garden Sutra by A.D. Sui: Antisocial gay death monk on a murdery ghost ship in space! Also the Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui: Toxic lesbians in spaceships!

Fantasy: Saint Death's Daughter, by C.S.E. Cooney: the most joyous necromantic romp imaginable; wonderful in every way.

Somewhere, HP Lovecraft is reduced to gibbering in a corner.

Working for Italians, day 3287.

A group of men enter the boardroom at my office. I overhear: "Tony, have you met Tony? This is Tony, and this is Tony. I'm Tony too."

They seem to be working well! I'm still getting used to them; they're single vision, so weirdly I have to stay MORE focused on the screen for my eyes to relax, and be intentional about when I look away so I can take the glasses off to do it.

Selfie of me wearing glasses. My childhood self, who always wished he could wear glasses, is very pleased. My current self is fine with it so long as I stop getting nauseous when scrolling through PDFs

Ya boy got his first pair of real glasses for the computer because apparently having a full time job staring at screens causes ✨eye strain✨ and ya boy is in his ✨thirties✨

😎

EXCITING NEWS IN MY INBOX.

SECRETS TO BE SHARED AT AN UNDISCLOSED LATER DATE.

STAY TUNED.

"Firefly with firebenders" is such a satisfying sounding pitch

Can't wait to read this!

Podcastle is the first magazine I ever submitted a story to, and a big part of the reason I started writing short fiction in the first place. And as someone who reads primarily audiobooks, having my own story get the audio fiction treatment is a literal dream come true.

Contract signed! I'm IMPOSSIBLY excited to share that my story, Last Train from Deadwall, will be reprinted in audio form by the incredible folks at @podcastle.org!! 🤯

Aurora Awards nominations are OPEN! If you read & liked my novelette, Last Train From Deadwall, consider nominating it?

And if you haven't read it but would like to, you can do so here! Reviewers have said, "the ending made me say "yeah" out loud," and, "I don't really know how to describe this."

An image of thick books with an overlay of purple. At the top of the image is a white rectangle bar that reads: “New Book Club” in purple text, and in the left corner, there is a bell graphic in orange. In the middle of the image reads: “Join the Augur Society Book Shelf” in white text, and underneath it reads: “For voracious readers of SFF.” At the bottom of the image is a purple bar, and inside of it a link: augursociety.org/augur-society-launches-a-new-book-club-the-augur-bookshelf

JOIN OUR NEW BOOK CLUB: The Augur Bookshelf! 📚✨

A sci-fi, fantasy, & specfic book club that meets on the 4th Monday of each month to explore the unknown & the fantastical! 🧚🐉

Sign up on eventbrite, you'll get reminders for every session & 10% off reads thanks to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

ALSO open are the Locus awards, where Last Train from Deadwall is on the recommended list! You don't even have to be a member of anything to vote here, just follow the link!

Other reviewers of my story have said, "it does make for one hell of an adventure and an excellent read," and, "WOW!!!!!!"

Aurora Awards nominations are OPEN! If you read & liked my novelette, Last Train From Deadwall, consider nominating it?

And if you haven't read it but would like to, you can do so here! Reviewers have said, "the ending made me say "yeah" out loud," and, "I don't really know how to describe this."

Augur: Review by A.C. Wise Augur 8.2 “Four Elements of the Affair” by Britt Gillman in Augur 8.2 is a flash piece capturing the essence of four love affairs and tying them to the natural world, including a relationship betwe…

My review of @augursociety.bsky.social issue 8.2 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/augur...

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

Dear readers,

TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊

Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀

Subscribers can find the issue in their inbox within 24 hours, & we have 2 FREE pieces on our site RIGHT NOW!

Click the link below!⬇️

welp, looks like I have my next story concept lined up

Okay but what are the four core character classes in your own fiction? For me it's:

Skeleton
Robot
Mushroom
Witch

Thanks to Netgalley for sending me the audiobook so I could savour these tasty words before it comes out next week!

Cover of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA by A.D. Sui. Bold solid yellow background with circular silhouettes like orbital patterns around the silhouette of a space station at the centre. Towards the bottom is the silhouette of a ship, entangled in red vines with a skull emblazoned on it.

So I just finished The Iron Garden Sutra by @thesuiway.bsky.social. This book rules. I love my socially awkward anxiety monk and his grumpy engineer. I love doomed expeditions and weird non-human consciousness and ghost ships in space. Highly, highly recommend getting your hands on this ASAP!!

Rough ink sketch of me, a tall man with goatee, toque, and sunglasses, holding hands and crossing the street with my daughter, a two year old who comes up a little past my knee.

Day 2: I do not like how this one turned out, but that's okay! It's practice. I like working in pen, but I have a lot of habits from working in pencil that keep tripping me up.

Rough ink sketch showing part of the pergola outside my kitchen window, bird feeders hanging from it.

More like 15 minutes for this one; the view out my kitchen window (ignore the top left lmao)