@brynhammond
| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols | She/her 🌈Queer. Australia | https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
The first Astartha tale.
2nd in NESS #4, 3rd in NESS #6. They grow stronger and stronger. I still don't know how to talk about them, but nothing in NESS gives me such a frisson. After 2 I had to prowl about in the night air until the physiological buzz wore off a bit. 3 hit me where I have lived.
⚔️ NESS stretch goals from now on are pay bumps for ✒️authors & 🎨artists
😮 We're at 10c a word and Editor Oliver is keen to shoot for 12c
🐐 I happen to have a novelette. I'm proud of it, I can't wait for you to see it -- and feast on Linnea Sterte's 4 illustrations
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Great review! And I love Archipelago Books.
And she ruled: Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Vogel @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/03/11/a...
I just finished Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and that book, its vision of humanity, of identity, of memory, of magic, of portals, is so GOOD. It's a worldview in which goodness is an active agent in the world because good people choose to do good. Really extraordinary. Just wonderful.
The first Astartha tale.
2nd in NESS #4, 3rd in NESS #6. They grow stronger and stronger. I still don't know how to talk about them, but nothing in NESS gives me such a frisson. After 2 I had to prowl about in the night air until the physiological buzz wore off a bit. 3 hit me where I have lived.
By request, a discussion of Aristotle's impact on Alexander the Great, with side speculation on Aristotle's background & perhaps some *spying* (or at least negotiating) for Philip II at the court of Hermias in Asia Minor. #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky #blueskyancient #Aristotle #Alexanderthegreat
With you on that.
Ah you cheer my heart 💚
So excited for what I'm writing now and's to come out in 2027. Apocalypse may happen, but I hope I'll just be struck down in this state of excitement. Sorry, if I need to be sorry. I have trained for a lifetime to ignore real life and write, and boy do I have that ability strong in me, at this age.
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
⚔️ NESS stretch goals from now on are pay bumps for ✒️authors & 🎨artists
😮 We're at 10c a word and Editor Oliver is keen to shoot for 12c
🐐 I happen to have a novelette. I'm proud of it, I can't wait for you to see it -- and feast on Linnea Sterte's 4 illustrations
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
So what was The Golden Age of genre lit reviews & criticism?
drop something BLUE 🩵
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#kleineKunstklasse
Today!
I enjoy the patterned-ness of writing, and outline's when you start to put in the patterns. Yeah no wonder I like it.
I'd genuinely forgotten how much I like doing an outline (for novella). It structures your thought! You work out what you mean as you go! Just like a hundred Bluesky posts tell you, accurately, about writing essays. To think I almost tried to skip, this time. Crunching my wild sketches into cogency.
With the icks of women's day behind me, I'm going to re-watch this conversation -- Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam -- because I told myself I'll have to watch that again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLv...
This will be the best short story rate I have ever been paid! @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social is a damn juggernaut! Get on this train!
I illustrated these in scratchboard, (with digital colour) and they were such a joy to read and illustrate.
I love it
I love the music, and, to me at least, it'll be about extraterrestrial contact
srsly, it's past time Morlock got his squee squad
Morlock is one of the few you may find me to squee over
Is it Morlock flash? 😃
✍️ We're getting very close to 10c/word for our authors, flash fic by @jamesenge.bsky.social for all, and a short story critique from @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social for the backer whose pledge gets us there...
Okay what's not mentioned here is that we are at 815 so ONE THOUSAND IS NOT THAT FAR AWAY
CROM WANTS YOU TO BACK THIS MAGAZINE
Latest read (audio), The Idiot (1869) by Dostoevsky; Prince Myshkin, a free thinking epileptic is regarded as an idiot in high Russian society, but is anything but. Men soon regard his honesty and women fall in love with his openheartedness.
A tragedy about true goodness among ordinary men.
#BookSky
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
