Antler/horn effect especially good on this, what are you using?

I only have one Nurgle lad!

@ianthegreen.bsky.social‘s books are filled with immense settings which are characters in their own right. Worth the price of admission👇

Workshop: Worldbuilding with Ian Green — CYMERA Worldbuilding is the cornerstone of SFFH fiction. Join author Ian Green to guide you through the  art of worldbuilding in speculative fiction in an interactive workshop.  Learn how to enhanc...

I'm running a workshop on world building at @cymerafestival.co.uk June 6th!

Come, come to me. We will build worlds!

www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Reviewers, bloggers, authors- request now!

Baldurs gate 3 character creation screen with halfling druid

Can they just release BG3 character creation but with all possible items and clothing so I can just make my d&d character without playing 200 hours of game?

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

The Deep and the Drowned The first in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the Rotstorm series and Extremophile, this novel is a high-octane tale set on the turbulent seas of Morost…

THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is big nautical fantasy with old gods, animist magic, imperial powers, and cutlasses galore. Tonally Gemmel meets Jemisen. A thousand islands, but only one fate.

Out in Aug!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deep-and-...

“This moving, funny novel left me feeling something I wish I felt more often these days – faith in humanity.” Kate Heartfield, Aurora Award-winning author of The Embroidered Book “A black romp and a fervent hope, told with an absurdist’s light touch even as it delves through the darkness.” Ian Green, author of Extremophile “Original, mind-expanding, and surprising – The Many made me think, wonder, and want a better world.” Aliya Whiteley, BSFA Award-winning author of Three Eight One Out April 2026 Preorder Now! THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel

“A black romp and a fervent hope" @ianthegreen.bsky.social

"Left me feeling something I wish I felt more often these days – faith in humanity.” @kateheartfield.com

"Original, mind-expanding, and surprising" Aliya Whiteley

@neuvel.net 's new standalone SciFi THE MANY 👉 https://geni.us/themany

This is true. Lets try both. I can pitch the panel idea to the con, and in parallel we staring looking into an online event. Besides us 3, anyone else you know with a hivemind book out this year?

The image features a book cover for "The Deep and the Drowned" by Ian Green, showcasing a large serpent-like creature in an underwater scene with vibrant red and blue tones. Surrounding the book is text that reads "Available to request on NetGalley." The Ad Astra logo is visible in the lower-left corner.

#TheDeepAndTheDrowned by @ianthegreen.bsky.social takes the world of The #Rotstorm to the seas, in a high-octane tale set on the turbulent oceans of Morost.

Now available to request on @NetGalley: https://bit.ly/4dDmmUv

My next book THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is now on NetGalley for anyone fancying a sneaky peek.

Across a chaotic archipelago of gods and monsters, one man has a debt to pay.

Tombs! Mages! Death knights! Pirates! Bone-monkeys! 7ft iguanas with living coral ships!

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

Don't walk, run to read this marvelous book (Also, read the Rotstorm series in the process, you won't be disappointed) (Or even Extremophile, as we are in the process)

My next book THE DEEP AND THE DROWNED is now on NetGalley for anyone fancying a sneaky peek.

Across a chaotic archipelago of gods and monsters, one man has a debt to pay.

Tombs! Mages! Death knights! Pirates! Bone-monkeys! 7ft iguanas with living coral ships!

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

An absolute pleasure, just sorry it took so long to get to!

I'm so slow, but NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD by @klschroeder.bsky.social is a haunting elegiac wonder, a slow dream of empty skies that asks the only question worth asking- what is to be done?

"Let the dead rest, and fight for what we still might be able to save.”

Beautiful unflinching work

A red book on a blue wallpaper background framed but antlers filled with stars. The cover has the silhouette of a stag's head and horns filled with a night sky. The text has CL HELLISEN at the top in gold, and between the stag horns the title is in gold. The Shape of Monsters. Below the book it says 24th September 2026

For those who don't use Instagram, here's the image from Tor UK's post of The Shape of Monsters cover reveal!

The hardback comes out 26th September 2026.

A photograph of the colourful cover of the paperback edition of Scottish author Ian Green’s biopunk thriller Extremophile, published by Head of Zeus. It is eye-wateringly violent (the bad guys are very, very bad); the good guys are almost as bad as the bad guys, but in the best possible way. I enjoyed the characters and the story, and the hope Green creates out of the grit and despair feels like encouragement, which is nice on days when hope seems like an exercise in futility.

Extremophile (an organism that thrives in extreme environments) is a gritty dystopian biopunk novel about a violent, miserable future on a planet that continues to be gutted by billionaires & corporations, but on which the hope for something better still survives & continues to fight back. 🪐📚💙

'it was a vibe' is as thoughtful and articulate as it takes to make my morning. Glad you enjoyed 🙌

Fuck me, @ianthegreen.bsky.social Extremophile was brilliant.

I'd like to write a really thoughtful and articulate review, but... it was a vibe.

Doing our darndest over here at Brackenbury Books!

lichen katydids

A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids

Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*

Happy publication day to me!

With Wolfskin's release, the Common Saga, a project I started writing when I was 21 years old, is complete and out in the world forever.

I hope you enjoy my savage little world. And please share far and wide.

[links below]

a book cover with a gothic-looking city in dark blues and greens with some yellow lighting. adrian tchaikovsky says 'a triumph of the imagination.' wickhills by premee mohamed.

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL

WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg!

Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

babes I was reading Cyteen & Earthsea when I was twelve, those were the books that made me and you will not see me talking shit about them BUT if either Le Guin or Cherryh were out there funding genocide I'd be dropping them like a hot potato

Cover of Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by Eliza Chan. Blue, red and white porcelain effect with stone lion, snake, tiger, dog, incense, teapot, gold, coin sword and more on the cover

Here it is! HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS my new Babel x Buffy the Vampire Slayer historical fantasy novel out 28th July

Cover by Toma Nguyen, art director Ella Garrett

The cover of the book THE DEEP AND The Drowned by Ian green, a sea serpent in dark blue water with red plants and a small ship on stormy seas above

This is out in August!

Writers and reviewers, my dearies, if you fancy an ARC drop me a line- they are heading out shortly!

Preorder it if you like cool books about swords and ships and monsters and guilt and arcane archipelagos and betrayal and hope and disaster and fate amzn.eu/d/08ibViSi

Design by Simon Michele at Head of Zeus, illustrations by Marcela Bolívar!

Liveship Traders, The Scar, and The Bone Ships are my holy trinity of nasty nautical fantasy, and this book is my attempt to join the crew.

Come for the cutlasses, stay for the cutlasses, other stuff too

I had no idea @ianthegreen.bsky.social had a new book coming out! Details below👇

The cover of the book THE DEEP AND The Drowned by Ian green, a sea serpent in dark blue water with red plants and a small ship on stormy seas above

This is out in August!

Writers and reviewers, my dearies, if you fancy an ARC drop me a line- they are heading out shortly!

Preorder it if you like cool books about swords and ships and monsters and guilt and arcane archipelagos and betrayal and hope and disaster and fate amzn.eu/d/08ibViSi