Shannon Rampe

Narratess Indie Book Sale, August 23-25. Banner shows many ebooks around a graphic of a dragon reading.

HAPPENING NOW [ indiebook.sale ] 💙📚

Thanks. I hope you recover quickly as well!

It was good. I only attended on Weds and came to the dinner on Friday. But Weds was great... got to chat with a lot of panelists and see some VP folks I hadn't seen in over a decade. How about you?

It was a pleasure to meet you at the JAB dinner last week @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social! Looking forward to checking out Sweep of Stars. I love a good space opera!

Great meeting you and your spouse at the JAB dinner last week @aahabershaw.bsky.social! Hope you had a great worldcon!

Hi @dmoren.com - nice to meet you at the JAB dinner last week! Hope you avoided the con crud!

Not quite - I spent the week under a grimy haze of crud. Seem to be mostly alive now though.

Great seeing you at the JAB dinner last week
@erinmevans.bsky.social
! It was super cool to bump into a fellow Rainforester and role-player and discover we're at the same agency!

Hey @kacealexander.bsky.social, thanks for being a great dinner companion last weekend and for allowing me to meet your animal companion. You both were the best!

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I have now seen more than one 'TikTokers turning book writing into brand making' endeavours and I've noticed that all of them seem to a) value the story less than the brand, b) claim to be indie while looking down on actual indies and purporting their books as 'more akin to trad but ~BETTER~',

Congratulations, @timchawaga.bsky.social - this sounds awesome and I can't wait to read it!

I'll be @seattlein2025.org tomorrow for Worldcon! Hope to see some of you awesome folks there.

AI and Empty Art — Prismatic Wasteland On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.

Some thoughts on artificial intelligence [sic] and its perils to tabletop gaming as a medium #osr #ttrpg

Yeah hit me up and we can chat about Mothership anytime.
Indeed, nice to see you here. It's been a minute!

A new edition of my newsletter, WRITERS & ROBOTS, is now available. And with it comes the release of my newly redesigned website!
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Thanks for making an amazing game, and thanks for sharing my post! 🦀🦀🦀

A trope tile listing tropes in the novel Time Traitors by Eli Donovan. A dinosaur playfully perches on top of the book cover. Listed tropes are: Jurassic Park vibes, Romantic Action Adventure, Scientist Heroine, No Spice, Smartass Hero (he falls first), Witty Banter!!, and Time Travel shenanigans.

Do you like a side of witty banter and romantic tension with your adventure stories? Do you like beautiful illustrations and other deluxe additions to your books? Check out the Special Edition Kickstarter of my novel TIME TRAITORS.

Thanks! My players really enjoyed the monster spacecrabs in Another Bug Hunt. Seemed appropriate!

Storytelling through Violence in Mothership RPG We recently completed a short campaign of Mothership - Another Bug Hunt - the published adventure module that comes with the Mothership box ...

Got a nice shoutout for my RPG writing today. @questingbeast.substack.com.web.brid.gy featured my blog on how the initiative and combat system in Mothership RPG helps to turn every violent encounter into an opportunity for storytelling.
www.thenovelgamemaster.com/2025/05/stor...

I originally wrote this two years ago. It has only become more real (and more frightening) than I could have guessed at the time:
Three Weird Futures with Generative AI: A Thought Experiment
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Susan Velazquez Colmant

Hello! I am now officially open to queries again on QueryManager. I have my very detailed MSWL for fic and non fic here susanvcolmant.com

I’m officially open to queries today! My full MSWL and QueryManager link can be found on our agency website. Can’t wait to see you in the query box! 📚

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Huge thanks to @ballastbookco.bsky.social for organizing an awesome event today with @mattdinniman.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social! I haven't laughed so hard since the last Dungeon Crawler Carl book I read!

Proud to be part of the estimated 1600 people in little #portorchard protesting the insanity today #handsoff

Truly excited and grateful to be part of this year's #Narratess indie book sale. Check out my collection Assistant to a Judge of Hell & Other Stories for a buck, or one of the many other titles available at indiebook.sale!

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Huge congratulations, John!!!

Three Weird Futures with Generative AI: A Thought Experiment Science fiction (SF) is the creation of stories based on “what-if” thought experiments involving science or technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is practically a classical subject for SF, but our ...

I got unpleasantly close: www.shannonrampe.com/post/three-w...

You are likely going to have trouble writing as the news keeps rolling in. I have a free class for you about how to navigate wanting to write in the face of all of this bullshit.

Love this cover art!

Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell: 9780756419547 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books This second novel from Nebula Award-winning John Wiswell brings a humanizing, redemptive touch to the Hercules story in this mythological fantasy for fans of Jennifer Saint and Elodie Harper Heracles...

The hardcover is now available for pre-order at most major retailers! This PRH link can direct you to the entries on Bookshop, Powell's, B&N, Amazon, and more! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773374...