@keithdurocher.ca.bsky.social
Vancouver, BC. Tattoo man. Death metal vocalist. Author of dark and violent fantasy fiction.
It's a hard slog, self-promoting your writing... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller #metal
31.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0atlasobscura.com always when travelling. Museo Stibbert and La Specola in Firenze.
05.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow, Sunday July 6th, I'll be joining the Comix & Stories gathering of local creators- authors, illustrators, weavers of worlds. If you're in the Vancouver area, come on in and check it out!
@vancomicon.bsky.social
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If CONAN is doom metal for death metal fans, then MOTHER IRON HORSE is for sure stoner metal for death metal fans. Excellent energy and crunch.
motherironhorse.bandcamp.com/track/old-ma...
#metalsky #music #metal #heavymetal #doom #doommetal #stonermetal
To think, it was only about 7 months ago that my editor said "you should write a book", and now here it is on bookstore shelves.
The bookstore is Cross & Crows in Vancouver. First I approached, first to accept, first to shelf.
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First print run of paperbacks in hand. Shipping these is murder. Friggin' Canada Post... Makes it hard to empathize with their impending strike.
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Still in need of some reviews out there for my book. Anyone active on goodreads or blogs, etc-- want a copy? Free ePub, or trade paperback for shipping only. Email me- zombosis with an at and a gmail and a dot and a com.
#booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
Its grimdark/splatterpunk- dark, violent fantasy. Due to word count restrictions, its probably easier to just link it to a digital storefront? Theres a preview function that'll be more indepth than a blurb- www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
01.05.2025 18:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doing pre-orders for physical copies of my book. Fire me an email to discuss payment and shipping, etc.
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My first ever review, from the Indigo website. Plus, I don't actually know who wrote it, so that's a plus! #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
23.04.2025 18:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I get wanting to be aware of world events... but several authors I love, their social media is insufferable. 3 or 4 posts a day, every day, ALL DOOM, ALL THE TIME. Ceaseless politics and negativity. Its fucking draining. Talk about your books or some shit. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
21.04.2025 04:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Email sent. :)
18.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks. The artist I had work with me on it did a great job interpreting my sketch. Sienna Arts at Whiterose Publishing.
18.04.2025 07:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If you'd like an e-copy, I can fire one your way right now. For a physical one, that's still a wait I'm afraid, the full print run isn't in my hands yet, just my proof copy.
18.04.2025 07:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I guess I can officially refer to myself as an author now. Proof copy turned out pretty much spot on.
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Throwback to that time I was in US Magazine, so I had it framed, but then all my clients seemed to think I was obsessed with the Depp/Heard divorce. Womp womp.
14.04.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just won my first short story contest!
(It sounds more impressive than it is. 400 to 700 words in an /r/grimdark reddit contest in which there were 4 winners splitting the prize and only about 7 entrants total...) Still... Yay me? 🤪
#booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
Just finishing up the second of two short stories I'm planning on sending to @hellboundbooks.bsky.social for consideration in their anthologies. Don't think I'll revisit this corridor of horror again anytime soon though.
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I read this really great series one time about how belief defines reality and all these crazy people had zany magic powers that got more powerful the crazier they got. Maybe that series could help you out? Just believe you don't know anything about writing and you're gold. Eyyyy *finger gunz*
09.04.2025 17:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sweet! Makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it?
09.04.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hahaha can you imagine? "Today, on "When Fiverr contracts go bad", the curious case of ComicSans..."
05.04.2025 23:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh man... awkward finding out Whispers of the Storm by ZB Steele and Tears of the Moon by Jackson Simiana both use the same font on their book covers that my cover artist used on Bones Before Fortune. Meeeep. 😬
#booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
Cheers for these recommendations, I'll reach out.
05.04.2025 04:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmn... no dm on this here platform. Add an "at" symbol between the words "gmail" and "zombosis" and end it with a "dot-com", we can take it from there?
05.04.2025 00:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If you're a blogger/reviewer, hit me up. Looking to get eyes in front of my book. Need feedback to grow, y'all. Read and review my dark, violent tales in a world where the power of magic is derived from pain! (Uplifting stuff, mmyep.)
#booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy
A ginger boar with tentacles is superbly Lovecraftian.
04.04.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Got rejected by my first review blogger today. Hooray I guess? At least she gave me a note and didn't ghost me.
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Noted, I'll reach out.
03.04.2025 19:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What review sites or blogs are worth approaching for submitting my book for review? I've only tried Grimdark Magazine so far, but I don't think they're interested. Recommendations, please.
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I listened to this on steady repeat for at least the first third of the writing process for my book. Doom metal for death metal fans. I hope the tone of it seeped into the book, I mean... that was my intention. youtu.be/FxyOm6_lq4E?... 📚🪐💙 #metalsky #doommetalsky
02.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
