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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

"A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.

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4 years

Hey google, what's the definition of "audacity"?

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 months

Me: Shogun can't possibly get any better. Shogun: Hold my masterfully brewed and exquisitely poured tea...

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

So I've mentioned before that THE BAND had been optioned for Film/TV, and I can finally share the absolutely stunning artwork that will accompany the "pitch". (🎨 by Pierre Santamaria) Fingers crossed!

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6 years

Some people: "Airships don't belong in fantasy." Yoshitaka Amano: "Hold my beer."

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@Nicholas_Eames

1 month

Two Total War players walk into a bar...

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

I call this a bookshelf, but there is, in fact, very little "shelf" involved. Also, gods help me if I want to look up a line in The Name of the Wind 😅

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

My duuuuudes! May I (gleefully) present the cover art for the French edition of KINGS OF THE WYLD (and below, the AC/DC photo that inspired it) 🎨 by Pierre Santamaria

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Radioactive Brandon Sanderson please and thanks.

Ben Galley

@BenGalley

3 years

Question of the day: if you could be bitten by a radioactive *something* and gain its powers what would it be?

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

What society would look like if Times New Roman was the default font on Microsoft Word instead of fucking Calibri.

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

So my mom just reminded me that KINGS OF THE WYLD is three years old today! To everyone who's read it, reviewed it, recommended it, reached out to tell me nice things about it, or sent me fan art (like this Felix Ortiz masterpiece!), thank you. You've made my dreams come true.

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

This tweet is less than two months old but it aged like the finest of wines.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Me: I wish Hollywood would stop rehashing old content. Also me: Rehash the living shit out of this please.

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

Has anyone heard of this very obscure and not-at-all insanely popular series? Gonna start it soon, at last.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

"This books is for you if you like books where "legendary warriors" act like little bitches at every turn. I couldn't even finish it." -- A redditor's review of Kings of the Wyld. Also the new cover blurb.

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

A sketch of Clay Cooper, by the supremely talented and ever-magnanimous Felix Ortiz.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

BLOODY ROSE is six months old today, so here's an awesome painting of her by Felix Ortiz.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

Guess who's 2??? Yup, it was two years ago today that KINGS OF THE WYLD hit shelves. I could agonize forever how best to express my gratitude to those who've read it (and then foisted it upon friends and family) but by then my book would be 3. So thank you, thank you, thank you.

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5 years

Hey everyone, great news! I'm a real author now because I finally have a pet cat! His name is Croft, he's 5 months old, and while he's still afraid of every damn thing in the world, he also loves sleeping on me while I read.

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

1 year

I mean...yeah 😄

MarcGriffiths

@theRPGenius

1 year

Just finished reading kings of the wyld by @Nicholas_Eames , of all the the fantasy books I've read in recent years this one might be the best suited for a big screen adaptation

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4 years

I like to think that reading makes you wiser and more empathetic, and that fantasy readers especially should be able to recognize evil when they see it. And then fuckbags like this show up and prove me wrong. I've said it before and I'll say it again: GO READ RAGE OF DRAGONS!

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4 years

"I'm telling you that Bloody Rose is a sure bet, every time." "Even against the Simurg?" "Against the whole damn world," he said. "Watch and see." Bloody Rose is 2 years old today. Thank you to everyone who's read, reviewed, and recommended it. I'm hashtag grateful, as they say.

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5 years

This! It disappoints me when people are mad Moog is gay and say his sexuality added nothing to KINGS OF THE WYLD, because IT DIDN'T NEED TO. He is who he is and loved who he loved: his friends and his Freddy.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

Whaaaaaaaaaaaa (deep breath) aaaaaaaaaat!?!?!

Steve Drew 📚

@elquesogrande1

6 years

Congratulations to @Nicholas_Eames for r/Fantasy Best of 2018 Stabby Award - BLOODY ROSE!

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

I've seen a few posts lately featuring KINGS OF THE WYLD in "Eddie Munson-themed book recommendations" and boy oh boy is that on the nose or what?

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 months

This is your reminder to do your soul the favour of watching A Knight's Tale again this weekend.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

There are no words to express my gratitude to those responsible (both readers and industry-folk) for having won a Gemmell award. Even if there were, my hands are shaking too bad to convey them eloquently. So.

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@Nicholas_Eames

7 months

Croft and I finished JADE LEGACY last night, and...wow. I closed the book and said, "What. A fucking. Masterpiece." And truly, it is. Everyone should read this series. And for all those execs searching for "the next Game of Thrones". Knock it the fuck off and make this instead.

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

Today in ridiculously awesome "fanart", a Reader named Rhys Levans posted a pic of this insanely cool jacket to Instagram earlier today.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 months

The ebook for BLOODY ROSE is on sale in the US and Canada today for 2.99! And really, if what's inside is even HALF as good as its cover art, that's a steal, right?

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

Are you sitting down? Here's FABLE (from Bloody Rose), by the ridiculously talented Felix Ortiz

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Hey! The ebook for KINGS OF THE WYLD is on sale in the US and Canada for 2.99 until the 19th of July! It's got: -- a wizard in one-piece pajamas -- a bad guy with bunny ears -- a kick-ass soundtrack on Spotify -- a horn that vomits bees -- a wine-swilling zombie bard Go get it!

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Well well well...look who just showed up at the door 🐲🐲🐲

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@Nicholas_Eames

7 years

New blurb for KINGS OF THE WYLD: "Titillates your progressive mind!" -- Marvin

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Bloody Damn, what an ending (although I know there's more to come). This was, without a doubt, among the greatest stories I've ever heard, and narrated with such emotion I couldn't imagine reading these words on paper instead. If you've audible credits to burn, burn them.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Look who's here! BLOODY ROSE won the Reddit Fantasy Stabby Award for Best Novel in 2018. I've always fancied myself a rogue, but since KotW won for Best Debut in 2017 I'm officially DUAL WIELDING!

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

"The world is big, the young are reckless, and girls just want to have fun." Happy birthday, Rose. (🎨 by Felix Ortiz)

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Anyone else sick of these food websites taking LITERALLY FOREVER to get to the goddamn recipe part? Like I just want to make pizza dough and they come at me with, "According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BC by twin sons Romulus and Remus who were raised by a she-wolf."

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

In case the universe needs any more candidates for Slowhand and Golden Gabe in case it decides a KINGS OF THE WYLD TV show deserves to happen ;)

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

WE JUDGE BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS IN THIS HOUSE, SO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY FUCKING AMAZING

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

"Fantasy books featuring teenage boys are for everyone, but books featuring teenage girls are YA" is what some people seem to think, and I know I'm not the first person to point this out but fuuuuuck that's stupid.

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

Every few years my friend Mat and I (who haven't lived in the same city for 20+ years) bunker down for a few days and play the f#@$ out of a brutally hard video game. He arrives today, for NINE DAYS, and the bunker to end all bunkers begins. Non-spoilery tips, anyone?

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6 years

A few lucky reviewers are apparently getting sent these badass Bloody Rose 'cassettes', inside which is a code for the audiobook. The 80s called. They want their awesome back.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Sure, sex is cool, but have you ever used a semicolon correctly?

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

The ebook of Kings of the Wyld is on sale today for 2.99 in the US and Canada! Quite a bargain for what is, almost certainly, the best book ever written* *about a band of retired mercenaries reuniting to cross a vast, monster-infested forest to rescue their leader's daughter 😉

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Just putting these out into the universe again in case the universe wants to get its shit together and make THE BAND a TV show already.

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Blew my PS5 money on a new writing desk.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

You: "I wish someone wrote a novel that was essentially a love letter to Final Fantasy" Me: *throws this book at your head*

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

The ebook of KINGS OF THE WYLD is on sale in the US and Canada for 2.99, and it's on sale ALL FRIGGING WEEK! If you're one of the BILLIONS who haven't read it yet, might I suggest you finally do?

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

I cant...frigging...even. Two STUNNING peices of KINGS OF THE WYLD fanart just popped up on Instagram. One by Rekhytankh, the other by Lo. Both feature Lastleaf (AKA The Heathen, AKA The Autumn Son) and my god they're beautiful!

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@Nicholas_Eames

9 months

Heart broken, mind blown. Hands-down my favourite audiobook series of all time, and...probably one of the greatest stories ever told?

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Kings of the Wyld, featuring this cast of absolute miscreants, is on sale for 2.99 in the US and Canada today wherever fine ebooks are sold! (🎨 by Pierre Santamaria)

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

Don't be jealous. ...okay, be a LITTLE jealous. If I dust off and charge up my crappy old e-reader YOU KNOW it's for a book I'm super psyched to read, and I am SUPER PSYCHED to read @TravisBaldree 's follow-up prequel to LEGENDS AND LATTES.

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@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

Got the great news yesterday that Kings of the Wyld will be published in Bulgarian! Which means I owe myself a bottle of "foreign rights" scotch... 😁

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

2 years

11 years ago I was busy revising my *checks notes* 340k word novel, still 2 years away from writing KotW and 5 years away from getting published. If your resolution is to write a book this year (and mine certainly is 😅), keep at it. Just keep on keeping at it.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Oops. I slipped, walked 12 blocks in the rain, and accidentally bought this fucking masterpiece.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Here's a sneak peek at Cura, from the in-progress French cover for BLOODY ROSE. (🎨 by Pierre Santamaria) I love her, obviously.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Imagine if you will that Sub-Zero's name was Sub-Thirty-Two and tell me fahrenheit isn't an absolutely ridiculous means of measuring temperature.

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Exreeeeemely delighted to announce that these two beauties have sold to Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil) publishers! Gracias and obrigado to those who helped spread the word in those languages!

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5 years

"The world is big, the young are restless, and girls just want to have fun." Happy birthday, Bloody Rose. (🎨 by Felix Ortiz)

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

I look at this picture of a kobold probably as often as most parents admire photos of their children. This is my boy. He's a good boy.

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Behold, the French cover for BLOODY ROSE. Not sure Rose and Cura have ever looked cooler than they do here...😍😍😍

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Next time I see @FondaJLee (and dear gods I hope it's soonish!) we're gonna have to coordinate outfits, because I HAVE A JADE CITY HOODIE NOW.

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

1 year

Got a friend who loves Baldur's Gate 3 but hasn't read Kings of the Wyld, despite the fact that they've both got a cast of lovable miscreants, a ton of ravenous monsters, and an owlbear? Today's the last day the ebook is on sale in the US and Canada for just 2.99!

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Oh, hi, good morning. So an artist named Ethan Ho has decided to render the characters from the cover of BLOODY ROSE in 3D models and he started with Cura, the "Inkwitch" who summons her monstrous tattoos to fight on her behalf. I am shooketh.

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Nicholas Eames

@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Dune was phenomenal. If all three movies get made--and I REALLY hope they do--it could very likely be the best sci-fi trilogy of all time.

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@Nicholas_Eames

1 year

What some people (basically me and my mom) consider the greatest story ever told is a Kindle Deal all week! Tell your friends to tell their friends, since your friends better have read it already 😉

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@Nicholas_Eames

3 years

Finished this tonight. Absolutely floored by that final episode. My favourite show of the year, hands down. Like, nothing is even remotely close.

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

Um...so KINGS OF THE WYLD is somehow, momentarily, just barely #1 on the Locus Trade Paperback bestseller list for December. And BLOODY ROSE is #4 . Please excuse me while I faint and die.

Locus Magazine

@locusmag

6 years

The Locus Bestsellers for December include top titles The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien, Dune by Frank Herbert, Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames, and Timeless by R.A. Salvatore.

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@Nicholas_Eames

1 year

So. Wow. Someone (Charlie from Newlandcosplay over on Instagram) cosplayed as Freecloud from Bloody Rose and I am gobsmacked by how friggin incredible this looks. GOBSMACKED, I tell you!

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

I finished SWORD OF KAIGEN today and...whew, what a masterpiece. I've read nothing quite like it. I cried. A lot. And flagged so many pages to easily reference achingly beautiful sentences.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

A fan emailed me the details of his Band-inspired D&D campaign: The party went into the Heartwyld to strip the tidal engines off Saga's crashed skyship in service to a character who shows up in the final battle of Bloody Rose. So, yeah. This kinda stuff makes me extremely happy.

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4 years

Fellow isolationists! KINGS OF THE WYLD is a Kindle Daily Deal in the US today, on sale for 2.99 wherever fine ebooks are sold! Tell a friend (but not in person), or make your parents read it so they stay the eff home!

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

Today my mom called me crying while listening to the BLOODY ROSE audiobook (again), while my dad called during his morning tea to read me his favourite reviews (which included a 1 star, funnily enough) in case you're wondering how incredibly, adorably supportive my parents are.

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6 years

How about no one gets to be president until we confirm they've finished all three Mass Effects and review their choices to deduce their moral character. Did they cure the genophage? Great. Were they mean to Garrus? Yes? Then gtfo no presidency for you.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

The details...I could WEEP for the details.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Why does this sign exist? What kind of monster shucks corn in the store??

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

This book is called BLOODY ROSE and yes, it's as awesome as this review makes it sound.

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@Nicholas_Eames

4 years

Artist @Enrico_Sordi has finished his take on a KINGS OF THE WYLD movie poster! I'm a huge fan of "characters stacked on characters" style posters, so obviously I frigging love this!

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3 years

I'm going to Spain in November! I don't have ALL the details yet, but I'll be a guest at Festival42 in Barcelona (November 3-7) and then I'm off to Madrid for the release of ROSA LA SANGUINARIA! A HUGE thanks to the amazing folks at @GamonFantasy for, well, everything!

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@Nicholas_Eames

6 years

What I imagined writing would be like vs. what I actually do all day, every day

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@Nicholas_Eames

5 years

Guys, I found a dog that looks like a kobold.

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4 years

Fun fact: I have yet to write a large-scale battle that doesn't feature a reckless and wildly inappropriate kiss right in the middle of it. I think I'll make it a thing.

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6 years

Since book 3 of THE BAND features a fairly prominent kobold character I spend vast swathes of time googling them. This guy is my favourite. Lil bit lizard, lil bit rat, he is very clearly fighting to protect something he loves, and I dig that.

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3 years

Yesterday Felix Ortiz touched up the colour on this classic piece of KotW fan art. I mean, this LOOKS like a scene written to the "Free Bird" guitar solo right?

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6 years

(Second) best day ever!!!

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4 years

Canada, looking south.

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6 years

Got my first look at the BLOODY ROSE hardcover today and boy is she pretty!

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6 years

This. Book. Is. So. Damn. Good. Every book is a journey, but this one is so wonderfully unique and superbly well written. I loved every page.

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6 years

A huge, heartfelt thank you to the marketing people at @orbitbooks who have gone way above and so far beyond to promote BLOODY ROSE this past month. I will cherish this swag forever...

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6 years

Sure sex is cool but have you ever been the staff pick at the bookstore you used to work at?

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7 years

The question remains: as I prepare to write a book full of 90s music references, do I have the HUBRISTIC GALL required to name someone's warhammer 'Smashmouth'? We shall see, dear readers. *steeples fingers and chortles maniacly* We shall see.

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6 years

One more sleep.

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5 years

It's my birthday! And while you're not OBLIGATED to buy Kings of the Wyld for that friend you think would like it, or to finally get around to reading Bloody Rose, October 19th feels like a damn good day to do just that, doesn't it?

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3 years

Spider-Man is my favourite superhero of all time, though I can't say I've ever LOVED one of his movies. But the PS4 game? THAT was incredible. By far the best Spider-Man story on screen (in my opinion, anyway). If you like Spider-Man and haven't played it, you should.

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5 years

Feeling hugely grateful today for everyone who has read my books, or reviewed them, or taken pictures of them, or crafted the weapons, or drawn the characters, or told their uncle who hates reading but likes Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Just fucking read this, okay?" Thank you. All of you.

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5 years

The rumours are true. Amazon in the UK is selling KINGS OF THE WYLD for 99p today and let me tell you: "P" had better stand for POUNDS, you bastards.

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6 years

Just gonna scream into the void that "alright" should be the correct usage and "all right" should be put in the trash forever. Okay, cool, bye.

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6 years

Um...I'm honestly not sure how the big names didn't crush me here, but I seem to have won both an award AND a very dangerous-looking sword! HUGE thank you to those who voted for BLOODY ROSE!

Petros Triantafyllou

@PetrosTriant

6 years

Announcing the Winners of the 2018 BookNest Fantasy Awards! #2018BFA

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