Brigitte Winter
@brigittewinter.bsky.social
Author. Photographer. Game designer. Co-Founder of Scryptid Games. Viable Paradise ‘23. SFWA. HWA. Rep’d by Sara Megibow.
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I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
I’m honored to be part of this amazing (and growing) cohort of novelists debuting in 2027 ✨📕 ❤️: 2027debutauthors.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I’m honored to be part of this amazing (and growing) cohort of novelists debuting in 2027 ✨📕 ❤️: 2027debutauthors.com
New York friends, come hang out with me in Brooklyn on 1/31!
Join Scryptid Games and @natmesnard.bsky.social on 1/31 for the Assemblage game release party at Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn, NY! twentysidedstore.com/collections/...
Spotlight | Assemblage Eco-Storytelling Release Party
Come celebrate the release of Assemblage, Nat Mesnard's TTRPG of world-building and world-breaking. We'll kick off at 4p with a short design talk between Nat and a featured guest. Then at 5p join a t...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
New York friends, come hang out with me in Brooklyn on 1/31!
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Since it's my first post in 248573485 months, I wanted to remind you I have a free newsletter! I write about book marketing, craft, and the life of a creative person + resources, news, & tea recs.
I'm weighing if I should keep it going. What do you think?
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I'm weighing if I should keep it going. What do you think?
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January 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Since it's my first post in 248573485 months, I wanted to remind you I have a free newsletter! I write about book marketing, craft, and the life of a creative person + resources, news, & tea recs.
I'm weighing if I should keep it going. What do you think?
pottern.substack.com/p/pushing-pa...
I'm weighing if I should keep it going. What do you think?
pottern.substack.com/p/pushing-pa...
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Tales from the Cryptids is edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, and features art by @artofamberramirez.bsky.social and games, stories, and poems from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Jason B Crawford, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, and @dragons.bsky.social.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Tales from the Cryptids is edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, and features art by @artofamberramirez.bsky.social and games, stories, and poems from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Jason B Crawford, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, and @dragons.bsky.social.
Eeeee I am so excited to edit this anthology!!! Please send me all the good cryptid content.
Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.
Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera
From Scryptid Games - Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera
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January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Eeeee I am so excited to edit this anthology!!! Please send me all the good cryptid content.
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Celebrating the official launch of Assemblage, a new TTRPG of world building and world breaking by @natmesnard.bsky.social, with this inspiring Tabletopped Podcast episode about the challenges and rewards of creating truly collaborative play spaces. tinyurl.com/4mt7zn8c
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Celebrating the official launch of Assemblage, a new TTRPG of world building and world breaking by @natmesnard.bsky.social, with this inspiring Tabletopped Podcast episode about the challenges and rewards of creating truly collaborative play spaces. tinyurl.com/4mt7zn8c
Winter sale on digital games! ✨
Winter sale! ❄️ Scryptid Games products are 30% off this month on itch.io/s/175091/win...!
Winter Sale 2025 by Scryptid Games
A bundle by Scryptid Games, $28.00 for 4 games
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December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Winter sale on digital games! ✨
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We're looking forward to connecting with writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with an interest in games at AWP in March!
@scryptidgames.bsky.social publishes innovative narrative games that encourage aspirational, immediate, and collaborative storytelling—games that demand a shift in how literature and gaming are defined. Say hi at table 425 at the #AWP26 Bookfair!
Scryptid Games
Scryptid Games started as a writing and gaming workshop between five friends with a passion for playing and creating unique games. Now, we publish innovative narrative games that encourage…
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December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We're looking forward to connecting with writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with an interest in games at AWP in March!
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My lovelies, our award-winning anthology is part of @smashwords.bsky.social end-of-year mega sale and we couldn't be more excited to get this book in your hands in time for 2026 with its beautiful new cover! Snag the ebook for only $2.50! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #indiebooks
New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention
New Year's resolutions and self-help gurus ask us to reinvent ourselves—be better, prettier, perfect. But the writers in this anthology know that reinvention contains both potential and pitfalls. From...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My lovelies, our award-winning anthology is part of @smashwords.bsky.social end-of-year mega sale and we couldn't be more excited to get this book in your hands in time for 2026 with its beautiful new cover! Snag the ebook for only $2.50! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #indiebooks
Having fun playing Where’s Waldo and spotting Psychic Trash Detectives in PAX Unplugged haul posts. 🦝
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Having fun playing Where’s Waldo and spotting Psychic Trash Detectives in PAX Unplugged haul posts. 🦝
Aww delighted to see Psychic Trash Detectives in this pile, along with Assemblage by @natmesnard.bsky.social, and so many other indie faves. 🦝 🍄
December reading.
Some of this is re-reading, to be fair. A lot of this job is thumbing through games and then seeing which are the ones I can't stop thinking about
Some of this is re-reading, to be fair. A lot of this job is thumbing through games and then seeing which are the ones I can't stop thinking about
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Aww delighted to see Psychic Trash Detectives in this pile, along with Assemblage by @natmesnard.bsky.social, and so many other indie faves. 🦝 🍄
I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.
We are crowdfunding our first anthology! Tales from the Cryptids will launch on Backerkit for Zinetopia in February 2026. Follow the project to be the first to know when it goes live: bit.ly/3XVa94n.
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Wow, look at that fancy new cover!
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
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Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Wow, look at that fancy new cover!
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
Fun opportunity for my NYC friends!
New York friends, who will we see at Game Design Days at Twenty Sided Store this Sunday, 11/16??
Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social.
More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da
Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social.
More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da
Spotlight | NYU Game Design Days w/ Scryptid Games & Twenty Sided
Game Design Days is a week-long NYU Game Center sponsored event highlighting indie game design and production, connecting students and game enthusiasts with professionals to inspire creative futures. ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Fun opportunity for my NYC friends!
Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.
Definitely looking forward to co-GMing some truly unhinged puppet shenanigans with @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Puppets in TTRPG are having their moment, so let's get glue and googly eyes all over the Hyatt Regency Morristown!!! Haha just kidding, we totally promise it will be clean. Sort of. Yeah.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.
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SO excited for this!!
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
SO excited for this!!
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Cicadas? Cryptids?? SAPPHICS?! Sold, sold, sold!!! 😍😍😍 Such great news!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cicadas? Cryptids?? SAPPHICS?! Sold, sold, sold!!! 😍😍😍 Such great news!!
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
New York friends, @scryptidgames.bsky.social is hosting a TTRPG writing workshop in a few weeks!
Really excited to be presenting our second iteration of the @scryptidgames.bsky.social x @twentysided.bsky.social TTRPG Writing Workshop during Game Design Days this year! We'll be joined by the amazing @sccreatives.bsky.social ✨
Game Design Days is also returning November 14-22! This event series highlights the underground independent game design communities of NYC, creating additional opportunities for anyone curious about game design to connect with local studios, collectives, and spaces.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New York friends, @scryptidgames.bsky.social is hosting a TTRPG writing workshop in a few weeks!
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New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
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October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Happy Bear Day!
September 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Happy Bear Day!