Bryn Hammond
@brynhammond.bsky.social
| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
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Bryn Hammond
@brynhammond.bsky.social
· Sep 9
On the blog: What Rough Beast?
amgalant.com/what-rough-b...
About my new Goatskin novella. With an excerpt, a reading of the first chapter, an interview at Black Gate
amgalant.com/what-rough-b...
About my new Goatskin novella. With an excerpt, a reading of the first chapter, an interview at Black Gate
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three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
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A little preview of our forthcoming book!
📚 New on the blog!
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
Have a read:
The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Q&A with Arezou Azad - Edinburgh University Press Blog
Arezou Azad rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
edin.ac
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A little preview of our forthcoming book!
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New open-access Publication: Relativism & the Frontiers of Empire
Eds Anna Walas & Andrew Birley
Framing Roman frontiers through the lens of intellectual legacies of cultural relativism. Contributors explore frontiers as spaces where difference, belonging and power are negotiated.
shorturl.at/qhX69
Eds Anna Walas & Andrew Birley
Framing Roman frontiers through the lens of intellectual legacies of cultural relativism. Contributors explore frontiers as spaces where difference, belonging and power are negotiated.
shorturl.at/qhX69
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New open-access Publication: Relativism & the Frontiers of Empire
Eds Anna Walas & Andrew Birley
Framing Roman frontiers through the lens of intellectual legacies of cultural relativism. Contributors explore frontiers as spaces where difference, belonging and power are negotiated.
shorturl.at/qhX69
Eds Anna Walas & Andrew Birley
Framing Roman frontiers through the lens of intellectual legacies of cultural relativism. Contributors explore frontiers as spaces where difference, belonging and power are negotiated.
shorturl.at/qhX69
Pericles has such a weird plot, I love it
Also it's set in random romantic places of antiquity
Also it's set in random romantic places of antiquity
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Pericles has such a weird plot, I love it
Also it's set in random romantic places of antiquity
Also it's set in random romantic places of antiquity
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Since this is getting some traction again, do know that the printed floppy issue is a reality!
More info about shipping soon... 👀
bsky.app/profile/ramo...
More info about shipping soon... 👀
bsky.app/profile/ramo...
Sweet Increate...
The printing quality exceeds my expectations, and the colors came out exactly as I wanted them this time around.
I'm over the moon.
The printing quality exceeds my expectations, and the colors came out exactly as I wanted them this time around.
I'm over the moon.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Since this is getting some traction again, do know that the printed floppy issue is a reality!
More info about shipping soon... 👀
bsky.app/profile/ramo...
More info about shipping soon... 👀
bsky.app/profile/ramo...
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Heya!
Our comic has been out as a digital pdf for the entire weekend. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who is tipping even double the price we were asking; it means the world.
Since we are just 2 guys with a dream, consider telling us what you think directly, or via comment or review!
❤️
Our comic has been out as a digital pdf for the entire weekend. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who is tipping even double the price we were asking; it means the world.
Since we are just 2 guys with a dream, consider telling us what you think directly, or via comment or review!
❤️
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Heya!
Our comic has been out as a digital pdf for the entire weekend. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who is tipping even double the price we were asking; it means the world.
Since we are just 2 guys with a dream, consider telling us what you think directly, or via comment or review!
❤️
Our comic has been out as a digital pdf for the entire weekend. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who is tipping even double the price we were asking; it means the world.
Since we are just 2 guys with a dream, consider telling us what you think directly, or via comment or review!
❤️
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I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here, featuring stories by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social and @samuelchapman.bsky.social and cover art by Jereme Peabody: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“Little Thief and the Martyr’s Head” is available now in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies! It’s about a homeless orphan girl who discovers she can speak to one of the severed heads mounted over the city gate.
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Do you like knowing what day it is? I certainly do and that's why I own a First Dog on the Moon 2026 Calendar - now every day is full of laughs, poignancy, time is a flat circle - get your 2026 Calendar today! firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/preorde...
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Do you like knowing what day it is? I certainly do and that's why I own a First Dog on the Moon 2026 Calendar - now every day is full of laughs, poignancy, time is a flat circle - get your 2026 Calendar today! firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/preorde...
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In Perfection’s Shape I Writhe. ~5k words. to be published by @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. pleistocene paleohorror, ammonite worship, disapora feelings, ritual mutilation, comfort by any means; this one isn't out yet or free to read but NESS issues are so gorgeous i couldn't overlook it
New Edge Sword & Sorcery – Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling!
newedgeswordandsorcery.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In Perfection’s Shape I Writhe. ~5k words. to be published by @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. pleistocene paleohorror, ammonite worship, disapora feelings, ritual mutilation, comfort by any means; this one isn't out yet or free to read but NESS issues are so gorgeous i couldn't overlook it
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"The sun no longer shone with the whiteness of its prime, but was dim and tarnished as if with a vapor of blood. New stars without number had declared themselves in the heavens, and the shadows of the infinite had fallen closer. And out of the shadows, the older gods had returned to man..."
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"The sun no longer shone with the whiteness of its prime, but was dim and tarnished as if with a vapor of blood. New stars without number had declared themselves in the heavens, and the shadows of the infinite had fallen closer. And out of the shadows, the older gods had returned to man..."
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"A thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com
We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!
Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe
"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com
We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!
Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"A thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com
We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!
Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe
"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com
We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!
Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe
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Pretty clear by now that Linnea Sterte is this generation's defining talent, but this is a banquet. Too rich for one sitting.
Not that I'm complaining, mind.
Not that I'm complaining, mind.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Pretty clear by now that Linnea Sterte is this generation's defining talent, but this is a banquet. Too rich for one sitting.
Not that I'm complaining, mind.
Not that I'm complaining, mind.
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"I Thought She Was Afeard Till She Stroked My Beard" by Joanna Russ is probably one of my favorite short stories of all time. The Adventures of Alyx collection is fantastic, some of the best sword and sorcery I've ever read
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"I Thought She Was Afeard Till She Stroked My Beard" by Joanna Russ is probably one of my favorite short stories of all time. The Adventures of Alyx collection is fantastic, some of the best sword and sorcery I've ever read
Tell you what, there has been no regret for quitting my job on the shop dock.
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Tell you what, there has been no regret for quitting my job on the shop dock.
Yesterday I had a kind of perfect day and I was so happy I failed to sleep and so today is imperfect. Still, I gather I am on an end-of-story high; and besides, a lovely person overnight bought both my paperbacks which ends a record drought.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Yesterday I had a kind of perfect day and I was so happy I failed to sleep and so today is imperfect. Still, I gather I am on an end-of-story high; and besides, a lovely person overnight bought both my paperbacks which ends a record drought.
All right, redone the prose poem that is the final scene. Nth time.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
All right, redone the prose poem that is the final scene. Nth time.
This was Conan
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This was Conan
JAS gets it, she just gets it
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
JAS gets it, she just gets it
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Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
fineartamerica.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Oh, via Instagram Jody A. Lee has listed prints and merchandise (including T-shirts!) with her lovely artwork for sale including many book covers for Mercedes Lackey, Madeleine L'Engle, and a ton of the DAW covers I grew up with! I love her color palettes and Art Deco design details!
I think this story is quietly spectacular on how
*first* you have to face them down in an existential way on gender (your own side)
and *then* you have to do the hero work
*first* you have to face them down in an existential way on gender (your own side)
and *then* you have to do the hero work
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I think this story is quietly spectacular on how
*first* you have to face them down in an existential way on gender (your own side)
and *then* you have to do the hero work
*first* you have to face them down in an existential way on gender (your own side)
and *then* you have to do the hero work
Sad now. Just read a story from a book I bought by mail order from The Bookshop Darlinghurst in 1984. Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ bookshop to close in December. It began as a mail order op and opened a shop in 1982; outside Sydney as I was, its mail order catalogues continued to be my lifeline.
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Sad now. Just read a story from a book I bought by mail order from The Bookshop Darlinghurst in 1984. Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ bookshop to close in December. It began as a mail order op and opened a shop in 1982; outside Sydney as I was, its mail order catalogues continued to be my lifeline.