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Gregory A. Wilson
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Speculative fiction author, college professor, musician, podcaster, game master, TwitchTV host.

https://www.gregoryawilson.com
https://www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
https://www.patreon.com/ArvanEleron
https://www.speculatesf.com/
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I'm excited to announce a writing discussion coming to my channel on Tuesday, November 25th at 9 p.m. ET! Join @premeemohamed.com, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, and me for "Crossing The 49th: Canadian and American Authors Talk Shop," about North American publishing in 2025!
What a wonderful conversation with these amazing authors! Thanks to @premeemohamed.com, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, and @valerievaldes.bsky.social for our chat about publishing in the U.S. and Canada, and thanks to all who came by. There's an archive on Twitch, and YouTube video will be up tomorrow!
I'm excited to announce a writing discussion coming to my channel on Tuesday, November 25th at 9 p.m. ET! Join @premeemohamed.com, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, and me for "Crossing The 49th: Canadian and American Authors Talk Shop," about North American publishing in 2025!
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Tonight, in less than two hours at 9 p.m. EST, join @valerievaldes.bsky.social, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, and yours truly for this discussion about the state of American and Canadian publishing and writing in 2025, on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron. And please spread the word! :D
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A big day starts at 12 p.m. EST with the chat-chosen game of the month, Dispatch; then we're on @gog.com's Twitch channel at 4 p.m. EST for Strange Antiquities; and at 9 p.m. EST tonight, back on my channel for our Canadian/American writing discussion. Please join us! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
ArvanEleron - Twitch
I'm Arvan Eleron, a writer and gamer. My favorite games are RPGs, particularly tabletop D&D, but I'm also a sucker for a good adventure or turn based strategy game (and I love Gran Turismo, if I can e...
www.twitch.tv
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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New Gallup poll shows that just 54% of Americans say they drink alcohol—"the lowest Gallup has recorded since first measuring alcohol use in 1939," per a press release. The trend coincides with growing understanding that even moderate drinking is unhealthy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I'm particularly pleased that people are taking so well to this piece, in part because I've recently been thinking a lot about how politics & TTRPGs intersect--not just how games perform politics but how we perform politics within them

so suffice it to say that ✨there's more where that came from✨
"It's arguably most productive to view public action against an oppressive force specifically as a game — not as a trifle, but as a series of moves with an end state."

Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social connects RPG prep with the increasingly vital labor of public protest.
What does Session Zero of a protest look like?
Games as rehearsal for the streets.
www.rascal.news
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Very excited for this discussion, happening TOMORROW, Tuesday the 25th at 9 p.m. EST on my channel--please join us!
I'm excited to announce a writing discussion coming to my channel on Tuesday, November 25th at 9 p.m. ET! Join @premeemohamed.com, @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, and me for "Crossing The 49th: Canadian and American Authors Talk Shop," about North American publishing in 2025!
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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In the meantime, if you have the means to help, please consider contributing to my current GoFundMe:

www.gofundme.com/f/disabled-v...

Any bit helps a lot
Donate to Disabled Vet & Family Need Help After Job Loss, organized by Prakash Upadhyayula
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November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Yep. Solidarity with workers, not thieves.
Don’t steal from people who are also under the boot. It is that simple. Otherwise you are revealing you don’t give a shit about poverty or unemployment

But i guess bc authors don’t have the ability to fix capitalism fuck them right

We’re not licking boot we are trying to survive.
Buncha hand wringing "omg theft is wrong" types here in the middle of the most poverty and unemployment we've seen in decades.

Fix need and distress, theft goes away.

Until then, you're just choosing your favorites to survive capitalism.

But hey, least the boot tastes good, right?
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Music which inspired my current WIP, from the great Randy Newman.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=iasW...
Louisiana 1927 (with Members of the New York Philharmonic)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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There are too many tiresome pirated book sites pretending to be cultural Robin Hoods but taking from people who usually make little in the 1st damn place & who are sandblasted at having to constantly face this, & will gladly sign a damn book for you. And the actual library system? IT WORKS. Use it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I was today years old when I heard of this, and some people have downloaded some of my work too--without paying me, of course.

Folks. Please pay authors. Use real libraries, not piracy sites posing as "open-source archives." Our books are still in print. If you want more, please pay us for them.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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In two days! Join me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @gregoryawilson.com as we dive into how Canadian vs American authors are navigating economic and political uncertainty, staying connected across the border, and more.

9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

#Booksky
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We're collecting the Zodiac Braves, and have stormed into Chapter 4 with the wind at our back and, uh, chocobos at our side. Please join us at 8:15 p.m. ET as we start the final chapter of @square-enix-games.com's extraordinary Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
ArvanEleron - Twitch
I'm Arvan Eleron, a writer and gamer. My favorite games are RPGs, particularly tabletop D&D, but I'm also a sucker for a good adventure or turn based strategy game (and I love Gran Turismo, if I can e...
www.twitch.tv
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”

Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you're at @officialpax.bsky.social's Pax Unplugged this weekend, stop by the Demo Days area and check out the Grayshade TTRPG, based on my Grayshade universe, soon to be published by Alligator Alley Entertainment and designed by @therisingtithes.bsky.social -- who's also doing the demo! :D
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Yep. May be a good preview of a certain event my university will be announcing soon regarding a conversation on GenAI, too.
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's #ttrpg #dnd
www.enworld.org
Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's
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November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Batman Voice: GIVE THAT SEAT TO RACHEL
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
YES
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If we're going to save Ivalice, we need to build our forces...and we're doing just that. Join us at 10:10 p.m. EST for more of the incredible Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, with strategy, roleplay, story, and more! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM