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Scott Gable
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RPG Designer/Editor (Zombie Sky Press & Kobold Press) and SFF/Horror/Weird Fiction Publisher (Broken Eye Books) | he/him | neurodivergent
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slgable.bsky.social
Hard at work finalizing the text for this. Down to the last days of the KS campaign if you're interested.

Horror gaming in TOV is pretty great, fyi!
koboldpress.com Kobold Press @koboldpress.com · 5d
Save on Night Hunters and Night Terrors during the Kickstarter - only 48 hours left! The end of the Night Hunters Kickstarter is your last chance to add a dose of horror to your TOV and 5E 2014 adventures with a pair of sinister hardcovers for less than $100 ($129 CAD). bit.ly/NightHuntersKS
Final 48 Hours Night Hunters
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Delighted that Song of Spores made the Locus Recommended Reading List! It's in great company.

Hurray for space fungus!

@bogiperson.bsky.social
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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Haven't been doing a ton on the design side of things for a while, but I did write two of the adventures in KP's recently released Dungeons Deep. These are location-driven setups and easily adapted to any level of play (or system). Come splash in the slime with me!
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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specawards.bsky.social
SSBA influencer Ben G. Bronson had a fantastic conversation with @evanjpeterson.bsky.social, author of BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY, over at Mixed Media Magazine. Read their conversation about Evan’s book here:
Exploring the Wonderfully Strange: A Conversation with Evan
Fresh off a Fantasy-category win at the Small Spec Book Awards, Evan shares insights into their worldbuilding, influences, and writing journey Evan J. Peterson is a boundary-pushing voice in contem…
mixedmediamagazine.news.blog
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Bookish Collaborations interviews the SSBA finalists, including @evanjpeterson.bsky.social for Better Living Through Alchemy. (Which won, in case you missed the news!)

Go check 'em out!

armedwithabook.com/2025-ssba-fa...
2025 SSBA Fantasy Finalists & Winner - Armed with A Book
December 1 marked the announcement of the finalists and winners for the inaugural Small Spec Book Awards. Learn about the best in Fantasy.
armedwithabook.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Am delighted that Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025!

Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
TRANSCRIPT: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács Broken Eye Books (Tags: Science Fiction, Fungal Fiction) I love fungal horror and will give any sentient spaceship a shot, so when I read the description of this book, I was hooked right away. I loved the cranky insectoid grandma and the shy, shape-shifting trans character, but the fact that the antagonist is a clump of sentient fungal spores really set this apart for me. This is a book familiar with tropes and readers’ expectations but chooses to purposefully flip them around and see what’s underneath. Examining what, or who, counts as alive and why we need to classify everything this way is exactly the sort of mind-expanding question I want science fiction to ask. —Brianne Kane, Associate Editor/Books & Rights Manager
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Yas! Better Living Through Alchemy has won the Small Spec Book Award. Now time to take drugs and be gods in the monster-infested streets of Seattle. (Congrats, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social!)
Cover image for novel Better Living Through Alchemy. Features a strange amalgam of a man, styled as Vitruvian Man with alchemical symbols surrounding.
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
I'll have a reprint in this anthology! The rental that drinks your blood! (Inspired by the rental that started to collapse while we were living in it.) With multiple trans characters.

Originally edited by @slgable.bsky.social :)
dimshores.bsky.social Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · Nov 14
Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
Cover of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER - a dark but colorful illustration showing a winged creature with a human face, wings, and long trailing tails, in vibrant gold and orange tones, flying upwards towards the top right corner, while dozens of dark serpents with glowing eyes and forked tongues travel in the opposite direction. The book contains 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Table of contents: Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Happy book b-day to Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social, our latest title from BEB!

Hugo Award-winner Bogi Takács spins a tale of adventure, mystery, and political intrigue in space. Plus sentient fungus!

Grab your copy today:

www.brokeneyebooks.com/bookstore/so...
Cover to new novel Song of Spores: fungal forms floating through a psychedelic spacescape.
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
slgable.bsky.social
After a last-minute price hike from the web host of over 300%, I decided to move the Broken Eye Books site to a new host and rebuild. And the former host pissed me off in other ways, so this was equally fueled by spite. New site is up, though incomplete. Will be filling it back out in coming weeks.
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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mythicdelirium.bsky.social
TODAY!

Boy, am I grateful to my fellow Roanoke, VA, dark fantasy & horror scribbler R.S. Belcher: I’m so glad he found my just-released TRAIL OF SHADOWS worthy of these kind words.

Out now from @slgable.bsky.social ! ➡️ bit.ly/SpiderBookor...

Also on @netgalley.bsky.social! bit.ly/SpiderNetgal...
“Mike Allen’s Trail of Shadows is a tense, tight, and constantly surprising novel. A hike down the Appalachian Trail into a realm of shadows and surreal horror, it will keep you up late, and it cements Mike Allen as a horror and suspense writer to keep your eye on. I can’t recommend it enough.” —R. S. Belcher
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Exciting news from recent weeks, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social's Better Living Through Alchemy novel is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards in Fantasy. Also, @andrewpennromine.bsky.social's The Mosquito Fleet is a semifinalist for Sci-Fi (but no graphic for that yet).
specawards.bsky.social Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · Sep 8
BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY (Broken Eye Books) by @evanjpeterson.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!

#SSBA #SSBA2025
September 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mythicdelirium.bsky.social
Well LOOKIE HERE PART 2!!!!

Broken Eye Books sent me a hardcover ARC of TRAIL OF SHADOWS to go with the paperbacks!

Man, I am beside myself: can’t wait till October…

In the meantime, you can pre-order these pretties on the @slgable.bsky.social’s website: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p115/T...
A photo of me smiling, wearing my HU hat, as I am holding the hardcover edition of trail of shadows, which shows a monster who is part woman and part spider hanging upside down from overhead….
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Cover reveal for @bogiperson.bsky.social's new LGBTQIA space opera:

lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/11/e...

Pre-order now from Broken Eye Books or just come to our table at Worldcon.
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, a nonbinary/genderfluid Space Opera releasing November 4, 2025 from Broken Eye Books! Here’s the st…
lgbtqreads.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
Cover reveal!!! Yes, at a time like this. My latest, at LGBTQ Reads!

SONG OF SPORES coming from Broken Eye Books November 2025!

Trans & intersex space opera! Total chaos! More!

With cover art by Galen Dara:

lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/11/e...

Preorder here:

www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, a nonbinary/genderfluid Space Opera releasing November 4, 2025 from Broken Eye Books! Here’s the st…
lgbtqreads.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Trail of Shadows, our latest book from Broken Eye Books, by @mythicdelirium.bsky.social, has a duplex cover (which simply means color printing on the interior covers as well). This one showcases a wonderful topological landscape illustration of the astral realm, from the talented Kirsty Greenwood.
July 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
slgable.bsky.social
Last day for the Pride StoryBundle! So go grab @bogiperson.bsky.social's Power to Yield and 13 other delightful ebooks. Enjoy some current LGBTQ+ reads while we go make more.

storybundle.com/pride
The books covers for the Pride StoryBundle, available at https://storybundle.com/pride.
July 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
Last day of June— #Pride is eternal—and just a few days left to grab a bundle of amazing queer books from @storybundle.bsky.social ! :D 💙📚

storybundle.com/pride

Also, here is Crouton <3 (he may have no thoughts, but he DOES recommend buying books & celebrating reading!)
Crouton is a brown and gray tabby with white feet and face, one paw lifted as he grooms his paws, and you can see his pink little toe beans
June 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Have you checked out the Tales of the Valiant RPG yet from @koboldpress.com? Lots more to see with Player's Guide 2, which I'm editing right now. Last couple days of the Kickstarter.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...
Player's Guide 2: New Power for 5E and TOV Players
Three new base classes including the Vanguard, dozens of subclasses, new lineages, hundreds of new spells, and more for TOV and 5E D&D.
www.kickstarter.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
slgable.bsky.social
Favorite typo in a long while: "the light of the full mood." I feel like this one really gets me.
June 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Latest Broken Eye Books offering! New dark-fantasy, folk-horror novel, Trail of Shadows, written by @mythicdelirium.bsky.social, uncovers the power of spirits and nightmares in Appalachia. Publishing October 7, 2025. That ridiculously great cover illustration is by @danieleserra.bsky.social.
Cover for new novel Trail of Shadows, from Broken Eye Books. Features a woman with the body of a giant spider dangling upside down.
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
slgable.bsky.social
Latest StoryBundle has @bogiperson.bsky.social's Power to Yield and a ton (specifically 13) of other delightful books. I want you to always have the book you need, when you need it.

(And those are my emotional support TBR piles, tyvm.)

#happypride #stayhydrated
Pride StoryBundle now available at storybundle.com/pride, contains Bogi Takács's Power to Yield and other great books.
June 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
slgable.bsky.social
New cozy fantasy TTRPG from @kijjohnson.bsky.social and @koboldpress.com. Well worth your attention.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
RiverBank: A cozy RPG of elegant animals, chaos, & whimsy
Tea, Poetry and Total Disaster! Cozy up with Riverbank RPG, where elegant animals embark on whimsical adventures, celebrating friendship and folly while surviving dire visits from relatives.
www.backerkit.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
slgable.bsky.social
"The journey to lichdom is exacting." Line tease from today's work.
March 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
slgable.bsky.social
Last day to pick up our Horror Short Reads bundle! All these titles for just $20.

Only at storybundle.com/horror.
Horror Short Reads StoryBbundle. Image displays the covers for all the books included. All for just $20. Only at https://storybundle.com/horror.
February 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM