Stephen Aryan
@stephenaryan.bsky.social
Fantasy and crime author. Books from Orbit, Angry Robot.
New York Minute out now on Kindle, paperback
Latest fantasy novel is The Sorrow of the Sea
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New York Minute out now on Kindle, paperback
Latest fantasy novel is The Sorrow of the Sea
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Stephen Aryan
@stephenaryan.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Since this is all new, here's a reintroduction to my fantasy novels
Battlemage (2015)
Bloodmage(2016)
Chaosmage (2016)
Mageborn (2017)
Magefall (2018)
Magebane (2019)
The Coward (2021)
The Warrior (2022)
The Judas Blossom (2023)
The Blood Dimmed Tide (2024)
The Sorrow of the Sea (2025)
Battlemage (2015)
Bloodmage(2016)
Chaosmage (2016)
Mageborn (2017)
Magefall (2018)
Magebane (2019)
The Coward (2021)
The Warrior (2022)
The Judas Blossom (2023)
The Blood Dimmed Tide (2024)
The Sorrow of the Sea (2025)
Today I signed all the books!!!
Shout out to @stephenaryan.bsky.social for coming in to sign more books for us!
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today I signed all the books!!!
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Shout out to @stephenaryan.bsky.social for coming in to sign more books for us!
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Shout out to @stephenaryan.bsky.social for coming in to sign more books for us!
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
We can confirm that sets are now all signed and are expected to ship out in the next couple of weeks. 😍
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A recent read for me, Binding the Cuckoo - evocative & enchanting, sharp & filled with mystery, oozing with folklore & magic, with characters to root for, in a world reflective of modern day issues. A vivid & magical tale of love, betrayal, loyalty & survival, beautifully told.
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A recent read for me, Binding the Cuckoo - evocative & enchanting, sharp & filled with mystery, oozing with folklore & magic, with characters to root for, in a world reflective of modern day issues. A vivid & magical tale of love, betrayal, loyalty & survival, beautifully told.
Series 2 of Squid Game The Challenge is another interesting social experiment in group think, survival, loyalty, what makes a person good in their own mins, and being able to do keepy ups and throw marbles against a wall. It really is everything.
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Series 2 of Squid Game The Challenge is another interesting social experiment in group think, survival, loyalty, what makes a person good in their own mins, and being able to do keepy ups and throw marbles against a wall. It really is everything.
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Help get THE BOOK OF SPORES Kickstarter to STRETCH GOAL #4!!! 🍄
Back the project HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Back the project HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Help get THE BOOK OF SPORES Kickstarter to STRETCH GOAL #4!!! 🍄
Back the project HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Back the project HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
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Winning more awards, getting to chat with Red Sonja and Reacher's EmJay Bassett, and my thoughts on Pluribus and Down Cemetery Road are some of the highlights of this week's free Patreon update:
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
Downpour - 14/11/25 | Corey Brotherson - writer, editor and narrative designer
Get more from Corey Brotherson - writer, editor and narrative designer on Patreon
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November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Winning more awards, getting to chat with Red Sonja and Reacher's EmJay Bassett, and my thoughts on Pluribus and Down Cemetery Road are some of the highlights of this week's free Patreon update:
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
www.patreon.com/posts/143574...
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After passing the $25k mark, THE BOOK OF SPORES will now get custom endpaper art from Patricia Gutierrez AND a 30% increase in author payouts! Now, on to the $35k stretch goal for a bonus short story by me and an embossed dust jacket!!!
Help us get to $35k: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Help us get to $35k: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
After passing the $25k mark, THE BOOK OF SPORES will now get custom endpaper art from Patricia Gutierrez AND a 30% increase in author payouts! Now, on to the $35k stretch goal for a bonus short story by me and an embossed dust jacket!!!
Help us get to $35k: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Help us get to $35k: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
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P.L’S TOP INDIE & TOP TRAD SFF BOOKS FOR 2025!!
***Authors on the lists tagged in the comments***
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***Authors on the lists tagged in the comments***
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P.L’s TOP INDIE & TOP TRAD SFF BOOKS FOR 2025
This is the post where I note the top Indie/Self-Published, and the top Traditionally-Published (Small Press/Big Five Trad & Imprints) books for Sci-Fi &am
beforewegoblog.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
P.L’S TOP INDIE & TOP TRAD SFF BOOKS FOR 2025!!
***Authors on the lists tagged in the comments***
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beforewegoblog.com/p-ls-top-ind...
***Authors on the lists tagged in the comments***
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W o w
I have a sudden urge to set something on fire
I have a sudden urge to set something on fire
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
W o w
I have a sudden urge to set something on fire
I have a sudden urge to set something on fire
Hello to the recent batch of new followers. I've been traditionally published since 2015, below are all my completed fantasy series, and if you want more info you can join my monthly newsletter (although I'm taking Dec off, so back in Jan) and there's a link in my bio.
Since this is all new, here's a reintroduction to my fantasy novels
Battlemage (2015)
Bloodmage(2016)
Chaosmage (2016)
Mageborn (2017)
Magefall (2018)
Magebane (2019)
The Coward (2021)
The Warrior (2022)
The Judas Blossom (2023)
The Blood Dimmed Tide (2024)
The Sorrow of the Sea (2025)
Battlemage (2015)
Bloodmage(2016)
Chaosmage (2016)
Mageborn (2017)
Magefall (2018)
Magebane (2019)
The Coward (2021)
The Warrior (2022)
The Judas Blossom (2023)
The Blood Dimmed Tide (2024)
The Sorrow of the Sea (2025)
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hello to the recent batch of new followers. I've been traditionally published since 2015, below are all my completed fantasy series, and if you want more info you can join my monthly newsletter (although I'm taking Dec off, so back in Jan) and there's a link in my bio.
Enjoyed watching V for Vendetta again. Must be the fifth time I've seen it. The comic is better, of course, but that's almost always the way with adaptations.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Enjoyed watching V for Vendetta again. Must be the fifth time I've seen it. The comic is better, of course, but that's almost always the way with adaptations.
Guess it's time to watch V for Vendetta then.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Guess it's time to watch V for Vendetta then.
One of my favourite comic book runs of all time is The Spectre by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. The first omnibus is out now, collecting issues 1-30 from DC comics with a fantastic new cover from Mandrake and an intro from Ostrander.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
One of my favourite comic book runs of all time is The Spectre by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. The first omnibus is out now, collecting issues 1-30 from DC comics with a fantastic new cover from Mandrake and an intro from Ostrander.
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READ IT. Please. The funnest book every month.
Renee gets me.
CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE 4 is out tomorrow! Cats, rats, and capers! Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social ! Colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!
CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE 4 is out tomorrow! Cats, rats, and capers! Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social ! Colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
READ IT. Please. The funnest book every month.
Back from World Fantasy convention Brighton. Voice is completely gone from talking so much but it was both energising to see so many people and exhausting. Back to my writing cave now to sit quietly and rest up.
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Back from World Fantasy convention Brighton. Voice is completely gone from talking so much but it was both energising to see so many people and exhausting. Back to my writing cave now to sit quietly and rest up.
Heading to Brighton this Thursday for World Fantasy Convention. I'll be there Friday to early Sunday and taking part in the group signing session on Friday night.
My schedule for World Fantasy Convention at the end of this month in Brighton
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Heading to Brighton this Thursday for World Fantasy Convention. I'll be there Friday to early Sunday and taking part in the group signing session on Friday night.
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AI audio means publishers can choose to utterly screw over narrators (whose work no doubt went into training the AI) and insist on keeping as profit that 90% reduction in costs.
Whoever decides to do this deserves all the abuse, even if its my employer
www.thebookseller.com/news/ai-audi...
Whoever decides to do this deserves all the abuse, even if its my employer
www.thebookseller.com/news/ai-audi...
AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears
The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into.
www.thebookseller.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
AI audio means publishers can choose to utterly screw over narrators (whose work no doubt went into training the AI) and insist on keeping as profit that 90% reduction in costs.
Whoever decides to do this deserves all the abuse, even if its my employer
www.thebookseller.com/news/ai-audi...
Whoever decides to do this deserves all the abuse, even if its my employer
www.thebookseller.com/news/ai-audi...
The full programme for World Fantasy Convention in Brighton at the end of this month is now available.
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The full programme for World Fantasy Convention in Brighton at the end of this month is now available.
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
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This is the month that THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA releases (Oct 21st!) and I wanted to share that I have a number of UK events, including an event with VL Bovalino and Samantha Shannon at a church, which feels slightly bonkers: tashasuri.com/events/
Events
22nd October: Tasha Suri and V. L. Bovalino with Samantha Shannon. Covent Garden Waterstones, London. 24th October: An Evening With Tasha Suri and V.L. Bovalino. Birmingham Waterstones, Birmingham.…
tashasuri.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is the month that THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA releases (Oct 21st!) and I wanted to share that I have a number of UK events, including an event with VL Bovalino and Samantha Shannon at a church, which feels slightly bonkers: tashasuri.com/events/
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My schedule for World Fantasy Convention at the end of this month in Brighton
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My schedule for World Fantasy Convention at the end of this month in Brighton
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
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oh hey i have a BOOK out today! The re-release of RAVEN CALLS is available now! How exciting!
After a year of adjusting to having shamanic powers, Joanne Walker has leveled up—and now she’s got to start all over again...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ9GPH...
After a year of adjusting to having shamanic powers, Joanne Walker has leveled up—and now she’s got to start all over again...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ9GPH...
October 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
oh hey i have a BOOK out today! The re-release of RAVEN CALLS is available now! How exciting!
After a year of adjusting to having shamanic powers, Joanne Walker has leveled up—and now she’s got to start all over again...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ9GPH...
After a year of adjusting to having shamanic powers, Joanne Walker has leveled up—and now she’s got to start all over again...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQ9GPH...
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At 7pm on 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!
Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!
Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...
October 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
At 7pm on 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!
Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!
Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...
My schedule for World Fantasy Convention at the end of this month in Brighton
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My schedule for World Fantasy Convention at the end of this month in Brighton
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
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NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...
Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…
newsthump.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...
Ok so the book is actually £0.99 or $0.99 on Kindle for an unspecified amount of time if you're in the mood.
www.amazon.com/Warrior-Ques...
www.amazon.com/Warrior-Ques...
For the entire month of October, The Warrior is on sale. My shortest pitch is The Wizard of Oz in the Upside Down. Four very different people go on a quest to a dark world that has been tainted.
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ok so the book is actually £0.99 or $0.99 on Kindle for an unspecified amount of time if you're in the mood.
www.amazon.com/Warrior-Ques...
www.amazon.com/Warrior-Ques...