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I am currently posting several chapters a week from my new novel, Strangers, on #royalroad. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/126744/strangers Expect long journeys, dealing with guilt, and interdimensional monsters.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 5

My alter ego Hank Steelridge is currently posting several chapters a week from his new novel, Strangers, on #royalroad.

Expect long journeys, dealing with guilt, and interdimensional monsters.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1267...

Strangers

Seth has committed himself to a psychiatric hospital in the mountains of northern California - a last-ditch effort to learn how to live with the guilt of causing the car crash which killed his wife an...

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 2d

Shit merchants everywhere, trying to make me give all of the shits.
I only want to give some of the shits.
The rest I set free to roam the countryside.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 2d

Seth follows a strange man into a cave. As long as it's not a van, I guess.

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The man led him through the snow, cutting a wide swath through it that Seth could walk on. Around a small hill and through some short trees they approached something like a bear's den. The man got down on hands and knees and crawled in without looking back. Seth crawled after him, blindly reaching in front of him to avoid splitting his head open on a rock. The cave was a tunnel, twisting and turning for at least twenty meters, until it opened up into a dimly lit cavern, maybe twenty meters long, fifteen wide, and three or four high.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 17d

Stop... You had me at "ninja assassin".

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 19d

I dunno, I know a writer who died from exposure...

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 19d

In theory, how much would a John Scalzi blurb cost? And hypothetically, which payment provider would you use?

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · 19d

Omg I can't believe I almost missed my... 18th? rapture. They are always so much fun.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 9

That's not all! There is also Best Westerns, odd southerners and a magical slot machine.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 9

Seth and Jed are under heavy (oil)pressure.

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Jed was hit once, twice. Golden motor oil poured from a hole in its stomach. Servos whirred as they tried to compensate for the pressure loss, until Jed’s ever vigilant nanobots managed to stem the tide. Seth stood his ground and fired bullet after useless bullet. The Intrusive men didn’t seem fazed even though every shot found its mark: the ridge of a nose; a wide forehead; a scrawny chest.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you!

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fun! I'm thinking I'll publish sometime next year.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm a bit torn. The road there seems so long when Kobo is right there lol.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Sep 2

I regret to inform you that you weren't dreaming.

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He was more tired than he thought, and fell asleep almost immediately. He dreamed of a world empty of people, where he was the only survivor of a colossal catastrophe. Where the lines between dreams and reality were broken and things like black dogs seeped through like sand in a cracked hourglass. He dreamed of winter men and intrusive men and seventy-two crazy people locked in a looney bin.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ok, now I have to find a way to shoehorn "sporulates" into my novel.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you pay your insurance but are not member of a worker's union you haven't understood the point of insurance.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 23

He is just trying to turn the US into a socialist democracy where the government (of the people) owns the means of production!

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 23

Masculinity police, open up! You've been a bad boy mister Scalzi.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maybe if we all go see Naked Gun in theaters we'll get Angie Tribeca back.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 22

Only 4 uses of "recent" in my entire novel. I expected more.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 20

BACK MAMBA?

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 19

Genre is just set dressing for character conflict and development. But I prefer my set dressing dark, weird and shooty.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sounds like bliss.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm pretty sure "elbows" are bows but in spanish.

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“And to think I took you for a pessimist.”
“Fuck off. You don’t know what I’ve went through.” Seth felt stupid as soon as he had said it.
“Tell me.” Jed’s scoff softened.
“No.” He rested his elbows on his knees and began drawing in the earth with the stick.
“I’m a good listener.”
“I killed my wife and son,” he said harshly, looking up at Jed.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 16

This just completely blows my last-minute-canva-on-mobile-looking poster clear out of the hemisphere. Love it.

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Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 16

Cool poster! I grew up on Zane Grey and Stephen King, so I hope i'll get to read this some day.

Hank Steelridge @svenhognestad.bsky.social · Aug 16

My favourite so far!