Brendan Deneen
@brendandeneen.bsky.social
Editor and Head of Film/TV at Blackstone Pub. CEO at Scout Comics. Author: CONAN, ALIEN, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, GREEN ARROW, MORBIUS, ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS, FLASH GORDON. Husband. Dad. Agnostic Aries.
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Brendan Deneen
@brendandeneen.bsky.social
· Aug 11
In high school, I went to the local coffee shop late at night and wrote. I dreamed of someday being a published novelist. In college, I wallpapered my bathroom with rejection letters from publishers. But I've always believed that if you really want something, you can do it. Eventually.
by Joseph Fasano
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
by Joseph Fasano
Authors beware! "Someone posing as a Grove Atlantic employee has been contacting authors to offer a contract under false pretenses. The publisher is taking steps to try to identify and stop the illicit outreach. If you are contacted, Grove would like to hear from you at [email protected]."
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Authors beware! "Someone posing as a Grove Atlantic employee has been contacting authors to offer a contract under false pretenses. The publisher is taking steps to try to identify and stop the illicit outreach. If you are contacted, Grove would like to hear from you at [email protected]."
In the 80s, I read a LOT of Conan comic books, and watched the movie as often as possible. Later, I discovered the original REH stories, and loved those, too. It's an honor to have written an original Conan story -- which hits digital bookstores TODAY! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Amulet of Nakamar by Brendan Deneen: 9781835416860 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an eighteen-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom, the Amulet of Nakamar, has been stolen. They n...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In the 80s, I read a LOT of Conan comic books, and watched the movie as often as possible. Later, I discovered the original REH stories, and loved those, too. It's an honor to have written an original Conan story -- which hits digital bookstores TODAY! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
So, I'm doing a thing with Franklin Leonard. 😀@franklinleonard.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
The Black List Teams with Blackstone on Novel Contest
The competition, which offers a $25,000 publishing deal for an unpublished manuscript, marks the Black List’s first collaboration with a book publisher since broadening its scope from screenplays to f...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So, I'm doing a thing with Franklin Leonard. 😀@franklinleonard.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
I come from a family of teachers, my wife is a teacher, and I studied in college to be a high school teacher. I don't share petitions often, but I hope you'll consider signing this one. What is happening to the Department of Education is a f*cking disgrace. civicshout.com/p/stop-the-d...
Stop the Dismantling of the Department of Education
Congress must act immediately to halt the Trump administration’s plan to break apart the Department of Education.
On November 18, the administration unveiled a sweeping restructuring that would shif...
civicshout.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I come from a family of teachers, my wife is a teacher, and I studied in college to be a high school teacher. I don't share petitions often, but I hope you'll consider signing this one. What is happening to the Department of Education is a f*cking disgrace. civicshout.com/p/stop-the-d...
Hitting e-bookstores one week from today! My story takes place directly after TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT, the earliest (chronologically) of Robert E. Howard's Conan tales. In NAKAMAR, our favorite Cimmerian, still only 18 years old, is hired for a daring theft... but nothing is quite what it seems. 😀 😎
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hitting e-bookstores one week from today! My story takes place directly after TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT, the earliest (chronologically) of Robert E. Howard's Conan tales. In NAKAMAR, our favorite Cimmerian, still only 18 years old, is hired for a daring theft... but nothing is quite what it seems. 😀 😎
Reposted by Brendan Deneen
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
My official Conan short story hits the interwebs two weeks from today! A total bucket list character for me -- and my last published work for the foreseeable future!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Amulet of Nakamar by Brendan Deneen: 9781835416860 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an eighteen-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom, the Amulet of Nakamar, has been stolen. They n...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My official Conan short story hits the interwebs two weeks from today! A total bucket list character for me -- and my last published work for the foreseeable future!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
Reposted by Brendan Deneen
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Tomorrow! New Jersey peeps -- I'll be signing copies of TRACER and ALIEN (and more!) at the Barnes & Noble on Route 10 (Morris Plains) from 1pm-4pm. Maybe Sigourney Weaver will show up!
NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver will not be showing up.
@blackstonepub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social
NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver will not be showing up.
@blackstonepub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Tomorrow! New Jersey peeps -- I'll be signing copies of TRACER and ALIEN (and more!) at the Barnes & Noble on Route 10 (Morris Plains) from 1pm-4pm. Maybe Sigourney Weaver will show up!
NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver will not be showing up.
@blackstonepub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social
NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver will not be showing up.
@blackstonepub.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social
My CONAN short story is now available for pre-order!
"Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an 18-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom has been stolen and they need Conan to retrieve it."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
"Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an 18-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom has been stolen and they need Conan to retrieve it."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
October 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My CONAN short story is now available for pre-order!
"Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an 18-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom has been stolen and they need Conan to retrieve it."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
"Larger than most men, but still naive about the world and its complexities, an 18-year-old Conan is offered a job by the palace. A family heirloom has been stolen and they need Conan to retrieve it."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813525...
Reposted by Brendan Deneen
recent reads I enjoyed:
EXIT STRATEGY by Martha Wells
THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie
CLOWN TOWN by Mick Herron
THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 by Ruth Ware
TRACER by Brendan Deneen
EXIT STRATEGY by Martha Wells
THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie
CLOWN TOWN by Mick Herron
THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 by Ruth Ware
TRACER by Brendan Deneen
October 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
recent reads I enjoyed:
EXIT STRATEGY by Martha Wells
THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie
CLOWN TOWN by Mick Herron
THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 by Ruth Ware
TRACER by Brendan Deneen
EXIT STRATEGY by Martha Wells
THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie
CLOWN TOWN by Mick Herron
THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 by Ruth Ware
TRACER by Brendan Deneen
My ALIEN novel originally started as ALIEN 3 fan fiction (and the characters in the book mirror Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop) -- so I made it my mission to get pictures with all four of those amazing actors. It took awhile but this weekend, I got the final one. 😍 @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My ALIEN novel originally started as ALIEN 3 fan fiction (and the characters in the book mirror Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop) -- so I made it my mission to get pictures with all four of those amazing actors. It took awhile but this weekend, I got the final one. 😍 @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social
Me and Sigourney and the Alien novel I wrote. 😍😍😍 @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @blackstonepub.bsky.social @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Me and Sigourney and the Alien novel I wrote. 😍😍😍 @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @blackstonepub.bsky.social @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social
Oh, AI, why are you so dumb?
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh, AI, why are you so dumb?
Reposted by Brendan Deneen
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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Submit a Claim
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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SHADOW LAB VOLUME II – which is edited by @brendandeneen.bsky.social and features my short story THE UNINVITED – is published today by @blackstonepub.bsky.social.
www.davidmoody.net/2025/09/30/s...
www.davidmoody.net/2025/09/30/s...
September 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
SHADOW LAB VOLUME II – which is edited by @brendandeneen.bsky.social and features my short story THE UNINVITED – is published today by @blackstonepub.bsky.social.
www.davidmoody.net/2025/09/30/s...
www.davidmoody.net/2025/09/30/s...
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Thank you, @andibartz.bsky.social.
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Opinion | I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thank you, @andibartz.bsky.social.
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Hitting bookstores nationwide one week from today from @blackstonepub.bsky.social! I was lucky enough to edit ten of the best horror authors currently working. These short stories are incredible and a couple of them are already in development as feature films! 😍😈💀
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hitting bookstores nationwide one week from today from @blackstonepub.bsky.social! I was lucky enough to edit ten of the best horror authors currently working. These short stories are incredible and a couple of them are already in development as feature films! 😍😈💀
By Crom! I've been waiting to announce this since March! Conan is one of my absolute bucket-list characters. I grew up reading the comics and watching the movie over & over again, which led me to the original tales by Robert E. Howard. My Conan story will be available electronically in late Nov. 😍
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
By Crom! I've been waiting to announce this since March! Conan is one of my absolute bucket-list characters. I grew up reading the comics and watching the movie over & over again, which led me to the original tales by Robert E. Howard. My Conan story will be available electronically in late Nov. 😍
The Return of the Native! Not gonna lie -- this is pretty cool to see in one of my hometown papers. 😍 @blackstonepub.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Return of the Native! Not gonna lie -- this is pretty cool to see in one of my hometown papers. 😍 @blackstonepub.bsky.social
I'll be signing copies of TRACER at the Newark International Airport today. In true NY/NJ fashion, if someone bumps into me while I'm making my way to the bookstore, I'll shout, "HEY!!! I'M SIGNIN' HERE!" @blackstonepub.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'll be signing copies of TRACER at the Newark International Airport today. In true NY/NJ fashion, if someone bumps into me while I'm making my way to the bookstore, I'll shout, "HEY!!! I'M SIGNIN' HERE!" @blackstonepub.bsky.social
The e-book edition of TRACER is on sale for the next week (via Blackstone and Amazon)!! Only $6! Less than a Tuesday matinee movie! And no commercials or bad Noovie jokes!! 😃 www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/boo... @blackstonepub.bsky.social
Tracer
From bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Deneen comes Tracer, a fast-paced sci-fi romance adventure that sends one mercenary on a dangerous mission across a postapocalyptic landscape. Perfect...
www.blackstonepublishing.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The e-book edition of TRACER is on sale for the next week (via Blackstone and Amazon)!! Only $6! Less than a Tuesday matinee movie! And no commercials or bad Noovie jokes!! 😃 www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/boo... @blackstonepub.bsky.social
Chatted with Paul Semel about all things TRACER!! paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... @blackstonepub.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Chatted with Paul Semel about all things TRACER!! paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... @blackstonepub.bsky.social
SNOW DAY FOR GROOT came out five years ago today! Of my four "Rocket and Groot" picture books, this one is my favorite. 😍
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
SNOW DAY FOR GROOT came out five years ago today! Of my four "Rocket and Groot" picture books, this one is my favorite. 😍