The 2025 Hugo Award were awarded last night, and first of all, a big congratulations to all the winners. And the nominees; just being on the ballot is a huge achievement. I have to be honest, This will be a quick post because I have not been following the Hugo Awards closely this year. This isn't really a Hugo Award or Worldcon problem, though their were issues, such as a controversy about using AI to select panelists.

The 2058 Coober Pedy Winter Olympics By Jayde Holmes “Nah mate, it wasn’t fun. There was absolutely nothing fun at all about those eleven years. What? Oh fine, since you’re all so inter…

I did this a few years ago and it was really fun, so I'm gonna do it again; let's read all the short stories that have been nominated for the big three SFF awards and talk about them. The best part about this, is that most of the finalists are available to read free online, so you can go check them out too.

Here you’ll find everything to do with my World of Green and Black. Stories, bestiary entries, artworks, and any other bonus piece of information. You could say this page is a treasure trove …

About Dirty Magick Magazine Issue Nine Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. Brown. ...

Even with all the work I've been putting onto The Strongest in the Forest, I still wanted to make this month's featured creature. In this one, we're looking at another creature that plays an important role in the story. And in all World of Green and Black stories probably. A creature that Strongest's Mentor would have a ton of ancient memories and theories about.

THE STRONGEST IN THE FOREST By Jayde Holmes Part 2: First Contact, Once Again < Back to Part 1 The stone didn’t work. Shepherd went flying the next day and reported that the monsters were still …

Yay, it's that time of the year again, where the Hugo Finalists for the year get announced. For another year I've been a bit out of the loop (money and time issues mostly, I might talk more about that later) but I think we can have fun discovering some new favourite stories and games together. First though, let's check out that ballot:

Time for some exciting news everyone; I'm posting another World of Green and Black novella. And no, this isn't an April Fools joke. This story is set roughly 200 years before the previous novella, Neighbour, and follows the titular young Drid's mentor, the Strongest Strategist of the Forest, as she makes first contact with Humans. I've always loved Strongest as a character, and I'm really excited to show what she was like earlier in her life, when she was new to her position and did not yet understand humanity the way she does in&hellip;

Time for another World of Green and Black Featured Creature. This one I’m really excited about, because we’re talking sky-dominators. These are a really important creature in the Drid w…

This story was originally published at Reedsy.com, as part of the Contest #91 on April 20th 2021. The prompt that inspired this story was “Write about someone going to extreme lengths to retur…