Brent C. Lambert

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Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing. Rep: Angeline Rodriguez at WME Books.

he/him http://brentclambert.com

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I adored this book and I would fight God (and/or the Ephirit) for the MC and the rest of the human debris she has accidentally assembled into a friend group. Please pre-order so that people continue giving Kerstin money to write more books like this!!

ASUNDER is just a stellar damn book. It's SABRIEL meets HELLRAISER post a brutal invasion of gods slaughtering all the current gods. Karys Eska, the MC is a deeply wounded person who is fighting for her life quite literally. The world is fantastically different & painfully familiar. GET THIS!

This would be so dope! Some adaptations I'd be keen on: Ruin of Shadows The Border Keeper The Lies of the Ajungo Empire of the Feast Finding Echoes Ring Shout The Mimicking of Known Successes Between Blades Countess

Ooh, y’know what would be neat a sci-fi/fantasy anthology show where each episode adapts a different recent novella. I think I’d enjoy that quite well, thank you very much.

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I feel like I am always seeing a lot of people wishing for more SFF novellas to read beyond the Tordotcom selection they know about, small presses have got you covered! I particularly enjoyed L.D. Lewis' A Ruin of Shadows, a dark and relentless fantasy about assassins!

As a part of "use the good stuff" you should READ THE GOOD BOOKS. Follow the link below to find four excellent sff novellas you could read in a single weekend.

books | Dancing Star Presswww.dancingstarpress.com

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The editor of Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes @jayxwolf.bsky.social talks to @brentclambert.bsky.social about the influences, inspiration, and process behind his story for the anthology and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSIH...

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Today's the day! THE SKY ON FIRE is live. Thank you to everyone. You've all been so supportive and I appreciate you!

I was very passionate about something that day 😂 (still have a little bit of a buzz from the fun I had at Lavendercon)

Great time at #LavenderCon this weekend! I got to see @brentclambert.bsky.social, meet some new friends, get some swag, and wear my Be Gay Cast Spells pin. Not shown, everything I bought from @neonhemlock.bsky.social

I had a horrible dream where I think I was watching the news and something called "Exclusionary-passionism" rolled across a red, white and blue backdrop. It was some silly, ridiculous faux-ideological term to justify discrimination on a wide scale. And I just wanted to punch right through the dream

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Tune in to our conversation between Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes editor @jayxwolf.bsky.social and contributing author @brentclambert.bsky.social about influences, inspiration, and process behind Brent's story for the anthology! 7PM EST on our Backerkit page: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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DAWNHOUNDS 2 IS OUT IN JUST OVER A MONTH TELL YER MATES. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Su...

Full video of the panel I participated in at Lavender Con talking about Building Fantastic Worlds. If you feel so inclined to hear me and some others chop it up.

World Building Panel at Lavender Conyoutu.be I did a panel at Lavender Con in works building with Terry Bartley, Kit Vincent, Brent C. Lambert, and David R. Slayton. Check it out!

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Kay Kenyon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kenyon... and Carlton Mellick III sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mellic... were born on this day, so here's some of their covers (Artist: Stephan Martinière, Stephan Martinière, [couldn't identify] and Pol Abran & Marta Maldonado):

Had a great time at Lavender Con. It’s always nice to just be surrounded by your people ❤️

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These two were the foundational seed for the relationship I wanted to display in my story for BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE AXES. It's not exactly a 1:1 for the final story (obvs as its two men and they're Black), but they were the inspiration. So if that in any way appeals to you, back the anthology!!

* A diverse mix of relationships on the page, and human beings behind the keyboard. Specifically: @slhuang.com, @brentclambert.bsky.social, @brynhammond.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, T.A. Markitan, and David C. Smith! *Available in Digital, Mass-Market Paperback, and hardcover!

Our first stretch goal is to commission @kuboartt.bsky.social to create brand new pieces of interior art for each of our six stories - we are almost 80% of the way there! Back Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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It’s here! 🥹 The cover of my debut novel A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, the first in an epic fantasy trilogy coming next April from Orbit Books UK! Gorgeous cover art by Richard Anderson!

What a squad!!

Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes, tales of romantic Sword & Sorcery, crowdfunding now! Stories by @slhuang.com David C. Smith @brynhammond.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social + T. A. Markitan: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I love when my geek intersects with music. This song definitely samples from the EXPANSE show. Season Two, Episode 3 I think. music.apple.com/us/album/all...

All My Friends Are Hot by Jackie Hollander on Apple Musicmusic.apple.com Song · 2024 · Duration 2:59

Y'all showed up and showed out for this!! Love to to see it 🤩

Oh dang, we're featured on the main page of Backerkit! Thanks so much to you all for backing, sharing, and for chatting in the Community tab of our campaign page. It all helps gets us featured like this! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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checking before bed and could not stop myself, for I am only human:

So one of my very best friends is Syrian and English is his third language. He knows I write and asks me to look over stuff he does from time to time. I find it so fascinating that the "errors" are really just him translating languages in his head. I pester him with questions so I know some of the--

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This sounds amazing

I'm in BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES w/ some incredible authors. Sword and Sorcery w/ romance (lower R, cuz that's important): My story is about a gay, married mercenary couple having to decide if defending their homophobic hometown from a dark god is worth the trouble and bringing up old wounds.

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Absolutely blown away by the response we have gotten so far! 💜 quite literally a labor of love to bring this thing together. I'm so glad to be striking a chord with fantasy readers who are excited to see this sort of story out there in the wild! Will you be the one to bring us over the halfway mark?

HEY, THANK YOU - we are close to 50% of our goal already! I can tell you that our hardworking publisher Oliver and editor Jay will be very happy (and relieved). Still a ways to go, let's do this - THANK YOU! 💓🪓

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Happy to be the 122nd backer on BackerKit Crowdfunding for Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes, a Romantic Sword & Sorcery Anthology from @obrackenbury.bsky.social @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Beating Hearts & Battle-Axeswww.backerkit.com Sword. Sorcery. Sizzle. This brand new anthology features six authors telling spicy Sword & Sorcery stories with a romantic relationship at their heart.

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Just some of the authors in the mammoth book of SPACEFUNK Toss a coin to your starchildren at www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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We're thrilled to help reveal the cover for Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures! This collection, edited by Ann LeBlanc, contains 19 speculative stories by transfem authors. You can check out the table of contents and cover now! reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

Revealing Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures, edited by Ann LeBlanc - Reactorreactormag.com A new anthology of cyberpunk and posthuman stories written by transfem authors.

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So happy to see a Sword & Sorcery story featuring a gay couple! As a gay barbarian myself, I appreciate it!

Also this is a really cool ass wraparound cover I would very much like to have on my bookshelf one day! So give us some support 💪

Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes goes live tomorrow morning at 8am EST. Your support means a lot - this is our first book! We have a very special perk for our first physical format backer (see image below). Back Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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I loved this Black queer spy-vs-spy novella. A fantastic twisty plot full of desire and betrayals and some incredibly fucked up magic systems (which mirror the horrors of the empires that wield them).

#Juneteenth might just be a good day to remind folks I wrote a Black queer novella about two men on different trying to define what freedom and a better world looks like. (Plus the boys are just always pretty to look at, TY always @completelycathy.bsky.social 🫶)

Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes anthology spotlight: welcome Brent Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social, SFF author extraordinaire! Visit Brent’s website www.brentclambert.com and back Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 💓🪓