Bryn Hammond

Bryn Hammond

@brynhammond.bsky.social

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| Writer. Historical fiction: Amgalant series on Temujin/Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols. Sword & Sorcery
| Likes David Bowie, Queen, Algernon Swinburne, medieval romance, ancient epic, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Discovery
| She/her. Queer. https://amgalant.com

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Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 13

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 12

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I heard Fritz Leiber based a few Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser tales on nights out with mates in a city not Lankhmar. Certain episodes of my story may be reminiscent of escapades in the city of Melbourne, in retrospect not things to recommend. Sapphfic Sapphic fiction 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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ICYMI, "Grottmata" went live earlier this week. Art by Dan Rempel again. He really thought about this one in detail.

Latest story, "Grottmata," is now online at @nightmare-magazine.com. A space colony is plagued by a series of inexplicable deaths; an Inspector and a factory girl know more than they let on. Thanks again to Wendy and the Nightmare team for taking this and for their care with this one.

Grottmata - Nightmare Magazinewww.nightmare-magazine.com The soldiers start rounding up us factory girls just before sunrise. We smoke cigarettes and stand in a line against the remnants of a brick wall that used to be a bakery, facing the sheer black of th...

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 12

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I heard Fritz Leiber based a few Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser tales on nights out with mates in a city not Lankhmar. Certain episodes of my story may be reminiscent of escapades in the city of Melbourne, in retrospect not things to recommend. Sapphfic Sapphic fiction 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.

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 11

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 10

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Do you have a good topic about Sword & Sorcery you’d like to share? Or a question about Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes? Start a discussion on the Community tab of our campaign site: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Got to say I am in camp 'it's pretty terrific you know?'

Spurned by many, beloved by some, and forgotten by most, this film sits at an interesting crossroads in Hollywood and classical reception. Is it a secret masterpiece? Probably not. Is it an interesting mirror of what had, and was yet, to come? Definitely. #Troy #AncientBluesky #Podcast

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Hello Listeners! Today we return to this podcast's debut topic, Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy! Joined by special guest Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social, we revisit this oddly situated film that was the 2004 attempt to keep the Gladiator train going. #AncientBluesky youtube.com/shorts/B1LyG...

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'This is the opera/classical reception crossover that I hope PI readers want to see: The Comet/Poppea, an opera from the LA-based company The Industry. W.E.B. DuBois? Monteverdi opulence?' Yes it is.

This week's Pasts Imperfect is by @javalac.bsky.social & Cole Smith. They examine Greek transport amphoras 🏺 & modeling human trafficking in antiquity. Then, Egyptian pigment analysis, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more! pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...

Pasts Imperfect (7.4.2024)pastsimperfect.substack.com Greek Ceramics, Ancient Egyptian Pigments, Silk Roads of the Kushan Empire, Chaco Canyon's Conch Trumpets & More

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This week's Pasts Imperfect is by @javalac.bsky.social & Cole Smith. They examine Greek transport amphoras 🏺 & modeling human trafficking in antiquity. Then, Egyptian pigment analysis, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more! pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...

Pasts Imperfect (7.4.2024)pastsimperfect.substack.com Greek Ceramics, Ancient Egyptian Pigments, Silk Roads of the Kushan Empire, Chaco Canyon's Conch Trumpets & More

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Still open for a few more days! If you’re always looking for more transfem heroines in sapphic books, 👇

🏳️‍⚧️TRANS SAPPHIC ARC ALERT🏳️‍⚧️ Does a steamy-cozy lesbian fantasy romance with a trans heroine & a single mom love interest sound good to you? 🎉GOOD NEWS!🎉 epub ARCS of The World Within go out next week! ARC request form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or just hit my DMs!

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 10

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 9

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@rlmatte.bsky.social is back open to queries! She's looking for Adult and YA Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance, and is especially excited about queer romance and stories that are unabashedly nerdy. For more details, check out her #MSWL here: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/re...

Rebecca Matte – The Official Manuscript Wish List Websitewww.manuscriptwishlist.com

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We have just over $1000 to go to reach our stretch goal of a new piece of art by the wonderful @kuboartt.bsky.social for each of the six stories within Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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Topics you could ask me about: The Crusader states, their literature & laws Medieval manuscript production Areoarchaeology & other unconventional means of learning about the past What The Victorians Got Wrong (& why we forgive some of the scholar-vicars anyway) How DID they make that? …etc

Romancing the Vote is live! If you’ve ever wanted to pick a medieval historian’s brain — for book research, world building, or just for fun, I have a listing for you! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Consult a Medieval Historianwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Consult a Medieval Historian' hosted online at 32auctions.

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The "Chinggis Khan: How Mongols changed the World" exhibit from the Nantes's Museum of History is coming to Ulaanbaatar. e.g. items such as the original letter of Oljeitu to Philippe IV. gogo.mn/r/8870j

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New addition to the Chinggis Khan museum's permanent expo. A golden saddle with double phoenix on the front pommel dating to 13/14th century found in a Mongol noblewoman's tomb.

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 9

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 8

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First Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. some new Indian SF writing, classic Ghanaian SF, and more. As always, remember to subscribe if you want this in your inbox fortnightly!

Words for Worlds - Issue LXXIIIgautambhatia.substack.com Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of Words for Worlds. A writing update: I have a new short story out, in the July issue of Grimdark Mag. It’s called ‘Waiting for the Witnesses,’ and it’s a...

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We have rainbow metal 1.5 inch pins of the New Edge Sword & Sorcery battle-axe! Rainbow effect and colouring unique to each one. You can add one to your Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes pledge here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 8

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 7

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Emailed my local Labour candidate. We're a swing seat. Let's at least let them hear from us.

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It’s super easy to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils when you aren’t personally affected by statements like these, but I urge you to remember them when you’re staring at that paper on Thursday.

I’m losing human rights Ned

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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it

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never change, Romancelandia www.32auctions.com/RomancingThe...

under an hour lol

If you were thinking of getting a developmental edit on a story, why not grab this and help fund a Sword & Sorcery & romance anthology at the same time? Let your blade be a double blade!

Writers: looking for some professional editing for your manuscript? We have two spots left: back Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes and our editor @jayxwolf.bsky.social can be your editor too! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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I have a handful of items up that I will tell you about throughout the day. But for now… Here’s where the cacophony starts! www.32auctions.com/R...

Romancing the Vote 2024www.32auctions.com Silent auction 'Romancing the Vote 2024' hosted online at 32auctions.

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 7

Book Sky Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 6

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Sword & Sorcery & romantasy, Madeline James in conversation with @obrackenbury.bsky.social and @jayxwolf.bsky.social. Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLM... Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6m...

Sword & Sorcery & Romantasy || Beating Hearts and Battle Axes Anthology Interviewwww.youtube.com I had the pleasure of interviewing Oliver Brackenbury and Jay Wolf about their upcoming crowdfunding campaign for their anthology: Beating Hearts & Battle-Ax...