Hûw Steer has a fantasy trilogy
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Writing books and such. 🚫AI. 'one of the rising stars of indie fantasy' - The Short StoryTeller 'I liked it' - some children www.huwsteer.wordpress.com https://linktr.ee/huwage
History is important. Remembering it is important. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/11/15/m...
Medals
It is fair to say that I’ve seen some strange donations in my time working for a children’s charity. Mostly, I handle LEGO. Sometimes, it’s plate armour. It’s a weird job, as they go. But yesterday…
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Ta very much whoever's reading this on KU right now. Hope you're enjoying the space vultures.
Got to get wintry with it when you're writing at this time of year huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/11/08/w...
Writing With the World You’re In
Winter is very much upon us, and I need to make use of that. Pretty much everything is fair game for inspiration when you’re writing, but it’s the things that I don’t notice that often have the mos…
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Disappointing monthly sales? Never mind that, I have a new short story out RIGHT NOW in Analog and it's about nuclear steam trains AGAIN huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/n...
New Story: Great Martian Railways… II
So how have book sales been going lately, I hear you not ask? Well. This is, in fairness, a typical month; hell, it’s better than many months, in which I often shift no books whatsoever. But that i…
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Apparently I got my Writer's badge back in the days of the Scouts, and I have 0 memory of it. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/b...
Badges
I have no memory of this badge. I do have memory of most of the others, thankfully; given I spent about 5 years in the Scouts (and years more in Cubs and Explorers before and after that) I’d hope t…
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Look, this is your last day to get a whole trilogy for 3 quid. It is, according to reviewers, "quite good". It has giant metal snakes and plot-integral references to Paul Weller and the Jam. Go on. Give it a go. #WritingCommunity #fantasy #booksale
Hûw Steer has a fantasy trilogy@huwage.bsky.social · last mo.The Boiling Seas: on sale for 0.99 until Monday! "Indiana Jones meets Locke Lamora" in a swashbuckling adventure across a deadly ocean. Links in bio. (.com/.co.uk) #books #fantasy #writingcommunity #trilogy
The Boiling Seas: on sale for 0.99 until Monday! "Indiana Jones meets Locke Lamora" in a swashbuckling adventure across a deadly ocean. Links in bio. (.com/.co.uk) #books #fantasy #writingcommunity #trilogy
Look at these beautiful books. Look how lovely they are on a shelf. ...ok, so it's only the ebooks that are on sale, but it's the thought that counts? Archaeology, adventure, airships, all right here for you to read.
Hûw Steer has a fantasy trilogy@huwage.bsky.social · last mo.It's a bit chilly, sure, but it looks enough like the Boiling Seas. A fantasy trilogy that is on sale all this week for a mere 0.99 per book! "Indiana Jones meets Locke Lamora" and all that jazz; links in bios/below.
Go to new places, writers; you will Learn New Things. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/w...
Why Are Things The (Nor)Way They Are?
I have remarked many times on this blog about the importance, for writers, of going out and seeing things, of always being ready to take a pause and properly appreciate your surroundings. You never…
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It's a bit chilly, sure, but it looks enough like the Boiling Seas. A fantasy trilogy that is on sale all this week for a mere 0.99 per book! "Indiana Jones meets Locke Lamora" and all that jazz; links in bios/below.
short story accepted for next year let's gooooo
The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker spsfc.space/2026/10/08/t...
Creating characters is great fun. Killing them off is sometimes even more fun. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/k...
Kill Your Darlings, and Make It Gruesome
Sometimes, you can sit at your desk and computer for hours on end without the slightest hint of inspiration. You can write many words, and some of them might prove serviceable, but they’re mediocre…
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Had a proper flash of inspiration this morning for my WIP rewrite. Sorry, Character #3. You didn't deserve what was already happening to you; you *definitely* don't deserve this.
Chipped away at the rewrite a bit more this morning. Got to get some more in before I go away for a few days...
The author 'marketing' spam emails have gotten bad enough that @helenlewis.bsky.social is talking about it in Private Eye's Page 94! Here is a selection of what I've had *this week* alone. I'd love a real email for once.
When I was about 12, I saw a painting, and wrote a story about it. Last week, I saw it again. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/o...
Old Stories, Old Memories
Last week I took a memory to the head at forty miles an hour. I was in Birmingham, with friends, wandering around the excellent Museum and Art Gallery. We’d gone there mainly for pre-Raphaelites an…
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Thank you for your 3-and-a-bit quid, Unnamed Friend
I am easily creatively distracted, but at least I'm enjoying myself. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/i...
I’m Easily Distracted
I have once again fallen into the trap of Having Ideas before I have finished pushing the other ideas out of my head. I suppose this is an informal progress report, of sorts, on what I’ve been writ…
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My writing brain is very inconvenient sometimes...
Did somebody say OCEAN The Boiling Seas are not very pleasant to swim in. Thus, reasoned the ancients, no sane god would have made them. Vedova is the widow-goddess of sailors, to whom they pray to be *spared* the Seas, and make it back home again. #septemberworldbuilders
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 2mo agoWe're talking about our fictional world's oceans this week, #SeptemberWorldbuilders! Does your ocean have any deities who rule over it? How do people worship them or perceived them?
Putting myself out there as an author is among the things I struggle with the most. Thus, I have to do it more. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/p...
Putting Myself Out There
I want to do events. I have done events before; I would like to do events again. Despite my seeming inability to effectively market or advertise myself and my work, and my reluctance to blow my own…
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Been a long week. Didn't get much done. We push on. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/w...
What Wasn’t I Doing – September 2026 Edition
It’s been a busy week. Not creatively. It’s been too busy for me to be properly creative, I think, which is never particularly pleasant. My work is not a job that typically taxes my creative brain …
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Who am I? September 26 edition I'm Hûw, I write SF&F, and I appear to have written quite a lot of it somehow. A fantasy trilogy that's "Indiana Jones meets Locke Lamora", an ancient Greek SF epic, a *very* cosy fantasy and a kid's book now on audio! And short stories too. Lots of those.
I'm going to share some standout book from the sale, ones I've read, that are on my tbr, or that I discovered now. But the other books are also worth checking out since my taste might not be the same as yours :) Check them all out on indiebook.sale!
Aw hell yeah I'll go there! I'll be a scribe. Or do a bit of teaching. Send me out to Whetstone; I'll settle into country life very happily indeed. #augustworldbuilders
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 3mo ago#AugustWorldbuilders I used to ask IF you would like to go to your fantasy world, would you? But for this one, we're pretending that it's inevitable. For whatever reason, you are transported to your world and MUST live there. So, where do you make your home?
Alright, one more day of the @narratess.com Sale! Let's see if I can break 150 Ad Lunas... Other highlights include Ships of Britannia #1 by @emkkoulla.bsky.social and Lunis Aquaria #2 by @tessahastjarjanto.com, the eponymous Narratess! Get em while they're hot. Link below.
Thinking about climate fiction and how a WIP of mine may have to become some. huwsteer.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/o...
On Climate Fiction
Firstly: Ad Luna is free until Monday in the Narratess sale; go check it out, and grab many many other free and discounted books while you’re at it. I might have to write some climate fiction, befo…
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