Oh look, it's disability pride month. This is about that.
Nicky Drayden
@nickydrayden.bsky.social
Writer of sci-fantasy, taker of naps. Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://nickydrayden.com
I haven't seen the official announcement yet, but I was just told that I was allowed to announce it: My book Power to Yield and Other Stories has been selected as the 2025 fiction winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award for best book by a Kansas author!!! (Just linking the book page for now)
Power to Yield and Other Stories — BROKEN EYE BOOKS
Power to Yield is a collection of speculative tales exploring gender identity, neurodivergence, and religion from author Bogi Takács, who deftly blends sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction.
brokeneyebooks.com
Someone "well-meaning" sent me an AI animation of one of my collages, and I literally felt like throwing up. 🤮 I wish I could scrub the image from my brain. Please don't do this to people's art without asking first, and also don't even dare to ask.
My Etsy shop is officially open! If you can't make it to a market, I've put a few of my best sellers up, plus my new bicycle collage which I'm kinda in love with. www.etsy.com/shop/NickyDr... Check them out, support an indie artist/game designer, and we can both avoid this summer market heat! 😎
Ehi is literally the kindest, most generous and amazing person I know, please help out if you can! She's given soooooo much to the community, and I hope people show up the same way for her.
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD)@rsagarcia.bsky.social · last mo.@okosunreads.bsky.social was in a serious accident with her family a short while ago. She and her family are lucky to be alive. But they'll need help during their recovery. If you want to help out, you can contribute to this Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
bangordailynews.com
Ehi is literally the kindest, most generous and amazing person I know, please help out if you can! She's given soooooo much to the community, and I hope people show up the same way for her.
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD)@rsagarcia.bsky.social · last mo.@okosunreads.bsky.social was in a serious accident with her family a short while ago. She and her family are lucky to be alive. But they'll need help during their recovery. If you want to help out, you can contribute to this Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
@okosunreads.bsky.social was in a serious accident with her family a short while ago. She and her family are lucky to be alive. But they'll need help during their recovery. If you want to help out, you can contribute to this Go Fund Me. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Ehi and family during a tough time!, organized by Friends and Fam
Hi everyone, We're starting this campaign to help our dear friend,… Friends and Fam needs your support for Support for Ehi and family during a tough time!
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✨ SUMMER SALE: $19 and FREE US shipping! ✨ Want an amazing game for an amazing deal? I've got just 20 decks of the original version of the cooperative Afrofutures card game Prosper with Dragons, and you can grab yours now! ✨ Gather Resources 🐉 Befriend Dragons www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
kickstarter.com
✨ SUMMER SALE: $19 and FREE US shipping! ✨ Want an amazing game for an amazing deal? I've got just 20 decks of the original version of the cooperative Afrofutures card game Prosper with Dragons, and you can grab yours now! ✨ Gather Resources 🐉 Befriend Dragons www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
kickstarter.com
You're hot, cranky, and just want to hunker down in the A/C with a good book? Check out Temper, a dark academia/dark comedy where wayward twins try to exorcise their literal demons by blackmailing their way into a prestigious religious academy. Shop your local indie: bookshop.org/p/books/temp...
Temper: A Novel
A Novel
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I read this when it first published in 2018 and it’s still so vivid in my mind. Fantastic novel!
Nicky Drayden@nickydrayden.bsky.social · last mo.You're hot, cranky, and just want to hunker down in the A/C with a good book? Check out Temper, a dark academia/dark comedy where wayward twins try to exorcise their literal demons by blackmailing their way into a prestigious religious academy. Shop your local indie: bookshop.org/p/books/temp...
You're hot, cranky, and just want to hunker down in the A/C with a good book? Check out Temper, a dark academia/dark comedy where wayward twins try to exorcise their literal demons by blackmailing their way into a prestigious religious academy. Shop your local indie: bookshop.org/p/books/temp...
Temper: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
📣📣LAST TWELVE days of the Strange Horizons fund-drive! 📣📣 Very close to our base goal (we're at $20,860/$22,000), in order to continue publishing free, weekly SFF in 2027. To help us get there: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser
The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!
backerkit.com
Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵
Work in progress: Butterfly powered bicycle? I've been having art dreams lately, feels like stealing, but I just take those ideas and bring them to reality. Also super excited for my repositionable glue stick, serious collage game changer!
July Sale! 20% off all VGen services from july 1st to july 31st vgen.co/Cosmicamazon #VGen #art #BRart #commissions #opencommission #artcommission #TTRPG #D&Dcommission #ffxivcommission #occommission #fantasyart #bookart #fantasyromance
Prosper with Dragons is the perfect co-op card game for your summertime game nights! It features amazing art by human artists and a new storyteller mode to ease us into a collective space of imagination! Order now, and befriend dragons by next weekend! 🐉✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
kickstarter.com
Throwback interview!
Jean Marie Ward@jeanmarieward.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn honor of Tuesday and the new releases it brings, I offer you the next installment of new old @BuzzyMag #interviews: #author, #artist, & #gamedesigner @nickydrayden.bsky.social recorded at Balticon 2019. Enjoy! youtu.be/YDirx4g45H8 #sf #fantasy #austin #southafrica
These books rule, in case anyone is wondering.
Nicky Drayden@nickydrayden.bsky.social · 2mo ago✨ Happy Pride! ✨ Read my weird gay books so I can write weirder, gayer books! 🌈📖 The Prey of Gods: Gay teen gets superpowers and teams up with his robot to save the world. Escaping Exodus: Heir to a space matriarchy falls in love with her working class BFF. Maybe some tentacle things happen. 🐙
✨ Happy Pride! ✨ Read my weird gay books so I can write weirder, gayer books! 🌈📖 The Prey of Gods: Gay teen gets superpowers and teams up with his robot to save the world. Escaping Exodus: Heir to a space matriarchy falls in love with her working class BFF. Maybe some tentacle things happen. 🐙
Austin Folks! I'll be at the ATX Book Fair this Saturday morning at Ani's Day & Night selling books and bookish things if you're in the market for weird fiction or weird art! 📚 Read banned books!
TEMPER: What if everyone is born a twin with the seven deadly sins split between them? Perfect for lovers of dark academia and dark fantasy. (And honestly, peak Nicky Drayden dark humor as well.) www.harpercollins.com/products/tem...
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarket and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.
TEMPER: What if everyone is born a twin with the seven deadly sins split between them? Perfect for lovers of dark academia and dark fantasy. (And honestly, peak Nicky Drayden dark humor as well.) www.harpercollins.com/products/tem...
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarket and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.
It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!
The Dragon Has Some Complaints
Check out The Dragon Has Some Complaints - <b>"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of te...
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I don't know what I'm doing, but I now have an Etsy shop for Prosper with Dragons! Excited to see who my first customer will be! 😅 www.etsy.com/listing/4524...
I don't know what I'm doing, but I now have an Etsy shop for Prosper with Dragons! Excited to see who my first customer will be! 😅 www.etsy.com/listing/4524...