Scott Oden
@orcwriter.bsky.social
Author of THE GRIMNIR SAGA, and the award-winning collection of S&S/heroic historicals, OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES. History geek, armchair antiquarian. He/him. Tips appreciated: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T76DGUDKSEWGG
Question for #BookSky: with the throttling of social media via enshittification, is it *crucial* for a writer to have a social media presence, these days? Or can we just get by with a simple blog, perhaps?
If anyone is having a Medici moment, feeling particularly patron-esque, I will leave this link here for you: www.paypal.com/donate/?host... Now, back to the mental ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . . .
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Turns out, I need a series S&S character and that hateful old sot, Grimnir, still has tales to tell . . . open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
Speaking of Hate . . .
Time to go back to the well.
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Absolutely lovely review of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES by @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy! robinmarx.writeas.com/review-old-g...
Review – Old Gods and Other Tales by Scott Oden
This review is a Writing Repository original. Old Gods and Other Tales By Scott Oden – Independently Published – August 28, 2025 Rev...
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A great need + empty purse = that blind old rat in the cartoons, with his dark glasses and tin cup . . . ko-fi.com/K3K72OC14
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With Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY on the near horizon, here's your chance to read my own take on Odysseus and the myth of Polyphemus, the savage Cyclops! py.pl/1Il5O2
Xenia in the Court of the Winds - epub
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Sometimes, I need a reminder about WHAT drives the best fiction: open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
The Engine of Rage
Emotion and Writing
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The whole thread, but this in particular. 15 editors got played because an AI ticked off the right demographic boxes, rather than because they'd written a quality story (don't @ me . . . it's AI, so it's not quality by definition).
Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 4w agoIf what you really want is a story with a marginalized author's name on it that still sounds exactly like a white dude who went to Clarion, then LLMs are tailor-made to feed you exactly what you want.
Getting back into the groove with The Venetian! open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
Forging Ahead
The Venetian Continues . . .
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Reposting for the evening crowd. The grapes won't peel themselves, you know . . .
Scott Oden@orcwriter.bsky.social · last mo.The Tip Jar is out, if anyone is feeling the urge to keep their friendly neighborhood writer stocked with peeled grapes and snow-cooled fruit juice (actually, vegan meat and coconut milk): www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
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LAST CHANCE! The Dancing with the Lion Duology is now only $3.99! By Dr. Jeanne Reames - @mathetria.bsky.social. Link: riptidepublishing.com/products/dan...
In the middle of working on a long-term project -- a first-person account of the Fall of Acre -- and I start to get this itchy "need to finish something" feeling. Thinking about revisiting old discarded short story manuscripts to see what I can salvage and work on, to finish *something*.
Thought I'd share a page where you can get direct-from-the-author digital copies of my books. Click the title of each one and it will take you to Paypal. scottoden.wordpress.com/books-by-sco...
Some old man has possessed my camera! open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
Portrait of the Artist at Fifty-nine
Taking Stock . . .
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It's my birthday eve! As I enter the last year of my fifth decade, I find myself reflecting on that period where I wrote 60-odd cozy short stories in the space of a year . . . open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
And Now, Something A Little Different
An Odd Re-share . . .
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I envy writers who can write anywhere. I need a carefully curated space, incense, and certain kinds of music . . . open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
The Sacred Space
Or, Why I'm Not a Cafe Writer
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Re-sharing this one because *waves at hellscape world* open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
A Tin Cup and Dark Glasses
Sometimes, You Just Have To Stand On The Digital Street-corner
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OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES -- Author Edition EPUB
From the dust of ancient battlefields to the fluorescent glow of modern cubicles, the eternal dramas of human nature play out across eleven unforgettable tales. In Byzantine halls where emperors fall...
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Found out last night that my collection, Old Gods and Other Tales, won the Costigan award from the REH Foundation, presented at Howard Days in Cross Plains, TX. From the website:
At nearly 2000 words in, I think it's safe to say that the new book is underway! open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
And So, It Begins . . .
The Venetian (title subject to change without notice)
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Why do we keep losing the good ones, but the bad ones soldier on like the world's most unwanted arse-boil?
My second novel, Memnon, turns 20 this year. I'mma going to need to sit with this a bit . . . open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
MEMNON: 2006-2026
My Second Novel Turns Twenty . . .
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