Thomas Sheridan
@thomassheridan.bsky.social
Fantasy writer. Working on a literary dark fantasy about fear, responsibility, and the Dead. M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin https://linktr.ee/Thomas_Sheridan
Big thank you to Team Norncon for a great @norncon.bsky.social . That was a great convention.
Really enjoyed the first #Norncon. Got lots of great bits, including this beautiful edition, along with some great artwork, signed by @annasmithspark.bsky.social
90k words and 75% done with the first draft of my dark literary fantasy WIP “The White Moth” #writesky #booksky #amwriting
Just saw the update to the @norncon.bsky.social lineup includes @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and now I’m trying to figure out if I can fit all three Luna books in the bag for the weekend
Finally Got around to getting my membership for Norncon. First con I’ve managed to get to since Dublin Worldcon
Norncon sff convention, Belfast@norncon.bsky.social · 5mo agoThings are hottjng up as we begin to finalise our programme - have you got your membership yet? Www.norncon.org
Just crossed the 60k mark in my WIP. If I was writing literary fiction I would be done by now. #writesky #booksky #epicfantasy
Reading Infinite Jest and coming to the realisation that DFW was the closest thing to Mervyn Peake modern literature has produced. Both Enfield and Gormenghast are examined to the point of madness, and both are full of characters that are grotesque.
I loved Kaho, published in the New Yorker in 2024, so I’m delighted to hear Murakami’s next novel shares something of that story.
Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
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Loved this essay on Cheever and the New Yorker by @naokan.bsky.social. Reading long literary essays like this are like revisiting those arguments I had back when I was an MFA student. #booksky www.woman-of-letters.com/p/money-and-...
The New Yorker offered him a deal
Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever.
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Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.
Grimdark Magazine@grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s The Face of the King. Al Barclay (Slow Horses, Deep Cover, The Crown) breathes new creative life into this brilliant dark fantasy story.
A map of the main setting for my novel; the City of Night after the Fall. The remnants of the Nightfolk live on one side of the canal while the other is ruled by the Kinless and the Dead. #booksky #amwriting #worldbuilding
Yesterday I finished the first draft of Part One of my novel: Part I. The Swift Descent of the Sun 30k words done. 100k to go. #booksky #amwriting
Great insight into one of the best to ever do it from her own son. Of particular insight is the point that she was capable of changing and understanding how she had changed (in a way few others are able to or willing to do.)
Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”
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VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella with modern sensibilities (and genderless frog-people(; 35k words currently in late stages of revision DMs open to beta readers/swappers, agents, small presses etc.
Ooh, if fantasy murder mysteries in a deeply weird city with an oddball but loveable cast is your thing, Looks like MORTEDANT'S PERIL is up on Netgalley. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Mortedant's Peril
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“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
The existential fear of leaving an Excel cell blank can be the greatest tool in a writer’s arsenal.
Only one writing goal this year: finish the first draft of The City of Night. 16k in, so c. 110k to go
Nick Badot@nickbadot.bsky.social · 7mo agoBeen struggling to do much of anything lately...so I think my goals should be modest: - edit the sword and sorcery novella I drafted in 2025 and maybe query it if it has legs - 5-6 flash/short story publications (less than this year) - write something for the Apex flash fiction contest each month
Best fantasy reads of 2025 for me: No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social Fugitive Prince by @jannywurts.bsky.social Written on the Dark and Under Heaven by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Blade of Dreams by @abraham.bsky.social
Another map from my WIP “The City of Night.” This one shows the city itself and its hinterlands, where the greatest concentration of the remnant Nightfolk make their homes. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #maps
The map for my epic fantasy WIP “The City of Night.” Ce Nattad after the Fall
The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”