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G. D. Penman

@gdpenman.bsky.social
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Fantasy author. Internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed, so cool, so sexy etc. www.gdpenman.com

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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 4h
My darling wife purchased some new pillows for our bed. Pillows that seem to be mostly empty. A single layer of feathers spread flat across the inside. It was like laying my head down on a crisp packet. Needless to say, I am well rested.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want these on my shelves, so I guess I need to wait for the new paperbacks in January, but my goodness, don't they look gorgeous.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are a Stranger Things fan (sorry) and you need a name for a cat, please consider "Shady Slink."
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was lucky enough to read an early draft of this book a million or so years ago, well worth a look if you want something a little different from the usual historical fantasy fare.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Horror fans really are eating well at the moment. Across all media. Meanwhile I look through award shortlists for fantasy and I recognise nobody and nothing interesting.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reasons my wife believes I am a haunting: 1. Meticulous knowledge of the past, little awareness of the present. 2. Mysterious smells drifting through the house. 3. Strange whispering in the dead of night.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A squirrel just casually strolled by my feet as I was having a smoke. I think I just won today and I haven't even started yet.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reality Fracture prerelease is today. It feels like someone at Hasbro saw all the multiverse nonsense Marvel movies were doing to alienate fans and decided they wanted in on it. That said; I am a sucker for the alternate universe version of evil characters as good, dragons as sphynx etc. #mtg
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As October draws ever nearer, I have begun assembling a collection of films and books of the spooky variety, to indulge in.
It's ween
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wriggly Ever After, the sequel to goblin-road-trip-comedy Wriggly Little Hands is out today, if you need a little joy in your lives. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Wriggly Ever After book cover.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our local antique store has a genuine Morrocan fez. It is calling to me like the Green Goblin mask. Anyway, the group chat immediately began savaging me.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The microwave in our house has gone unused for so long it has become French.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Has anyone written a Mr Beast werewolf AU yet, or do I have to do everything myself?
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ah, I believe I understand. In their efforts to make him 'Mackle' less, they have instead caused him to 'Mackle' more. Yes?
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Hector of Judgement is upon ye.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How I imagined playing my Radagast deck would go: cute woodland critters jumping out to save me from certain doom. How it actually went: the wrath of gaia, last march of the ents, bearpocalypse now.
Radagast Magic the Gathering Card
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am a simple man. I see people smoking on my historical detective shows; I want a smoke.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My wrists were bound by a witch's snake familiar. Unfortunately it had the tensile strength of a snake, rather than a rope, so I pulled it off and threw it at her. Snake-ropes: cool but impractical.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it possible for me, a middle aged, balding, fat, fantasy author, to take a sword off the wall and annihilate every single person on the planet just because I have been mildly inconvenienced? No. But you can't give up on your tantrums just because they are impossible.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Invested in a year long subscription to Dropout tv. That should help shore up the crumbling walls of my sanity.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good morning! This week I have been reading Beneath the Moors by Brian Lumley. I think he is greatly underrated, because his work doesn't neatly file into a niche, and tends to be led by its high concepts. Like someone transplanted a 70s scifi author brain into an 80s horror author's body.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When they say all dogs go to heaven, they cannot possibly be including chihuahuas. They are going... elsewhere. [This message posted in loving memory of when nobody woke me up by biting my face.]
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But not for long
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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here it is! The cover for The Sport of Wings, publishing 16 October 2026. ARCs available: sign up here: anna-stephens.com/.../arc-sign... and pre-orders soon. Please share with anyone who would enjoy a fantasy romance full of high stakes dragon racing, rags to riches, and a forbidden relationship.
Cover of The Sport of Wings, featuring a bold black and red background with filigree and roses in the corners and a black dragon in the centre, above the book title.
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
learning to effectively withhold information is a skill, and a valuable one. plus, you can't figure out your style & preferences (not some reader's preferences. *yours*) if you're too afraid to explore, assess, & learn. get your hands dirty!
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Purchased a small lemon tree for cocktail related purposes. Spent all summer (when she is meant to thrive in our bitter country) withering and dying. Now it is getting cooler she has sprouted a whole new wardrobe of leaves. ???
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can we please get a defensive formation assembled around John Waters?
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Good morning! Just finished reading the trio of vampire novellas in "Walk Among Us." Cass Khaw and Caitlin Starling both did incredible work, and I can't recommend their stories enough. Absolutely nailed the unique horrors of the setting while still saying something new and interesting.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Cat bringing a dead mouse in: Bad. Cat bringing a live mouse in: Worse Cat bringing a live mouse in and delivering it directly to the chihuahua: supervillain level evil.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I watched "Return to Silent Hill" over the weekend. It was a genuinely strange movie. Recreating elements from the game shot for shot while also trying to tell its own version of the story. Asked way too much of the main actors. Not sure anyone working today could have carried it.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Did a meteor kill the dinosaurs? No. It was me. They were loud as fuck and I am trying to write.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Time to start a fight. FUCK | MARRY | KILL
Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Have some chuckles
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
MONKEY!!!
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dog
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm not a tech guy, but when smoke started coming out the charging port of my phone, I decided it might be time to get a new phone.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today's mood:
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Beignet soup
African bullfrog in a pool
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 10/08/2026
"The primary purpose of any legitimate enterprise is to fill a need—& there is a need of making certain old-time weird material available for a new generation of readers who could not otherwise gain access to it." —H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, 29 July 1936, LPS 248
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Hobbit prerelease today! I am talking about Magic the Gathering, not that thing that happened to Bilbo that one time when Thorin took his shirt off. That happens to everyhobbit sometimes, and is nothing to be ashamed about. Please don't tell the other dwarves.
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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Writing is truly the Dark Souls of creative disciplines. 1. You do it alone. 2. It is hard. 3. The Gaping Dragon is here.
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