Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Made a little graphic to show what's in my novel. Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them. However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book. All Objects' significance is guaranteed. 020
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera... or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the... Print edition is coming in the next couple of days. 2112
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025RAIN IN THE DESERT, the free prequel to my novel, is now available. The mercenaries of Sparrow Company are trapped in the desert, bound by honour to serve a cruel master. But when a rain cloud appears in the distance, their luck might be about to change... Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/ 010
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 16/02/2025My fantasy novel HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is now available for preorder! It's got: 🔔 scheming monks 🗡️ deadbeat mercenaries 🌊 floodwaters 🦘 Australian landscapes 🦜 birds. so many birds Sounds interesting? Get it here: books2read.com/houseofthera... 131
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I can finally show off the cover of my novel! HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood. It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR 130
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Watched YES, MADAM (1985) last night. Absolutely insane fight scenes and amazing outfits for Yeoh and Rothrock. Adding this to the canon of "live action movies where people act like Looney Tunes characters", alongside Lemonade Joe and Hundreds of Beavers 041
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Why does every Vietnamese book cover look fucking awesome? 120
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 15/01/2025love this footnote in Moby-Dick where Melville absolutely rips into dugongs 030
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/2024#3: Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant novels. Specifically, I admired the way Dickinson depicts third-gender people in a way that's grounded in their own fictional culture. Lethe's experience of gender fluidity in "Another Tide" is strongly influenced by this. 110
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/2024#2: The rockpools on the Mornington Peninsula. Peering into seaweed-choked pools, looking at bright red crabs and sea anemones, I imagined this stony landscape stretching on for hundreds of miles. This became the setting of "Another Tide". 110
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 22/11/20243 inspirations for my novelette "Another Tide": #1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic. 152
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 14/04/2024my favourite scenes from King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) 073
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 08/02/2024New acquisitions: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) by Doris Lessing; and Gloriana (1978) by Michael Moorcock 010
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/02/2024Now reading: The Birthgrave (1975) by Tanith Lee 000
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/11/2023This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination. 000
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 02/11/2023This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination. 000
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Trying to start a new household tradition of watching a classic cartoon short before the feature presentation. Tonight: Hell's Bells (1929) followed by The Wild Bunch (1969) 020
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 15/09/2023at this airbnb one of the books they used to 'style' the room is "The Atlas of Haematology", which contains nothing but page after page of beautiful terrifying photos of blood 020
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 12/09/2023cursed image spotted on melbourne tram this morning 011
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 03/09/2023this is some real pieter breugel landscape with the fall of icarus shit 000
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 03/09/2023doing a where's wally jigsaw with the missus and just noticed that it depicts the very moment of a rollercoaster crash that will kill, conservatively, two dozen people 110
Will Greatwich @gnipahellir.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Just finished reading this. Absolutely bone-crunching descriptions of hell & demons interspersed with a lot of tedious blather 100