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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you were cursed to be a powerful minotaur, would you want to reverse your curse? Some might not. For Horatio, there are few things he wants more—even though success would leave him weaker. 🗡️ Check out The Once-Lord Beast in print and Kindle: mybook.to/TheOnce-Lord... #fantasy #cursed #monster

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it's good when I scare and unsettle myself, even as I write it. (Hopefully that's just a cat I hear outside too.) #fantasyauthor #nothorror #fae

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Once-Lord Beast is a bit Sherlock Holmes - only with a minotaur protagonist and a grounded faerie fantasy setting. 🗡️Check out The Once-Lord Beast here: a.co/d/05zS3eEF #fantasybooks #minotaur #mystery

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's far too late, but I wrote ~3,000 words of the end of the fourth Once-Lord Beast novel. (Now for the beginning-ish and middle-ish.) #writing #outoforder #fantasy

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We are all once-somethings. Once-athletes. Once-wives. Once-husbands. Once-cashiers. Once-friends. What were you, once? 👑 Meet Horatio by getting The Once-Lord Beast on here: a.co/d/fQpobYO #fantasybooks #once #lord #nostalgia

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Moves like that will get you cursed to be a minotaur. Then you'll have to take up monster hunting as you search the world for a cure. Check out The Once-Lord Beast: a.co/d/fQpobYO #fantasybooks #curse #beautyandthebeast #minotaur

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

People see the effects of the curse first. They do not see the mind within. (This statement is not just about cursed minotaurs!) Get The Once-Lord Beast, or read a preview of it, here: a.co/d/04gHtsiJ #fantasybooks #monster #minotaur #curse

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One of the best things about being a minotaur is that you can get a snack in the forest. Check it out on Amazon: a.co/d/08ZHcT1q #minotaur #fantasy #fantasybooks

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Horatio is a cursed minotaur, but he's not the only one under a curse. Men and women who never answered the door to a mysterious woman in a blizzard are under curses of their own. 🗡️ To get The Once-Lord Beast, or check out the first part via Amazon's preview, check the link in my bio.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The USA moving to the metric system would be really bad for fantasy. "The village with the 3-meter-tall ogre is only 10 kilometers away by road" just doesn't have the same ring. And before you say we'd still remember how much a mile and a foot is... how far is a league?

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Saw some products at Hobby Lobby the other day that somewhat reminded me of Horatio the Once-Lord Beast.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

It's a great feeling when you know you've written something excellent. Can't wait to share with you what's coming in the third Horatio the Once-Lord Beast book. But it's coming! (And in the meantime, make sure to pay attention to deer that look a little... off.)

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Just saw the new Toy Story 5 teaser. Looking forward the explanation:

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The proof for my monster-hunting, character-driven fantasy novel will be here Sunday!

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Just requested a proof of my upcoming fantasy novel! You can see part of the cover here. Title reveal to come later. But let's just say it's about a certain minotaur you won't be soon to forget.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I love the concept of fae morality partly because it echoes the way actual moral systems play out in the world. Sometimes the moral codes of others can have a shared seed but utterly alien branches.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

"Who do you text, Simon? It's constant." Decide to read The Deciding Service here: a.co/d/3kTQPvSto

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Get started at Amazon or other booksellers: Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBSN9KFD Other booksellers: books2read.com/redwool

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If my fantasy series interests you, you can begin here at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBSN9KFD Or at other booksellers here: books2read.com/redwool

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

One Amazon reviewer wrote: "This was an amazing short story that's a spin on the classic Red Riding Hood with a twist...the wolf is a werewolf...and there's more twists than that, but to avoid spoilers you'll have to find them out yourself!" Get Red Wool here: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Seriously, need to set a tale about the cursed minotaur Horatio in an environment like this. Setting is important to me, whether a deep forest, a misty land of sparkling black spires, an abandoned manor, or a northern expanse of frost, firs, and unnatural deer...

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I have some sharp disagreements with Ayn Rand, but I still think her book *The Art of Fiction* is one of the most penetrating books on the topic for readers and writers alike. While I think writers can hide their philosophical premises, or even adopt those of another, in general they stand exposed.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

From *The Abolition of Man.* A fantastic little book that discusses emotion and reason working in concert together.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Landscapes like this make me want to set one of my tales about the cursed minotaur Horatio in an intercoastal-like environment of twisted trees, watery prairies, and decapitated palms. For now, Red Wool has a deep forest, and Golden Straw has a strange landscape of mist and sparkling stone spires.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Not dedicated to reading just a single genre by a long shot!

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Working on a manuscript where on this next round of revision one of my goals is to make it more magical, colorful, and even whimsical. That and add a terrifying predatory deer.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Join the cursed minotaur Horatio as he deals with mysteries, fae, monsters, and enchantments as searches for a cure for his own curse. Red Wool: books2read.com/redwool Golden Straw: books2read.com/redwool Direct to Amazon: books2read.com/redwool #fantasy #vocabulary #words #funwithwords

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The meanings of words and terms are driven by usage, and this term is inconveniently used in ways that describe very different experiences. gwbroadhurst.substack.com/p/what-is-da...

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Join the cursed minotaur Horatio as he deals with mysteries, fae, monsters, and enchantments as searches for a cure for his own curse. Red Wool: books2read.com/redwool/ Golden Straw: books2read.com/goldenstraw Direct to Amazon: a.co/d/5h3VO27 #fantasy #littleredridinghood #beautyandthebeast

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Writing book blurbs is probably my least favorite thing. That’s not true. It’s far better than taxes and running, for example.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It’s a wonderful feeling when a difficult scene begins to come together.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I will never admit I am a writer! Never! I was a journalist for six years and now I write fantasy and analytic philosophy, and that’s totally different!

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The billhook. Practical, multi-use, excellent against cavalry, works as a handy staff… and can be cheaply and easily made to equip armies. Was, in fact, an enormously common weapon back in the day - even if all-but-forgotten now. The minotaur protagonist of my fantasy series favors a billhook.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Superman is great. Excellent supporting cast too. Looking forward to their own shows and movies. Can't believe they brought Mister Terrific to the big screen but so excited to see him done so well.

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Grant Walker Broadhurst @gwbroadhurst.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Where can we get Justice Gang t-shirts, @jamesgunn.bsky.social? Asking for a friend. And me.

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