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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The #LICAF Lakeside Comics Marketplace is about to open! Here's today's signing schedule with us at SelfMadeHero! @RickardSisters.com @comicartfestival.bsky.social #indiecomics #licaf2025 #comiccon #graphicnovels #publishing #comics

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Remember, the #MyDadFightsDemons launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social is TODAY at 7PM! @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social Remember, you can pre-order from Gosh! here: buff.ly/85nOEo3 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #booklaunch #publishing #newcomics

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So, #ThisSlavery is coming out tomorrow - but, @RickardSisters.com, what's it all about? 🔗 buff.ly/ufVrYSX #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #publishing #newbook

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#ThisSlavery's original cover might have been a bit more... direct about the book's themes... Find the cover by the @rickardsisters.com on bookshop shelves on 11/09! (North America: October 7th!) 🔗 buff.ly/eCQdGoV #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics #publishing

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A joyous bit of news. EXTREMOPHILE made the shortlist for The Dragon Awards @dragoncon.org The rest of the shortlist is, well, intimidating awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/

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2025 Ballot – The Dragon Award

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Did you know? @garethbrookes.bsky.social's #TheDancingPlague helped inspire the album Dance Fever by Florence and the Machine! 🔗 buff.ly/x5sAJou #selfmadehero #florenceandthemachine #thecompleatangler #indiecomics

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thank you to everyone who attended #TheCompleatAngler's launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social last week! From @garethbrookes.bskt.social and the SelfMadeHero team: happy angling! 🎣🎣🎣 🔗 buff.ly/3xFurgv (📷: Mauricio Molizane de Souza) #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel #booklaunch #angling

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Amazing to see #LOW: Bowie's Berlin Years by @reinhardkleist.bsky.social on Hive's top 20 bestseller list! Thank you all for reading! 🔗 buff.ly/Z3vaOOF #selfmadehero #davidbowie #reinhardkleist #indiecomics #musichistory #bestseller

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Andreane @andreanerellou.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

You have 43 hours left to support THE THREE GRACES period drama short film! We're 107% funded, which is absolutely incredible!! If you're yet to donate and wish to support us reach our stretch goals in order to make the film even better, you can do so here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

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Andreane @andreanerellou.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Kickstarter campaign for THE THREE GRACES is now LIVE! Donate & share if you can, it would mean the world to me! We have only 30 days to raise the funds to bring this beautiful period film to life 💖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

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THE THREE GRACES | a Victorian short film

Three Greek female artists shake up 1860s London as they pursue their artistic careers alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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jacobspeaking.bsky.social @jacobspeaking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

(I also did lend my voice to the start of the promo video, so #voiceover I guess!)

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jacobspeaking.bsky.social @jacobspeaking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Three Graces were a trio of Anglo-Greek artists and models whose emergence changed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the London art scene forever. But, nowadays, they're only remembered as the likenesses of princesses, fairies, spirits - something this film seeks to correct!

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jacobspeaking.bsky.social @jacobspeaking.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#TheThreeGraces is a new Victorian-era period drama comedy written by and featuring @andreanerellou.bsky.social, and the kickstarter just went live TODAY! 🔗 kck.st/4jeLQqP #perioddrama #kickstarter #victorian #filmmaking #preraphaelite

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Andreane @andreanerellou.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’m working on a period drama short this summer, which is my passion project THE THREE GRACES, alongside director Nicole Sarah Fry. It's on pre-launch on Kickstarter, and If you’re interested you can sign up for updates here before we launch on April 3rd! www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

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Coming soon: THE THREE GRACES | a Victorian short film

Three Greek female artists shake up 1860s London as they pursue their artistic careers alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Andreane @andreanerellou.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also re: THE THREE GRACES, my Pre-Raphaelite inspired Victorian short film, you can find out more on our instagram page here: www.instagram.com/thethreegrac...

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Andreane @andreanerellou.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Do you love period dramas? The Pre-Raphaelites, perhaps? Or simply wish to help a team of passionate filmmakers bring THE THREE GRACES to life? You can help us by signing up for the pre-launch of our Kickstarter campaign simply by clicking here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What happens when a Starman burns out? Reinhard Kleist's #LOW follows #DavidBowie’s escape from LA to West Berlin, and delves deep into his recording sessions at Hansa Studios. But will Ziggy Stardust ever let Bowie go? 🔗 selfmadehero.com/books/low-bowie-s-berlin-years #selfmadehero #indiecomics

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's a long shot but hey. EXTREMOPHILE is eligible for the Hugo Awards- considering chucking it a vote! You know why

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thursday is the gorgeous paperback release of EXTREMOPHILE from @headofzeus.bsky.social Biopunk eocterrorism! 80's pulp violence, corpo espionage, climate collapse, anarchic hope-punk! There is a person with chisel fingers and twin uzis. There is (light) cannibalism 🤷 geni.us/extremophile

yellow paperback cover of EXTREMOPHILE novel by Ian Green

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

dream casting of THE GAUNTLET AND THE FIST BENEATH! Floré- Katy O'Brian. Jacked, punches monsters, also emotional raaaaaange Janos- John Boyega. Sad poet, charming enough you forget he is a war criminal Benazir- Ana Sawai. Thinks you are an idiot, wants to throw a knife at your head Thoughts?

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Paperback of EXTREMOPHILE is out next week with @headofzeus.bsky.social ! Pick it up everywhere cool. This book is a beauty, if you read it in public cool sexy people will be drawn to you geni.us/extremophile

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

This weekend only! 25% off preorders of the EXTREMOPHILE paperback #WPpreorders with code PREORDER25 @waterstones.bsky.social Look at that funky cover www.waterstones.com/book/extremo...

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It is SFF awards season. My eligibility for most of them is novel, EXTREMOPHILE- an ecoterrorist biopunk thriller that is very violent and sweary and beautiful ❤️ Consider a nomination! Shit why not leave a review somewhere too. Hell, buy a copy geni.us/extremophile

Stylised cover of novel EXTREMOPHILE by Ian green with text wrapped around DNA, zodiac signs, a guitar, and dandelions. Text alongside cover reads kill the ghost, steal the flower, save the world

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Finding someone to be strange with - what else is Valentine's Day for? 🖤🦇🖤🦇 🖌️: #Edifice by Andrzej Klimowski 🔗 buff.ly/3QBWZWB #selfmadehero #Valentinesday2025 #indiecomics #surrealism #andrzejklimowski #nosferatu #romance #graphicnovels

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The all powerful @locusmag.bsky.social has noticed that hey, EXTREMOPHILE was selected as one of Financial Times' best SFF books of 2024 Because it rocks. If you don't trust me, trust the big pink newspaper locusmag.com/2025/02/best...

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Best SFF of 2024: Financial Times

For 2024, the Financial Times featured several genre books across their best-of lists in various categories. FT’s Science Fiction List (includes fantasy): The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to th…

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Extremophile is eligible for your nomination/vote in most of the decent SFF awards this year. If you liked it, all support appreciated Direct action punk book about finding hope in disaster 🙇

Cover of the book EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green

Interior board of the hardback EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green showing a dandelion in gold

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Extremophile made the longlist for the BSFA awards 2024. Thanks for all who put it forward. Some terrifying/wonderful names Members can vote until the end of feb to set the shortlist! Win? I'll release the pig POV (or should that be if it loses?) #BSFAAwards2024 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In 1976, Bowie escaped his frantic, drug-fuelled life in Los Angeles for the Wall of the divided city of Berlin... From Reinhard Kleist, #Low: Bowie's Berlin Years arrives on May 22nd! (North America: July 8th) 🔗 buff.ly/4aCkgRi #davidbowie #selfmadehero #indiecomics #reinhardkleist

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay, the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau. #AdieuBirkenau is the story of holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka - we sat down for a Q&A with its co-author Victor Matet. 🔗 buff.ly/4h8mdqU #WWII #remembrance #ginettekolinka

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"I try to work in a stream of consciousness, not fully knowing where my drawings and words will take me. Every new book is an adventure, a journey." - #AndrzejKlimowski in the latest @Fictionable.bsky.social 📣 ! ☁️☁️☁️ 🔗 buff.ly/3PGwD5d #Edifice #selfmadehero #indiecomics #newcomics

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My first novel The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath got a wicked lightning sprayed edge from @goldsborobooks.bsky.social Book 2/3 weren't so lucky, BUT, a dedicated reader made their own versions for BURNING BLADE/BROKEN CHAIN. (Torchlightreader on IG) They are so, so, so cool

Rotstorm trilogy by Ian Green with custom sprayed edges- lightning, flame, and broken chain for books 1-3 respectively

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"#ThomasGirtin is a wonderful tale about the discovery of art, self-discovery, and discovering more about friends and loved ones." Read From Cover to Cover's new review of #OscarZarate's masterpiece here! 🔽🔽🔽 🔗 buff.ly/3DYnKBr #selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovels #comics

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"That strange cloud is back..." #Edifice arrives in North America in 1 WEEK! ☁️ ☁️ ☁️ 🔗 buff.ly/4gJ9QS0 #selfmadehero #indiecomics #andrzejklimowski #newcomics #surrealism

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jacobspeaking.bsky.social @jacobspeaking.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I got to go on BBC Radio London with the very kind @kmelandri.bsky.social this morning to talk about the 2025 #FirstGraphicNovelAward! Go to bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kbr392 at the 2:18 mark to hear me mumble! @selfmadehero.bsky.social @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #indiecomics

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

BSFA awards longlist nominations close Jan 15th! My cyberpunk novel EXTREMOPHILE is eligible, if any members fancy nominating you have my thanks Experimental clifi biopunk action! I mean, I liked it @bsfa.bsky.social

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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Dragons. 2 legs or 4? As a biologist I've always liked a 4 legger- it implies a magical source, something outside of our evolution and utterly other Wyrvens are cool etc. But I can't get as excited for ASOIAF dragons compared to Smaug or Orm Embar What do you think? Send dragon pics plz

Picture of a 4 legged dragon by Charles Vess (Tehanu frontispiece, 2016)

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉🎉🎉 Remember, submissions for the 2024 #FirstGraphicNovelAward open in 1 week! Come meet the judges and celebrate the launch on January 15th at Waterstones Piccadilly! 🔗 buff.ly/4gs04DW @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #FGNA #FGNA2024 #FGN #indiecomics

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Give the gift of graphic novels! Our curated gift packs bring you more #SelfMadeHero titles for less! HOW TO Saturdays, find Pete's book stall in Broadway Market on London Fields, E8 (by Franco Manca 🍕)! OR email us at ➡️ info@selfmadehero.com ⬅️ with your chosen packs and postal address!

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Are you a graphic novelist looking to make your published debut? The First Graphic Novel Award is back for 2025 thanks to Arts Council England!📚🖌 ✨Submissions open January 9th!✨ 🔗http://firstgraphicnovel.co.uk @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social #firstgraphicnovelaward #FGNA2025 #FGNA

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