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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 23/09/2026

2nd book is in my editors hands, he assures me we're on track for a November finish to his side of things. So I'll be pushing for ARC readers and looking to drop it in December I guess. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 02/09/2026

When the imprint actually takes the time to read your book and give actual feedback that amounts to "just isn't the kinda grimdark we want." What, no form letter? A rejection email like a kiss... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 16/05/2026

Tenses. The authors eternal dilemma. 1st person past? 1st person present? Arrgghh... #cyberpunk #splatterpunk #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 08/05/2026

Just finished my self editing process for a short story I plan on submitting to Hellbound Books. Now its off to my beta readers, then to submit. #cyberpunk #splatterpunk #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore @hellboundbooks.bsky.social

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 02/05/2026

Someone -SERIOUSLY- needs to set up an "anti-AI" version of Fiverr. This is ridiculous. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 07/04/2026

mayhemic.bandcamp.com/album/toba Chilean speed-thrash in the vein of old Kreator. Not breaking new ground, but dialed the fuck in and executed with extreme passion and conviction. Superb. #metal #speedmetal #thrashmetal #metalbandcamp #metalsky

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TOBA, by Mayhemic

8 track album

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 03/04/2026

'Topical' goes bad faster than bananas. Thats why *most* of the jokes in Airplane! don't land anymore (geddit? eeeyyy) With this in mind, its something authors writing fiction should really avoid. Topical is the enemy of timeless. #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller 💙📚🪐

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 29/03/2026

I'm honestly almost kinda mad at how much I'm enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl. It's so self indulgent, the premise is so incredibly stupid- but I'm completely fucking hooked despite those facts. #fantasy #booksky #author #storyteller #litRPG 💙📚🪐

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 19/10/2025

On the one hand, a 5-star review of my book is much appreciated. On the other hand, creating an account using my dead fathers name to do so is seriously fucked up. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 04/10/2025

Hellbound Books Anthology of Extreme Horror is out! My short story, "Show Your Work" is included! hellboundbookspublishing.com/extremeantho... #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐#horror #gore @hellboundbooks.bsky.social

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 29/09/2025

...I think you can buy my book on Amazon now? In paperback I mean, its been up there as a digital purchase since it was first published. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 06/09/2025

Just matched the number of chapters between my first novel and its sequel, with at least a dozen more to go. Hope I can find a publisher, DIY is a hassle. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky #vancouver #canada #author #storyteller #splatterpunk 💙📚🪐

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 05/09/2025

Tearsheet from my mini-interview in Absolute Underground, the Ozzy tribute issue. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller #metal

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 05/07/2025

Tomorrow, Sunday July 6th, I'll be joining the Comix & Stories gathering of local creators- authors, illustrators, weavers of worlds. If you're in the Vancouver area, come on in and check it out! @vancomicon.bsky.social #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐 #vancouver #author #storyteller

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 09/06/2025

If CONAN is doom metal for death metal fans, then MOTHER IRON HORSE is for sure stoner metal for death metal fans. Excellent energy and crunch. motherironhorse.bandcamp.com/track/old-ma... #metalsky #music #metal #heavymetal #doom #doommetal #stonermetal

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Old Man Satan, by Mother Iron Horse

from the album Under The Blood Moon

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 23/05/2025

To think, it was only about 7 months ago that my editor said "you should write a book", and now here it is on bookstore shelves. The bookstore is Cross & Crows in Vancouver. First I approached, first to accept, first to shelf. #grimdark #darkfantasy #booksky 💙📚🪐

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 22/05/2025

First print run of paperbacks in hand. Shipping these is murder. Friggin' Canada Post... Makes it hard to empathize with their impending strike. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 19/05/2025

Still in need of some reviews out there for my book. Anyone active on goodreads or blogs, etc-- want a copy? Free ePub, or trade paperback for shipping only. Email me- zombosis with an at and a gmail and a dot and a com. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 01/05/2025

Doing pre-orders for physical copies of my book. Fire me an email to discuss payment and shipping, etc. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 23/04/2025

My first ever review, from the Indigo website. Plus, I don't actually know who wrote it, so that's a plus! #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 21/04/2025

I get wanting to be aware of world events... but several authors I love, their social media is insufferable. 3 or 4 posts a day, every day, ALL DOOM, ALL THE TIME. Ceaseless politics and negativity. Its fucking draining. Talk about your books or some shit. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 18/04/2025

I guess I can officially refer to myself as an author now. Proof copy turned out pretty much spot on. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 14/04/2025

Throwback to that time I was in US Magazine, so I had it framed, but then all my clients seemed to think I was obsessed with the Depp/Heard divorce. Womp womp.

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 12/04/2025

Just won my first short story contest! (It sounds more impressive than it is. 400 to 700 words in an /r/grimdark reddit contest in which there were 4 winners splitting the prize and only about 7 entrants total...) Still... Yay me? 🤪 #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 10/04/2025

Just finishing up the second of two short stories I'm planning on sending to @hellboundbooks.bsky.social for consideration in their anthologies. Don't think I'll revisit this corridor of horror again anytime soon though. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 05/04/2025

Oh man... awkward finding out Whispers of the Storm by ZB Steele and Tears of the Moon by Jackson Simiana both use the same font on their book covers that my cover artist used on Bones Before Fortune. Meeeep. 😬 #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 05/04/2025

If you're a blogger/reviewer, hit me up. Looking to get eyes in front of my book. Need feedback to grow, y'all. Read and review my dark, violent tales in a world where the power of magic is derived from pain! (Uplifting stuff, mmyep.) #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 04/04/2025

Got rejected by my first review blogger today. Hooray I guess? At least she gave me a note and didn't ghost me. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 03/04/2025

What review sites or blogs are worth approaching for submitting my book for review? I've only tried Grimdark Magazine so far, but I don't think they're interested. Recommendations, please. #booksky 📚🪐💙 #grimdark #darkfantasy

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 02/04/2025

I listened to this on steady repeat for at least the first third of the writing process for my book. Doom metal for death metal fans. I hope the tone of it seeped into the book, I mean... that was my intention. youtu.be/FxyOm6_lq4E?... 📚🪐💙 #metalsky #doommetalsky

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CONAN - Live at Tyrant Fest 2022

YouTube video by TYRANT FEST

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 01/04/2025

Dot-ca over Dot-com, Kobo before Kindle, BookVault because they have a print-press here. Im not jingoistic, I just want to do what little I can to prop up my country. #Canada #booksky 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 01/04/2025

Design used for my band, The Blade Itself -Yes, named after Abercrombies book. I'm no bandwagon-hopper when it comes to my love of #grimdark #metalsky

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 01/04/2025

We're all in the same boat, thousands of authors who (just like me) are hoping, hustling, praying... for that one break, that one fateful *snap* of luck that catches the greater publics eye. "Validate me, senpai!" we cry out, desperate for praise and enough sales to pay a bill or two. #booksky 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 31/03/2025

The pacing of a book release is different from a music release. Seems more naturally languid, like it can just build and build. With an album, its all about frenetic momentum and capitalizing as fast as you can, before its forgotten and yesterdays news. #booksky 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 30/03/2025

I think they should just be honest and re-name it "Goodreads/Badreviews". (Honestly kinda looking forward to the scathing roasts by armchair critics coming my way. Rite of passage, I guess?) #booksky 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 29/03/2025

Day one sales of seven copies! I know who at least two of those went to, but still... Woot! And thats just via Kobo, once it clears through Kindle and D2D, who knows how luxurious my newfound rich-dude lifestyle will get? #booksky 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 28/03/2025

For your Friday enjoyment-- My first novel, Bones Before Fortune, is up on Kobo, should be up on Kindle any second. For fans of grimdark and splatterpunk, its a dark and violent tale. 📚🪐💙 www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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Bones Before Fortune ebook by Keith Durocher - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Bones Before Fortune" by Keith Durocher available from Rakuten Kobo. Setioch, commander of the dying Warfire Brotherhood, has a problem. A psychotic campaign of conquest is rolling over the...

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 28/03/2025

ePubs submitted to KOBO and Kindle, just awaiting approval. Meeeep 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 25/03/2025

I'm self-publishing because I'm impatient. I don't have time to crawl on my knees, pleading for the mercy of the publishing house machine. I figure, if my work is as good as I think it is, publishers can come to me. I'd rather be courted than beg. 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 25/03/2025

The final manuscript is currently being formatted for ePub and MOBI. Hope I can get the physical print run done soon. I'm so eager to release this novel, to feed those who love dark and brutal fantasy. 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 21/03/2025

Final manuscript back from my editor. ISBNs assigned, all attribution and copyright notices applied... all that remains now is formatting, and... publish. Then, what, profit I guess? HA! 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 18/03/2025

Couple little bammers on a seriously interesting client who comes to see me once a year, all the way from Norway. Marquesas Islands fish and Waster islands Moai bust. #tattoo #marquesas #moai

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 17/03/2025

The publication of my first novel, Bones Before Fortune, inches closer and closer. Its followup, Seven Crowns of Rust, marches steadily forward. I just want to make Abercrombie, Butcher, Buehlman, Erikson, and King proud. I owe them all so much. 📚🪐💙

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 16/03/2025

Trying to find new clients when everyone is broke... good times, good times. 🤘😎 #tattoo #vancouver

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 15/03/2025

📚🪐💙 My editor tells me I should have my final manuscript in hand today! Im quite curious to know what the feedback on this series will be, good and bad.

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 14/03/2025

It is of critical importance to me that I don't allow myself to be over-self-indulgent with my writing. I avoid cheesy 'deus ex machina', I try to dodge white-guy sexist objectification, I also try not to preach. Just dark, violent, gory escapism.

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Keith Durocher Creative @keithdurocher.ca · 13/03/2025

My editor is taking an unholy amount of time getting through my first book, but I think he might actually have the finish line in sight. Then its off to a formatter and I can finally publish it, albeit in digital format only- for now. Hard copy as soon as I can afford it.

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