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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 07/08/2025

The Beloved SFF Sale begins! Grab dozens of great books, that have all been highly recommended! My novella, "A Matter of Execution" was one of them! Give the goblin airship captain and this heist a try for 0.99$ ! talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025... #BookSky #indiebooks #indieauthors

A backdrop of dozens of SFF book covers with the words: EPIC SALE OF BELOVED SFF 2025, Aug 7-11th, Over 100 Recommended Books on Sale, Free or $0.99

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 06/08/2025

Folks: we received the latest dummy copy of the special edition of "Echoes of the Imperium" and it is absolutely flipping stunning. Look at it. LOOK AT IT! Absolutely living for those endpapers ❤️ I can't wait to hold the final copy in my hands. I long to see the map and character art!

Special edition of "Echoes of the Imperium" with brown faux-leather hardcover, teal and silver foil, and teal ribbon bookmark, laid out atop a map with a compass and sabre laid out nearby.

Special edition of "Echoes of the Imperium" with brown faux-leather hardcover, teal and silver foil, and teal ribbon bookmark, displaying the compass rose sprayed edges.

Special edition of "Echoes of the Imperium" with brown faux-leather hardcover, teal and silver foil, and teal ribbon bookmark. The book is open, revealing the rigging, flintlock, tricorne and blackbird endpapers peppered with ornamental cogs.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 14/07/2025

A sample of some of the audiobooks on sale! I thoroughly enjoyed @jbensonink.bsky.social's "Fire in the Glass", but her "Empire of Shadows" is part of a series that is a love letter to fans of "The Mummy" and "Indiana Jones".

Fantasy Audiobooks Sale banner with the following titles: The Fire in the Glass by Jacquelyn Benson, Wyrde and Wayward by Charlotte E. English, Ehoes of the Imperium by Nicholas & Olivia Atwater, The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick, Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace, Claws and Contrivances by Stephanie Burgis, Haunting Miss Trentwood by Belinda Kroll, A Darkness at the Door by Intisr Khanani, Teacup Magic by Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Golden Spider by Anne Renwick, Good Neighbours by Stephanie Burgis, Empire of Shadows by Jacquelyn Benson, Magic of Wyldefen by Tilly Wallace, A Spirited Engagement by Belinda Kroll, Brambles by Intisar Khanani

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 13/03/2025

Avast, me hearties! It's time to hoist up your headphones! The audiobook to "Echoes of the Imperium" is now available on our author store! Links to other stores will be coming up in a few days, but this is the best way to support us Canadian authors. Narrated by yours truly! payhip.com/b/HkdPc

Audiobook cover of "Echoes of the Imperium" by Nicholas & Olivia on a smartphone, with earbuds, next to the picture of a compass.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 11/03/2025

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Canada goose rampant on a field of yellow, declaring the Canadian warcry of "Fuck aboot and find oot"

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 09/03/2025

Sorry for the delayed updates! It's been a wild blur, with some technical difficulties! We're on day two and blew through so many stretch goals! The first one, a map, has been chosen! Onto round 2: sprayed edges or lovely endpapers! Snag a copy, and choose! www.kickstarter.com/projects/atw...

Visit Kickstarter to pick our next stretch goal. Image shows special edition hardcover of "Echoes of the Imperium" with it's skull and compass rose cover on display.

Shows the choice of teal sprayed edges or a rigging-themed set of endpapers, with swords, tricornes, and blackbirds decorating them.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 04/02/2025

To be fair; I do get this one every day.

The "Bernie Sanders, once again" meme saying: Olivia Atwater, once again begging you for a cup of morning coffee.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 01/02/2025

Truly, the highest of compliments for my dearly beloved, I've-misplaced-my-one-brain-cell goblin captain ❤️

A lovely reader's review of "Echoes of the Imperium" including the line: Our dear (and sometimes dumb) goblin Captain William Blair maybe one of my favorite characters written.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 16/12/2024

Looks like my swashbuckling steampunk novel, Echoes of the Imperium, can officially join the ranks of #SnarkyFiction 📚😏 with a wonderful review that gave the highest of praise! Huzzah! #IndieBooks 🧙⚔️ #SFF 📚🧐

A review of "Echoes of the Imperium" stating: I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the snarky social commentary of the Murderbot Diaries or the shades-of-grey perspective on empire / rebellion in The Burning Kingdoms.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 15/11/2024

"Echoes of the Imperium" is the first full novel of the recently released series. You can find: 📦 A deadly cargo 👤 A mysterious passenger ⚔️ The dregs of the fallen Empire 👻 Literal ghosts of the rebellion ⚔️ Magic faerie swords ❤️ Love, loss, and redemption 🌦️ Hope in spite of it all

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 15/11/2024

"A Matter of Execution" is a beast of a prequel novella, serving as an introduction to the setting and the crew. It includes the follow: 💀 Escaping execution ❓ Mysterious, dangerous allies ⚔️ A fallen empire ✨ Aether magic and tech 🧚 Faerie gods 🌳 Not a stick 🥸 A con/heist 🍍 ...Pineapples?

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 15/11/2024

Speaking of said books! Meet the dashing, daring Captain William Blair; goblin and troublemaker extraordinaire! Reasons to love him are as follows: 🌈 Has a diverse, loveable crew ❤️ Wears his shiny heart of gold on his sleeve 😂 Wields a razor sharp, dry wit 🎩 Magnificent hat ⚔️ Fights Imperialists

A portrait of a singular, dashing, pointy-eared goblin in his (battered) resplendent tricorne. He smiles slyly, having likely conjured up some other daring feat of idiocy that he is about to inflinct upon someone.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 09/11/2024

For example: WHY THE HELL DID KARRIN MURPHY NEED TO TAKE OFF HER PANTS TO DISARM BOMBS. WHAT REQUIRED THIS? Harry:

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 29/10/2024

The high-flying steampunk epic I co-wrote with my magnificent wife @oliviaatwater.com, Echoes of the Imperium, sets sail today! "Resounds with wit, adventure, and heart, in a story that weaves irresistible roguish charm with powerful themes of regret and redemption. (Jacquelyn Benson)"

Cover of Echoes of the Imperium, by Nicholas & Olivia Atwater. "This is a world and a crew you'll never want to leave." —Jacquelyn Benson, author of Tomb of the Sun King

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 21/10/2024

My first full-length steampunk-fantasy novel, "Echoes of the Imperium", sets sail next week! It's got: ⚓ Airships & aerial dogfights 🏴‍☠️ A goblin captain ✨ Aether magic and powerful faeries 👻 Spooky ghoOOOooooOOOooosts (Never fear! Physical copies almost ready!) nicholasatwater.com/book/echoes-...

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 20/10/2024

Behold; a floofy, empty-headed garbage gremlin of a feline. Pumpkin is right there with you.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 01/10/2024

Avast, me hearties! My very first swashbuckling, steampunk-fantasy novel "Echoes of the Imperium" is finally complete! This beast of a book couldn't have been made possible without my lovely wife and co-author, @oliviaatwater.com. Keep an eye out for more upcoming news about the release!

A page with the words THE END coming out of a typewriter.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 06/12/2023

Care for a taste of swashbuckling adventure with a dashing, goblin airship captain? Not only will signing up to the newsletter (at nicholasatwater.com ) get you the novella "A Matter of Execution", a newsletter with three chapters of my upcoming novel "Echoes of the Imperium" will be out soon!

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 24/10/2023

It's upsetting finding more books and stories these days that celebrate sexual violence in fantasy, typically as penned by male authors and audiences. So, to spite that toxic nonsense, I spent the day baking and then wrote a review for Legends & Lattes. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 23/10/2023

As some of you know, when I'm not writing or helping Olivia with our many projects, I love to cook and bake. It's not often I splurge on a little something for me. This has been a wild ride already, and I can't wait to go through ALL of the tagged recipes. Highly recommend this hilarious book.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 10/10/2023

I would like to submit a candidate, please.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 11/09/2023

One of my players had this made for our module 2 'movie poster' of our lady-spies campaign. The young tiefling is her back in her childhood, the redhead is another PC with her cover identity behind her. The other two are NPCs who played a major part as antagonists.

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 08/09/2023

Happy Friday! Captain William Blair is always on the lookout for excellent crew members aboard his airship, the Iron Rose! If you could join this wily goblin captain and his band of merry misfits, which part of the crew would you be? Art by the talented Eveline Verburg artbyeef.wordpress.com

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 08/09/2023

Me on my way to post some important stuff on Bluesky. Avast!

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 06/09/2023

Well heya there, Dianna! I write swashbuckler fantasy fun. My WIP is a fantasy, steampunk epic I'm co-authoring with my wife. The free prequel novella is available to those who signup to my newsletter at nicholasatwater.com! Mighty kind of you to start up this thread :D

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 31/08/2023

Let's be honest; are they even really a character if they don't have *any* trauma?

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 15/08/2023

And for those who'd love a good moodboard for the novella in question: A goblin captain, a world of airships and quasi-magical technology, daring escapes, a fancy party infiltration, faeries, and...a pineapple heist?

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Nicholas Atwater 🇨🇦 @nicholasatwater.com · 15/08/2023

Care to buckle some swash in the company of a dashing goblin scoundrel? Escape the noose with Captain William Blair and dive headlong into this free steampunk-fantasy caper! You can join the crew and read this adventure by subscribing to my newsletter here at nicholasatwater.com Share away!

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