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Owain Oakwood

@owainoakwood.bsky.social
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Writes weird fiction, would love to live in a cave with a view

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Tim Hardie @timhardieauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My very first book review for #FanFiAddict features the cosy paranormal short stories of @owainoakwood.bsky.social fanfiaddict.com/review-the-h...
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Review: The Horror in the Hills (Weird Tales of Argana Zeit Volume 3) by Owain Oakwood | FanFiAddict
Synopsis She’s impetuous, imperfect and impulsive, and he’s fearless, focused and furry. These traits propel Argana Zeit and her ghost-hunting dog Max into ...
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Avatars of Death are many and varied, and I bet you can easily name a dozen. But two things in this world are eternal: Death, and Taxes. And when did you last read of the Avatar of Tax? My new book is up for preorder, and you can read the first chapter here www.owainoakwood.com/ttttm-book-1/
Book cover of Time Travel is Taxing, showing a cyborg with an attache case.
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I had to skip a writing day because I caught 'I can't believe it's not COVID'(tm). Bah.
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Does a Harbinger harbinge? Is the past tense 'harbinged'? I guess I could use 'augured' instead, but sometimes a word just cries out to be used whether it exists or not. Like when scientists predict the existence of a heavier element by copying patterns. #cantspellfortoffee
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Alright, so www.owainoakwood.com is not what you'd call a high-traffic site, but even so let me apologise that it's currently down. My usually reliable host is borked. Same goes for my email :/
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"If you’re in the market for some really different dystopian fiction, this could be just the dash of colour in an uncaring universe that you’re looking for." My review of Jasper Fforde's 'Shades of Grey' is here: www.owainoakwood.com/uncategorize... #bookreview #scfi
Book cover of a man with an optician's calibrator on his face, with colours point out.
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I just bought 100 ISBNs. Time to go wiiiiiiiiiiiiide ... a little envious of my Canadian peers who can get their ISBNs for free in return for sending a copy of their book to the library. What a great system!
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Drawing up a list of agents to query, naturally I want to narrow it down with some kind of selection criteria. What's on their wishlist, what's their preferred genre, and the like. Just realised I've been subconsciously favouring agents with high ratios of tattooed clients :D #querytrenches
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ever wondered what Argana drives? Not nerve-wracking for Argana, who had gained her license from the Dunning-Kruger school of driving. Nerve-wracking however for every tractor driver, cyclist, horse rider and occasional prodigal sheep that they…
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Trusty Nissan Micra
Ever wondered what Argana drives? Not nerve-wracking for Argana, who had gained her license from the Dunning-Kruger school of driving. Nerve-wracking however for every tractor driver, cyclist, horse rider and occasional prodigal sheep that they…
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Listening to an audiobook, I was struck by the weird pronunciation of shone. It rhymed with scone but not scone. It’s odd. It’s not like anyone says cone instead of cone. Is this an American thing? I’ve never heard it in British English. #languageisodd #pronounciation #voicework
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sketch of Argana's flat
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Argana’s Flat
I’ve always loved floorplans. It’s an affection that started when I was a kid, running table RPGs for my friends and family. Having a dungeon map behind my GM’s screen, forcing the players to painstakingly…
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“But, surely that’s a myth?” How come in every #UrbanFantasy*, there’s a moment where our hero’s mentor proclaims that the MacGuffin is just a myth. Like, my Brother in Cthulhu, you’ve spent your whole existence protected by the masquerade, how can you fall for that? #writing
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Sometimes the things you find mid-research are delightful. Like this, a blog where someone's gone through Georgian newspaper reports looking for the names of lost pets. What a clever idea. I hope some of them found their homes. about1816.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/5... #writing #indieauthor
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59 Names for your Regency dog
James Hobson About1816 @jameshobson.bsky.social I sampled ninety-eight DOG LOST advertisements in the British Newspapers between 1811 and 1820, partly so you don’t have too (even if you wanted to) …
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Next in my series of occasional Character Sketches is Patty Scholes. Yeah, she’s the matriarch of the Scholes clan, collecting the waifs and strays of Trotterwell … the question is, are all her brood technically…
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Patty Scholes
Next in my series of occasional Character Sketches is Patty Scholes. Yeah, she’s the matriarch of the Scholes clan, collecting the waifs and strays of Trotterwell … the question is, are all her brood technically…
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So, I went off and sketched Akira Pixels for you. But if prefer your headcannon version, you go right ahead and keep that 😉 Not that Akira is his birthname. We met his mum in…
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Akira Pixels
So, I went off and sketched Akira Pixels for you. But if prefer your headcannon version, you go right ahead and keep that 😉 Not that Akira is his birthname. We met his mum in…
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
You were fifteen then, drinking with your mates. Pushing through the fence and down to the untamed banks of the old mill stream. There you first heard it, that #murmur that wasn’t the water running cold over unforgiving stone. It told you things. When you came back, you were alone. Almost. #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In 1954 the Fae made a #delivery, hiding it in a bag of coal. It would have been burnt at once, but that day the central heating went in. Last week they cleared the old houses ready for demolition, taking everything to the incinerator. There’s a dragon egg in that bag. Will it still hatch? #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm thrilled to have made it into this year's #SPFBO with my cosy paranormal adventure 'No Fae Back Now'
Book cover of woman and dog in front of haunted house
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The milk we left out for the house elf, We found it left undrunk. In time we sought to ask the creature, What think it thought it thunk. I’d prefer, it said, all twinkle-eyed, A wad of cold hard cash. The idea I might like juice-of cow, Well that’s just #balderdash. #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
On the way to dinner, they crash Kira’s home-made flying machine. “I told you it wouldn’t work!” Pete complains, after counting his limbs. “I’m so sorry,” says Kira, blushing. “And I’m hungry. Sadly, one cannot live on #humble pie alone.” #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The carriers pause, resting their crate halfway to the ziggurat's summit. “I hate #transport day,” mutters one. "And we still have to wait for a storm.” The other pats the wooden hull, thinking of the lifeless statue inside. “Yeah, but at least the bastard will walk themselves down again.” #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I pause to add them up, the tree stump’s rings. I ask, before the big oak died, was it older than the church that broods on the hill? But really I ask: does my every incarnation add another layer around my soul? And if you cut my spirit through, to what #number would you count? #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Those battered boys, of the moon born The sighing scythe of claws drawn With fell fiends our heroes fought With these words their #myth is wrought That dipping down they find their death Your love they lure, with their last breath. #vss365
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#vss365 They were waiting for us in the bloodstained dining room, that collection of eccentric and estranged family members that we called suspects. Taylor paused outside, adjusting his bow tie. “I love this bit. The #business of being right about the business of being wrong.”
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If you're looking to fill a gap in your Youtube schedule this Halloween - or indeed, any particular day you come across this post - this might fill it. A 40 minute reading of cosy paranormal adventure 'Argana Zeit Ruins Halloween'. youtu.be/84JGfoduIS4
Picture of a book wearing headphones
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
To celebrate Halloween, my compilation 'Paranormal in the Peaks' is free until Sunday. You can find it here! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NP7T9NZ
Pumpkins in front of a picture of the book "Paranormal in the Peaks" by Owain Oakwood.
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Working on the sequel to No Fae Back Now, I've hit the magic 25% mark ... for me, this is the point where I figure out what the plot _really_ is, and plan out the rest of it. One of my favourite steps :)
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Owain Oakwood @owainoakwood.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
I love Scrivener Right up until I'm compiling
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