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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Haven't been doing a ton on the design side of things for a while, but I did write two of the adventures in KP's recently released Dungeons Deep. These are location-driven setups and easily adapted to any level of play (or system). Come splash in the slime with me!

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Bookish Collaborations interviews the SSBA finalists, including @evanjpeterson.bsky.social for Better Living Through Alchemy. (Which won, in case you missed the news!) Go check 'em out! armedwithabook.com/2025-ssba-fa...

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2025 SSBA Fantasy Finalists & Winner - Armed with A Book

December 1 marked the announcement of the finalists and winners for the inaugural Small Spec Book Awards. Learn about the best in Fantasy.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Am delighted that Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social is one of Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025! Full list here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

TRANSCRIPT: Song of Spores
by Bogi Takács
Broken Eye Books
(Tags: Science Fiction, Fungal Fiction)

I love fungal horror and will give any sentient spaceship a shot, so when I read the description of this book, I was hooked right away. I loved the cranky insectoid grandma and the shy, shape-shifting trans character, but the fact that the antagonist is a clump of sentient fungal spores really set this apart for me. This is a book familiar with tropes and readers’ expectations but chooses to purposefully flip them around and see what’s underneath. Examining what, or who, counts as alive and why we need to classify everything this way is exactly the sort of mind-expanding question I want science fiction to ask. —Brianne Kane, Associate Editor/Books & Rights Manager

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yas! Better Living Through Alchemy has won the Small Spec Book Award. Now time to take drugs and be gods in the monster-infested streets of Seattle. (Congrats, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social!)

Cover image for novel Better Living Through Alchemy. Features a strange amalgam of a man, styled as Vitruvian Man with alchemical symbols surrounding.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I'll have a reprint in this anthology! The rental that drinks your blood! (Inspired by the rental that started to collapse while we were living in it.) With multiple trans characters. Originally edited by @slgable.bsky.social :)

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Happy book b-day to Song of Spores by @bogiperson.bsky.social, our latest title from BEB! Hugo Award-winner Bogi Takács spins a tale of adventure, mystery, and political intrigue in space. Plus sentient fungus! Grab your copy today: www.brokeneyebooks.com/bookstore/so...

Cover to new novel Song of Spores: fungal forms floating through a psychedelic spacescape.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

After a last-minute price hike from the web host of over 300%, I decided to move the Broken Eye Books site to a new host and rebuild. And the former host pissed me off in other ways, so this was equally fueled by spite. New site is up, though incomplete. Will be filling it back out in coming weeks.

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

TODAY! Boy, am I grateful to my fellow Roanoke, VA, dark fantasy & horror scribbler R.S. Belcher: I’m so glad he found my just-released TRAIL OF SHADOWS worthy of these kind words. Out now from @slgable.bsky.social ! ➡️ bit.ly/SpiderBookor... Also on @netgalley.bsky.social! bit.ly/SpiderNetgal...

“Mike Allen’s Trail of Shadows is a tense, tight, and constantly surprising novel. A hike down the Appalachian Trail into a realm of shadows and surreal horror, it will keep you up late, and it cements Mike Allen as a horror and suspense writer to keep your eye on. I can’t recommend it enough.”
—R. S. Belcher

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Exciting news from recent weeks, @evanjpeterson.bsky.social's Better Living Through Alchemy novel is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards in Fantasy. Also, @andrewpennromine.bsky.social's The Mosquito Fleet is a semifinalist for Sci-Fi (but no graphic for that yet).

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Well LOOKIE HERE PART 2!!!! Broken Eye Books sent me a hardcover ARC of TRAIL OF SHADOWS to go with the paperbacks! Man, I am beside myself: can’t wait till October… In the meantime, you can pre-order these pretties on the @slgable.bsky.social’s website: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p115/T...

A photo of me smiling, wearing my HU hat, as I am holding the hardcover edition of trail of shadows, which shows a monster who is part woman and part spider hanging upside down from overhead….

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Cover reveal!!! Yes, at a time like this. My latest, at LGBTQ Reads! SONG OF SPORES coming from Broken Eye Books November 2025! Trans & intersex space opera! Total chaos! More! With cover art by Galen Dara: lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/11/e... Preorder here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács

Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, a nonbinary/genderfluid Space Opera releasing November 4, 2025 from Broken Eye Books! Here’s the st…

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Trail of Shadows, our latest book from Broken Eye Books, by @mythicdelirium.bsky.social, has a duplex cover (which simply means color printing on the interior covers as well). This one showcases a wonderful topological landscape illustration of the astral realm, from the talented Kirsty Greenwood.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Last day for the Pride StoryBundle! So go grab @bogiperson.bsky.social's Power to Yield and 13 other delightful ebooks. Enjoy some current LGBTQ+ reads while we go make more. storybundle.com/pride

The books covers for the Pride StoryBundle, available at https://storybundle.com/pride.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Last day of June— #Pride is eternal—and just a few days left to grab a bundle of amazing queer books from @storybundle.bsky.social ! :D 💙📚 storybundle.com/pride Also, here is Crouton <3 (he may have no thoughts, but he DOES recommend buying books & celebrating reading!)

Crouton is a brown and gray tabby with white feet and face, one paw lifted as he grooms his paws, and you can see his pink little toe beans

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Have you checked out the Tales of the Valiant RPG yet from @koboldpress.com? Lots more to see with Player's Guide 2, which I'm editing right now. Last couple days of the Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...

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Player's Guide 2: New Power for 5E and TOV Players

Three new base classes including the Vanguard, dozens of subclasses, new lineages, hundreds of new spells, and more for TOV and 5E D&D.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Favorite typo in a long while: "the light of the full mood." I feel like this one really gets me.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Latest Broken Eye Books offering! New dark-fantasy, folk-horror novel, Trail of Shadows, written by @mythicdelirium.bsky.social, uncovers the power of spirits and nightmares in Appalachia. Publishing October 7, 2025. That ridiculously great cover illustration is by @danieleserra.bsky.social.

Cover for new novel Trail of Shadows, from Broken Eye Books. Features a woman with the body of a giant spider dangling upside down.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Latest StoryBundle has @bogiperson.bsky.social's Power to Yield and a ton (specifically 13) of other delightful books. I want you to always have the book you need, when you need it. (And those are my emotional support TBR piles, tyvm.) #happypride #stayhydrated

Pride StoryBundle now available at storybundle.com/pride, contains Bogi Takács's Power to Yield and other great books.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

"The journey to lichdom is exacting." Line tease from today's work.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Last day to pick up our Horror Short Reads bundle! All these titles for just $20. Only at storybundle.com/horror.

Horror Short Reads StoryBbundle. Image displays the covers for all the books included. All for just $20.

Only at https://storybundle.com/horror.

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

TWO❗️DAYS❗️LEFT❗️ HORROR SHORT READS @storybundle.bsky.social ends Thursday ‼️ 22 novellas, $20! Last book to spotlight: PRETTY MARYS ALL IN A ROW, a blend of fairy tales & urban legends by 2025 Stoker Award finalist @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, from @slgable.bsky.social! storybundle.com/horror

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

6, 6, 6 DAYS LEFT for the HORROR SHORT READS @storybundle.bsky.social… 22 novellas, $20! 👉🏻 CATFISH LULLABY by @acwise.bsky.social, from @slgable.bsky.social! This Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella spins a queer Southern Gothic tale of dark sorcery in the bayou. storybundle.com/horror

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

10 DAYS LEFT for the HORROR SHORT READS @storybundle.bsky.social 19 books, 22 novellas, $20! 👉🏻 THE OBSECRATION by @mattmbartlett.bsky.social from @slgable.bsky.social! A nightmare of a cult leader's resurrection by the author of cosmic horror novel GATEWAYS TO ABOMINATION storybundle.com/horror

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Feed your TBR pile! Check out short story collection POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES by Bogi Takács, featured on the 2024 Recommended Reading List! www.brokeneyebooks.c...

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Power to Yield and Other Stories

Blowing minds, one book at a time. Broken Eye Books publishes the weird side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We love all speculative fiction, and the blurrier the boundaries, the better.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Horror Short Reads StoryBundle is now available (through February 27). This is a terrific book bundle deal with deliciously twisted books from both Broken Eye and others. Snag your copies today. storybundle.com/horror

Montage of the covers of the books that are part of this bundle. It reads, "Horror Short Reads StoryBundle, 22 Horror Novellas for $20, StoryBundle.com/Horror."

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Horror Short Reads Storybundle launched today! 22 Horror Novellas for $20, with fiction from @csecooney.bsky.social, @amcgeewrites.bsky.social, @mattmbartlett.bsky.social, @authordileo.bsky.social, @dalexward.bsky.social, @valancourtbooks.bsky.social & more! Get it at storybundle.com/horror

This overflowing cornucopia of a StoryBundle explores all the permutations of the horror novella, providing 22 tales of terror penned by 21 authors, ranging from career grand masters to up-and-comers making their debuts. These morsels include 18 standalone novellas and short novels, plus the anthology A Sinister Quartet, which holds four more novellas.

You'll find pulse-pounding thrillers and slow-burning noir, supernatural and psychological terror, narratives mind-bending and straightforward, the bloody and the subtle, even dark humor.

For those who love a good scare, horror can be comfort food, a thrill ride of the soul that's completely under your control, even as the words on the page make you feel shiveringly otherwise. There's fuel here for many an enjoyably sleepless night.
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For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous), you'll get the basic bundle of four novellas in .epub format—WORLDWIDE.

• The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler
• Obsecration by Matthew M. Bartlett
• Bishop by Candace Nola
• Family Solstice by Kate Maruyama

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular novellas, plus 15 more books, for a total of 19 (or really 22 since A Sinister Quartet contains 4)!

• 12 Hours by L. Marie Wood
• Joey Leonard's Last Horror Movie Marathon by Kevin Lucia
• King of the Bastards by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury
• Beneath Ash and Bone by D. Alexander Ward
• Children of Fire by Chris DiLeo
• Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise
• Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste
• The Unicorn Killer by Candace Nola
• Taboo in Four Colors by Tim McGregor
• Small Gods of Calamity by Sam Kyung Yoo
• A Sinister Quartet by Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, et al.
• Safer by Kate Maruyama
• Children of the Night by John Blackburn
• The Happy Man by Eric C. Higgs
• Plague of Gulls by Stephen Gregory

This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Delighted that Bogi's POWER TO YIELD collection (from Broken Eye) is on the Locus Recommended Reading List! And it's among such a stellar list of books and stories to devour. locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

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2024 Recommended Reading List

Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! This list is compiled by the Locus editor…

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Here's a roundup of the Broken Eye Books award-eligible works from 2024: * Power to Yield (collection) by @bogiperson.bsky.social * Better Living Through Alchemy (novel) by Evan J. Peterson * The Mosquito Fleet (novel) by @andrewpennromine.bsky.social For more info... www.brokeneyebooks.com

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Something I'm co-editing this way comes. And if you, like I, think that monsters are really just the coolest thing ever, consider taking a look.

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Congratulations to Evan J. Peterson! His book, BETTER LIVING THROUGH ALCHEMY, has been nominated for the 2025 @specawards.bsky.social by @slgable.bsky.social (Broken Eye Books). #SSBA #BookSky #indiepress #bookawards #fantasy

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Congratulations to @andrewpennromine.bsky.social! His book, THE MOSQUITO FLEET, has been nominated for the 2025 @specawards.bsky.social by Broken Eye Books. #SSBA #BookSky #indiepress #bookawards #sciencefiction

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Jason Bulmahn @jasonbulmahn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Looking to see what RPG professionals and companies there are to follow here on Bluesky? I am curating a list! Check it out! go.bsky.app/JXt8g6H

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As a surprise to round out Broken Eye's year, we're releasing volume two of Team Murderhobo, which collects Clinton Boomer's hilarious D&D vignettes! Book is at the printer, and the pre-order page is live. Cover by @mockman.bsky.social www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p127/t...

Cover to Team Murderhobo: Flaming Love Icosahedron. (Words by Clinton J. Boomer and art by Jason Bradley Thompson.) Scene of iconic D&D heroes running with their loot from various monsters.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

ARB's SFF Librarian Review series calls @bogiperson.bsky.social's POWER TO YIELD collection from Broken Eye a "profound exploration of existence and endurance."

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Frosty foggy morning for the fey.

Mushroom with frost on top in the grass in Seattle.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

DAMMIT! Today's schedule got upended, which totally upended my brain, resulting in completely forgetting about tonight's rescheduled D&D game. Gah! It was a boss fight too. ;_;

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Nobody: Me: For this recipe, just use any ol' berry. Pumpkin, avocado, cucumber. Just pick your favorite.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The new Game Master's Guide that I edited for Kobold Press's Tales of the Valiant has released to the public this past month! Very proud of this one, and people seem to be liking it. Go roll some dice!

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Let it be known that when the D&D game was postponed by half an hour yesterday, I got all the things done: unloaded the dishwasher, advanced the laundry, assembled a door rack. So many things, so productive.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Mosquito Fleet is being featured right now over at John Scalzi's Whatever site. The author talks a little about the characters and the inspiration for them. (Maybe not the best day to go on a space ferry ride, just saying.) whatever.scalzi.com/2024/11/13/t...

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The Big Idea: Andrew Romine

We can’t all be Jedi, or captains of the Enterprise, but maybe we can be Ellen Ripleys, maybe we can be heroic in our own right. Venture on and see how author Andrew Romine explores this conc…

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Cheesecake Experiment #3: Goat cheese cheesecake with sriracha-honey. Good flavor. (Thanks to a friend who suggested a hot honey sauce. Pairs well.) The cake's very crumbly and a bit on the dry side. Adding some sour cream to mix might improve it.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Latest kitchen experiment: roasted purple sweet potato cheesecake with cranberry sauce. This is good. This is 2:1, favoring the cheese. I also make a purple swe-po pie, so I might balance the ratio to 1:1 and see if that hybrid is awesome.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Today's the book birthday for @andrewpennromine.bsky.social's The Mosquito Fleet! This is a fast-paced fungal space horror on the fringes of civilized space. And a fun ride! Grab your own copy from Broken Eye Books or wherever you get books: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c61/Th...

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The Mosquito Fleet

Blowing minds, one book at a time. Broken Eye Books publishes the weird side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We love all speculative fiction, and the blurrier the boundaries, the better.

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Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

For tonight's inspiration, the Vision of Escaflowne! Really feeling the need for more science fantasy right now.

Giant mecha robots attacking one another in this classic anime series.

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