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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 26/09/2026

Just in time for spooky season! Return of the Calico Kids is now an audiobook read by yours truly. Available on Audible (and included in their All You Can Listen program, along with the first Calico Kids audiobook). Coming soon to Apple and other platforms. Enjoy! www.audible.com/pd/Return-of...

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 29/08/2026

20 years after the first edition, comic artist JD Green and I have quietly put together a second edition of the RADZ #ttrpg over the past year. Coming out in the fall. It's like #MadMax, #HeavyMetal and #Thundarr had a baby.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 29/08/2026

I love getting proofs of a physical product. ❤️

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 23/07/2026

My good friend Steven Fox just dropped this amazing album for his idSILO project. I've known Steven since we were both making music the late '80s SF Bay Area. He played drums on the And Tears Fell - Requiem album (and for lots of other bands). idsilo.hearnow.com Gorgeous alternative rock!

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 01/07/2026

Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook catalog for 50% off at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! You can find all Deep7 Press ebook titles at www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #SWSale2026 #Smashwords

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 23/06/2026

My great-grandaunts, Edith & Grace McDowell, were musicians in the 1920s, and Edison recorded them in his studio in 1922. This pic was water-damaged, but I was able to get a high-resolution scan and digitally repair it for subsequent printing. #edison #macdowellsisters #1920s #noai #photoretouch

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 11/06/2026

If my readers are curious as to my lacking output of late, it's because I had an L4/L5 spinal fusion at the end of April. Just had my follow-up with the neurosurgeon. I'm doing pretty well for a guy with a bunch of metal in his back. Go Mecha-Toddzilla! Rawr! 🦖

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 02/03/2026

Working past the second act wall in the fantasy WIP by shaking off some screenwriting rust on a project whose time has come. #calicokids #streamingseries #retro #80s #scifi #mystery #horror

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 08/12/2025

It's time! Today through January 1st, 2026, all Deep7 Press ebooks (including my fiction) are 25% off from Smashwords! 🎁🎄☃️ www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 08/12/2025

Raising a belated toast to Leigh Brackett on what would have been her 110th birthday (Dec 7). Brackett was the Mother of Space Opera, a gifted author, screenwriter, and one of the foundational pillars of my own retro scifi work. #scifi #author #spaceopera #retro #raypunk

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 20/11/2025

My entire fiction catalog in ebook format will be 25% off on @Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale 2025 starting on December 8! Be sure to follow me for links to the sale when it kicks off in just a few weeks! #indieauthor #AirshipDaedalus #CalicoKids #EoYSale25 #Smashwords

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 12/11/2025

‪28K on the new #Arrowflight novel, finished with chapter 10. Ratcheting up the peril. (And anyone who's read my Airship Daedalus series knows I take my peril-ratcheting seriously.)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 11/11/2025

I've always been proud of my #TTRPG work, but the quality has seen a big jump in the past 3 to 5 years (in both prose and art).

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 28/10/2025

25K on the new #Arrowflight novel, jumping into chapter 9. 40+ years of worldbuilding on the TTRPG, a film, a comic, and finally the first novel set in that world.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 21/10/2025

Happy Cosmic Birthday, Space Mom. ❤ (Carrie Fisher, born Oct 21, 1956)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 18/10/2025

Always nice to get the thumbs up from a fellow genre author!

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 17/10/2025

Renegades of Mars is now available in paperback from Amazon and IngramSpark (and available to retailers via Ingram as well!)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 03/10/2025

Thrilling! 🚀🔫 a.co/d/auAgGLm

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 02/10/2025

Author copies arrived today! They look great! Paperback available on Amazon, and coming to retail (via IngramSpark) on Oct 17th! #indieauthor #1930s #retro #scifi #raypunk

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 29/09/2025

Coming October 1st. www.todddowning.com Rockets and rayguns and robots, oh my! Also N@zi baddies, a gorilla scientist, and plenty of pew-pew!

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 19/09/2025

Sitting at just over 15K words into the #Arrowflight WIP, and haven't even begun the main mission. I'm loving the process of getting to know my MC couple and their weird connection. A very different process from my usual pulp adventure material, where 15K would be a quarter through the story.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 16/09/2025

Renegades of Mars is back from my first editor. Just waiting on the second! The next phase of the AEGISverse is almost here! #indieauthor #pulpadventure #retrofuturism #1930s #scifi

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 12/09/2025

Almost at 12K words on the new #fantasy WIP (based on the #Arrowflight #TTRPG). Feels nice to let the setting breathe a bit.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 28/08/2025

My brother Matthew would have turned 55 today, which is a surreal concept. His death at far too young an age was a tragic loss, and yet, he's always been with us - even with my younger siblings who didn't know him. Love you, Matt. Always. ❤

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 27/08/2025

Stupidly up at 4:30am, so why not record some #audiobook narration while it's cool and quiet? #indieauthor #ReturnOfTheCalicoKids

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 26/08/2025

Getting proofs for an upcoming #ttrpg release never gets old. Still need to fix a few details, but on track for a November release.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 25/08/2025

And of course, Gizmo's in Gold Beach, where the kids hang out...

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 25/08/2025

When I worldbuild a setting, I build the friggin' WORLD. #CalicoKids www.todddowning.com

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 17/08/2025

Fair Winds to acting legend Terence Stamp, whose body of work is a diverse collage of genres and periods, and who remains the most compelling General Zod committed to the big screen.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 08/08/2025

This is possibly the most Frazetta photo ever. Courtest of the Frazetta Girls FB group. 1983, pictured with his original Fire and Ice painting and his daughter Heidi.

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 04/08/2025

Dale is clearly taking in the view. "Flash" Gordon indeed! (artwork by Alex Raymond)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 03/08/2025

Raising a glass for our late mate Ryan Potter as we kick off a session of Grimmworld. #ttrpg

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 01/08/2025

Three #TTRPG titles so far in 2025, with another one - and a new novel - on the way. (To be fair, these have been in the works for some time and are finally seeing release.)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 31/07/2025

A few of the #TTRPG titles I've worked on over the past 25 years. Not complete by any stretch (and doesn't include work for other publishers).

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 30/07/2025

Civic duty = complete (until next time)

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 25/07/2025

Something else I've been working on is coming this fall... #ttrpg #spaceopera #milSF #indiepress

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Todd Downing (author) @todddowning.com · 25/07/2025

Emmett Till would have turned 84 today. 💔

Photo of Emmett Till smiling when he was alive.

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