Benedict Patrick

Excited to be close to revealling the illustrator working on the 'Mostly' deluxe edition soon. They Mostly Come Out At Night - my dark folklore-fantasy - will be hitting @Kickstarter in a few short months... kickstarter.com/projects/bened…

@UnDyrk The meeting of many beards…

Fantastic weekend with these reprobates. At Charlotte airport to start next leg of the trip. On to Charleston, plane change in Atlanta. Flights delayed by a couple hours. Looked like I wouldn't make the connecting flight, but with both delayed, so far it's working out. So far...

Book mail! Been waiting for this all year - can’t wait to get stuck in…

Started ‘Someone You Can Build A Nest In’ today. Had my eye on this since first hearing about it at WorldCon last year. That panel was suggesting this was a cozy book. One chapter in, and I’m struggling to find the ‘cozy’, but am very much enjoying the unusual set up.

SURPRISE! Thunder Kraken Audiobook Released Today! @davidestesbooks and I had expected it in November - but here it is! The adventures of Zee and Jessup now continue for your ears, once again voiced by the fabulous Tim Gerard Reynolds. Link in reply! @Wraithmarked

@theprof722 @L_R_Schulz @sffinsiders He may have featured heavily in the notes between the artist (Antti Hakosaari) and I… 😉

@L_R_Schulz @benedictpaddy @sffinsiders Gotcha. I do like that cover. Reminds me of Gambit.

Just finished this by @benedictpaddy and it’s awesome! Brings me back to my days collecting cards and watching Yu-Gi-Oh Highly recommend if you like the idea of a deck building book in a fantasy setting

New addition to the shelf! Very excited to dive in. I also reckon this is my first book to have a sprayed pattern on the page edges. How does everyone else best show these off?

Bookshelf has been properly autumned 🍂

Look at Bond - they make a new actor into a celebration. But what they gave us just didn’t excite me. What a fall from grace. Season 1 was one of the few fantasy shows to break into the mainstream. Today, even this fantasy-obsessed nerd could care less about the new season.

The new trailer had so much work it needed to do. As someone who noped out of the previous run a few episodes into season 2, a recast could’ve been the moment I might try it out again. Loved Cavill for the role, but a new actor doesn’t need to be a deathknell.

Card Mage - my deck-building, card-battling fantasy adventure - is returning to Kickstarter! This is still a while away, (‘Mostly’ is getting my attention now), but wanted to get word out early. Head here to not miss updates, and to be first in line: kickstarter.com/projects/bened…

Today’s new addition to the new library. No reason beyond ‘we loved it.’

I’ve a newsletter coming out in a few hours, in which we get to chat about great books. Don’t get my newsletter yet? There’s still time! yarnsworldreaders.benedictpatrick.com/2

On the third attempt at his library, I think I finally found a Joe Abercrombie book that speaks to me. Having a lot of fun with the audiobook, especially the banter between the characters. If James Cameron does adapt the book, I hope they lean heavily on this aspect of it.

New books! After finishing my Guards! Guards! reread, I knew I had to continue the collection…

This took considerably longer than planned, but the new desk is finally up and running.

I'm very proud to announce that my new short stories are now all live and available to download on Kindle! It's hard to share a link to all 5 but hit my author profile up and you'll find them by publication date: amazon.com/stores/Ben-Gal…

The mess in my corner that replaced my desk is slowly being rebuilt. Yes, this is playing hell with my work process, thanks for asking.

I just passed 1,000,000 books sold in my career! To celebrate, I’m doing a huge giveaway, including free ebooks and chances to win audiobooks, $100 Zon gift card and signed books! kingsumo.com/g/mn5xe0m/davi… #giveaway #win via @RealKingSumo

With hours to spare, we did it. I’m not talking about funding the campaign - my amazing readers sorted that within the first day. No. A few hours before the end, we smashed the final stretch goal. This thing is going to look amazing. Today is a happy, exhausted author day.