Will Greatwich
@gnipahellir.bsky.social
Fantasy writer from down under.
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING now available: https://books2read.com/houseoftherainking
Reviews of vintage SFF: http://paperback-picnic.ghost.io.
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING now available: https://books2read.com/houseoftherainking
Reviews of vintage SFF: http://paperback-picnic.ghost.io.
Pinned
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera...
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
military theorists emphasise that even the best strategy will fall apart if the soldiers on the ground are not motivated to fight. that's because no plan survives contact with the anomie
July 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
military theorists emphasise that even the best strategy will fall apart if the soldiers on the ground are not motivated to fight. that's because no plan survives contact with the anomie
The Night-Bird's Feather by Jenna Moran. would need to be a cartoon though
What's an SFF work written by a woman that you think deserves a screen adaptation?
July 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Night-Bird's Feather by Jenna Moran. would need to be a cartoon though
I really like the line in Aladdin when Robin Williams sings "who sent those goons to their lords? Why, Prince Ali" because it implies the film is set in a polytheistic universe where a range of different deities can take charge of the souls of the dead
June 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I really like the line in Aladdin when Robin Williams sings "who sent those goons to their lords? Why, Prince Ali" because it implies the film is set in a polytheistic universe where a range of different deities can take charge of the souls of the dead
easy... I'll simply attach a cage to my drone that releases a small pigeon, diverting the eagle's attention
In the future every military base will have a population of trained eagles
June 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
easy... I'll simply attach a cage to my drone that releases a small pigeon, diverting the eagle's attention
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Archives w BCS #432: "Another Tide" @gnipahellir.bsky.social, BCS #420, Aurealis Award winner. "situating myself in another’s cultural viewpoint. Yet, presented with a real enemy of the empire, I found myself sinking into the role of bourgeois scold." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Another Tide by Will Greatwich
At the university I had studied radical repositioning: the art of situating myself in another’s cultural viewpoint. I considered myself an open-minded woman, an opponent of cultural hegemony. Yet, pre...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Archives w BCS #432: "Another Tide" @gnipahellir.bsky.social, BCS #420, Aurealis Award winner. "situating myself in another’s cultural viewpoint. Yet, presented with a real enemy of the empire, I found myself sinking into the role of bourgeois scold." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
Great deal! This book is awesome if you didn't already know!
The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Saint of Bright Doors
Check out The Saint of Bright Doors - <p><b>Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel!</b><br><b>A 2023 <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br><br><b>“The best book I've read all year. Protean, sin...
bookshop.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Great deal! This book is awesome if you didn't already know!
You can read this award winning story for free, right now, on the internet? what a time to be alive!
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
May 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You can read this award winning story for free, right now, on the internet? what a time to be alive!
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot...
My story "Another Tide" won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella! It's my first award win! I'm totally chuffed!
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2024 Aurealis Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards, presented today in an online ceremony. A recording of the ceremony will be available soon at our YouTube channel. Thank you so much to ev…
aurealisawards.org
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My story "Another Tide" won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella! It's my first award win! I'm totally chuffed!
aurealisawards.org/2025/05/04/2...
aurealisawards.org/2025/05/04/2...
Reading 'Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City'. Buckets of fun
April 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Reading 'Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City'. Buckets of fun
make a TV series out of Dancers at the End of Time you cowards
Why has the entertainment industry’s search for fantasy IP skipped over everything by Michael Moorcock? You’re telling me you can’t make a good Elric movie?
April 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
make a TV series out of Dancers at the End of Time you cowards
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finished this the other night and it was an incredible read: beautiful, evocative (particularly if you like birds) and high stakes on a small enough scale that you can feel what the events are doing to everyone involved - especially as it becomes clear what's going on and the choices thereby forced
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera...
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
finished this the other night and it was an incredible read: beautiful, evocative (particularly if you like birds) and high stakes on a small enough scale that you can feel what the events are doing to everyone involved - especially as it becomes clear what's going on and the choices thereby forced
My novella "Another Tide" got nominated for an Aurealis Award!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
(you can read it here if you haven't already: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot... )
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
(you can read it here if you haven't already: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot... )
2024 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement
Now in its 30th year, the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, attracted more than 830 entries across 15 categories, including 34 nominations in the tri-annual…
aurealisawards.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
My novella "Another Tide" got nominated for an Aurealis Award!
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
(you can read it here if you haven't already: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot... )
aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...
(you can read it here if you haven't already: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/anot... )
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Just finished the excellent #HouseOfTheRainKing by @gnipahellir.bsky.social. What an amazing debut novel. Anyone with an interest in mythology or #OSR #TTRPGs should go read it ASAP. Thanks for the recommendation @throneofsalt.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Just finished the excellent #HouseOfTheRainKing by @gnipahellir.bsky.social. What an amazing debut novel. Anyone with an interest in mythology or #OSR #TTRPGs should go read it ASAP. Thanks for the recommendation @throneofsalt.bsky.social
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I read House of the Rain King over the weekend. Wonderful book. Feels like Gormenghast and The Black Company had a love child nannied by Name of the Rose, but it's also wholly its own thing. Tells a self-contained story well but left me wanting to hear more about the people and the world.
April 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I read House of the Rain King over the weekend. Wonderful book. Feels like Gormenghast and The Black Company had a love child nannied by Name of the Rose, but it's also wholly its own thing. Tells a self-contained story well but left me wanting to hear more about the people and the world.
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y'all this is one of the best books i've read in a long time, please check it out. stayed up until midnight finishing it out, it's that good.
My fantasy novel HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is now available for preorder! It's got:
🔔 scheming monks
🗡️ deadbeat mercenaries
🌊 floodwaters
🦘 Australian landscapes
🦜 birds. so many birds
Sounds interesting? Get it here: books2read.com/houseofthera...
🔔 scheming monks
🗡️ deadbeat mercenaries
🌊 floodwaters
🦘 Australian landscapes
🦜 birds. so many birds
Sounds interesting? Get it here: books2read.com/houseofthera...
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
y'all this is one of the best books i've read in a long time, please check it out. stayed up until midnight finishing it out, it's that good.
Did an interview with Melbourne writers' collective Meridian Australis about House of the Rain King and my short stories: meridianaustralis.au/an-interview...
An Interview with Will Greatwich – Meridian Australis
meridianaustralis.au
March 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Did an interview with Melbourne writers' collective Meridian Australis about House of the Rain King and my short stories: meridianaustralis.au/an-interview...
Made a little graphic to show what's in my novel.
Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them.
However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book.
All Objects' significance is guaranteed.
Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them.
However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book.
All Objects' significance is guaranteed.
March 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Made a little graphic to show what's in my novel.
Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them.
However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book.
All Objects' significance is guaranteed.
Some writers I know think these graphics are cringe, but I kind of like them.
However, I wasn't keen on listing a bunch of tropes, so instead I listed some significant Objects that appear in the book.
All Objects' significance is guaranteed.
lovely review of House of the Rain King from RPG blogger Throne of Salt: throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...
"it’s D&D as fuck without being married to the trade dress of D&D... it feels like a book that a D&D adventure would be based on, rather than a book that is based on a D&D adventure."
"it’s D&D as fuck without being married to the trade dress of D&D... it feels like a book that a D&D adventure would be based on, rather than a book that is based on a D&D adventure."
Bookpost Special: House of the Rain King
(Disclosure: Author gave me an ARC and asked me to write a review.) House of the Rain King is a good fucking book. That’s the short versi...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
lovely review of House of the Rain King from RPG blogger Throne of Salt: throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...
"it’s D&D as fuck without being married to the trade dress of D&D... it feels like a book that a D&D adventure would be based on, rather than a book that is based on a D&D adventure."
"it’s D&D as fuck without being married to the trade dress of D&D... it feels like a book that a D&D adventure would be based on, rather than a book that is based on a D&D adventure."
House of the Rain King has been out for a bit over a week. The response has been way better than I'd hoped for. One reader called it a "tremendous first novel". Someone else told me they stayed up till 3am to finish it. I'm very happy.
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera...
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
March 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
House of the Rain King has been out for a bit over a week. The response has been way better than I'd hoped for. One reader called it a "tremendous first novel". Someone else told me they stayed up till 3am to finish it. I'm very happy.
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Just got an email from Apple Books saying they can turn my novel into an audiobook, for free, with "digital narration". Interesting thing is the email doesn't use the term "AI" anywhere. Almost like they know we fucking hate it!
March 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just got an email from Apple Books saying they can turn my novel into an audiobook, for free, with "digital narration". Interesting thing is the email doesn't use the term "AI" anywhere. Almost like they know we fucking hate it!
afaik Saunders has never done any marketing for his books and only the bare minimum in terms of blurb and cover design. Yet the books still sell for one reason: the people who have read them never fucking shut up about them.
Leftist fantasy author Graydon Saunders is taking down his Commonweal novels, as a principled stance against US companies. These are some of the most original fantasy novels of the past decade. Huge opportunity for a non-US indie press to pick them up
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
Comes the day
Things being as they are, it looks like it's time for me to take my books down off of Google Play. (And Draft2Digital; they're a lot less ev...
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
afaik Saunders has never done any marketing for his books and only the bare minimum in terms of blurb and cover design. Yet the books still sell for one reason: the people who have read them never fucking shut up about them.
Leftist fantasy author Graydon Saunders is taking down his Commonweal novels, as a principled stance against US companies. These are some of the most original fantasy novels of the past decade. Huge opportunity for a non-US indie press to pick them up
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
Comes the day
Things being as they are, it looks like it's time for me to take my books down off of Google Play. (And Draft2Digital; they're a lot less ev...
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Leftist fantasy author Graydon Saunders is taking down his Commonweal novels, as a principled stance against US companies. These are some of the most original fantasy novels of the past decade. Huge opportunity for a non-US indie press to pick them up
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
dubiousprospects.blogspot.com/2025/03/come...
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera...
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
March 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is here! You can get the ebook from all the major retailers: books2read.com/houseofthera...
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
or buy direct from my website: willgreatwich.com/house-of-the...
Print edition is coming in the next couple of days.
RAIN IN THE DESERT, the free prequel to my novel, is now available. The mercenaries of Sparrow Company are trapped in the desert, bound by honour to serve a cruel master. But when a rain cloud appears in the distance, their luck might be about to change...
Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/
Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/
February 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
RAIN IN THE DESERT, the free prequel to my novel, is now available. The mercenaries of Sparrow Company are trapped in the desert, bound by honour to serve a cruel master. But when a rain cloud appears in the distance, their luck might be about to change...
Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/
Get it here: willgreatwich.com/subscribe/