Nicky Drayden
@nickydrayden.bsky.social
Writer of sci-fantasy, taker of naps.
Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1154636392/prosper-with-dragons
Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1154636392/prosper-with-dragons
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Game mechanics time! The resource gathering system in Prosper with Dragons drives the sense of thrill in this game. Each turn, you choose to minimize risks or maximize rewards...and hope your teammates have a strategy that won't tank you all! 🐲
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#cardgame #dragon
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
#cardgame #dragon
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Things are brewing over at Prosper with Dragons HQ! We ran a game at Black Pearl Books last week! This cooperative game repaired some of the hurt feelings after our UNO trash talkin, as it should be. 💥🐉
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Things are brewing over at Prosper with Dragons HQ! We ran a game at Black Pearl Books last week! This cooperative game repaired some of the hurt feelings after our UNO trash talkin, as it should be. 💥🐉
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
Things are brewing over at Prosper with Dragons HQ! We ran a game at Black Pearl Books last week! This cooperative game repaired some of the hurt feelings after our UNO trash talkin, as it should be. 💥🐉
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Things are brewing over at Prosper with Dragons HQ! We ran a game at Black Pearl Books last week! This cooperative game repaired some of the hurt feelings after our UNO trash talkin, as it should be. 💥🐉
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
Follow @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social for the latest updates!
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Finally received my copies of Afrofuturism Tales. My first short story sale! 🥰 Shoutout to #FlameTreePress, @isisasare.bsky.social (editor), @nisishawl.bsky.social (foreword), @sandramgray1.bsky.social (intro). #SFF #SpecFic #BlackSFF #BlackSpecFic
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Finally received my copies of Afrofuturism Tales. My first short story sale! 🥰 Shoutout to #FlameTreePress, @isisasare.bsky.social (editor), @nisishawl.bsky.social (foreword), @sandramgray1.bsky.social (intro). #SFF #SpecFic #BlackSFF #BlackSpecFic
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If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you’re still online, stay online. Don’t stop scrolling!!
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Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮
Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES!
My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202.
(Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )
Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES!
My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202.
(Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮
Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES!
My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202.
(Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )
Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES!
My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202.
(Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )
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It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.
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My new book is coming TOMORROW!
I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) -
www.patreon.com/posts/142750...
I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) -
www.patreon.com/posts/142750...
My new book is coming tomorrow!! | Bogi Takács
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November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My new book is coming TOMORROW!
I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) -
www.patreon.com/posts/142750...
I made a post about it (this is on Patreon, but it doesn't need a subscription) -
www.patreon.com/posts/142750...
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I just finished reading SALTCROP and it was sooo good! If you are free & in the area you should go to this!
Pittsburgh!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
I’m in town tomorrow, Tuesday for this rescheduled event for SALTCROP! Please vote early and come join us!
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just finished reading SALTCROP and it was sooo good! If you are free & in the area you should go to this!
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Re-upping this:
I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Re-upping this:
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“SALTCROP is a distinctive, ambitious, smart novel, and its fable-like tone enables it to end with a fable-like promise about the power of individual agency in a time of systemic breakdown” @niallharrison reviews @yumewrites.bsky.social
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei: Review by Niall Harrison
Saltcrop, Yume Kitasei (Flatiron 978-1-250-38096-8, $30.99, 384pp, hc) September 2025. Cover by Jonathan Bush. It is a bit of an adjustment to go directly from Everything Will Swallow You, in which…
locusmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“SALTCROP is a distinctive, ambitious, smart novel, and its fable-like tone enables it to end with a fable-like promise about the power of individual agency in a time of systemic breakdown” @niallharrison reviews @yumewrites.bsky.social
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Feed the people, feed the people, feed the people!
As anyone who's read Teeth of Dawn knows, food banks are important to me. Given that SNAP is about to be in flux for millions of Americans, now is a good time to donate if you have the means. I gave today. My local food bank is: www.nwafoodbank.org
www.nwafoodbank.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Feed the people, feed the people, feed the people!
omg, this Prosper with Dragons review!!! 🥰
Your dragons made it to Australia and have brought this mum and her son closer together in a cooperative endeavour instead of a zero-sum game that ends in tears for one of us.
We came for the pretty dragons and stayed for the challenge of reaching prosperity with our scaly friends. Kid’s review: 5⭐️
We came for the pretty dragons and stayed for the challenge of reaching prosperity with our scaly friends. Kid’s review: 5⭐️
October 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
omg, this Prosper with Dragons review!!! 🥰
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Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!
October 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!
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Okay first @mariadongwrites.bsky.social was squeeing about it and now @nickydrayden.bsky.social is squeeing about it! Clearly this is a sign!
I can't remember the last time I had such an adventure reading a book, and my margins are doodled with proof. Saltcrop is a rollercoaster...a wet, weird, wild ride!
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Okay first @mariadongwrites.bsky.social was squeeing about it and now @nickydrayden.bsky.social is squeeing about it! Clearly this is a sign!
Hope to see y'all out tomorrow evening at First Light Books! Come hear all about this captivating novel!
I can't remember the last time I had such an adventure reading a book, and my margins are doodled with proof. Saltcrop is a rollercoaster...a wet, weird, wild ride!
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hope to see y'all out tomorrow evening at First Light Books! Come hear all about this captivating novel!
I can't remember the last time I had such an adventure reading a book, and my margins are doodled with proof. Saltcrop is a rollercoaster...a wet, weird, wild ride!
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
October 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I can't remember the last time I had such an adventure reading a book, and my margins are doodled with proof. Saltcrop is a rollercoaster...a wet, weird, wild ride!
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
If you're in Austin, come hear @yumewrites.bsky.social and I chat about her latest novel Tuesday Oct 7th at First Light Books @6pm.
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Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Y'allllll, if you're a fan of weird and brilliant and poignant and WEIRD climate fiction, let me point you in the direction of ----> @yumewrites.bsky.social's new novel SALTCROP!
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
Come hear me gush about this book with Yume next Tuesday at First Light Books in Austin!
(Get it now, thank me later!)
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Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.
I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam
Pay Rivers Solomon using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/riversandfam and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.
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Here it is: the cover for The People’s Library
Meet Echo London, reluctant curator of The People’s Library.
And her creator—me!
Coming February 3, 2026 - Preorder Now!!! 🙏 🙂
#SciFiBooks #CoverReveal #VeronicaGHenry #ThePeoplesLibrary #EchoLondon
Meet Echo London, reluctant curator of The People’s Library.
And her creator—me!
Coming February 3, 2026 - Preorder Now!!! 🙏 🙂
#SciFiBooks #CoverReveal #VeronicaGHenry #ThePeoplesLibrary #EchoLondon
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Here it is: the cover for The People’s Library
Meet Echo London, reluctant curator of The People’s Library.
And her creator—me!
Coming February 3, 2026 - Preorder Now!!! 🙏 🙂
#SciFiBooks #CoverReveal #VeronicaGHenry #ThePeoplesLibrary #EchoLondon
Meet Echo London, reluctant curator of The People’s Library.
And her creator—me!
Coming February 3, 2026 - Preorder Now!!! 🙏 🙂
#SciFiBooks #CoverReveal #VeronicaGHenry #ThePeoplesLibrary #EchoLondon
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Today's the day! LIVE GAME DEMO at 6pm in ArmadilloCon's Game Room!
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
September 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's the day! LIVE GAME DEMO at 6pm in ArmadilloCon's Game Room!
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
Today's the day! LIVE GAME DEMO at 6pm in ArmadilloCon's Game Room!
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
September 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's the day! LIVE GAME DEMO at 6pm in ArmadilloCon's Game Room!
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
Prosper with Dragons makes a great party game, so the more, the merrier! 🔥🐉
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If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
September 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
September 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase!
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo.
($20 venmo or cash!)
🐉🐉🐉
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
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Boosting this (and the whole, very nice thread). I worked with Tiffany for about a year or so back in, what was it, 2018/19? She long set the bar for any business managers I would go on to have. Indeed worth her weight in gold; you should consider hiring her if you're looking to work with someone.
Why am I telling you all this? Because Tiffany once more has a couple of slots for new clients. If you're even curious, I highly recommend you contact her via @tiffscribes.bsky.social Chat with her to see whether the two of you might be a good fit. Do it soon. She's a precious and limited resource.
September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Boosting this (and the whole, very nice thread). I worked with Tiffany for about a year or so back in, what was it, 2018/19? She long set the bar for any business managers I would go on to have. Indeed worth her weight in gold; you should consider hiring her if you're looking to work with someone.