Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️
@robmortellwrites.bsky.social
Fantasy author (Tales & Treasure, Bards & Bargains)
Dad of 3 👨👧👦 | marathon‑trainee 🏃♂️ | early‑mornings jogs & writing sprints ✍️
Substack ⬇️
https://robmortell.substack.com/
Dad of 3 👨👧👦 | marathon‑trainee 🏃♂️ | early‑mornings jogs & writing sprints ✍️
Substack ⬇️
https://robmortell.substack.com/
Indie Sci-Fi Recommendation:
The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Galaxy Book 1) by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social
It was fast-paced and fun with great characters and a mystery that leaves you wanting more. Check it out if your looking to support another indie author!
The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Galaxy Book 1) by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social
It was fast-paced and fun with great characters and a mystery that leaves you wanting more. Check it out if your looking to support another indie author!
August 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Indie Sci-Fi Recommendation:
The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Galaxy Book 1) by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social
It was fast-paced and fun with great characters and a mystery that leaves you wanting more. Check it out if your looking to support another indie author!
The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller (Dark Galaxy Book 1) by @ryanpatrickauthor.bsky.social
It was fast-paced and fun with great characters and a mystery that leaves you wanting more. Check it out if your looking to support another indie author!
New short story just dropped.
A father makes a deal with a demon to save his daughter’s life.
A Deal Beneath the Moon
Now live on Substack.
A father makes a deal with a demon to save his daughter’s life.
A Deal Beneath the Moon
Now live on Substack.
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New short story just dropped.
A father makes a deal with a demon to save his daughter’s life.
A Deal Beneath the Moon
Now live on Substack.
A father makes a deal with a demon to save his daughter’s life.
A Deal Beneath the Moon
Now live on Substack.
This writing stuff doesn’t get any easier, but finally consistency is beating motivation. I've written for 15 days in a row now.
Four sprints yesterday. Only one felt “good.”
Still got the work done. Still showed up.
I'll take it.
#amwriting #indieauthor #WriterDiscipline
Four sprints yesterday. Only one felt “good.”
Still got the work done. Still showed up.
I'll take it.
#amwriting #indieauthor #WriterDiscipline
July 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This writing stuff doesn’t get any easier, but finally consistency is beating motivation. I've written for 15 days in a row now.
Four sprints yesterday. Only one felt “good.”
Still got the work done. Still showed up.
I'll take it.
#amwriting #indieauthor #WriterDiscipline
Four sprints yesterday. Only one felt “good.”
Still got the work done. Still showed up.
I'll take it.
#amwriting #indieauthor #WriterDiscipline
Just dropped a new Substack post!
A long overdue “Mid-Year Update” featuring marathon training, life updates, writing progress, and a sneak peek at Bards & Bargains Chapter 3.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/robmorte...
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingLife #SubstackWriters #FantasyFiction
A long overdue “Mid-Year Update” featuring marathon training, life updates, writing progress, and a sneak peek at Bards & Bargains Chapter 3.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/robmorte...
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingLife #SubstackWriters #FantasyFiction
Mid-Year Update
It's long overdue
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Just dropped a new Substack post!
A long overdue “Mid-Year Update” featuring marathon training, life updates, writing progress, and a sneak peek at Bards & Bargains Chapter 3.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/robmorte...
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingLife #SubstackWriters #FantasyFiction
A long overdue “Mid-Year Update” featuring marathon training, life updates, writing progress, and a sneak peek at Bards & Bargains Chapter 3.
👇
open.substack.com/pub/robmorte...
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingLife #SubstackWriters #FantasyFiction
I've been really trying to get up a write first time in the morning. I was a little groggy today but hey, I did it!
Woke up at 4:51. Wrote 282 words.
Did yoga. Packed lunch.
Audiobook in the car instead of screen time.
We'll see how long I can keep this up.
#WritersLife #Booksky #indieauthor
Woke up at 4:51. Wrote 282 words.
Did yoga. Packed lunch.
Audiobook in the car instead of screen time.
We'll see how long I can keep this up.
#WritersLife #Booksky #indieauthor
July 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've been really trying to get up a write first time in the morning. I was a little groggy today but hey, I did it!
Woke up at 4:51. Wrote 282 words.
Did yoga. Packed lunch.
Audiobook in the car instead of screen time.
We'll see how long I can keep this up.
#WritersLife #Booksky #indieauthor
Woke up at 4:51. Wrote 282 words.
Did yoga. Packed lunch.
Audiobook in the car instead of screen time.
We'll see how long I can keep this up.
#WritersLife #Booksky #indieauthor
Been awhile so here's a quick writing update:
Finished Chapters 27 & 28 of Bards & Bargains. Draft 1 at 85,000 words
Started the next interlude.
The POVs are starting to converge. It’s tense. It’s messy. It’s fun.
#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Finished Chapters 27 & 28 of Bards & Bargains. Draft 1 at 85,000 words
Started the next interlude.
The POVs are starting to converge. It’s tense. It’s messy. It’s fun.
#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #Booksky
July 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Been awhile so here's a quick writing update:
Finished Chapters 27 & 28 of Bards & Bargains. Draft 1 at 85,000 words
Started the next interlude.
The POVs are starting to converge. It’s tense. It’s messy. It’s fun.
#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Finished Chapters 27 & 28 of Bards & Bargains. Draft 1 at 85,000 words
Started the next interlude.
The POVs are starting to converge. It’s tense. It’s messy. It’s fun.
#FantasyWriter #WritingCommunity #Booksky
Now is your best chance to find my book, Tales & Treasure, available for FREE at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my book and many more at www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Now is your best chance to find my book, Tales & Treasure, available for FREE at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my book and many more at www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Absolutely worth reading!
The Europan Deception releases today! It's a sci-fi thriller that's The Expanse meets The Bourne Identity. Go check it out!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQKKMSV
May 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Absolutely worth reading!
Reposted by Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️
This wonderful solarpunk anthology launched at Eastercon!
It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.
If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!
It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.
If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!
April 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This wonderful solarpunk anthology launched at Eastercon!
It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.
If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!
It's edited by the brilliant @wishusdonna.bsky.social and has lots of great stories, including my first ever solarpunk short! I may have got a bit weird with it.
If you want solarpunk short stories then please check it out!
Wrote over 2,000 words yesterday for the first time ever. Feels really good. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going today. #writing #writingcommunity
April 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wrote over 2,000 words yesterday for the first time ever. Feels really good. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going today. #writing #writingcommunity
I'm really trying to figure out how to balance growing an audience and actually writing. Anyone have any tips? It's hard. Anyway, better get back to actually writing something. I can worry about this marketing stuff later. #writing #writingcommunity
April 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm really trying to figure out how to balance growing an audience and actually writing. Anyone have any tips? It's hard. Anyway, better get back to actually writing something. I can worry about this marketing stuff later. #writing #writingcommunity
Another 100 word flash fiction story and a closer look at a character coming in Bard's & Bargains. #flashfictionfriday #writingcommunity #writing #fantasy
April 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Another 100 word flash fiction story and a closer look at a character coming in Bard's & Bargains. #flashfictionfriday #writingcommunity #writing #fantasy
"Birds sang. The melodious chirping seemed different this morning, slightly softer, less enthusiastic. There was no echo, no annoyingly accurate echo. Vidmar watched Vatis. The bard sat in the dirt, hugging his knees to his chest." Excerpt from Tales & Treasure
#writing #fantasy #indieauthors
#writing #fantasy #indieauthors
April 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Birds sang. The melodious chirping seemed different this morning, slightly softer, less enthusiastic. There was no echo, no annoyingly accurate echo. Vidmar watched Vatis. The bard sat in the dirt, hugging his knees to his chest." Excerpt from Tales & Treasure
#writing #fantasy #indieauthors
#writing #fantasy #indieauthors
April 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The best writing tip I've ever gotten is: "Embrace a bad first draft."
I would edit extensively as I wrote my first draft, while the draft was fairly clean, the process took 10 times longer than just getting all of your ideas out and worrying about the editing later.
#writing #writingcommunity
I would edit extensively as I wrote my first draft, while the draft was fairly clean, the process took 10 times longer than just getting all of your ideas out and worrying about the editing later.
#writing #writingcommunity
April 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The best writing tip I've ever gotten is: "Embrace a bad first draft."
I would edit extensively as I wrote my first draft, while the draft was fairly clean, the process took 10 times longer than just getting all of your ideas out and worrying about the editing later.
#writing #writingcommunity
I would edit extensively as I wrote my first draft, while the draft was fairly clean, the process took 10 times longer than just getting all of your ideas out and worrying about the editing later.
#writing #writingcommunity
What #fantasy race do you want to see more off?
I think we need some more giants and orges, personally.
#writingcommunity #writers
I think we need some more giants and orges, personally.
#writingcommunity #writers
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What #fantasy race do you want to see more off?
I think we need some more giants and orges, personally.
#writingcommunity #writers
I think we need some more giants and orges, personally.
#writingcommunity #writers
Reposted by Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️
Meet these great indie authors who write fantasy at the Fantasy Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #fantasy #authorsky #writersky bsky.app/starter-pack/inventi...
Fantasy Genre Indie Authors
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April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Meet these great indie authors who write fantasy at the Fantasy Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #fantasy #authorsky #writersky bsky.app/starter-pack/inventi...
"I could make you a hero known throughout Emre. I can make you more than a whisper on the tongues of thieves. By the new moon, you’d be on the mind of half the world...
Want more? Check out my novel Tales & Treasure a.co/d/a1DJWAD
#writing #fantasy #writingcommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished
Want more? Check out my novel Tales & Treasure a.co/d/a1DJWAD
#writing #fantasy #writingcommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished
Tales & Treasure
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April 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"I could make you a hero known throughout Emre. I can make you more than a whisper on the tongues of thieves. By the new moon, you’d be on the mind of half the world...
Want more? Check out my novel Tales & Treasure a.co/d/a1DJWAD
#writing #fantasy #writingcommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished
Want more? Check out my novel Tales & Treasure a.co/d/a1DJWAD
#writing #fantasy #writingcommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished
I'm not great at naming things, example:
The name for my fantasy world Emre is just my son Remy's name in poorly pronounced pig latin.
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing
The name for my fantasy world Emre is just my son Remy's name in poorly pronounced pig latin.
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing
April 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm not great at naming things, example:
The name for my fantasy world Emre is just my son Remy's name in poorly pronounced pig latin.
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing
The name for my fantasy world Emre is just my son Remy's name in poorly pronounced pig latin.
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing
March 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Vatis stepped over the corpse of a man he didn't think could die."
-#firstline from Tales & Treasure
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors
-#firstline from Tales & Treasure
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors
March 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Vatis stepped over the corpse of a man he didn't think could die."
-#firstline from Tales & Treasure
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors
-#firstline from Tales & Treasure
#fantasy #writingcommunity #writing #indieauthors
Hi!
I realized that I haven't really introduced myself here. I'm Rob Mortell, a #fantasy author. I write adventure stories based in my world of Emre. Tales & Treasure, my first novel, came out last year. I have an amazing supportive family and like to play golf whenever I can sneak away. #writers
I realized that I haven't really introduced myself here. I'm Rob Mortell, a #fantasy author. I write adventure stories based in my world of Emre. Tales & Treasure, my first novel, came out last year. I have an amazing supportive family and like to play golf whenever I can sneak away. #writers
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️
‘People mad about generative AI would be mad at the printing press and cameras! We’re the future! This is evolution! My prompt is art!’
The printing press and cameras weren’t stealing art or polluting the environment. But whatever you have to tell yourself, you lazy planet hating thief limp noodle.
The printing press and cameras weren’t stealing art or polluting the environment. But whatever you have to tell yourself, you lazy planet hating thief limp noodle.
March 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘People mad about generative AI would be mad at the printing press and cameras! We’re the future! This is evolution! My prompt is art!’
The printing press and cameras weren’t stealing art or polluting the environment. But whatever you have to tell yourself, you lazy planet hating thief limp noodle.
The printing press and cameras weren’t stealing art or polluting the environment. But whatever you have to tell yourself, you lazy planet hating thief limp noodle.
Trying something new—100 word flash fiction stories every Friday that add a little insight and depth to my Stories of Emre Series. #flashfictionfriday #writingcommunity #writing #fantasy
March 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trying something new—100 word flash fiction stories every Friday that add a little insight and depth to my Stories of Emre Series. #flashfictionfriday #writingcommunity #writing #fantasy
Just finished Red Country by @joeabercrombie.com it was fantastic. There aren't many fantasy writers better, you just have to be realistic about this things.
Anyway, highly recommend. It works great as a stand alone but will be better if you've read the first law trilogy. #fantasy
Anyway, highly recommend. It works great as a stand alone but will be better if you've read the first law trilogy. #fantasy
March 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just finished Red Country by @joeabercrombie.com it was fantastic. There aren't many fantasy writers better, you just have to be realistic about this things.
Anyway, highly recommend. It works great as a stand alone but will be better if you've read the first law trilogy. #fantasy
Anyway, highly recommend. It works great as a stand alone but will be better if you've read the first law trilogy. #fantasy