Brigitte Winter
@brigittewinter.bsky.social
Author. Photographer. Game designer. Co-Founder of Scryptid Games. Viable Paradise ‘23. SFWA. HWA. Rep’d by Sara Megibow.
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I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
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November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Wow, look at that fancy new cover!
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
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Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Wow, look at that fancy new cover!
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project!
Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!!
www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We won a thing! And it’s judged by librarians! No higher honor than that. ✨ We are celebrating with a fancy new cover and a fancy new ebook sale this weekend: a.co/d/8hEb4hv
Fun opportunity for my NYC friends!
New York friends, who will we see at Game Design Days at Twenty Sided Store this Sunday, 11/16??
Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social.
More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da
Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social.
More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da
Spotlight | NYU Game Design Days w/ Scryptid Games & Twenty Sided
Game Design Days is a week-long NYU Game Center sponsored event highlighting indie game design and production, connecting students and game enthusiasts with professionals to inspire creative futures. ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Fun opportunity for my NYC friends!
Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.
Definitely looking forward to co-GMing some truly unhinged puppet shenanigans with @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Puppets in TTRPG are having their moment, so let's get glue and googly eyes all over the Hyatt Regency Morristown!!! Haha just kidding, we totally promise it will be clean. Sort of. Yeah.
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.
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SO excited for this!!
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
SO excited for this!!
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Cicadas? Cryptids?? SAPPHICS?! Sold, sold, sold!!! 😍😍😍 Such great news!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cicadas? Cryptids?? SAPPHICS?! Sold, sold, sold!!! 😍😍😍 Such great news!!
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have some big, joyful news! My debut novel, The Normal Monster Club, will be published in 2027! A HUGE thank you to my agent Sara Megibow and to Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame at Generous Press for believing in this queer genre-bending book! 😭🥹😎 Happy Halloween!
New York friends, @scryptidgames.bsky.social is hosting a TTRPG writing workshop in a few weeks!
Really excited to be presenting our second iteration of the @scryptidgames.bsky.social x @twentysided.bsky.social TTRPG Writing Workshop during Game Design Days this year! We'll be joined by the amazing @sccreatives.bsky.social ✨
Game Design Days is also returning November 14-22! This event series highlights the underground independent game design communities of NYC, creating additional opportunities for anyone curious about game design to connect with local studios, collectives, and spaces.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New York friends, @scryptidgames.bsky.social is hosting a TTRPG writing workshop in a few weeks!
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New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple
Evergreen Review
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October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Attending @qgcon.bsky.social next weekend? Channel your inner raccoon and sign up to play my TTRPG Psychic Trash Detectives in the arcade! We are running two demo games on 9/28: 1:30-3:30 and 3:30-5:30. Five seats available for each. Email scryptidgames@scryptidgames.com to reserve your spot.
September 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Attending @qgcon.bsky.social next weekend? Channel your inner raccoon and sign up to play my TTRPG Psychic Trash Detectives in the arcade! We are running two demo games on 9/28: 1:30-3:30 and 3:30-5:30. Five seats available for each. Email scryptidgames@scryptidgames.com to reserve your spot.
Allison is a brilliant writer, editor, and marketer (and a joy to work with to boot.)
Just booked a writing retreat, so, er, I'd love to fit in a couple more clients/workshops for fall to help offset the cost!
I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵
I'm a writer, editor, & marketing coach. My sweet spot is helping authors w forthcoming titles navigate the book marketing engine + plan for launch. (pottern.com) 🧵
September 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Allison is a brilliant writer, editor, and marketer (and a joy to work with to boot.)
This story still makes me actually guffaw.
Most of my posts on BlueSky are boring. You know what isn't boring? This funny, feel-good, paranormal story I wrote last year about a poor sweet muffin of an artist has no clue what she's gotten herself into asking for travel advice online. TGIF. Enjoy!
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August 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This story still makes me actually guffaw.
This is a great essay. 🧵 🪡
I finished the first draft of my WIP right before WorldCon and it got me thinking about the parallels with my other hobby: sewing. Check out 4 things I've learned from sewing and applied to drafting a novel.
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What Sewing Can Teach Us About Drafting Novels
I always get the bug for drafting in the summer.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is a great essay. 🧵 🪡
Grateful for a week of joy, inspiration, and writing family at WorldCon. 💖 🪼
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Grateful for a week of joy, inspiration, and writing family at WorldCon. 💖 🪼
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Major FOMO re: #worldcon!! Half of our anthology's contributors will be there, so the ebook is more than half off!
Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social
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Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social
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August 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Major FOMO re: #worldcon!! Half of our anthology's contributors will be there, so the ebook is more than half off!
Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social
books2read.com/newyearnewyo...
Grab a copy and say hi to @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @chriscampbell.bsky.social @fechoe.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @avani.bsky.social
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I got to preview this book and this tale of 🩸🩺 ✨ is 👩🍳 💋.
A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC x HOUSE M.D.
An ambitious blood-magic medical student must unravel a government conspiracy before a murderer can close on a corporate takeover of death itself.
HANDS RISE RED (103k) is a queer anticapitalist cassette-punk adult fantasy.
#amquerying #A #F #questpit
An ambitious blood-magic medical student must unravel a government conspiracy before a murderer can close on a corporate takeover of death itself.
HANDS RISE RED (103k) is a queer anticapitalist cassette-punk adult fantasy.
#amquerying #A #F #questpit
August 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I got to preview this book and this tale of 🩸🩺 ✨ is 👩🍳 💋.
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Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO
It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more.
#speclit #booksky
It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more.
#speclit #booksky
August 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO
It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more.
#speclit #booksky
It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more.
#speclit #booksky
Can’t wait to read this. 💖
SURPRISE 🥹 I’ve dreamed of appearing in Beneath Ceaseless Skies ever since I started seriously writing and I’m so stoked my little story about weird lands, memories, trauma, and solidarity found a home here 💫 the ebook is out today!! Please support if you can!! 💜
BCS #438 ebook out early today @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of lands beyond and what it takes to return from them by @stephenrcase.bsky.social and @traewrites.bsky.social Hawkins: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
July 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Can’t wait to read this. 💖
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SO HONORED & EXCITED to be a part of this anthology and with so many insanely talented authors 🥹🌱❤️
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Highly recommend this class if you are curious about interactive fiction. Nat is an amazing teacher. ❤️
I'm teaching an interactive fiction class at @onestorymag.bsky.social this summer! Join me online July 10 - August 7 to make interactive stories in Twine. No coding experience required. Sign up here:
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June 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Highly recommend this class if you are curious about interactive fiction. Nat is an amazing teacher. ❤️
Excited to present at Narrascope this weekend! 🦝
Get the NarraScoop on Brigitte Winter! @brigittewinter.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Excited to present at Narrascope this weekend! 🦝
So pumped for this book!! Congrats, Laura!! 🍄🟫❤️
We couldn’t be more excited to share the stunning cover for Laura Cranehill’s WIFE SHAPED BODIES!
The paperback, featuring illustrated French flaps, is out in April 2026. Preorder your copy now!
Cover design by Ella Laytham (IG @ellaytham)
Cover illustration by Kior Ko (kior.bsky.social)
The paperback, featuring illustrated French flaps, is out in April 2026. Preorder your copy now!
Cover design by Ella Laytham (IG @ellaytham)
Cover illustration by Kior Ko (kior.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So pumped for this book!! Congrats, Laura!! 🍄🟫❤️
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June 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM