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.
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.
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/
Dying Earth covers thru the ages
February 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Dying Earth covers thru the ages
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...
February 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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...
I can finally show off the cover of my novel!
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood.
It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood.
It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR
February 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I can finally show off the cover of my novel!
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood.
It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR
HOUSE OF THE RAIN KING is a standalone fantasy novel about a young monk who comes face to face with his god amidst the rising waters of a mythic flood.
It's available for pre-order now, publishing on the 28th of Feb: books2read.com/u/mekdKR
look at what they took from you
February 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
look at what they took from you
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
February 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
Watched YES, MADAM (1985) last night. Absolutely insane fight scenes and amazing outfits for Yeoh and Rothrock. Adding this to the canon of "live action movies where people act like Looney Tunes characters", alongside Lemonade Joe and Hundreds of Beavers
January 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Watched YES, MADAM (1985) last night. Absolutely insane fight scenes and amazing outfits for Yeoh and Rothrock. Adding this to the canon of "live action movies where people act like Looney Tunes characters", alongside Lemonade Joe and Hundreds of Beavers
time to read some real literature
January 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
time to read some real literature
look at these three beauties
January 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
look at these three beauties
Why does every Vietnamese book cover look fucking awesome?
January 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Why does every Vietnamese book cover look fucking awesome?
love this footnote in Moby-Dick where Melville absolutely rips into dugongs
January 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
love this footnote in Moby-Dick where Melville absolutely rips into dugongs
#3: Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant novels. Specifically, I admired the way Dickinson depicts third-gender people in a way that's grounded in their own fictional culture. Lethe's experience of gender fluidity in "Another Tide" is strongly influenced by this.
November 22, 2024 at 1:07 AM
#3: Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant novels. Specifically, I admired the way Dickinson depicts third-gender people in a way that's grounded in their own fictional culture. Lethe's experience of gender fluidity in "Another Tide" is strongly influenced by this.
#2: The rockpools on the Mornington Peninsula. Peering into seaweed-choked pools, looking at bright red crabs and sea anemones, I imagined this stony landscape stretching on for hundreds of miles. This became the setting of "Another Tide".
November 22, 2024 at 1:07 AM
#2: The rockpools on the Mornington Peninsula. Peering into seaweed-choked pools, looking at bright red crabs and sea anemones, I imagined this stony landscape stretching on for hundreds of miles. This became the setting of "Another Tide".
3 inspirations for my novelette "Another Tide":
#1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic.
#1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic.
November 22, 2024 at 1:07 AM
3 inspirations for my novelette "Another Tide":
#1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic.
#1: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Maybe a rather obvious choice, but it's true. I love how Wolfe writes the voice of an older, scholarly character looking back on their youth. I tried to combine that voice with the style of a Marxist academic.
my favourite scenes from King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
April 14, 2024 at 7:15 AM
my favourite scenes from King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
New acquisitions: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) by Doris Lessing; and Gloriana (1978) by Michael Moorcock
February 8, 2024 at 4:01 AM
New acquisitions: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) by Doris Lessing; and Gloriana (1978) by Michael Moorcock
Now reading: The Birthgrave (1975) by Tanith Lee
February 2, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Now reading: The Birthgrave (1975) by Tanith Lee
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
November 2, 2023 at 6:02 AM
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
November 2, 2023 at 6:00 AM
This is a wonderful book. I picked it up expecting no more than a treasury of Weird Medieval Guys, and found instead a subtle and wide-ranging analysis of the medieval imagination.
currently reading
October 19, 2023 at 1:44 AM
currently reading
Trying to start a new household tradition of watching a classic cartoon short before the feature presentation. Tonight: Hell's Bells (1929) followed by The Wild Bunch (1969)
September 27, 2023 at 8:07 AM
Trying to start a new household tradition of watching a classic cartoon short before the feature presentation. Tonight: Hell's Bells (1929) followed by The Wild Bunch (1969)