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J. Stigliano | Fantasy Author
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Fantasy writer, tabletop hobbyist, woodworker, homebrewer, and all around dragon enthusiast.

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J. Stigliano | Fantasy Author @jasonstigliano.bsky.social · 4d
Out of Dark Waters is a collision between high fantasy and Lovecraftian horror, inspired by a love of tabletop storytelling.

In my wife's words, "It's the D&D campaign you wish you were playing!"

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#Fantasy #BookSky
On the left, a book cover; a dragon towers over a ruined city. On the right, a black & white map of a fantasy landscape.
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Thanks for hosting! The audiobook of my debut novel A Legacy of Blood and Bone comes out in a few weeks, on December 2, 2025. It's available for presaves on Spotify (that produced it!) and preorders on Audible, B&N, etc.!
A Legacy of Blood and Bone
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November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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#SFFChat Outro: What I would like most shared is my current Backerkit campaign to bring The Dark Side of Super to life as an audio book. And The Book Bazaar!

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The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I may (or may not) have been waiting years for an excuse to use the word "gloaming." #SffChat
The fog broke, and evening began to tint the sky. Back in Crossroads or Bardwell, bells would soon be ringing for sundown, but the city was silent. The circles of the dead were endless, beyond count as they passed them by. As they came nearer the city, though, they found many damaged, the bones shattered and strewed. Sometimes there was a fresher corpse among the disturbed circles, bloody and fetid. And when the fog cleared, a darker sight came into view. Above the city, as though suspended from puppets’ strings, hung a great dragon’s visage, straining against a net of silken shadows. A mist of dark water poured from its rupturing bonds, down into the city, oily black. Its flesh glistened like polished obsidian but was broken by cracks, from which flowed a blood of silver light. The pitiless stars of its eyes beheld them in the dim gloaming. The dragon they had seen in the city’s center, ancient Vodoniathan, firstborn of primeval Beladar. It had not loomed so over the ruined city when last they were here.
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I imagine that time keeping in remote or rural areas is only as precise as necessary -- rising with the dawn, coming home with the tide, etc.. In cities and castles, there would probably be more precise communal clocks based on either magical or physical mechanisms. #SffChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q3: How is time kept or measured in your world? If time is the same way as for us, how does magic or technology influence it?
Black background with a simple sparkling gold texture and a line drawing of a sun and crescent moon.
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I usually have a pretty clear idea of the time of day a scene occurs, though it doesn't always make it into the written description. But, oh man, do I love narrating dramatic stuff happening by moonlight. I sometimes have to edit out a glut of moonlight-related descriptions. #SffChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q2: When you write, do you tend to have a clear picture of the time of day for particularly intense scenes?
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November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Glancingly referenced in Out of Dark Waters: Night time is always high tide, because the moon orbits Thindul directly opposite the sun, and the moon pulls the ocean. (Not because of gravity, of course; the same eldritch god created the ocean and the moon, and the moon calls the ocean home.) #SffChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 2d
#SFFChat Q1: What unique features of day, night, or time exist in your world? OR, how do people in your world think about these concepts (maybe they're sacred, etc)?
Black background with a simple sparkling gold texture and a line drawing of a sun and crescent moon.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
jasonstigliano.bsky.social
An experimental set up for better terrain pics. I think I'm getting there.

#Terrain #40K #Frostgrave #Miniatures #MiniPainting
Gothic style terrain for 40k/Frostgrave. The corner of a ruined building, formed from four gothic arches. Gothic style terrain for 40k/Frostgrave
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Out of Dark Waters is available on Kobo Plus. With a free trial, you can check it out, along with a lot of other awesome SFF, at no cost!

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The Cover of "Out of Dark Waters" by Jason Stigliano. Pictures a dragon bestriding a ruined city.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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My last few interceptors have their heads now! I clipped the spikes off of some HH MKIII helmets. I'm on a quest to give each of the 4 squad variants a visually distinctive build.

#GreyKnights #40K #Warhammer #Miniatures #MiniPainting #ModelPainting
GK interceptors with MKIII heads.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jasonstigliano.bsky.social
Out of Dark Waters is a collision between high fantasy and Lovecraftian horror, inspired by a love of tabletop storytelling.

In my wife's words, "It's the D&D campaign you wish you were playing!"

www.amazon.com/Out-Dark-Wat...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

#Fantasy #BookSky
On the left, a book cover; a dragon towers over a ruined city. On the right, a black & white map of a fantasy landscape.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It's Fairly cold outside
Three graphs 0-100 Fahrenheit: 0 - Really cold outside 100 - Really hot outside Celsius: 0 - Fairly cold outside 100 - Dead Kelvin: 0 - Dead 100 - Dead
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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It's now only 8 days until The Dead Man is out. If you've enjoyed the Mennik Thorn books or if you're curious as to what they're like, the prequel novella is for you!

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Promo image showing the cover of The Dead Man, A Mennik Thorn Prequel Novella, by Patrick Samphire. Image includes the text: I would be dishonest if I didn’t say that Benny looked like a ferret that had drowned then been left to dry on the cobblestones. There were stalls in Penitent’s Ear market that sold strips of dried goat meat that looked healthier than my best friend. “You look shit, mate,” he told me before I could share my observation. 8 days to go.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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JUST TWO AWAY!!! I'm so, so close to selling 100 KDP copies of my dragon short story this year! LET'S FREAKING GOOOOO ;)

If you fancy a short story with dragons, knights and revenge, check it out! Only 99c!

Any reposts to help me get there would also be most fabulousssss.
98 units processed on KDP of The Knight Saves the Dragon
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I need to find a better way to take pictures of large terrain pieces. But in the meantime...

BEHOLD yon eerie ruin, where it crests the desolate vista of my Förhöja kitchen cart.

#Terrain #Miniatures #Frostgrave #40K #Warhammer
A 3D printer gothic ruin in the style of 40K, on a butcherblock countertop.
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Fifteen little dudes magnetized! My interceptor squad, and half a strike squad. Scratched up the magnets with a file, superglued, supported with green stuff.

#GreyKnights #Warhammer #40K #Warhammer40k #Minis #Miniatures #ModelPainting #Wargaming #MiniPainting #Tabletop #Astartes
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Prettiest loaf I've made in a while, I feel like. I was low on baker's yeast, so I used EC-1118 wine yeast in it. #Bread #Breadsky #Bakingsky
Fresh sitting in the bottom half of a bread cloche, oven gloves next to it.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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turning a big dial taht says "Sexism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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What's the most creative way you've reskinned a monster to fit your campaign setting?
#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme
A three-panel meme titled "Unicorns come in different sizes" showing a white horse with a horn labeled "Unicorn", a rhinoceros labeled "High-capacity assault unicorn", and a narwhal labeled "High speed underwater unicorn".
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#SFFChat Outro. Thanks again for hosting, Steve! And I'll echo your outro and tell people to go and get/spread the word about this amazing bundle, Trans People Take on the World! My book, Garden of Rotten Roses, is in there as well! 💜🔥

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Trans People Take on the World by Elise Carlson and 32 others
Trans People Take on the World: 32 items for $35.00
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Thanks for these questions! Memories are such an interesting topic to discuss!

If you’d like to check out the book I was discussing, here it is!

Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Cover by @northyme.com
A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Aspirationally, I'd like readers to carry away a vivid memory of how my work made them feel, long after their specific memory the story has faded. The way that I feel about the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, or Ocarina of Time. #SffChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 9d
#SFFChat Q3: What aspects of your work would you most like to stick with readers?

This was poorly phrased! Sort of, "what would you most like readers to take away" but in a less immediate sense.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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My current WIP, Oath and Memory, is about an alien(ish) being who came through a portal into a high fantasy realm, along with many others of his species, with no memory of their past. He is on a quest to liberate the (supposed) key to his memories from a dragon's hoard. #SffChat
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 9d
#SFFChat Q1: What roles do myth, history, memory, or remembrance/commemoration play in your work?
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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#SFFChat is here!

Intro: Introduce yourself and share a fond memory you have of the SFF community, or of writing/reading SFF.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Writing fantasy is trying to figure out what to call a French braid when there is no France.
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 11d
Writing about fantasy cephalopods is typing “She winked” and having to look up whether octopi can wink (they can)
diannalgunn.bsky.social Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 12d
Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I've finished painting the first model for the miniature wargame I'm designing - #ROBEBOTS.

This kitbash is a combination of Frostgrave Wizards and Stargrave Automatons from @northstarfigs.bsky.social, with a Sicarian Infiltrator head from Warhammer 40K.

Backdrop by @handiworkgames.bsky.social.
A miniature of a robot is wizards robes and a pointy hat, standing in front of a painted sci-fi landscape.
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM