Scribbler Hackit
@scribblerhackit.bsky.social
Bookworming. Writing. Losing sleep over the state of the world.
Author of THE MYRIAD OF SIMON HANSEN, a meandering, egghead gay romance(?) set in a Dublin bookshop in the 90s.
https://myriadofsimonhansen.com/
Author of THE MYRIAD OF SIMON HANSEN, a meandering, egghead gay romance(?) set in a Dublin bookshop in the 90s.
https://myriadofsimonhansen.com/
Today until the 13th, get 63 books for $38 courtesy of the Under-Rated Bundle. These reads are so new or so niche, they haven’t been reviewed much and are waiting to be discovered—and talked about. Thanks for including MYRIAD in this myriad, @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social!
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October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today until the 13th, get 63 books for $38 courtesy of the Under-Rated Bundle. These reads are so new or so niche, they haven’t been reviewed much and are waiting to be discovered—and talked about. Thanks for including MYRIAD in this myriad, @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social!
itch.io/b/3305/under...
itch.io/b/3305/under...
An original and very hip itch bundle idea is coming at us starting this Wednesday: Under-rated Books (in which MYRIAD features). We’re thirsting for your honest reviews. 📚
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October 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An original and very hip itch bundle idea is coming at us starting this Wednesday: Under-rated Books (in which MYRIAD features). We’re thirsting for your honest reviews. 📚
itch.io/b/3305/under...
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Mine/SP: kinda historical kinda contemporary (if that makes sense) queer friendship and search-for-love take set in Dublin with LOTS o’ books. myriadofsimonhansen.com
Another’s/TP: which I just finished and must rave abt (poetic Gilgameshian spec fic with unequivocal gay soldiers) (image). READ IT.
Another’s/TP: which I just finished and must rave abt (poetic Gilgameshian spec fic with unequivocal gay soldiers) (image). READ IT.
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mine/SP: kinda historical kinda contemporary (if that makes sense) queer friendship and search-for-love take set in Dublin with LOTS o’ books. myriadofsimonhansen.com
Another’s/TP: which I just finished and must rave abt (poetic Gilgameshian spec fic with unequivocal gay soldiers) (image). READ IT.
Another’s/TP: which I just finished and must rave abt (poetic Gilgameshian spec fic with unequivocal gay soldiers) (image). READ IT.
I love a good mega-bundle, esp one celebrating bi/pan fiction and authors. There are enough great reads nearly to last you til NEXT Bi Vis Week, and the genre variety reflects the variety we kinda love in life too... 🌶
#BiVisibility
#BiAwareness
#queersky
#booksky
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#BiVisibility
#BiAwareness
#queersky
#booksky
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September 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I love a good mega-bundle, esp one celebrating bi/pan fiction and authors. There are enough great reads nearly to last you til NEXT Bi Vis Week, and the genre variety reflects the variety we kinda love in life too... 🌶
#BiVisibility
#BiAwareness
#queersky
#booksky
itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...
#BiVisibility
#BiAwareness
#queersky
#booksky
itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...
This is most exciting! MYRIAD gets to be included among 50 bundled bi books of all flavors. A fun opportunity to discover books of genres/types we might usually miss in our siloed world. Love that for this bundle.
September 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is most exciting! MYRIAD gets to be included among 50 bundled bi books of all flavors. A fun opportunity to discover books of genres/types we might usually miss in our siloed world. Love that for this bundle.
(There’s also this, which completely messed me up when I read it; Simon’s story of having to skip the English classes where it was discussed when he was a teen is shamefully true to life).
August 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
(There’s also this, which completely messed me up when I read it; Simon’s story of having to skip the English classes where it was discussed when he was a teen is shamefully true to life).
Oh damn. None of them were very pop, I’m afraid—looking back, I was a weird kid (but no regrets).
August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh damn. None of them were very pop, I’m afraid—looking back, I was a weird kid (but no regrets).
Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.
August 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.
Yeah, I'm sitting here pretty baffled myself.
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yeah, I'm sitting here pretty baffled myself.
There's a Voracious Readers Only promo on now for MYRIAD bk 1. Since I’m giving away ebooks today, I’m going wide until midnight tonight so everyone can party.
DM, reply below or email me through my pinned site if you’d like a free review copy sent your way. Public opining most welcome, ofc!
DM, reply below or email me through my pinned site if you’d like a free review copy sent your way. Public opining most welcome, ofc!
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
There's a Voracious Readers Only promo on now for MYRIAD bk 1. Since I’m giving away ebooks today, I’m going wide until midnight tonight so everyone can party.
DM, reply below or email me through my pinned site if you’d like a free review copy sent your way. Public opining most welcome, ofc!
DM, reply below or email me through my pinned site if you’d like a free review copy sent your way. Public opining most welcome, ofc!
If you can't say which popular Italian opera features bangers like "E Strano" and "Sempre Libera", you don't get a whole-ass opera house named after you. It's that fucking simple. 😡
July 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If you can't say which popular Italian opera features bangers like "E Strano" and "Sempre Libera", you don't get a whole-ass opera house named after you. It's that fucking simple. 😡
Had a couple of cool convos with Book 2 readers asking me about the odd line of French dialogue in there (kind of like Christie using bits of French when Poirot speaks). Tricky decision, but I made sure context lends the sense anyway.
What are folks’ thoughts on using non-English in EN novels?
What are folks’ thoughts on using non-English in EN novels?
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Had a couple of cool convos with Book 2 readers asking me about the odd line of French dialogue in there (kind of like Christie using bits of French when Poirot speaks). Tricky decision, but I made sure context lends the sense anyway.
What are folks’ thoughts on using non-English in EN novels?
What are folks’ thoughts on using non-English in EN novels?
Visitors to the new-and-improved MYRIAD website yesterday indeed noticed a wee something: "Year Two" is now out in ePub, Kindle and PDF! (Get the latter two formats at itch or Gumroad.)
myriadofsimonhansen.com/buy-books/
#BookSky
#BookLaunch
#QueerBooks
#IndieBooks
myriadofsimonhansen.com/buy-books/
#BookSky
#BookLaunch
#QueerBooks
#IndieBooks
July 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Visitors to the new-and-improved MYRIAD website yesterday indeed noticed a wee something: "Year Two" is now out in ePub, Kindle and PDF! (Get the latter two formats at itch or Gumroad.)
myriadofsimonhansen.com/buy-books/
#BookSky
#BookLaunch
#QueerBooks
#IndieBooks
myriadofsimonhansen.com/buy-books/
#BookSky
#BookLaunch
#QueerBooks
#IndieBooks
Right on. It works so well. Pix for an idea (there are no proof markers on frontispiece either).
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Right on. It works so well. Pix for an idea (there are no proof markers on frontispiece either).
Character's a dirtbag but that coup de foudre all over his face when he sees Betty is grafted onto my brain.
June 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Character's a dirtbag but that coup de foudre all over his face when he sees Betty is grafted onto my brain.
So wild revising this draft I wrote last century. My main character would have looked personally traumatized by his homeland back then to most US readers, and that was kind of the point. Recent events, however, make him seem super reasonable about his birth nation as he’s applying to renounce it.
![Book passage (with BF name elided to prevent spoilers):
The officer glanced at [boyfriend]—at [boyfriend’s] soaring eyebrow. “Well, people change their minds and it’s a nightmare,” she said after a beat. “What if your future wife is American and you want to return home to start a life with her there? You’ll have absolutely no right of residency or employment, and certainly none of the unique freedoms, opportunities and protections afforded US citizens.”
It took a lot—a lot—not to make some kind of retort about the absolutely fucking inflated, mythic notion of American-only freedom and opportunity I was taught at school, never mind this so-called protection I saw little of growing up back there. What goddamn fucking protection was I afforded when I was fifteen years old? What fucking freedom was I ever afforded in William Hansen’s house? I wanted to curse this at her—at everyone working on Elgin Road. I wanted to mock the lie of American exceptionalism on that technically American bit of sod in the middle of Dublin, and holler Land of the Not-as-Free-as-You-Think-It-Is! at the staff and marines until my throat bled. I wanted to give the marine peering through the porthole at me the jauntiest middle-finger I could muster, but instead I pressed my passport in my hands and looked at [boyfriend].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn2ujdwfrozjuvfk3vmtqhq/bafkreicrogwqqsqwk7prdcdpc5eucxezqcm2avklt6npn5srsbrbddtxfu@jpeg)
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So wild revising this draft I wrote last century. My main character would have looked personally traumatized by his homeland back then to most US readers, and that was kind of the point. Recent events, however, make him seem super reasonable about his birth nation as he’s applying to renounce it.
🎶 He's got David Hemmings eyes 🎶
🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🎶 He's got David Hemmings eyes 🎶
🔥🔥🔥
🔥🔥🔥
Very pleased to confirm this for those of you who’ve been making my day recently by asking for more of Simon’s (mostly) cozy bookish, foodish, queerish world:
Year Two revisions are done and it will be out this fall!
And yes, it’s steamier than Year One. Get ready. 🔥
#booksky #queersky
Year Two revisions are done and it will be out this fall!
And yes, it’s steamier than Year One. Get ready. 🔥
#booksky #queersky
May 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here's a plain wee oddball cover of mine courtesy of artist Ehsan. Not the typical cover for the not-typical story inside (hard to categorize, so using a familiar genre design might irk readers). I love it more each day and looking forward to seeing Ehsan's work for book 2.
April 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Here's a plain wee oddball cover of mine courtesy of artist Ehsan. Not the typical cover for the not-typical story inside (hard to categorize, so using a familiar genre design might irk readers). I love it more each day and looking forward to seeing Ehsan's work for book 2.