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Thom Brannan

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Submarine veteran, industrial technician, writer. If you're curious, why not check out the currently free BEFORE THE DAWN! https://linktr.ee/thombrannan

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 15d

Who's ready for SPOOKTOBER GIVEAWAYS?

That's right, friends and fiends, this month I will be running four (count 'em, four) week-long free-ebook promotions to prepare you for Halloween and to celebrate one of our fallen, the wily and daring Doug Wojtowicz.

See schedule below, links on demand.

Lords of Night: October 6th to October 10th
Wizards of Mass Destruction: October 13th to October 17th
World of Trouble: Tribulation of Dax: October 20th to October 24th
World of Trouble: Dia de los Muertos: October 27th to Halloween

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 19h

If you have a ghost story or have ever lived in a haunted house, I want to hear from you. Message me if you'd prefer to remain private about it.

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 1d

I DID A THING.

youtu.be/2cUxaug6yPw

Fang City

YouTube video by Thom Brannan

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 1d

Can I talk anybody here into donating some Photoshop skill to a good cause? I am trying to do something in both GIMP and Photo Impact and it is driving me up the WALL.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I think about a lot with THE MATRIX is that it's far, FAR more likely that the machines are using humans for processing power than electrical power.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry, WHO is coming for your guns, again? lol, the leopards weren't supposed to eat MY face!

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 3d

Howdy hey, folks! The second week of SPOOKTOBER GIVEAWAY is here! Get your free copy of WIZARDS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, M-F.

For your entertainment, I've included here the original cover idea I kept this, just in case.

www.amazon.com/dp/B091BG2GP7

Please share wide, and thank you very much.

Black thumbprint over a white world map and Century insignia, an intertwined circle and triangle.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 3d

There, I fixed it.

COBRA Viper with ICE over his Cobra insignia

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think this is true stuff. I am a stick in the mud this morning.

WTF, it's the afternoon already?!

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 5d

THANK YOU everybody who participated, especially those who shared the LORDS OF NIGHT giveaway. We moved dozens of ebooks and even got some KU reads on other books, due to increased eyeballs on the author page.

I appreciate your time and enthusiasm and look forward to pushing an anthology next week.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 6d

... bonus influence, 'natch

poster for The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 6d

For the last day of Spooktober's free ebook giveaway for LORDS OF NIGHT, here are the No Context Influences. I had wanted to make a single graphic with all of these, but my attention span has betrayed me, so here are individual pictures, instead.

See the book here:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP9W9HYR

The Dark Tower, Roland standing before one of the doors, rose in view

black, white, and red movie poster for THE WARRIORS

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 7d

First review for the new edition of LORDS OF NIGHT is in, and we are sitting at five stars, baby! Don't jinx it, don't jinx it, don't jinx it, lol

"So to start, I'm not going to lie, I didn't think this was going to be up my alley. But as the story kept progressing, my interest grew, until I literally finished the book on the couple hours plane ride to Jersey. It was the right blend of sci-fi/horror and dystopian, with some magical realism and I enjoyed the allegory nature and religious aspects of the beings. While being not from this world, they certainly took on the traits of those figures in many different religious cultures. But the book definitely followed the 'young hero' formula, which was ok, since it worked, but I almost wondered what it would have been like if one of the guys in the group was the secret hero all along.
Either way, this was fascinating and I did come to enjoy it immensely. Even recommended it to my partner!"

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 8d

THIS IS A BREAKTHROUGH, it needs to be peer-reviewed

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 8d

The album is LIVE~!!!11

#distrokid

open.spotify.com/album/3hzn0z...

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 9d

How about "some superheroes are fascist," then? I mean… you can't tell me Civil War-era Tony Stark has clean hands, here. And there's a reason so many Elseworlds Batman stories have him headed that way.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 10d

Howdy hey, folks! The first week of SPOOKTOBER GIVEAWAY is here! Get your free ebook copy of LORDS OF NIGHT this week, M-F.

For your entertainment, I've included here the original quartet of sketches from David Seidman, who knocked this cover well out of the park.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP9W9HYR

Original quartet of cover ideas from David Seidman. We went with B.

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 11d

I wish the people circling the funny bits in memes and infographics would just fuck all the way off. We'll get it without your help, thank you very much.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 12d

If you see this, post something monochromatic

New symbol for nuclear-rate navy electricians, an angry badger with wires and sparky effects.

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 12d

According to National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, if you're reading this, you're a potential terrorist. Ha.

Fuck this guy, and fuck the machine that's built him.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 13d

Dear cover artists and layout people and editors:

When a potential customer asks you for a quote, please do not reply with "well, how much are you willing to spend?"

Few things make me nope out of a conversation faster than that.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 14d

Do I know anybody in Berlin that could do me a biiig fat favor?

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 15d

Anybody who got canned because they openly disagreed with the Thief in Chief would have their post-military career gold-filigreed for as long as they were willing to speak about it.

Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 15d

"If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room, and there goes your rank, there goes your future."

Does this dumb shit realize people have lives after the military? And how many people would line up to listen to the admiral/general who decided to "speak truth to power?"

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Thom Brannan @thombrannan.bsky.social · 16d

I have been watching out the corner of my eye and trying not to jinx it, but somebody just burned through the Century books, one after another. I hope this leads to good reviews, but I'll be happy with the pages read, I guess. Ha.