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Wick Welker 🪐

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Author, Dad, Husband, Reader, ICU Doctor, SPSFC Winner 2025 and finalist x2. •DARK THEORY•SAINT ELSPETH•REFRACTION• DARK PROPHET out May 15th 2025. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00J21FNRI

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Aug 7

My book Saint Elspeth won the SPSFC#4!

The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · Aug 6

The winner of the fourth #SPSFC is Saint Elspeth by @wickwelker.bsky.social, a tightly crafted tale of a doctor who survived first contact and nuclear apocalypse.

"They just arrived, inadvertently triggered humanity to tear itself to pieces, landed, and vanished."

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The cover of the novel Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker. In a sky lit an apocalyptic shade of orange, an ovoid ship hovers over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · 1d

If you have kids they will be full of rocks and twigs

Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · 1d

I get one a day lately. Weirdly more aggressive now.

Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · 3d

World’s greatest statistical forecaster can’t predict tech bubble.

Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · 8d

My impulse buy has shipped

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Dave Dobson @davedobson.bsky.social · 15d

Kenai is free until Friday! Grab a copy of my award-winning space opera story of a disgraced former marine on a lonely planet.

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Kenai

Kenai - Kindle edition by Dobson, Dave. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Kenai.

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · 18d

I read this. I loved this.
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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 12

Planetary rings aren’t supposed to grow stuff. Go back to the designer.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · Sep 11

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 10

@aptshadow.bsky.social this you?

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 7

Still can’t believe my book, SAINT ELSPETH, won the SPSFC4. Thank you! Special thanks to @davedobson.bsky.social @spsfc.bsky.social

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Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Last Contract of Isako doesn’t even have a cover yet, but I’m doing final edits right now, and it’s already listed for preorder! Plus use the #BNPreorder code to get 25% off the new paperbacks of the Green Bone Saga coming out on Tuesday.

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 4

Whoa whoa whoa what?!

Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m an ICU doc. Put patients on ECMO during Covid. 99% of them were unvaccinated.

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Deniz Opal @selzero.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · Sep 1

Check out @jamreads.com review of The Damned King! #YouAreNotReady

Jamedi @jamreads.com · Sep 1

The Damned King, by @justinleeanderson.com (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is another great instalment on the Eydin series, perfect if you want an epic fantasy proposal with complex characters, politics and full of twists.

Full thoughts:
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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great covers!

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you! I’m working on the third right now and it’s flowing well. It’ll be out next year.

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thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social @thatnorwegianguy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just finished Dark Theory by @wickwelker.bsky.social. This book took me by surprise and at about 800 pages, it took also some extra time to get through. But I loved every page and every single time I entered that world. This book has layers. Things kept unfolding, until the very last page. Recommend

Cover of the book by Wick Welker - Dark Theory (Dark Law Book 1)

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happy book birthday to the legend. Already got my copy locked and loaded up next in theTBR. Great series.

Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”

Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky

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Discover 'Born of an Iron Storm': Epic Norse Fantasy

Dive into 'Born of an Iron Storm', the thrilling second book of 'The Age of Wrath' trilogy, filled with intrigue and epic battles.

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Aug 27

I bought this like lightning

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”

Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky

anthonyryan.net/2025/08/26/b...

Discover 'Born of an Iron Storm': Epic Norse Fantasy

Dive into 'Born of an Iron Storm', the thrilling second book of 'The Age of Wrath' trilogy, filled with intrigue and epic battles.

anthonyryan.net

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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · Aug 18

Tonight at 8pm BST! youtube.com/live/6VkqnLd... Me and @stephenaryan.bsky.social for @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social!

Justin Lee Anderson Interview

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Miguel Peck @miguelpeck.bsky.social · Aug 17

Superb self-pub reads from the last month’s dent into the TBR. A good reminder to keep supporting self published authors.

#selfpub @scottpalmerauthor.bsky.social @wickwelker.bsky.social @thefoolstale.bsky.social @timhawken.bsky.social #NotbertZsivicz

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Wick Welker 🪐 @wickwelker.bsky.social · Aug 15

Blows me away every time I read it.