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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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Been building and prepping these units since early October. Primed and undercoated. Ready to start painting tonight!

(Interceptor Squad and Strike Squad, kitbashed mostly from a GK Squad kit and a couple of MKIII Command Squads)

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November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Lots of leftover bits from the MKIII marines that I used to build GK strikes quads. Tested out putting one of the bolters on a Frostgrave mini. I think I'll paint him as a tzeentchian chaos cultist.

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November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I drilled barrels last night for the two squads I'm working on. Twenty dudes, 40 tiny holes later, their bolter shots can fly free.

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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Another day passed without incident, save for Luath becoming ever more taciturn. On their fourth evening, Luathaelar told the villagers that he would pay them well if they brought him strong staves of white ash. He spent all night cutting the staves into spans the length of his arm and refused any help. In the morning, Luath slept huddled by the smoldering fire pit, and by afternoon had woken and begun to sharpen the rods at one end and carve inscriptions along the shafts of the heavy stakes. He told Saira only that he was preparing himself for the inevitable.
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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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And Phaedo was a very odd troll. Like others of his kind, he was of great stature, with a hunched, muscular build and a bulbous chest. He was paler than most, lacking the expected ruddiness, though his long nose was colored like a blunt carrot. Most unusually, he wore purple robes of fine make and sported a pair of small gnomish spectacles. He set down a bulgy travelling pack and leaned on his columnar walking stick, appearing dismayed by the ferrymaster’s behavior.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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.

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GK interceptors with MKIII heads.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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The party advances deeper underground. #WipSnips
The span of the break was little greater than Tamlin’s height, but as they descended farther, circling the glass pillar, it held no more movement. Their lanterns pushed back the darkness only as far as the next turn of the circling ramp. As they went, Tamlin kept one eye turned back over his shoulder, but nothing approached them from behind. The way had been sealed.
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Thanks for hosting! In a rare moment of caffeination, I was semi-awake enough to do the morning session.

I'm currently writing a book called Oath and Memory, but I also wrote a book that has very little to do with memory. It does have wizards, swordfights, and Lovecraftian horrors though! #SffChat
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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#WipSnips The opening lines from my primary WIP, Oath and Memory.
A pair of horses ambled in the fog, over a muddy trail strewn with leaves. Each bore a tall rider. The first was an elven woman, whose emerald eyes shone in the mist. The second was Tamlin, and he was of Yaeor. His skin was the blue of the sky. His shoulders split into six long arms, and his eyes were oily black. From far in the mist, a bell rang, and he turned his gaze toward Saira.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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To Tamlin’s eye, it looked like no ordinary glass, for it had bent outward like steel under great force, rather than shatter. He noted, though, its splinters were driven into the stonework, as easily as skewers through meat.
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Out of Dark Waters is a classic fantasy adventure, following jaded sellswords on their rise to heroism. If only their triumphs weren't shredded, time after time, by the Lovecraftian horror that hunts them.

#BookSky #Fantasy #WritingCommunity #AuthorSky
Excerpt from "Out of Dark Waters": Slowly, the lids of the eye opened to reveal curved teeth, long and thin as needles. Not an eye at all. A sound flowed from its lolling maw, like a child humming some alien tune, and Vander heard it speak in his mind. Come food. Come toys. Be still. Know peace. The words repeated. If Vander could have silenced them by slicing away his ears, he might have.
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The first mini I painted was a Reaper Miniatures Chthon worm (right). I picked up the metal version recently and painted it to see how much more I could do with it after a couple years of hobbying (left).

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October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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This is the metal version. The Bones Classic variant of this was the first model I ever painted.

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October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Reaper Miniatures's "Definitely Not a Grick" Chthon. I really like how gnarly this thing's mouth looks.

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October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Getting started on a large painting project. Kitbashing together a GK Strike Squad kit and a MKIII Command Squad to make more visually distinct Interceptor and Strike units.

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October 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I did the most needlessly complicated thing I could think of! I created a points system where I earn points for finishing paintjobs for projects of a given type/size. And I buy new models if I have enough points, with different costs depending on whether I'm trying to shrink or grow my backlog.
October 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Thought this was kind of a fun shot of my Brother Captain.

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Kitbashed GK Brother Captain, angling his sword toward the camera, saying "en garde" in a speech bubble.
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM