Tilly's a special mount (that's Gas Giant Gambit lingo for "ship"), and a tunk of a good companion.

Like any loyal horse should be.

Gas Giant Gambit is available now!
https://esraye.com/gas-giant-gambit/

#scifi #sciencefiction #spacewestern #books #bookstadon

Which comes first, character or plot?
Sometimes one, sometimes the other, and sometimes it's something else entirely.

https://esraye.com/2026/06/23/characters-vs-plot-what-inspires-me-first/

#writing #writer #books #bookstadon #author

Seeing my name next to Asimov and Bradbury is just never going to get old...

Get your copy of Other Tales: Vol. IV now!

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#scifi #sciencefiction #asimov #sff #shortstory

I've just spent the last 2 days watching a 30 year old History Channel docuseries about the 1950s (side note, remember when educational TV was actually good?) and I am convinced it's the right setting for my cosmic horror novel.
It was an existential powder keg.

But what to include, and what will I simply not have room for? The options are endless!

#amwriting #writer #horror #cosmichorror

A new client--a job with promise--can be enough to change Clayton Hart's life forever. But like a monkey's paw, it almost never turns out as expected.

Read my technoir scifi short story "The Stuff Legends are Made Of" in Rare: A Dark Anthology of Unusual Secrets.

https://esraye.com/rare/

#scifi #technoir #sciencefiction #anthology #books

Sometimes, watching a 30 year old documentary (because nothing better has been produced in the interim) counts as writing.

#amwriting #writing #research

Freelance work for the week: Complete
Fresh notebook: Aquired.
New pens: Ready for note taking.

Time for my favorite part of writing: research, brainstorming, world building, and outlining!

New project, GO!

#amwriting #cosmichorror #horror #scifi #lfg

Book 1 of The Cobalt Fist will center on a very specific Third Reich conspiracy theory, but I'll take it in a direction I don't think anyone else has gone before.
Book 1 has a lot of setting up to do for the series as a whole, and Die Glocke is the perfect McGuffin to do it!

#scifi #worldwar2 #wwii #sciencefiction #bookstadon #amwriting #writing

I am relieved to share that the first draft of my World War 1 set sci-fi Shallow Trenches/Open Skies is finally complete!

https://esraye.com/2026/06/16/shallow-trenches-open-skies-draft-1-is-finally-done/

#scifi #sciencefiction #worldwar1 #writer #amwriting

As a goalie who believes women, I am overjoyed that the goalie who was never drafted won in spectacular fashion last night over the goalie who never should have been drafted.

#stanleycupfinals