Danie Ware

@danacea

#Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. 25yrs commercial geek marketing, now #bookseller, #Manga and #comics. Re-enactor, gamer, #cat mom. #NoAI. Views my own.

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Danie Ware@danacea· 16d

Another signed proof of Lugan Vision Quest, this one at #CarshaltonBeeches. They're not perfect, and do feature a few hiccups, but I can't sell them, and they're not doing anyone any good, sitting on my shelf. And who knows, someone might just pick them up and enjoy the read :)

Lugan Vision Quest by Danie Ware, cover art by Thomas S Brown. Sun is rising behind a derelict, overgrown city, surrounded by creeper. A man in a leather jacket stands looking at the semi-ruin, and the light, reflected in the river.

Danie Ware@danacea· 16d

#Carshalton lavender harvest 💜

Danie Ware@danacea· 18d

On editors, as there's been a bit of discourse, recently, about these strange and magical creatures... danacea.ghost.io

Open notebook and several screwed up pieces of paper, image from Steve A Johnson on Pexels.

Danie Ware@danacea· 20d

Had missed this: Lugan Vision Quest gets an honourable mention on The Fantasy Hive, missing their semi-finals by a technicality (the first two chapters are CyberPunk). Still, VERY happy with 'one of the best written books in the entire competition so far!' fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/02/spfb...

Danie Ware@danacea· 20d

Good morning, and this is #notmycat.

Floofy, black and white cat on a sunny windowsill.

Danie Ware@danacea· 22d

Signing my queer romance novel Children of Artifice, eight YEARS ago, at FP Bristol. Time has no meaning. None.

Sitting at a red-clothed table, signing an open book. The FP banner is behind to one side, the other is a lot of (suitably enough) Manga.

Danie Ware@danacea· 24d

Early morning #selfie

Carshalton Station perspective shot, platform and rails curving away. My shadow is in the bottom right hand corner.

Danie Ware@danacea· 26d

Leaving a (signed) copy of Lugan Vision Quest in the reading library at #Carshalton Station. Book is a proof, one of several as we tried to get the cover and layout working correctly - so please forgive any formatting or print errors!

Lugan Vision Quest by Danie Ware, featuring a grey 'proof copy' stripe across the cover and held up against a background of the little library at the station.

Danie Ware@danacea· 28d

Binx in the Upside Down

Black cat, laying on a red cushion with his head hanging over the edge

Danie Ware@danacea· Jul 10

Fantastic #storybundle, including #FightLikeAGirl 2 and my story 'The God of Lost Things' (or 'Ethel, Dragonslayer'), which was my love letter to semi-derelict winter seasides. Curated by @lavietidhar.bsky.social, every book on this list is a winner! :) storybundle.com/blog/2026bes...

The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E. McKenna
Make-Believe and Artifice by Rose Biggin
The Broken Land by Ian McDonald
Fight Like a Girl: Vol. 2 edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall
Devil Inside by Tom Lloyd
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
The Anechoic Chamber by Will Wiles
The Hungry Gods by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove
The Great West Wood by Philip Palmer
The Hamlet by Joanna Corrance
Best of British Science Fiction 2025 edited by Donna Scott
The Last Ghost and Other Stories by Marie O’Regan
A Woman of the Sword by Anna Smith Spark
The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 27

Ecko very appropriate to the #Matrix vibe, Lugan slightly less so, but hey :) Will you go through that portal, and find out which world is the real one? Or will you never know?

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 27

Plus I have the best company, none the worse for his adventures yesterday

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 27

#Tea in the garden. British houses (particularly older ones) are built to keep heat in, and it's actually cool out here.

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 24

NOPE

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 24

Discussing Piranesi, M C Escher and portals, all in the latest #newsletter! danacea.ghost.io

Escher's Relativity, three staircases in an impossible triangle

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 24

And in situ, if anyone wants a #shelfie (bad light, sorry, have the curtains closed to keep the searing heat, y'know, out)

Gaming bookshelves, paperbacks. Top one is WarHammer, middle one is a full row of Fighting Fantasy green spines, bottom one is a lot of very, very old Forgotten Realms books.

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 24

Posted about this a couple of days ago, but realised (like an utter wallaby) that I was still missing one. This has been rectified. Full rack of green spines now complete :) #FightingFantasy #TerribleOldNerd

Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, FF No 29, Midnight Rogue

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 23

Hurrah! Red armour is the best armour 🌹

Veteran Sister of Battle, with a grey hair, a furious expression, bright red armour and a firing bolter in her hands. The wording says, 'Blasphemy of the Fallen, an Augusta Santorus short story, Danie Ware'.

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 23

Escher exhibition. Amazing to see his work celebrated like this, lots of flowing imagery and installations. But they seriously missed a trick by not having M C Escher dice in the gift shop. ULTIMATE maths rocks win!

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 20

#caturday

Black cat, sprawled sleeping across a duvet, his head on a brightly coloured cushion

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 20

The Necropolis world was fascinating to write and research, including the past history of London and the problems (and obsessions) the city's had with its dead. Special visits to Highgate, and the Kensal Green Cemetery, where full Victorian-style funerals were in progress (coach and four, the lot).

Curving line of grey stone mausolea at Highgate.

Danie Ware@danacea· Jun 20

As she's popped up this morning, your #WarHammer reminder that Aestred Thurga's character novel contains: Butt-kicking space nuns A full-on scenery-chewing bad guy A whomping great big Necropolis Lots of action And some problems in the embroidery department www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/a...