Glynn Stewart

@glynnstewart

Author of Starship's Mage and over 80 other science fiction and fantasy novels. www.glynnstewart.com

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Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· 27d

The wall of gray has transformed... Into a more complex gray?

Photo of several dozen Warhammer 40K miniatures on a table. All have been assembled but none have even a scrap of paint.

Photo of the same dozens of miniatures on a ratty repeatedly black-painted piece of cardboard outside

They have been prime black and given a light gray "zenithal highlight" - meaning the gray was sprayed from the supposed sun direction to add light angles to the final model.

So... While now covered in paint, they are still gray.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jul 8

They usually send an email before they escalate to actually putting warnings on pages, I think. I'm in my various pages often enough that I often see the report exists before they send the note though. It's at the top of the bookshelf page.

Image of the top inch or so of the KDP bookshelf dashboard.

The header has Bookshelf, Reports, Community and Marketing as links.

Just beneath that is a warning banner with "View all open eBook quality issues"

(It still exists on mine because sometimes something I've corrected just hangs out in review for a few months :P)

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jul 7

This took way too long to find. All it takes is a unanimous vote, right? xkcd.com/498/

An xkcd comic. Black Hat is sitting in a meeting of a Congress.
The head of the committee says:
"We were convened here to review your nomination for the position of Internet Secretary.
" However, on review of your qualifications, we've decided to sentence you to death.
"An unorthodox move, sure. But the vote was unanimous."

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jul 5

Went to the Hangar Museum in Calgary yesterday, as it was supposed to be the day their WWII Lancaster bomber was open for visitors to go inside. Sadly, there was a potential safety issue and they correctly closed it Amazing museum though - and yikes is the Lancaster huge.

Shot of the Avro Lancaster from the front. It is an immense four engine plane.
On the left, utterly dwarfed, is a Cessna crop sprayer, a more ordinary-sized single person plane.
In the middle, you can see the cockpit and nose turret, with pinup art and the same of the bomber (Lady Orchid. Note that this is *not* Lady Orchid, but is painted in her livery as Lady Orchid is lost)
To the right you can clearly see one of her wing wheels, which is bigger than a human.

The Lancaster's bomb bay, taken from underneath. It is open and seems to extend for ages.
The racks that would have held bombs are clearly visible.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jul 5

Skadi realized I was following her around (singing a silly song, because she'd been squeaking) and rolled over on her back for belly rubs. Apparently she wasn't trying to lead me anywhere.

Skadi with her face in the camera accepting cheek skritches.

Behind my hand, you can see where she was shaved for her blood sugar monitor.

I generally think of Skadi as our shorter haired cat, but that patch definitely shows why she produces much more fur than Freya when brushed.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 28

#plantsky. Please help my mother in law ID this mint she took some of thinking it was catmint, but now is hesitating over planting for her cats. Found in a Calgary front yard.

Green plants with small purple and white flowers.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 21

I shuffled my schedule. Wrote the book. Got an amazing cover from @looceyloo.bsky.social and got peer-pressured into a ridiculous joke by @skyladawn.ca And then it, so far as I can tell, went viral here on Bluesky. I was hoping for 4,500 30-day sales (what my last SF book got) I sold 9,000.

Cover of the book Spirit Blade by Glynn Stewart.

The title text has been replaced with "Hot Guy Rescues Cat"
The author name has been replaced with the tagline "Yes. Both the cat and the sword are magic."

A tall and well-muscled man in tight black clothes, with a strange glowing mark on his collar, is running away from a burning building.
He has a large tabby cat with an odd glow to his stripes held in his left arm and a sword made of seemingly glitchy magical light in his right hand.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 21

I do a comparison run of sales for all of my books at day 1, week 1 and month 1 (30 days). Since I just finished that report for Spirit Blade, it seems time to talk about how well this book did. Long story short: Spirit Blade was a runaway hit by my standards, doubling my sales *hopes*

Cover of the book Spirit Blade by Glynn Stewart
A tall and well-muscled man in tight black clothes, with a strange glowing mark on his collar, is running away from a burning building.
He has a large tabby cat with an odd glow to his stripes held in his left arm and a sword made of seemingly glitchy magical light in his right hand.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 16

DAAAAD, stop fussing, it's not like I got caught in the storm that's coming in or anything.

Long haired author trying not to cling too tightly to the recently retrieved tabby.

The bigger tabby sits on the arm of the chair, looking down her nose at her sister.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 6

I think Spirit Blade has been my most successful urban fantasy launch ever, which I'm pretty sure I can blame on Blue Sky. A former magical knight has to decide if he's able to walk away when buildings start burning and his new job starts smelling evil... mybook.to/SK1SpiritBlade

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 4

Sci Fi terrain and fantasy vampires all primed and ready to go. (This has a non zero chance of being the final state of most of the terrain, lol)

Plastic painted black. A LOT of plastic painted black, including most of an outpost's worth of SciFi bunkers, a watchtower, a bunch of green highlighted technology bits, and a small force of skeletal spearmen and knights.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 2

Despite the presence of enough fur to cover another small cat like her, Skadi says the grooming should continue.

Picture of said pile of groomed fur on the arm of a pleather chair. Thanks to the brush used, it is made up of neatly compacted chunks.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 1

This is a cat check point. Toll is the most recent cat picture on your phone.

A small tabby cat in a body suit that covers her entire body to keep her from scratching herself.

Our poor Skadi.

She is curled up to a human on the bed in a manner that definitely shows she is aware of the heating pad under the blanket.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Jun 1

Apparently I have explicit "piss off the reader" scenes in my book and am somehow not open about the setting of my urban fantasy. Who knew?!

Screenshot of an Amazon review:

1 out of 5 stars
Trans BS included: avoid

I don’t mind low key gay and lesbian characters; people are people.

I object to overt “trans positive” propaganda in my fiction. It totally throws me back into current politics, which I also don’t want in my fiction.

Glynn: authors like Melissa Scott are open about the settings of their novels. Your novels in the past have been SF and fantasy.

Whether I’ve just hit your one “p*ss off the reader” scene or whether there’s more in the rest of the book I’ll never find out. Bye.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 28

The AI book club scams are now self referential.

Email screenshot:

And before this starts sounding like one of those polished “Hello Author I Represent a Highly Prestigious Book Growth Network” messages that appear in inboxes like they pay rent there… relax 😂

I’m not doing that.

I only reach out when I actually read into a book and think:
“Yeah… this deserves more attention than it’s probably getting right now.”

I’m part of a private community with 1000+ active readers who genuinely enjoy discovering books, reacting like emotionally compromised gremlins, and leaving real Amazon and Goodreads reviews. No pressure, no forced anything. Just readers who actually read.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 27

The galactic war is over. Humanity and their allies have won. What happens now? Peacekeepers of Sol on sale until Friday! Raven's Peace is free! mybook.to/RavensPeace The Peacekeeper Initiative is $0.99 / £0.99 mybook.to/peacekeeperi... Raven's Course is $1.99 / £1.99 mybook.to/ravenscourse

A grim-faced Asian-American man faces the camera. He is in a senior officer's uniform, wearing gold pilot wings with the center painted red.
Behind him, a starship looms over a planet tinted red with starlight.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 22

I guess Aaron and his friends are doing well. If they keep this up, I have to write more Shucks... I did already put up a preorder for book two.

Screenshot of the amazon.com Urban Fantasy bestsellers lost. Spirit Blade is #3.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 21

The Great Devourer has breached the training exercises. AdMech and Dark Angel forces are doomed...

A table has been set up for Warhammer 40,000 with resin terrain. Two armies one of Dark Angels and one of Adeptus Mechanicus are visible on the board. So is a large tortoiseshell tabby, standing on the table looking curiously at the terrain.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 21

Please buy and review my hot guy rescues cat book so I can write more about this ridiculous himbo paladin. mybook.to/SK1SpiritBlade

An image of a tall dark-haired man, carrying a sword made of light in one hand and a curious cat with glowing stripes in the other, running away from a burning building.

The title of the fake cover is "HOT GUY RESCUES CAT"

The blurb text is "Yes, both the cat and the sword are magic"

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 21

Happy book day to me! You can take the man out of the knighthood - but can you take the knighthood out of the man? Aaron Conner wanted a quiet life, away from the supernatural that defined his younger years. Fate... has a different plan. mybook.to/SK1SpiritBlade

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 20

Look what we have. Sample coins for Starships Mage, Peacekeepers of Sol and Castle Federation!

Six coins in a wooden display stand.

The first pair is a commemorative coin for the coronation of Kiera Michelle Alexander from Starships Mage. The front is the mountain on red seal of the Protectorate of Mars, the back gives Kiera's coronation date.

The second pair is a shield shaped ship's coin for UPSV Paladin from Peacekeepers of Sol. The front is a white knight's helmet on black, the back is the star-flanked rocket of the United Planets Space Force.

The third pair is a ship's coin for Avalon from Castle Federation. The front is a pale hand rising from water. The back is a simple castle surrounded by stars.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 11

Skadi says good morning to the internet.

Tailless piebald tabby in a purple vest is half on her back, wondering why she isn't getting belly rubs.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· May 2

What. The. Heck. Guess it's a good thing this was a proof!

Picture of an Amazon delivery box.
It contains one 6x9 book.

It is big enough to hold at least ten.

There is no packing material or anything.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 21

Share a gif from a western you love.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 19

I did not realize the Batman reference until I said Thulia Ghuld's name aloud to pick up my preorder.

Picture of the box for the Adeptus Mechanicus characters model for Thulia Fhuld... Definitely not Talia Al-Ghul

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 17

We were getting ready for bed last night when Freya snuck into the bathroom. Not sure what she wanted in the tub (not water, we checked) but she was very polite about it, as always.

Gorgeous tabby sitting politely in a jetted bath tub, looking up at her humans.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 15

Freya seems to approve of my managing to get to the living room and fall down on the couch.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 9

Yeah... This guy is almost certainly not getting painted to the level of detail he's modelled with. But he's very cool (Winged Daemon Prince of Tzeentch)

Unpainted gray plastic miniature of a demon. The mini is quite complicated and extremely detailed.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 9

I am sick. I have not got nearly as many words as I have wanted and several admin tasks have hit the red must-be-done zone. But at least my cat is freaking adorable.

Skadi, an inquisitive piebald tabby, sitting in a box full of packing paper. Her paws are on the edge of the box and she is looking curiously up at the camera.

Glynn Stewart@glynnstewart· Apr 7

As an alternative to the news, I present Freya's epic grumpy face at being woken up and not immediately petted because I was taking the photo