Bryn Hammond

@brynhammond

Writer. Sword & Sorcery: Goatskin novellas WASTE FLOWERS, WHAT ROUGH BEAST? from Brackenbury Books. Historical fiction: AMGALANT on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols She/her 🌈Queer. Australia / buy direct

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Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· 15d

snow leopard meets Snow Leopard @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social @draq.bsky.social

A snow leopard hand puppet clutches a paperback of The Hunt of a Thousand Leagues by Dariel R.A. Quiogue, which stars Orhan Timur known as ... The Snow Leopard

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jul 13

Goatskin in your pockets? @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Old blue jeans with a Tale of Goatskin in each back pocket: WASTE FLOWERS and WHAT ROUGH BEAST?

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jul 12

Cover of #1 with a @michaelastackpole.bsky.social story

Cover of Mordschlag, blue-themed with an armored ambiguously dark figure and Gothic type for the title. Pages open on a Michael Stackpole story, two-column text and a half-page black & white similar to the cover.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jul 11

Oona stickers! Oona IS unvanquishable!! courtesy of her author @malcolm-north.bsky.social

Three stickers with a sword looped through the name Oona, and underneath, her epithet the Unvanquishable.
Seen on letter paper with an ink drawing of Oona in action.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jul 7

Look what came @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jul 6

Weirdest thing to be reading for my sword & sorcery, but--that last section on the sea, that I always meant to reread (and again on my deathbed, if feasible)--that prose poem at the end, is what I need for my watery, moody last stretch.

Cover of The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch. Art has a fresco: a black bird perched on an ancient vase.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jun 25

Four novellas from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Four books with gorgeous painterly covers on a scarf of silk rag stripes. The Barbarian At Dream's End by Steve Hugh Westenra, The Hunt of a Thousand Leagues by Dariel R.A. Quiogue, Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker, What Rough Beast? by Bryn Hammond.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jun 24

🌈 Proud of my profiles of Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Janrae Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery 3 & 6 @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Pages from the hardcovers of NESS 3 and 6, articles titled 'Raw: Janrae Frank and Chimquar the Lionhawk', 'Jessica Amanda Salmonson: Amazon'.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jun 16

My new Goatskin novella is out now amgalant.com/out-now-what... Goatskin's tales are sword & sorcery in a Mongol-world setting. In this adventure: yak nomads, were-beasts, two loves, revolution. In digital and paperback from the Brackenbury Books shop newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

Digital and paperback covers of What Rough Beast? A Tale of Goatskin by Bryn Hammond.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jun 11

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· May 29

First review in the wild.

Screenshot of a review by James D.
*****
S&S unlike any others I’ve read so far. Elaborate prose, complex characters, a compelling examination of evil.

My full review is available soon on YouTube and Substack. I was an ARC reader with a copy provided by the publisher. This does not affect my review.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· May 7

*What Rough Beast?* is out in the world on June 15th a standalone Goatskin novella from Brackenbury Books. Cover art Goran Gligović, frontispiece Linnea Sterte amgalant.com/new-novella-...

Cover of What Rough Beast? A Tale of Goatskin by Bryn Hammond
Art has Goatskin in pelt leggings, hairy skirt and a tight torso wrap, leaping one leg forward with sword in air, a grimace on her face, into a tussle of foes with animalesque masks and different weapons, against a night sky splattered with stars and a red glow as of fire.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· May 1

There's a spider hanging over my workstation so I went outside this 1st of May to write the first scene of a new novella.

Felt tip pen on open exercise book with small black writing (that has loops and crossings-out) laid on a clipboard with a print-out, also written on. A mug, a rusty blue metal table, sunny slats of wood and a peek of greenery.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Apr 27

I'm glad to say I'll have a Goatskin story in @scyllapublishing.bsky.social 's Sapphic Spec Fic anthology. First book from this new Australian small press. Their website already has a call for the next anthology: www.scyllapublishing.com

A promotional graphic announcing a story acceptance into the "Who Am I?" anthology. At the top is a brown paper-wrapped book labelled “Scylla – Cover Reveal Coming Soon! Releasing in September 2026.” Below, bold yellow and white text reads, “My story was accepted into the ‘Who Am I?’ anthology – Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity and Purpose.” The dark blue background features stylized tentacles and crossed swords framing the text

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Apr 10

Third post for Sapphic Visibility Day. I am proud of my profiles of Jessica Amanda Salmonson (#3) and Janrae Frank (#6) for New Edge Sword & Sorcery @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social These matter to me as much as my fiction in the mag: I love to shine a light on the lesbian past in Sword & Sorcery.

Pages of NESS magazine open at the two articles.Great b&w illo of JAS by Chuah Shih Shin.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Apr 10

April 9 is Sapphic Visibility Day Here's Goatskin and Sister Chaos Who have a second novella out next month Sapphic Sword & Sorcery, Yesss You can buy Waste Flowers at the @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social shop #SapphicBooks newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

cover of Waste Flowers: A Tale of Goatskin by Bryn Hammond. A woman in goatskins, behind her a woman with a spear, lead camels out into the desert night. Red flowers flow at Goatskin's foot.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Apr 9

Next up. I got this (in spite of the other Malorys I have) because I liked the thought of the fall-of-Camelot section seen on its own, as the taut tragedy it is. Also I liked the cover.

Book: Malory, Le Morte Darthur, The Seventh and Eighth Tales. Edited by PJC Field. Arthur Rackham art of Mordred and Arthur in mortal combat, smiting each other unto the death, in sepia.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Apr 1

'Helo' Agathon from Battlestar Galactica

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Mar 27

1961. From my Lesbian Pulp Fiction reader, which gives the back copy of the originals. The cover copy had to allay suspicions, even when a lesbian author wrote as sympathetic a story as she was allowed.

Book page on a screen. Highlighted text:
Lesbianism today is discussed freely not only by physicians, social workers and teachers, but by all responsible people shocked by its rapid spread. For unless the blight is understood, it cannot be curbed.
... For new answers and brilliant delineation of the origins of aberration, this book should be read by everyone bent on combating the lesbian contagion.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 27

An influential book.

A copy of In Viriconium by M. John Harrison: richly colored cover art of a scene with two figures lying drinking in otherwise empty architecture, the feel baroque/decadent; the book is lain on a scarf of silk scraps also richly colored to suit.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 20

Here's the contents page of the Lyons, vol 3: Texts. Has Antar, the Baibars epic, Dhat al-Himma. It is 'epitomes' rather than translations, or else the vol would be bigger than 660 pp.

Contents page of The Arabian Epic, vol 3: Texts. 12 epics.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 20

Here's my little Antara-related collection

Books: The Arabian Epic by MC Lyons, 3 vols; War Songs of Antarah ibn Shaddad trans. Montgomery

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 20

Have a random page and those sweet spray edges

Waste Flowers cover side-on to see the purple spray edges

The hardcover open at a page about Irle Khan, Mongol king of the dead.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 20

The sweet hardcover of our Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery has only 7 left available. Two back-to-back novellas of Mongol-inspired Sword & Sorcery by Dariel R.A. Quiogue and me, fab covers by Artyom Trakhanov and Goran Gligović Get them as add-ons in the NESS campaign www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

screenshot: either side of Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery, listed as 7 remaining. Description starts: luxurious 7 x 4.5 inch sewn-stitch bound Hardcover with white ribbon bookmark and purple spray edges. Two cover illustrations and two full page interior B&W illustrations...

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 16

7 remaining

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 16

16 left -- softcovers of #1, no reprint 'includes a Goatskin story' 🐐 (namely 'Sister Chaos' one of my faves) look under the Add Ons tab www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

screenshot of add on: New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1 (softcover). Says 'when these issues run out there will not be a reprint'. Oh no.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 10

My copy of Sometime Lofty Towers from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Just a gorgeous book in the hand and to the eye

Paperback of Sometime Lofty Towers by David C Smith. With dark crimson sprayed edges and a finely detailed painting of an intense-eyed sword dude over a fallen enemy in moody shades, laid on oil paint on canvas in crimson and inky blue.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 4

My rainbow metal pins from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Two bags each with a dark rainbow metal pin with battleaxe design. Sunflower embroidered on one bag.

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Feb 1

On the blog About my Goatskin novelette in New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 amgalant.com/goatskin-nov...

cover of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine issue 8. Art by Jimmy Makepeace. My Goatskin and her Mongol friend Tahilga, blades out, explore a tumbledown temple with strange life in violet and yellow skies.

selfie of me, enough said
pretty casual because I am

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond· Jan 28

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