Ben Galley
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Epic & dark fantasy author: Emaneska Series, Chasing Graves, Heart of Stone, Scarlet Star Trilogy, & Scalussen Chronicles. Archer. Mischievous pest 🇬🇧/🇨🇦
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I can't sit on this any longer, so here we go!
It's been almost 10 years since I published my western fantasy Scarlet Star Trilogy, and to celebrate this weird little series, I'm giving it a huge facelift. This means NEW COVERS, and I'm proud to finally show them off publicly🤘
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I've received a delightful complaint from a reader detailing all the errors in one of my books. Every single error with page numbers and corrections.
Problem is, every single one of the errors they've flagged isn't an error.
It's merely an instance of UK English.
Every one.
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@DianeW_author
Pretty much, without a) even considering UK English exists, or b) rejecting the validity of its existence.
It's the sheer amount of time that must have taken them.
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This is by far the best and most genius
#tattoo
cover up I've ever seen.
#Pokemon
http://t.co/KGE9dApiQ9
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THE 7 STAGES OF GIN APPRECIATION:
- gin is just for Victorian widows
- gin should only be mixed in cocktails
- is this gin? It tastes far too good for gin
- I only drink specialty gins now
- which is your cheapest gin?
- gin is perfectly acceptable for breakfast
- I am become gin
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Here’s the image of the black hole in context. That tiny spot is the black hole, 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun. The astrophysical jet protruding from it is 1000 light years long. The rest of the image is the entire M87 galaxy, the thing it’s feeding off. Mind = blown.
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This is outrageous. I don’t think fantasy publishers houses should use stock art full stop. Covers should be original. But AI stock art cobbled together from the work of artists who didn’t give their permission to Midjourney? That’s some cheap shit right there
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@ammaar
Calling yourself an “author” when AI has created 99% of the product is plain wrong.
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IT GETS BETTER. The narrator for Caltro the main character in Chasing Graves is Samuel Roukin, who happens to be the voice of Ghost in
#MW2
, which is weird AF because Caltro is ALSO A GHOST. Mind = blown.
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AUTHORS!
Describe your latest novel or work-in-progress in 5 emojis or fewer.
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Giveaway time!🤘To celebrate today's launch of the Chasing Graves Trilogy hardcovers, I'm giving away a FULL SIGNED SET of this dark fantasy series.
3 signed hardcovers = all yours. All you have to do is ❤️ & 🔄 to enter
Winner will be announced June 7 and open internationally
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I (a professional author) have just written the words "with a disgruntled grunt" in my wip.
Bye forever.
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“I don’t see why pirating books is wrong. They’re too expensive. They should all be free anyway.”
Let’s begin, shall we?
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13 years ago I wrote a book about mages with spellbooks tattooed on their backs. Because of the weight of magic these mages usually go a *bit* mad later in life. Either they die in battle or are banished with a single gold coin. 13 years later and I’ve had the excuse to get… 🧵
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@elonmusk
Think you need to read more SFF. It’s always been cultural, or political, or about human struggle and nature. We write human stories that are extrapolated or distilled from the world around us. Blame the world, not the writers.
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Just showing these beauties off because I can’t stop looking at them.
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#TiffanyGate
and
#CockyGate
depress me deeply. Not only because Amazon is rewarding/ignoring these blatant scammers, but because being a bestseller now depends on how well you can scam, instead of how you write or how you tell a goddamn story. These people aren’t authors.
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Reviews are incredibly helpful to authors. Whether it's a comment or a simple rating, reviews affect sales, and help writers to earn a living, which means more fantastic fiction for you in the long run! So, if you can spare a few minutes this Friday, go review a damn book.
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It's not only big announcement time but it's also GIVEAWAY TIME. The news is that Demon's Reign has done so well that it's been released in paperback, and
@davidestesbooks
and I are giving away the only signed copy in existence!
🔥To enter just RT and follow us both 🔥
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This whole “write drunk, edit sober” thing is fine until you find a half-finished chapter with a note at the end saying:
“If you’re reading this, Sober Ben, I tried. Tell them I tried. Succeed where I failed.”
Drunk Ben is a bastard.
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Tell me you’re a fantasy author without telling me you’re a fantasy author
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COVER REVEAL TIME
Here’s the brand new cover for A Feast For Wolves, the new Emaneska prequel novella. Art by me and it’ll be launching in August!
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@elle_hunt
@utherlives
The horror genre is built on the definition of horror – "intense fear, shock, or disgust". This is independent of setting. Alien, Life, Gravity, Event Horizon etc evoke that feeling. Space is an endless void filled with everything & nothing at the same time. That's scary as shit
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I have been waiting to read this message for the last four years. Today is a good day
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Once again and louder for the people in the back, if you write to me about people of the European Middle Ages didn’t have this armour or that armour…
IT. IS. CALLED. FANTASY. FOR. A. FUCKING. REASON.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
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I’ve just learned that the dozen+ books I’ve published over the last 10 years ARE NOT ACTUALLY BOOKS! They are in fact Amazon playing to my vanity!
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Publishing is publishing. Whether you put “self”, “indie”, “traditional” or “hybrid” in front, it’s still publishing. It’s about time we forget about the perceived hierarchy behind the methods of publishing a book and remember WE’RE PUBLISHING BOOKS. We share the same goal.
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Authors! Tell me what you’re currently writing using 4 emojis: 🌲👹🔥🔪
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10 years of writing.
12 books published.
1.5 million+ words.
Countless hours of work.
And I still don’t know whether it’s bloody “affect” or “effect”...
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Today I'm going to share some ways of supporting your favourite or fellow authors. Ready? Seatbelts on. Here we go.
No.1: BUY THEIR BOOK.
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Well this is a nice move.
@audible_com
have just made hundreds of audiobooks free to help during the Great Staying Inside:
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Today is my balloon day, and to celebrate I’ve decided to run the biggest sale I’ve ever run. Every single one of my books, short stories, and novellas is either 99c or free for the next 3 days: . My birthday is your birthday.
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Because I’m a glutton for punishment and this idea was driving me mad, I’m writing another book and releasing a chapter a week. It’s called Somebody Has To Be The Dark Lord. 1/3
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I wanted to spare a moment to say a HUGE thank you to all the bloggers and reviewers who took part in the
#UltimateBlogTour
, and to
@The_WriteReads
/
@WriteReadsTours
for organising this gigantic blog tour for little ole me. I'm still grinning from all your feedback! You rock 🤘
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A GAME. Here’s a bunch of fantasy worlds. You can choose three and three only. No bloody cheating here.
- one to visit only once
- one to rule
- one to destroy
DISCUSS
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The best edges are sprayed edges. Since the The Written illustrated editions arrived last week I’ve been airbrushing tf out of them. 100 down, 250 to go. Here’s a little peek at how I’m doing it:
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Which book has done this to you recently?
(Also tagging
@AndreaGStewart
for the inspiration for this 😁)
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And because I’m channelling some excellent vibes today, I can finally reveal the cover for the Pale Kings Illustrated Edition (Emaneska book 2)
Kickstarter project coming very soon, and yes you’ll be able to get book 1 as well 🤘
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I might just be getting better at this sketching stuff...
Since January I've been attempting to sketch out things from my book worlds. I'm very amateur still but it's a fun escape.
Meet the Grave of the Ogin - a valley filled with a forest of rusted, giant swords.
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A single typo?! God gods, typos have existed since time itself. Grow up.
Wow, so, nobody read Courting Fate! It has a typo in it, which has never before happened in any published book! The audacity of me! 😱
(FYI, I had an editor for this book, lol! This will happen with any book, as we are all humans working on them...)
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My Permanent Residency application for Canada has finally been submitted. At 224 A4 pages, it’s actually longer than some of my books. Wish me luck and may the immigration gods smile upon me!
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Daaaaamn... check out this new artwork for the main characters of my Emaneska Series! This art will be going onto postcards as rewards for the Written Hardcover kickstarter project, but they might also be prizes and prints very soon 🤘 (art by the excellent Lain Valentine)
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What's got two thumbs and is majorly excited to be writing a short story for the Black Library in the future?
THIS GUY.
👍😎👍
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This week just keeps on getting better. First an
#SPFBO
finalist, and now I'm thrilled to reveal the The Written Illustrated Hardcover. It launches TOMORROW on
#kickstarter
. Here's the first official look at the new cover and a link to be notified:
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Don’t get me wrong, George is fantastic, but HBO does know there are quite a few other fantasy authors and other fantasy books available to adapt....... right?
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It's launch day and I am buzzing. HEAVY LIES THE CROWN has finally been unleashed. I thought I would do something mad to celebrate. You can get book 1 for $1.99 AND pick up the whole previous series free for the next 48 hours... Mad I tell you.
⚔️⚔️
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In case you missed it... the first ever copy of The Written Illustrated Edition that we kickstarted arrived this week. 350 are being printed and bound right this moment!
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To hell with it! I was going to show this off tomorrow, but I’m too fucking excited. Meet the cover concept I’ve drawn and arted for THE FOREVER KING, Book 1 of the Scalussen Chronicles.
There’ll be a blog up tomorrow all about the concept, the backstory, how I made it.
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He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake...to whoever made this tree topper - I salute you 🤘
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Don’t mind me, just over here being an
#spfbo
semi-finalist
With that, Team BWGB has our five semi-finalists!!
They are as follows: Demons, Inc by
@ClaytonSnyder2
, The Forever King by
@BenGalley
, Stranger Back Home by E.L. Haines, The Inner Lands - Something Stirs by
@author_austin
and Sword of the Scarred by
@HallToElsewhere
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Sharing a little close-up of this epic illustration that'll be included in the Pale Kings Kickstarter. Very excited to share more info soon as well as the new cover 👀
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PRO TIP:
One effective digital marketing strategy for indie authors is to hire bears to do your marketing for you.
#selfpublishing
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…these banishment coins made. Sadly not out of gold but exactly as I imagined and wrote them, even with the language I invented for the Emaneska world.
It’s making the things in your mind real that makes being an author so fun:
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I haven’t seen my mum for 4 years thanks to covid and immigration stress. Last week my favourite tiny human finally managed to make it out to the Great White North to celebrate my 35th with me. Best present ever.
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"I'm voting for somebody who can't count and lies on social media!" - Nobody Ever.
Nice try,
@Nigel_Farage
http://t.co/gqXT0oG3vd
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Here’s the line: If an author calls a pauldron a vambrace, that’s an error in armour nomenclature. That’s appreciated. Telling an author a character in a medieval-inspired fantasy setting shouldn’t have intricate plate mail when there’s magic and dragons in the same scene? No.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
So over the moon to say The Forever King is now a finalist in the
#spfbo
!
SPFBO7 - Finalist Selection
An incredibly tough choice for us as a team!
#spfbo7
#spfbo
#writingcommunity
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Today I will mostly be planning the release of these chonks: Chasing Graves Trilogy hardcovers. I’ve been sitting on these for a while and it’s finally time to unleash
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This is a fraction of what I’ve signed over the last 24 hours but JUST LOOK AT THOSE SPRAYED EDGES
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IT'S COVER REVEAL TIME! It gives me huge pleasure to reveal the cover of GRIM SOLACE, book 2 of the Chasing Graves Trilogy, by
@stk_kreations
and Chris Cold.
As of today you can pre-order for January 24th:
Or add on Goodreads!
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Four years ago today I made one of the best decisions of my life and moved to Canada
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It's giveaway time, fellow book nerds! To celebrate the launch of the Heavy Lies The Crown audiobook I’m doling out a heap of swag: 2x signed paperbacks, a map print AND a dragon pin. Even better, there are 3 of these packs to win. RT, then follow me and
@PodiumAudio
to enter 🐉
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What's better than a cheap book? A free book. What's better than a free book. A FREE TRILOGY! My Chasing Graves Trilogy is FREE atm, so if you like your fantasy on the darker side, mixed with ghosts, murder, insectoid monsters, and black humour, click!
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