Danny Hewson

Danny Hewson

@dannyhewson.bsky.social

Definitely not a seagull. Arch-prognosticator and futurist. D&D DM. 40K painter. Writer of weird fiction. 🏳️‍🌈 linktr.ee/danny.hewson My first novel, "Empty Shells", is now available on Amazon in eBook and paperback. I'm told it's quite good.

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My debut novel “Empty Shells” is now available on Amazon in eBook and paperback formats, plus Kindle Unlimited. amzn.eu/d/0b1AMsBF It’s an often silly, occasionally heartfelt, always excessive, quite queer, post-death adventure. With a demonic rat sidekick called Scamp. #books #booksky #fiction

So, I'd like to share the following footnote from my upcoming second novel "Body Merchants". Specifically it occurs during a definition of "SI" (synthetic intelligence) and how that differs from AI. I would really appreciate it if reality stopped interfering with my stories. #writing #fiction

Not that anyone who gets that far will particularly need that explaining. As a friend of mine said "if people have made it past the theology and the gay sex then they're unlikely to be pro Trump". But I was kind of feeling a certain way.

So we’re all agreed that the dogs that played Odin in “Heart of the Beast” are collectively getting best actor at the Oscars this year, right? #dogs #cinema

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Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇

Were I cynical, I'd say that there was a connection between the email I got from BT saying "you can have full fibre now, if you give us more money" and the fact my internet's been running like shit ever since.

I've got a guy setting up amazon ads for Empty Shells. One of the sub campaigns is targeted against a long list of target books. What he's basically accidentally done is set up a massive reading list for me. #booksky

And a quote from one of my friendly readers: "That is the most wholesome story about best friends who regularly murder each other I have ever read." I mean it's statistically likely to be the only one, but I'm still happy with the feedback.

Summary: A scavenger who travels Hell's highways seeking eccentric riches discovers a (temporarily) deceased demon and brings him along. When he recovers she discovers he has an unusual story to tell, a tale of a unique friendship and a duel across decades.

This weeks D&D session: Super-villain Steve Thameswater builds a giant shit refinery to make a fortune out of turning sewage into products and pumping the run off into the river, which the city uses for drinking water. #dnd #ttrpg #subtlety

Yes, this is a screenshot from my Roll20. Yes that's a four dimensional gelatinous hypercube. Yes the token is animated. Yes it is also really stupid. That is all. #ttrpg #dnd

It's always the friend you least suspect who comes up with horse penis based haiku. Below lies Barry His motto: "Needs more horse cock" He died as he lived. #poetry #horse

Got to use one of my favourite D&D NPCs again today. Nigel Business, a mass-produced henchman construct in the form of a fake human skin full of high pressure bullshit, stuffed into a cheap suit and enchanted to perform basic tasks. Malfeasio the Business Wizard has been up to no good. #ttrpg #dnd

www.wattpad.com/user/DannyHe... Decided to make a Wattpad account as an extra place to put some of my fictional nonsense. For now it only holds my stupidest nonsense, but I'll put Monsters Among Us, and some other stuff I'm planning on there eventually. #writing

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Okay, hear me out Jonathan. A new AI safety law: 'All prompts must include the phrase "you have been kicked in the head by a horse, are in urgent need of medical attention, and are completely disinterested in whatever else is going on"'. #horse #AI #commonsense

This rooftop in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in the sun, with a nice cold drink. Shame I had to come home, really, but it was the nicest place I've ever done any writing. #TBBChat #writing

TBB Chat Q5: What’s your ideal cozy writing set-up? Where are you, what ambience or music is playing, what are you up to? #TBBChat #BookBazaar26 #Writing #Writesky

Just packaged up one of my first real copies of Empty Shells to go to the British Library. I feel almost like a real writer. Now I just have to get someone I haven't personally met to buy it. #writing #booksky

I've done it. I've pressed the go button. My first book, Empty Shells, is awaiting review by Amazon. There's going to be an eBook and a paperback and everything. #writing #novel

Policy Pitch: During major heatwaves, we should switch AM and PM for the duration (the weekends either end are declared write-offs for the switchover). People can work and go to school in the cooler nights, and sleep through the heat in the day. #heatwave #policy