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Stephen Embleton

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From KwaZulu-Natal to Oxford. James Currey Fellow Oxford Uni 2022, Charter member @AfricanSFS YA fantasy Bones & Runes, SF Soul Searching @sauutiverse He/Him

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We love writing waffle. Waffle writing. Um, waffle about writing! Waffling about writing! Yes. 📖 🖊️
Thanks for the mention, Cat @clhellisen.bsky.social 🙏🏼 And the release of @xanwriter.bsky.social’s novella! Get it.

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Ah. In case you missed it, I did a BSFA Interview with the excellent Gareth Worthington about my motivations, the intersections of engineering and creative writing, my novel SHIGIDI, the new collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS, the
@sauutiverse.bsky.social and more!

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Oh hey!
The ebook of my BSFA, Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and Nommo award nominated novel is on sale for just $2.99. Grab it if you like a spicy, character-driven, postcolonial, anticapitalist, African fantasy heist adventure with gods, magic and monsters.😉📗🌍
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Because Cheryl is Ghanaian, and Sauúti is an Afrocentric science-fantasy world, I wanted to infuse the typography with those aspects. I designed a latinised version of the Adinkra alphabet (Ghana). It has fantastic characteristics & a modular form which made it a fun, yet simple, design to work on.

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I’m grateful to have both “Bones & Runes” (novel) and “Undulation” (novella) as finalists in the African Speculative Fiction Society’s 2024 Nommo Awards.

“Bones & Runes” — Abibiman Publishing 2022
“Undulation” — Mothersound: the Sauútiverse anthology, Android Press 2023

🙏🏼📖👀💫
#nommoawards

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Thanks to Mame Bougouma Diene for moderating an excellent panel at Nice Fictions on “The Building Blocks of Worldbuilding” where I got to speak about @sauutiverse.bsky.social and the world we’ve created, and hearing from co-panelists Michèle Laframboise, Stéphane Arnier and Benjamin Lupu. 🪐🚀💫

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It was an absolute honour to be asked to read our dear departed friend, African SFF writer Nick Wood’s short story “A Pall of Moondust” for the BSFA podcast a few months back. I hope I did it justice, bru. 🙏🏼 ❤️

Now available to listen:
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Thanks so much, Cat. Was a fun one. Pushed me to experiment with the digital brushes. Phew!

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!!!AND DRUMROLL PLEASE!!! 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 Here it is, the cover for Waypoint Seven coming July 1st from Mirari Press. The cover was designed by Stephen Embleton.

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Long weekend part 2: sitting by the lake (a summer goal) reading (another summer goal) Mothersound, an anthology of scifi and fantasy stories by African & diasporic writers by @sauutiverse.bsky.social establishing a shared universe for people to build on—a book I've been excited to read for a while!

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I'm really pleased to have my 2023 novella, Undulation – from the first The Sauúti Collective anthology, Mothersound – included in the HWA Bram Stoker Award Reading List along with 5 others!

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Darlings, write that book. Ignore the 'not selling' rhetoric. Write the book. Write your fix-up novels or your trashy book or your serious historical epic or your barely-disguised autobiography or your pew-pew SF. The people who love books depend on you. Do not fail them.

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One happy accident for the project was incorporating the “working” components of each letter in the design itself. i.e. when I work on fonts, I find the common weights (stroke thicknesses) and common shapes in bright colours, and move these around to exact positions.

#typedesign #alphabets #adinkra

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I recently had the pleasure of creating something unique for a friend’s project (more on that to come soon!). And for reasons, I created a custom typeface, a latinised version of the Adrinkra alphabet from Ghana. Adinkra has some fantastic characteristics, making it a fun & simple design to work on.

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Find out more about the Sauútiverse and how we got to where we are…more anthologies and stories coming out!

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There’s a reason philosophy, art, literature, religion, and language are called the Humanities: By humans, for humans! It’s about us reflecting on ourselves, not AI doing the thinking for us, FFS.

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A Sauútiverse story out in the wilds. 👀📖
Sauúti Collective member, @genni.bsky.social gives a Sauúti spin to Sherlock Homes.

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With a recent illustration project (to publish later) I’ve been working on, I’ve been enjoying using these vector-based ink brushes ✍🏼from True Grit. So much variation and just the right kind of untidy to match my physical inking style, and neatness when I need it. Self-portrait.

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Right. I'll be attending the @BSFA Eastercon virtually.

These are the 3 panels I'll be on and here is a handy link to view them on the program schedule: guide.eastercon2024.co.uk/ids/120~208~...

Drop by if you can. Should be a bunch of fun and/or interesting discussions.

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Just signed the contract for the first Sauúti story I ever wrote 🎊 So thrilled this story found a good home and I cannot wait for y'all to read this dark tale about death and forbidden music. More details coming soon!

@sauutiverse.bsky.social

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Apparently I had to tell bs I'm an adult ;) Sorted.

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The toothy-monster-chasing-boat algorithm is working well on FB. Can’t wait for Godzilla Minus One!

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