Alex S. Bradshaw 🦕
@AlexSBradshaw
Author of TROLLGRAVE - now a #SPFBOX semi-finalist!! and WINDBORN (SPFBO7 semifinalist) he/him At any moment will be thinking about fantasy and/or dinosaurs 🦖
Trollgrave is out now! A standalone Norse fantasy fileld with fanatical outlaws, strange magic, and vicious monsters! It's out on Amazon in ebook and KU and wide in print. And to celebrate Trollgrave getting into #SPFBOX Windborn is only 99p/c! (links in replies)
Aah, I'm so thrilled to get this news!! Trollgrave is through to the #bbnya2025 semi-finals! I'm buzzing! 🌲
Congratulations to Trollgrave by @alexsbradshaw You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2025!!
Nearly time for us to do some writing! Who's coming along?
We can't wait for our first live write-a-long session later today! Pop over to the YouTube channel between 2pm and 4pm BST and join Frasier, Alex and a few of our awesome indie author friends for a chilled and supportive writing session. youtube.com/live/sph5mdZg4… See you there!
Who's joining for this? I won't be on the livestream this time, but I'll be in the chat and joining the writing sprints. Can't wait!
Who's joining us for our first LIVE Indie Author Write-a-thon this Saturday? Drop by the YouTube channel between 2pm and 4pm to get involved. Featuring relaxed between session chats and Q&As with our guests, along with write-a-long sprints. #indieauthorsummer #writingcommunity
If anyone is around on Saturday, why not come and join us for some fun writing sprints? Or you can do reading sprints, or cake-eating sprints, just come along and join the chill session!
Who's joining us for our first LIVE Indie Author Write-a-thon this Saturday? Drop by the YouTube channel between 2pm and 4pm to get involved. Featuring relaxed between session chats and Q&As with our guests, along with write-a-long sprints. #indieauthorsummer #writingcommunity
Super excited for this chat with @plstuartwrites on Sunday ahead of The Broken Sword's release! Come and join us if you have an hour free :D Can ask questions, pick our brains, and generally hang out!
SIX ELEMENTALS INTERVIEWS features 2 awesome creatives: 1 of the most dynamic SFF Indie authors in @_LLMacRae & 1 of the best reviewers in Dr. John Mauro! This Sunday June 29 2025 11am & 7pm EASTERN! ***LIVE!*** youtube.com/watch?v=VAbp... youtube.com/watch?v=saEl...
Aaaaand, Residuum is unleashed on the world!! Go buy it, it would make me happy (and you!!) mybook.to/ResiduumDBRook
Look it's me! My chapter is up for Realm Raiders. This has been such a fun project working with so many other authors and it is definitely something special that's more than the sum of its parts! So go check out my chapter and if you've not read the whole then go read it all!
Who's ready for a new chapter of Realm Raiders? It's time to check in with Team Fangblade as Spotlight's very own @AlexSBradshaw takes the wheel (or rather the keyboard) for Chapter Seven. Read it here: spotlightindie.co.uk/?p=1491 #indieauthors #indiebooks #RealmRaiders #BookSky
The excitement levels at Spotlight Indie recently ramped up to a ten when @Janet_DB_Forbes, one of the founders of World Anvil (worldanvil.com) dropped by for a chat with Frasier. Don't miss the first part of the video landing on Youtube this weekend! #WritingCommunity
New article series alert! Join Amber (the creative mind behind Spotlight Indie's monthly newsletter) as they share their experience of penning a debut novel. The Amber Diaries Chapter One is up now: spotlightindie.co.uk/2025/06/23/the… #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks
Sunday is new video day at Spotlight Indie. Join us for the third and final part of our chat with LA Cunningham, where @FrasierArmitage, @AlexSBradshaw and @Laurcunn talk genres, categories and keywords. youtu.be/EXP7RoGDJVo #indieauthor #indiebooks
Have you seen the web serial that I've been working on with some amazing authors hosted by the equally amazing @SpotlightIndie_ ? Realm Raiders is a fantastic story that is more than the sum of its parts. We're up to chapter five so check it out! spotlightindie.co.uk/category/realm…
Hey you. Yes you. We see you. Scrolling when you should be working on/shouting about how great your latest draft/book/project is. Watch this piece of one minute writerly advice and then get back to crafting that masterpiece!
Want to know what my (least) favourite font is? Come watch part 2 of our chat with @laurcunn !
Part 2 of our chat with @laurcunn and @FrasierArmitage is airing personal disputes on YouTube, and @AlexSBradshaw takes things down a level - plus favourite fonts, circus music and gluten-free fajitas. Is this madness? No, this is Spotlight Indie. youtu.be/irAva_7TtEo
Yet more wisdom from Spotlight Indie today! This time from the ever-wise Frasier Armitage - I am definitely guilty of putting too much pressure on my current WIP so I'll be testing this one out!
Here's Frasier Armitage, coming in like a wrecking baaaaaaall to smash some excellent writerly advice into your world. This week, we're talking about momentum and how to keep it going. youtube.com/shorts/BTXdlLd…
Another tip from me (piggybacking off the wisdom of @emilyinkpen ...) ! I am also still stupidly amused by my walking in/out of the video when it loops...
Guess who's back? Back again? That's right, it's Alex S. Bradshaw, here once again to dispense soem writerly advice in less time than it takes to make a cup of that super strong coffee powering your latest editing pass. Here's the link to the full video: youtu.be/HcnAkS9xjpU?si…
I had a brilliant time chatting with Frasier and Anna and she's got loads of great advice for marketing - so go check it out!
In the third and final part of our chat with Queen of Cyberpunk, Anna Mocikat, Frasier and Alex invite Anna to dispense some honest advice about what it takes to market your first indie novel. Who's ready to shout about their books? youtu.be/_1sHd0M0SgY
I'm still testing out dictation and getting used to it, and it's giving me gems like this sentence.... "[the moonlight] glinted off the rounded surface of a Belgian" I meant off a bell jar, I'm not sure how round Belgians usually are...
I am equal parts excited and nervous to be part of #bbnya2025! Thank you so much for the welcome and the luck!!
A big #BBNYA2025 welcome to Trollgrave by @alexsbradshaw Welcome aboard and best of luck!!