Geek Native’s 20k announcement: Bronwen Winter Phoenix

20,000 is a considerable number and one to celebrate. You’re reading Geek Native’s 20,000th blog post.

The big news is Bronwen Winter Phoenix is joining me, accepting the position of Creative Director and signing up to cover all sorts of geeky news and discoveries.

I asked Bronwen whether she knew what she was getting into. Bronwen told me;

I think by now I have a pretty good idea. Earlier this year, I met someone I had so much in common with and who was so much on my wavelength it was crazy. It’s all been a bit of a blur, and now I couldn’t wish for a better business partner or work dynamic.

Bronwen is an artist and illustrator, as well as an experienced journalist and Galaxy Award-nominated author, which beats my claims to any professional experience outside of digital marketing before setting up Geek Native and her sister sites. Of course, Bronwen does digital marketing, too, but doesn’t like to shout about it.

I also quizzed Bronwen on what sorts of stories she might be covering and what discoveries and topics she’ll be on the watch for. Bronwen reminded me;

Girdy, I’ve been here since March – haven’t you noticed? I’ll probably just be covering more of the same in my role as (Co)Editor for Geek Native, including dinosaur and scary robot content, sci-fi news, cool trailers and shopping posts, along with other random nonsense and theories about whatever entertains me the most on any given day.

I really missed writing for fun, which is something I also keep reminding you of. I feel that Geek Native is a great platform for me to be able to do that, and express myself. It also means I have a place to upload some of my artwork, which I’ve already started doing.

Tapping Bronwen’s experience allows us to tidy up some behind-the-scenes processes. In particular, Geek Native, Edinburgh Reviews and a blog about weird and wonderful news called In Pure Spirit have been run as a hobby, but now is the time to officially move all three into a limited company. 

That parent vehicle is called Zebra Eclipse, and so far, it seems to be hours of extra paperwork, but it might make applications to attend gaming conventions as press pack members a little more impressive.

Geek Native is the evolution of an older site called GameWyrd. GameWyrd was all custom-code and an early, but far from the first, RPG reviews site. Some but not all of GameWyrd’s content was ported over to Geek Native during the launch weeks, counts to those 20,000 blog posts and much is now unbelievably cringeworthy. 

Here’s to the future with Bronwen and twenty thousand more posts. 

Creative Commons credit: “Steampunk Express – Speed Reader Automation” by FutureRender.