If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social? Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points! www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

Did you like Evangelion but wish it was queerer? Then I've got a book for you! The Cosmic Color by T.T. Madden — neon hemlock share.google/IUZZDSYL8a4Y...

This book is SO good; you might go mad reading just one more page, just one more page, until you get to the end and you find something ancient has taken up residence within you.

Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!

It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

What a really cool, rockstar list to be on. I’ve read the majority but now I have a couple of new ones to check out 👀👀 Thank you as always to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for being such a champion of A NECESSARY CHAOS ❤️🫶

+1 to all of these that I've read (A Necessary Chaos in particular is brilliant), and also throwing in there Alex Jeffers' A Mourning Coat, which is seriously one of the most subtle, light touch pieces of fiction (speculative or otherwise) I've read in ages & more people should read it.

I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

This code is still working, for a very tasty discount on this monstrous collection! My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence). Also includes talking animals.

As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

so excited to have a weird, kind of gross little story featured among so many other strange, haunting, queer gems in baffling. what an honor and a delight!

& you can read the full issue here :>

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Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart. And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Not the last book, but the one I remember best is @brentclambert.bsky.social's enthusiastic rec for Empire of the Feast: bsky.app/profile/bren... Not only was it EXACTLY as advertised, it really opened up new vistas for me on the place of explicit sex in speculative fiction.

Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)

i always appreciate when people write books or edit collections targeted specifically at me

Just picked up this novella, a trans sci-fi about… cheese? I’m excited. “Millions Wayland… learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible, Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city.“ 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️

My recent book mail is pleasingly color coordinated and matches my office walls! Really looking forward to these: Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social's forthcoming collection The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, and Apprehension by @maryrobinettekowal.com. 1/2

Though we live in a degraded world, beauty still exists. Case in point, the luminous debut collection from @seraph76.bsky.social

Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week. www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...

For Halloween, why not read my story "Red Flags", about being an eldritch horror who's into cruising. And murder. 😈 Plus all the other toe curling tales in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's The Crawling Moon.

I finished reading "Call and Response" by Christopher Caldwell. Yay for reading! (Highest possible recommendation, by the way.) www.instagram.com/p/DQX3I8zj5Rc/

I really like this book written by a complete stranger’

Christopher Caldwell's new collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is evocative, vivid, sometimes humorous, and wonderfully queer and Black. Out now from Neon Hemlock. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/29/r...

Thank you to Split Lip and Allison for doing the interview and letting me talk at length about horror and my ideas and influences. I'm happy it's something they are still reading! Also, hey feel free to buy Skin Thief! I am very proud of that book. And I hear its very very good from others. 😜

There are TWO DAYS LEFT in our Kickstarter! If you want a short story critique from Suzan Palumbo + a subscription, now’s the time to back! @sillysyntax.bsky.social is the multi-award-nominated author of SKIN THIEF, COUNTESS, and so much more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Book 29: The Iron Below Remembers by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. I came for the combo of academia and superheroics set against a cool inversion of our colonial history—you should come for that and also for its delightful and unabashed horniness 😉 I'd gladly read more in this world!

An attempt at a different format - I talk about books that might pair well with Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, and have a go at making a rec list.

Every book on the le Guin prize shortlist is special in its own right. Ursula Whitcher's ( @yarntheory.bsky.social) North Continent Ribbon is a collection of stories about the sometimes slow, sometimes immediate nature of revolution. It is a stunning book. Everyone should read it

For his first collection of supernatural, magical, and other worldly short stories, "Call And Response: Stories Of The Fantastic," author Christopher Caldwell is giving us something of a two-fer. How so? Well, for that, you'll have to read this exclusive interview... paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🗣️

I got my copy of @seraph76.bsky.social 's new book and it's so beautiful. And the stories inside are even more beautiful. Also I got thanked in the acknowledgements, and having my name associated with something so magical made me cry. So buy your own copy, please www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Tonight, I'm doing a 25-min Zoom reading of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS for Two Hour Transport! I'm one of 2 featured writers & there's an open mic. If you want in, I can send you a link privately! Special thanks to my publisher @neonhemlock.bsky.social www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2

Congratulations to @vajra.me , a shout out to @detroitjusticecen.bsky.social , a review of Iron Garden Sutra, a celebration of @othersidespec.bsky.social , and a cat: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

My review of Luminescent Machinations from @neonhemlock.bsky.social ! historythatneverwas.com/2025/10/22/r...

I didn't even know it was Black speculative fiction month but I just finished Loving Safoa and it was so fun! Brilliantly written, reflective, leisurely and well crafted. I also didn't realise Stone and Steel was Neon Hemlock. Maybe I'll try and get to that this month too! #blackbooksky #booksky

My review of "Finding Echoes", by Foz Meadows 🌈📚 #queersff #queerspeculativefiction

I'm so delighted for @vajra.me and for Rakesfall, which will break apart everything you thought you knew about novels and the universe and put them back in better pieces.

Want a poetry critique from the lovely @yarntheory.bsky.social? Ursula Whitcher is a writer, poet, and mathematician published by Neon Hemlock, Analog, Asimov’s, The Deadlands, and elsewhere! Grab a subscription + poetry critique! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Call and Response is out! (by Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social, published by @neonhemlock.bsky.social) To celebrate, a selection of illustrations I painted for this fantastic collection of short stories! Get the paperback (w/ sprayed edges ooh) here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Contributors Wanted! Do YOU want to write for Nerds of a Feather? www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cont...

say hi to me this weekend at can*con please

Matt drew the interior illustrations for North Continent Ribbon (including my beloved six-legged salamander)!

Off time jive would smell like a g&t for SURE

Ten stories, so: leather, rum, sea salt, jasmine, woodsmoke, ambergris, nail lacquer, frankincense, filé powder, and funk.

CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell is out in the world! If you haven’t pre-ordered already, you can get it directly from us here: PAPERBACK: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a... EBOOK: www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/call-...