thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social for including LOCAL HEAVENS in the Fall '25 SF/Fantasy/Horror season preview 🫶 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

✨UK COVER REVEAL is here✨ thrilled LOCAL HEAVENS will be pubbed in the UK w/ @zaffrebooks.bsky.social @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social thank you to my UK editor, Kelly, for acquiring it w/ so much understanding💚 LOCAL HEAVENS is a dystopian love story & queer cyberpunk Great Gatsby remix. details ⬇️🧵

category is: book endings that made me feel like i swallowed a bag of bricks first pride month read done and it was 10 stars. CRY VOIDBRINGER is out this October and y’all really don’t wanna miss this one

I have 2 client books on BookTrib's 10 Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads for Pride list! THE MERCY MAKERS by @tessagratton.bsky.social and LOCAL HEAVENS by @kmfajardo.bsky.social. Check out the list here: booktrib.com/2025/06/02/1...

happy pride, yearners!!! from me & my bi panic cyberpunk nightmare book. also pls clap for my GREEN OFFICE i get to decorate this month if you like bipoc queer stories, toxic relationships, examinations of capitalism/technology, gatsby x bladerunner x black mirror — LH is for you 💚

today’s blurb is from Chloe Gong 💐💗 tysm to chloe for sharing the nicest words ever for my debut! LOCAL HEAVENS releases 10/14. available for preorder now (save your receipts!) ARCs can be requested on netgalley/from my publisher. 🔗 kmfajardo.com/local-heavens

Loved seeing @kmfajardo.bsky.social's upcoming LOCAL HEAVENS on this list of books by Asian authors! bookish.netgalley.com/must-reads/0...

kicking off the LOCAL HEAVENS blurb reveals with these kind words from @olivieblake.bsky.social 💐 LOCAL HEAVENS releases Oct 14th. available for pre0rder now! 🔗 in 🧵

hiii my US publisher is gathering names/interest for physical ARCs so if queer dystopian fiction is up your alley, there's a link to the request form in my bio :)

today’s the last day to pre 0rd3r LOCAL HEAVENS, my queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, for 25% off through B&N. if you’ve already pre0rd3red, ily. also save your receipts 💚 here’s Nick and Jay art — by @/mossbun_ ✨ (full versions below)

this sale on Bookshop ends tmrw!! get a discount on LOCAL HEAVENS pre 0rders while you still can ❇️🍸

✨GIVEAWAY✨ happy 100th birthday to The Great Gatsby 🍾 i wrote a newsletter dedicated to the centennial :) + to celebrate, my publisher is granting access to e-ARCs of LOCAL HEAVENS so if the netgalley gods denied you, there is hope!! details + newsletter 🔗 in 🧵

My friend @soumiroy1.bsky.social is a brilliant writer and scientist who is in a terrible position right now. Please help in any way you can, even if it's just sharing or boosting ❤️ gofund.me/74bc7dde

Black and brown authors, it’s time! Send me your manuscripts! PitchFest is opennnn!!! docs.google.com/forms/d/1HGW...

I cannot express just how good LOCAL HEAVENS is, but it *is* on Netgalley now if you wanna see for yourself!

the ghiblification slop on twitter is a really interesting phenomenon in the sense that it reveals something about the culture that creates it (twitter users/ai slop enjoyers), but fundamentally betrays a misunderstanding of the source material so profound you can really only laugh

thank you to everyone who’s been requesting digital ARCs of my dystopian debut / queer cyberpunk Gatsby remix on Netgalley 🍸❤️‍🔥 & to those tagging + messaging me on ig! i can’t check reviews so the excited DMs are very kind lol here’s a preview of the physical ARC interior✨👀 (Netgalley 🔗 in bio!)

I’m happy to share that my queer cyberpunk debut + Gatsby remix, LOCAL HEAVENS, will have a simultaneous audiobook release in october with Simon Maverick/S&S 🎧 (got to listen to auditions & omg can’t wait for you guys to *experience* corpo spy nick 🙂‍↕️) 🔗🧵

I wrote a book and it comes out 10/14! it’s a queer dystopian love story with a bi 🇵🇭 MC + a cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining + it’s about capitalism & technology & yearning & rich ppl who suck !! and my ARC finally came in <33

it’s baby’s first ✨book sale!✨ my queer cyberpunk gatsby reimagining, LOCAL HEAVENS, is available to pre 0rder for 15% off (!!!) on Bookshop for a limited time. if u wanna support a debut author & indie bookstores … now’s a good chance <3 🥹 📌book info pinned 🔗 in bio

what it feels like being a debut author the first day your ARCs go up on netgalley

✨🍸 psa for book reviewers ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3 📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)

This is the book that TORE ME UP this weekend, it's the Gatsby retelling I never knew I needed -- please please please check it out and preorder!

A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare.  My newest @binderybooks.bsky.social title is @kmfajardo.bsky.social’s dystopian romance: a queer, cyberpunk reimagining of THE GREAT GATSBY. You’re invited 10.14.25. Preorder available now.

✨💎COVER REVEAL💎✨ LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th. design: Charlotte Strick art: @madebykaran ✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!) 🧵details below

Words cannot describe the feeling of writers you admire saying this about your debut novel. i am on the floor 😭

💎 The world’s most famous party. You’re invited. LOCAL HEAVENS, a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby remix, follows a corporate hacker investigating an elusive billionaire. On capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14. ✨Cover Reveal: March 10✨

‼️‼️‼️ girls gays and theys … anyone want a cover reveal for queer cyberpunk gatsby book ? 😌 you may want to watch this space, and follow me on ig, next week because **teasers**

hi y’alll we’re getting closer to the LOCAL HEAVENS cover reveal. im so excited to share the dreaminess that the team cooked up 💫 snippet from the next newsletter where i talk about unlearning cynicism and writing dystopian love stories. substack⬇️

nearing the climax of my filipino gothic fantasy WIP. it is so commercial, i might actually need to revise in freakier kinky shit just to feel something

🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Being trans isn’t a culture war. Not giving an inch in my support for trans and nonbinary people of all ages to live freely and openly, and neither should you. Gender is what we make of it, and that’s what they’re afraid of.

ohhhh the beautiful email in my inbox ……. 2025, you are sooo the year of roaring twenties glam x cyberpunk dystopia

I’m so thrilled to share the cover for my new book, SALTCROP, which is out in September. I’ve been so lucky to have beautiful covers — all designed by the amazing Jonathan Bush, including this one — but I think this one may be my favorite yet.

If you're looking for a full manuscript critique for your YA or adult science fiction/fantasy/spec manuscript, I've donated one to #KidLit4Ceasefire ! The auction will run from 1/15 - 1/31 Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg

me and the manuscript thats gonna be a real book this year 😖😖😖 5 years ago i wanted to try remixing THE GREAT GATSBY as a queer cyberpunk retelling on capitalism, technology + the destructiveness of wealth & desire. now i can say it comes out !! this !! Fall 💎✨

Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now." Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...

now that i'm thinking about it i'm actually gonna encourage more standalones but in a connected universe, cuz i love that shit

new short fiction out in Ricepaper Magazine :) i don’t often write outside of spec fic these days but this piece is from a few years ago 🍲✨ on food as alienation and reconciliation. ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/01/mery...

four days into the new year. got to knock this off the 2025 goals list already 😋✨ new short fiction coming soon ! (and my debut novel in the fall hehe)

happy 2025. im going to be a published author this year 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 if u like cyberpunk. or gatsby. or a cyberpunk gatsby retelling… ⬇️💎 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

i’m debuting next year with gay cyberpunk gatsby book and feeling totally normal about it (i’m not 😷) tomorrow’s newsletter is my 2024 wrapped & thoughts on debut nerves. 12pm EST @ kmfajardo.substack.com also! u can add LOCAL HEAVENS to your goodreads/storygraph tbr :)

gonna finally finish rewriting "sapphic fish heist cyberpunk short story" before the end of the year if it kills me. i need to submit this piece somewhere just to Feel something

i stopped cataloguing my reading a while ago but i binged so many sci fi books this year that im going to need to make a CHUNKY newsletter at some point

realizing the best version of the story you want to tell actually can't be told in a single book ... this is devastating. i've never planned past standalones before

so are all authors just constantly on the precipice of having an insane crash out bc no one told me that’s what gearing up for debut would feel like ha ha Ha

haven’t done any short fiction submissions this year. what is the science behind being able to lock in for 6 months on a novel but i can’t spit out a decent 5k short story in a year

“how do you deal with the idea of ur friends and family irl reading ur book” my brother is my critique partner/alpha reader, i think i’ve literally lost my ability to care at this point

There is no one answer to the question of how to bring more readers to small press SFF - even the biggest publishers can struggle with "discoverability" - but I wanted to talk about a few things you can do, and why it's always worth it!

I tend to be tense/POV agnostic in both my reading and writing. I believe that each story demands to be told in a certain way. The first person is more intimate, while the third gives you lots of narrative freedom. I enjoy the tyranny of perspective/tense and my favourite works often subvert them.