I'm truly honored that the Transfeminine Review has awarded Notes from a Regicide "Best Transfeminine Representation by a Non-Transfeminine Author." This whole award page is full of incredible recs, including some work that was not on my radar before -- they do such good work at TR!

Beautiful writeup of Notes from a Regicide here -- thank you, Sia!

It's been a difficult year, so this holiday season, I'm taking the opportunity to "go full airplane." www.flightaware.com/live/aircraf...

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a... Wonderful writeup in the Ancillary Review's 2025 Notable Books -- you can always rely on them to have some of the most thoughtful criticism in the field.

I'm in here!

The ultimate trans romantasy mixing SAILOR MOON, SEX AND THE CITY, and HOUSE OF LEAVES (yes, really!) is…available for Preorder RIGHT NOW: PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID by @blipstress.bsky.social www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/ppv-p... "Delicious, insane, intoxicating" @mayadeane.bsky.social

My favorite novels of 2025 include titles by Adelaide Faith, Paula Bomer, Zoe Dubno, Sebastian Castillo, Maggie Su, Isaac Fellman, Erica Peplin, Dennard Dayle, Emily Hunt Kivel, Cynthia Weiner, Colwill Brown, and Ariel Courage largeheartedboy.com/2025/12/07/l...

Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...

I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social

If @isaac-fellman.bsky.social’s goal in writing “Notes from a Regicide” was to get every queer to sob staring at the wall but also feel a new glimmer of hope for the future, he succeeded. Fucking brilliant existential fuel. Read it

HARTAPALOOZA 2025 continues with my notes on Alan Hart's The Undaunted, a 1930s technothriller about liver and the meaning of life: isaacs-law.ghost.io/paging-dr-ha...

I've only been logging on to check my mentions lately, but I did have to post this W.H. Auden captcha. "Choose all the clocks/select the telephone/click on the squares that show a juicy bone..."

Saw this and thought of @isaac-fellman.bsky.social

I'm a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2025! best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

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.

hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks. please share! more info downthread!

Isaac, June, and M.M. are all extremely talented, and while I haven't read the other authors featured, that lineup suggests to me that they are similarly worth listening to!

Incredible lineup for our trans event at Lit Crawl this Saturday! Also, it's at Silver Sprocket, so you can buy comics before/during/after the reading -- a truly ideal combination.

we're watching early seasons of project runway together, and this show was RIFE with jombathoon content. They'd let the key players introduce themselves in the first episode -- the person who's going to win and the one who's going to lose -- but there'd also be 5-6 phantoms slowly manifesting later

taking a break from these for now (I will let you all know if and when I reopen them!) but here are a few more pet menus i've made these past few days. thank you to everyone who donated to a trans-supportive org! you all make the world feel better to exist in.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

these days I rejoice in having one (1) normal petty problem, like "HOW will I not over-listen to the sick new Mountain Goats single before the album comes to place it in context"

This gives me life

My spouse is now making these for people who present proof of a charitable donation benefitting trans people, btw! Check their profile for instructions. We've printed and framed the Roxy's Diner menu over her dish so she always knows the daily specials ($0).

This is such a great book about art and family and love and identity and revolution (among other things), and you (yes, you specifically) should read it.

ONE DAY MORE...

Notes from a Regicide is still on sale for $3 on Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2xx5bch9 and Kindle: tinyurl.com/9zkt4khd. Sale ends on Sunday, so pick it up now if you want it!

yeah so Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social made me cry (complimentary). I can't explain how much this resonated with me. highly, highly recommend.

LRT: I interviewed a couple of scholars I admire about their Queer Pasts series of online exhibits. The project itself is paywalled, but if you have Alexander Street access through a university or public library, it is beautiful and ambitious and often quite moving. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

OutHistory is pleased to announce "Queer Pasts: A 2025 Interview with the Founding Editors," by Isaac Fellman. This exhibit features an interview with the coeditors of QP, a digital history database. The exhibit also provides titles and abstracts for all QP projects. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands

A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but! bookshop.org/p/books/note...

Ad for cassette of music for your "walk-woman," from a 1996 Imperial Queens & Kings of NY, LI, & NJ newsletter. Working on this for an upcoming online collection from the Center, New York's LGBTQ archives. Full name and address redacted for the creator's privacy; hope she's still singing out there.

Interesting information!!

Publishing is such a weird thing. I wrote Dead Collections and Notes from a Regicide in the same year, 2020 (though Notes took its spine, and a handful of samples, from a book I wrote in 2013). It's not like I changed a lot between them, or could. Just *seems* like an older man's book.

On a winning reading streak this month: Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation

Spectacular event with Mattie Lubchansky (read SIMPLICITY!!) and Calvin Kasulke (who came out to moderate despite having recently taken 100hp worth of spine damage) -- thanks to all who came. We had a great audience. Felt alive. Felt close to people. Have you heard of a place called New York City?

some cool people @mattielubchansky.com @kasulke.co @isaac-fellman.bsky.social

ok this is tonight!! see you soon!!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

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Once again reminding New Yorkers that I'll be at P&T Knitwear on Wednesday with Mattie and Calvin! If you're a fan of Mattie's podcast No Gods No Mayors (as you should be), both of our books debatably have mayoral content -- keep it in mind!

I blurbed this, and it was my introduction to Hal and hir ambitious, grimy, beautifully detailed work. If you're not generally a YA reader, fyi neither am I -- I'm so glad I tried it anyway. I'm also flattered as hell that the book is in explicit conversation with Dead Collections.

rly excited for this next week; isaac’s book is truly one of my favorites of the last few years and we’re being moderated by calvin, the very talented author that i called when i accidentally injected my leg with a bunch of air to make sure i wasn’t going to die: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

Once again reminding you of our New York book party on August 20! I'm not saying that the thought of the incandescent Calvin and Mattie is the only thing currently keeping me going, but.

My book comes out in just over a month! It hasn’t got any trade reviews yet and I’m biting my nails about it a little. Please preorder my trans vampire book which is about community and trans mentors who are insane and also radicalized moms who want to kill us. I mean vampires

reading this excellent list but in reverse order, to escape

NEW YORKERS: I'm flying TO YOU for a book event on August 20 at P&T Knitwear, with Mattie Lubchansky and Calvin Kasulke! This is a dream lineup for me, I get to share the stage with two brilliant people, and I hope you can come! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

Reviews are in! Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski reviewed by William Shaw Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman reviewed by Amy Nagopaleen Anji Kills A King by Evan Leikam reviewed by Jacqueline Nyathi Read at the link to the latest issue in our bio #speculativefiction #fantasy #sff #bookreviews

these two books are actually very In Conversation with each other, i think. trans stories about resistance, revolution, and love, with very different lenses and scales.

all the cool people (me) will be seeing isaac and calvin and mattie in NYC. will you??