Just need you and 100000 of your closest friends to buy my book so I can do a sequel. The people yearn for the Frogger Flip.

I'll be at Barrow's Intense Ginger all afternoon for the inaugural @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Book Fair! Come snag a copy of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, try an Oregon Trail Buck and check out some really cool authors, and publishers. It's gonna be a great day!!

Today's the day!

Dating apps are for selling books and everything is incidental.

We would be hype if you consider supporting WHAT ELEGANT STARS at the Benefactor level to single-handedly make our stretch goals happen 🚀 (and also smash this initial goal) so grateful to already have one Benefactor on board! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

BBB's Author Book Fair on 2/7 is also about LEARNING! Join us at 3pm for a demo from @eliaseells.bsky.social (author of "Cocktails & Consoles") about how to make an Oregon Trail Buck! Demonstration is at 3pm, and you can get one from the bar all day! 📚🎙️🍸👀 More: www.facebook.com/events/10969...

The concept of keeping some things to yourself

I mean, what more could you ask for from a book fair?

The concept of keeping some things to yourself

If you and nine buddies drank 10 beers a night, it would still take almost 30 years to drink a million beers, so like… you better go get started.

It's issue 10's cover! Illustrated by @smuggerby.bsky.social 💀TIMEWORN TERRA🌏️ is our special issue of tales set in futures so far they feel ancient, where magic & technology blur together, and Earth's days are short yet still we lust & laugh! Learn more here👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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One of my favorite drinks in the book! And perfect for wintertime! Come see me this weekend!

Neon Hemlock's kickstarter is at $7,314 of their initial $16,500 goal! you know what to do! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

This whole series really was so good. Scottish Jedi, but kinda make Anakin an abuse-survivor with so much grit and even more emotional baggage that she is dealing with, ok, she is trying her best dammit (I loved her, I loved her so much). Also, that drink sounds perfect! 🥂

On shelves now!!

The Ancillary Review of Books anti-billionaire promise:

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY by Wen-yi Lee. A fantasy set in 70s Singapore, skillfully explores the solidarity of crime, the intersections of queer femininities, & a nation in transition. Plus fire! Our drink is the Madam Butterfly.

Three years of BASE NOTES by @larazontally.bsky.social on Bar Cart Bookshelf! youtu.be/pgQ15g6ppL4

AMBERLOUGH by @larazontally.bsky.social is ESSENTIAL reading, an absolute fave that inspired the Bumble Blaze, because what good is sitting alone in your room? BASE NOTES is moody, broody, and murderous, fragrant and foul, and all together grand. Stir up a BRIGHT HOUSE for a real treat. LINKS BELOW.

It's snowing again, so here, out of the goodness of my heart, a stack of Snow Day Faves. Books with a chill in the air, for when you're glad of being warm by the fire. Frights and fantasies, swooning hearts and swordswept adventures, satisfying all my wintertime moods. Cheers!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about DAUGHTER OF REDWINTER by @edmcdonald.bsky.social. This Scottish-inspired adventure fantasy of grave-sight & grand ambition, wild magic & fierce resolve, is tremendously fun! Our drink is the Draoihn: whisky and apple and honey.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about WITCH QUEEN OF REDWINTER by @edmcdonald.bsky.social. The grand finale of the Redwinter Chronicles is bombastic adventure fantasy with queer exuberance & powerful magic! Our drink is the Sarathi: pale green like the spirits of the dead.

A good book brings evergreen enjoyment! See any faves?

The cover for WHAT ELEGANT STARS was illustrated by @lyssmenold.bsky.social who also did the rad cover for EMBODIED EXEGESIS: TRANSFEMININE CYBERPUNK FUTURES (edited by AnnLeBlanc). Please hire Lyss, they are great.

NYC author friends, if you're around next weekend, I'd be so delighted to try and set up a little hang! The beauty of building a few days visiting is immeasurable and its possibilities infinite.

A masterful collection!! If you have any love of short fiction at all, you MUST read THE UNIVERSE BOX by Michael Swanwick. It is expansive, thoughtful, thrilling, and utterly fantastic. An absolute treat for longtime fans and new readers alike, this is going to be one of my very favorite 2026 books!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY by Wen-yi Lee. A fantasy set in 70s Singapore, skillfully explores the solidarity of crime, the intersections of queer femininities, & a nation in transition. Plus fire! Our drink is the Madam Butterfly.

Digest sized magazines are so sexy and cool

What if we got our controlled burn certification and we were both boys? 👉👈

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes. A entomological epic in a Weird city where art & revolution are intimately entwined, this queer puzzle box is TRANSCENDENT. Our drink is the Extemporist, for a perfume-soaked night at the opera.

And you can do really interesting things with substitutions, IF you know what you're doing. For example, in COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, we have a drink inspired by Death Stranding, the Timefall Fizz, which uses whole milk powder in place of an egg white. And this is intentional cont.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini. A dreamlike vampire novel with a resonant emotional maturity, the queer fantasia was a fresh & exciting entry to one of my fave subgenres. Our drink is the perfectly pink Moonkin!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones. A modern horror classic where guilt, regret, and the natural world converge, I was enraptured. Powerful and propulsive. Our drink is Elk Blood, it's the aftertaste that gets ya!

Just say 'no'.

Read The Works of Vermin, people

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

If you need MOAR queer SFF short fiction while we finish WRATH MONTH you should definitely check this project out! 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💅✨️ Its live now on Kickstarter!

It's Mailbag Monday! Here's a look at what's crossed my threshold lately (with a book or two I'll be talking about very soon). We're going beyond the atmosphere to the Moon & Mars, the depths of space, the fires of hell, the caves of the Phoorn, with dark swords & strange sorceries. What looks good?

Editors, please buy my story that is about evangelical testimony (witness the power, amen amen), the weight of power, and an ancient haemophage that is drugs.

Editors, please buy my story that is about evangelical testimony (witness the power, amen amen), the weight of power, and an ancient haemophage that is drugs.

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

It's Mailbag Monday! Here's a look at what's crossed my threshold lately (with a book or two I'll be talking about very soon). We're going beyond the atmosphere to the Moon & Mars, the depths of space, the fires of hell, the caves of the Phoorn, with dark swords & strange sorceries. What looks good?

When will someone buy “The Peacock Wizard and the Blood of the Groundhog”? When? I was meant for promo on such a day as this.

Monthly round up! We covered four books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this January: weird westerns and alchemical adventures, queer tidings and magical fens, sorrow and transformation. Absolute treats all around. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Join me on Saturday February 7th at the inaugural @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Author Book Fair!! I'll be chatting and slinging COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES all day (11AM-5PM), plus teaching a demonstration drink featuring Barrow's Intense Ginger. So excited to visit NYC!!

THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A.K. Larkwood was the very first bookish cocktail I ever made & a perennial winter fave. A fantasy of ruined worlds, crummy coworkers, & thwarted gods, the book is a delight! Our drink, THE GOLDEN TUSK, is vital when dealing with dubious wizards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UURY...

Are you ready to read or game to game?

OK folks, let's get this started. Think back to pandemic year 2020. Think of SFF books from that year which "include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues." A broad citation! Here's my initial longlist from racking my brain. What've I missed?

I spy 14 Bar Cart Bookshelf titles!