Fantabulosa! submissions close tomorrow! Check the submissions page for details! Thank you to everyone who submitted so far! We're loving it! We are slowly working through the slush pile, and its a privilege. www.bona-books.com/submissions

Did Wicked change our copy editorial director and Oz superfan @robwillb.bsky.social For Good? Find out on his appearance on the fantastic Not My Fantasy podcast!

It’s nearly the end of the year and I’ve read more books. #books #reading #sf #GabrielleZevin #Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow #JeffNoon #SteveBeard #Gogmagog @aptshadow.bsky.social #EchoesoftheFall @bonabooks.bsky.social @trip.bsky.social #IWantThatTwinkOBLITERATED

Heyo! If you have already sub'd to Fantabulosa! and have not hears back, we are working on slush. Its just taking us a bit longer than planned to get our magazine slush process up and running on the new magazine with the new software. Thank you for bearing with us! 💙

Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy! (Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!) Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙‍♂️🚀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👽🔮 6000 word limit $0.08/word USD More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions

Twink obliteration - pairs brilliantly with coffee, a crisp sauvignon blanc, or schadenfreude.

THIS SATURDAY. The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip. ...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙

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First: queer books. Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!

Do you write genre fiction? Want the inside scoop on the UK's newest queer small press? Keen to ask us awkward questions? Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.

We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house. @bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Our very own Trip Galey has an EXTRA special announcement!!

Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees for the British Fantasy Awards! It was a fucking honour to be among you this year. And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️‍🌈🎉💙🎉

Glad to see our merch being put to good use. 😈

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Fantabulosa's Poetry Editor has thrown down a gauntlet. 👀

99% Funded. Anyone got £37 to pledge? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈 @bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors. 💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color) 👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...

This week's Sunday Summary includes: - Lots of book lists - How to organise your pre-orders - FANTABULOSA! by @bonabooks.bsky.social - @runalongwomble.bsky.social's TBR building blog post - And the influence of @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @chloroformtea.bsky.social on TBRs

I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED! would smell of… …well, probably best left unsaid.👃🏼

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My friends at Bona Books are starting a queer lit magazine and planning four issues for 2026! Submissions now open for the first two issues. The first issue's theme is Solidarity.

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners. It’s Black! It’s queer! It’s Here! Now available! www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

I have 2 short stories out soon: 1 in Wrath Month @bonabooks.bsky.social & 1 in HAVOC Files 6 Candy Jar Books www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st... The Disinformation War is still relevant & available: mitpress.mit.edu/978191338080... #AmWriting 💙📚🪐

If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it... is... driving... us...

Not all mothers love their children; not all rulers deserve their crown. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA Coming in 2026 (Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️) #booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston. Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

Our very own @robwillb.bsky.social discusses one of his specialist subjects (Jim Henson) on a podcast "on a queer and neverending quest through the fantasy films of the '80s and '90s", and one of whose hosts, @hrfmichael.bsky.social just happens to be making their Bona Books debut in WRATH MONTH!

We know a lot of you out there love queer short SFF, so check out the fundraiser for a new magazine dedicated to exactly that! OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Want a bit of a tease for what we have in store for you with our upcoming anthology? Listen to our copy editorial director @robwillb.bsky.social chatting Wrath Month, Oz, queerness in fantasy, and more on the fabulous @alisonbaker01.bsky.social's Fantasy Book Swap podcast!

Come and meet the Fab Four who make up @bonabooks.bsky.social at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton! Check out more about Wrath Month in Bona Books’ bio.

I had such a blast chatting about Oz, its queer connections, L Frank Baum, theatricality, possibly giving a bit of a tease for @bonabooks.bsky.social's WRATH MONTH, and much more! Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 😁

New Fantasy Book Swap episode with @robwillb.bsky.social from the amazing @bonabooks.bsky.social! We discuss Oz, queer fandom and when magic isn't a metaphor for queerness! alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-49-when...

A slightly diminished book: I Want That Twink Inconvenienced @bonabooks.bsky.social

So on this watch, I noticed something I never have before. I think there's Polari in PSYCHO! At one point when "Mother" is berating Norman, she says, "This is my room and no one's going to drag me out of it, least of all my big bold son." Bold is a strange word to use in the English sense. (1/4)

Fellow Ozians, our very own copy editorial director @robwillb.bsky.social appeared on an Oz podcast today to discuss Wicked! Relatedly, WRATH MONTH happens to have a Wicked-adjacent dystopian Oz story by @hrfmichael.bsky.social! Our excitement is un-li-mi-ted!

We'll include all the categories that the Polari Prize are too afraid/assimilationist to use. Bona Chicken (first book award) Bona Trade Paperback (erotica award) Bona Fantabulosa (spec fic award) Bona Lavs (poetry award) Bona Eke (best cover design) Most Innovative Use of a Twink

I would end hypothetical season with YOUR WORLD AGAINST MINE by @theadamsass.bsky.social In my head, I see this having a sillier animation style to throw the audience off to the actual deeper messages of the story until you finally rip the band-aid off and boom! www.bona-books.com/shop/p/produ...

This book is a brick in my hand 🧵 (1/8)

Absolutely honored and flabbergasted to announce that one of my earliest and favorite stories, "Still Kicking," is going to be out in Wrath Month!

#WrathMonth 🧱 is almost over, but here's an incandescent rabble of new rioters. They’re bringing you Molotov dolls, vengeful gladiatrices, mycelial resistance networks and more gut-punching dispatches. We’re stoked to announce our final batch of authors: @elijah.mea.rs, @drslayton.bsky.social...

For me, every month is Wrath Month 🤟

The full TOC looks fucking amazing. And I bet it's the first anthology ever to feature stories from two women named Corey! 💜😱

Our very own @hrfmichael.bsky.social contributes something that may be of interest to Return to Oz fans…

#WrathMonth 🧱 is almost over, but here's an incandescent rabble of new rioters. They’re bringing you Molotov dolls, vengeful gladiatrices, mycelial resistance networks and more gut-punching dispatches. We’re stoked to announce our final batch of authors: @elijah.mea.rs, @drslayton.bsky.social...

Absolutely wonderful -- and well deserved -- news of IWTTO being shortlisted for Best Anthology at the British Fantasy Awards. Well done to everyone involved, and especially to Bona Books's fantastic team.

I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED! is back in stock at proud-geek.co.uk. It’s a queer sci-fi anthology collecting Seventeen stupidly fun, often horny pulp sci-fi and fantasy stories published by @bonabooks.bsky.social #booksky