We’d be nowhere without AK (literally!) - help them go places! 🐦‍⬛🚐

We’d be nowhere without AK (literally!) - help them go places! 🐦‍⬛🚐

Speaking of podcasts, if you become a Patreon supporter of the brilliant @onceuponavhs.bsky.social, you'll get to listen to a very special episode on FRAGGLE ROCK, for which I selected 10 of my favourite eps for them to watch--an extremely fun project for me, and such a great discussion!

Ding ding! 🔔 The editors have donned their gloves and limbered their triceps for the final bout of setting the contents for #wrathmonth 🧱 This energetic dance takes both grace and agility. Float like a butterfly, sting like… 18 original SFFH stories of queer rage! 💙📚🌈📚 #indiepub

Ding ding! 🔔 The editors have donned their gloves and limbered their triceps for the final bout of setting the contents for #wrathmonth 🧱 This energetic dance takes both grace and agility. Float like a butterfly, sting like… 18 original SFFH stories of queer rage! 💙📚🌈📚 #indiepub

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA has broken £7k! Less than £500 to go to unlock no-frills audiobooks for BOTH books in the campaign! Tell your friends! Remember: a Kickstarter is like really good gossip—best when shared with someone who will appreciate it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

London Book Fair, we are in you. 😈

This looks so great! Trip told me lots of cool details, like how each Legendary House is inspired by ballroom culture, obviously, but each house is also influenced by different aspects of queer culture and it all sounds bonkers and wonderful.

Trip has already doubled his funding goal and smashed through his first stretch goal, and we couldn't be prouder! Now let's get to those audiobooks!! Back the campaign, spread the word!!

I stg if you want to see books like this in your local bookshop, the absolute best way to make it happen is to buy the fuck out of them when they're indie, because publishers only sign what they think will sell and won't take chances without data. Back this project. Provide that data!

Oooooooh look at this!!!

Ummm those comps are EVERYTHING!! I will always shout about the need for more queer epic fantasy. Can't wait to support this and I encourage all of you to do so as well!

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I have interviewed @trip.bsky.social to discuss his writing, his publising imprint @bonabooks.bsky.social and his new Kickstarter for upcoming novel The Fall of The House of Valenziaga that you should definitely check out! 🙂 Link in following post 👇🏻

It's your chance to support our very own Trip Galey's brand-new queer AF post-apocalyptic science-fantasy novel set in a world full of drag balls, weird science, magic, and...GASP!...Polari!! We can't wait to see how this turns out.🧐

Had a blast chatting with @rdpires.bsky.social about our Kickstarters! It MAY get slightly unhinged in places. Have a look!

A new Trip Galey book?! We're listening! 😁

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!

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!