cecil fenn
@cecilfenn.bsky.social
writer + designer • former funeral professional • author of queer contemporary gothic embalming novel THE RESTORATIVE ARTIST (17.09) • he/him • 🏳️⚧️🥀🪦🌑 https://linktr.ee/cecilfenn
Excited to have a book coming out in Q3…and to have discovered more horror titles I’ll be putting on my TBR pile before summer is over!
Millie Abecassis@millieabecassis.com · last mo.New Small Press Horror Books Arriving in Q3 2026 Here’s our list of horror titles releasing this quarter from amazing small presses! #SmallBooks
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Very grateful to Gavagai for featuring “Station-Keeping”. This is a story for my fellow nerds, and anyone who has ever felt that the orbit of their life has gone off course.
Gavagai@gavagai.com · 5mo agoGood morning! In today's Editor Pick: A traumatized musician returns to the friend tied to his collapse and, under a telescope’s cold eye, confronts the gravity of what he’s been carrying. It's Station-Keeping from Cecil Fenn. Read it for free at gavagai.com
Small presses and self-published authors are still writing queer books. Support indies, because publishing sure isn't.
Lawrence Schimel@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 7mo agoDepressing news reported at @lgbtqnation.com: Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/publ... #kidlit #queerkidlit #lgbtq #booksky
An accomplished mortician haunted by the death of his first love pulls apart his relationships and funeral home in an attempt to escape the pain of loss. ‘The Restorative Artist’ a debut novel by @cecilfenn.bsky.social is available for preorder on Amazon! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916632246/
‘A dissection of memory and mortality…’ 🥀 We are excited to announce the publication of our third novel, ‘The Restorative Artist’, a stunning debut by @cecilfenn.bsky.social coming to you September 17th 2026. Available to preorder on our website now! lucentdreaming.com/product/the-...
The Restorative Artist - my debut novel - is coming September 2026. An accomplished mortician haunted by the death of his first love pulls apart his relationships and funeral home in an attempt to escape the pain of loss. Preorder here: shorturl.at/x7oWg
Reject society, escape to the dungeons!
‘It makes you feel like the hero of your own quest’: the dark, delightful magic of the dungeon synth scene
Amid dinosaurs, swords and leather armour, we visit the UK’s first festival for dungeon synth – a fast-growing black metal spinoff dedicated to fantasy and escape
theguardian.com
I’m Cecil: writer and cross-media designer. Recovered funeral professional turned creative. Follow me for goth academia aesthetics and queer stories—plus a dash of death and just a pinch of body anxiety. Here’s what I’m working on. A 🧵:
