This beautiful art of Lysander and David from my novel, The Black Parade, is by the wonderful instagram.com/pinky… The Black Parade is an MM horror/romance published by NineStar Press, available now See links in my bio or my website IlanaMiraL.com
IlanaMiraL
@ilanamiral.bsky.social
Writer, art, film & book obsessive, feminist, bi, ND 🏳🌈 🐅 Writing repped by @lanewriteswords of @ultraliterary. Reader for @okaydonkey.bsky.social THE BLACK PARADE (Ninestar 2026)
Ever wonder what would happen if you combined My Chemical Romance with Pablo Neruda? If so, check out the music video I made to promote by book, The Black Parade. Lyrics by me, music/vocals by a mysterious gentleman on Fiverr. More info: ilanamiral.com
I'm incredibly excited to share art of David & Lysander from my novel, The Black Parade by www.instagram.com/greenmoonie/... The Black Parade is a queer post-apocalyptic horror romance, the first in a trilogy. If you'd like more info check out the links in my bio or go to my website IlanaMiraL.com
2026 is a great year for #SmallPitch books! Out now: - The Black Parade by @ilanamiral.bsky.social - Mothball Magic by Rena Rocford Out next month: - Death in Sonora by @jibrilstevenson.bsky.social - Freedom to Me by @sidneyquinn.bsky.social More books at smallpitch.org/success-stor...
My book is out! The Black Parade, published by @ninestarpress.bsky.social, is free in the wild. It's a queer post-apocalyptic romance, the first in a trilogy. (Currently number 37 on the UK Amazon chart for LGBTQ+ Science Fiction). Check out my website for more info: ilanamiral.com
Oh, the way this story fills me with delicious anxiety. June has her finger so firmly on the pulse of what makes humans tick. <3
Bulb Culture Collective@bulbculture.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe light is on for June Gemmell! @junegemmell.bsky.social 💡 “The Package” is a short story with a wicked edge that’ll have you gasping and saying, “I can’t believe she just did that!” Check out June’s incredible writing over at the site!
My story is up! Thank you, @mrbullbull.bsky.social (It has potentially upsetting content)
MrBullBull@mrbullbull.bsky.social · 11mo ago"Years later I watched a music video & saw a girl flop into the back seat of a car, legs dangling out the door & the whole thing came back, repeating in my head for hours like the return of a chronic infection, like a burning, corrosive rash." @ilanamiral.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...
I loved this when I first read it. Spooky and gorgeously written.
Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · last yr."...I'm overcome with the sudden certainty that she'll vanish, the door transporting her to the moon or Siberia. But before my fear can get away from me, she's already through." "Door in the Woods" by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
This is devastating with not a single wasted word.
Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · last yr."20. My family is small and not very nice to me but I still don’t want to see them die. 21. I saw my twin brother die 22. When we were kids 23. I was not a fan. 24. I doubt he was, either." "98." by Jordyn Damato, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
Ahhh! I love this one so much, so thrilled it's been published. Weird and creepy and wonderful 😍
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last yr.Parenting is hard. It's even harder when "Echo Syndrome" strikes, and identity starts to splinter... read Jennifer Hudak's story full of existential dread in our issue 20: smallwondersmag.com/...
Question: Have you heard of Terry Gilliam? I ask because this weekend I met a man, maybe in his early 30s, very culturally literate, British, who'd never heard of him or any of his films. He knew Monty Python, but that's it. It kind of freaked me out.
Just FYI: If you follow me, and I check your profile out and you've posted a ton of AI product images, I will never follow you back.
I absolutely love vivid and detailed descriptions of food in fiction.
Which is more depressing? Going to Letterboxd and seeing an objectively awful film with majority positive reviews or seeing a brilliant film with mostly negative reviews?
Just received my final book cover art from Jana Heidersdorf (@checanty.bsky.social) and omg omg omg. I can't share it yet, but I'm giving up my entire morning to just staring at it. 🤩🤩🤩
I’m filling out a giant government form by hand like it’s 1980 and learning that when I write in all caps my handwriting looks like a serial killer’s.
Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social is spring of 2026
The idea of read a novel or short story or poem or any creative writing generated by AI makes me feel physically sick. I don't care if it's "good". It would be dead. A dead thing with no energy or ideas behind it. Fiction is communication between humans. AI product is nothing.
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring of 2026 #books #SpeculativeFiction
Today’s writing task: searching for an aggressive image of a dandelion
The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey Coming from @ninestarpress.bsky.social in spring 2026
Gloriously dark and delicious
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · last yr.It's time to learn the names, spore prints, habitat and ranges of many fungi, with "A Widow's Field Guide to Fungi" by @marissavu.bsky.social. Bring a canteen and something to wipe your hands: this may get messy. smallwondersmag.com/...
The Black Parade coming from @ninestarpress in 2026. They can burn down the world, but they’ll never take your heart. #speculativefiction #lgbtqbooks #postapocalypticfiction #romancebooks