A baker's dozen of delights! I've had a great time with RABBIT TEST by @samtasticbooks.com the past couple weeks. Timely tales of great resonance, beautifully arranged for thematic depth, and with excellent endnotes (always one of my favorite features in a collection). Definitely check it out!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

A stunningly brilliant book, one of my favourite recent fantasy books. There are very few queer people on earth who don't, in dark moments, wonder what life would be like if they'd been a bit more brave or, on the other side, a bit less reckless. This book distills that ache to its essence.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

You should read SHATTER THE SUN, yes, YOU!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · last mo.

Ahaha!! My contributor copy of SHATTER THE SUN has arrived. I'm so excited to share my story with all of you & to read the offerings of all the other contributors. Sharp blades, glamorous wizards, terrible monsters, tortured priests, & so much more await in this landmark new anthology of queer S&S!

Find your local production of Swimming in the Shallows NOW!! The shark is hot. He is a gay guy who used to sell Avon.

The Other Happy Place@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 2d ago

Finally my moment has arrived

Something really dark sided about a True Love Agreement from a private corporation. Like damn, ALL your gods are Mammon?

A girl needs a knife. To make sacrifices and such.

Definitely DO check this book out!! Stunningly good.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 22h ago

Check out our SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS drink too!

Read this a while back, it's really good.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

This book is incredible I’m never not thinking about Wilson’s novellas

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about AUDITION FOR THE FOX by Martin Cahill. A novella of divine blessings, tricks across time, & the spirit of revolution, I loved this new addition to one of our oldest story forms: the animal fable. Our drink is T’sidaan, Fox of Tricks!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD by Giovanni De Feo. A folkloric fantasy in a southern Italian city inhabited by Night Saints, forges, embodied idioms, & the Dreamarquise of Cats, this book inspired the Nocturnal, stirred & dark as night.

Don't forget to read and vote for the Ignyte Awards! The deadline is August 16th, and "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" is nominated alongside so many excellent books and stories.

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations finalists! Public voting is now open thru August 16: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ We encourage you to read or otherwise engage with the nominated works/folks between now and then. Thanks for tuning in!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.

You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Normalize just telling people who are wrong to shut up

Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.

A girl needs a knife. To make sacrifices and such.

Word on the street is that the next big thing in publishing is garish, avant garde science fantasy about anguished souls living in weird cities built on the bones of fallen civilizations they could never hope to understand

📣 Did you know we have a ⚔️Sword & Planet🪐 special issue, featuring stunning cover art by @partyinthefront.bsky.social, interior art by @decassette.bsky.social & more, and plenty of great tales & non-fiction? Well! 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Something really dark sided about a True Love Agreement from a private corporation. Like damn, ALL your gods are Mammon?

Have you heard the word?

Last month I was very graciously featured in @jbainbr’s collection of bookish intro memes on IG and I thought I ought to share the original photo, since at least some portion of my mind is always focused on THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER. Happy Thursday!!

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez is a singularly important novel, destined to be a classic of the field. Structurally bold, deeply humane, & a powerful meditation on masculinity, a love story to the blade-dented bone. Enjoy the Holy Pilgrimage, a rooibos mocktail. youtu.be/jAhMqpueoFs

Arioch, are you free next Friday 👉👈

Find your local production of Swimming in the Shallows NOW!! The shark is hot. He is a gay guy who used to sell Avon.

The Other Happy Place@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 2d ago

Finally my moment has arrived

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about KILL ALL WIZARDS by Jedediah Berry. A sword and sorcery novella of vengeance, brutal blades, and elegantly appointed tearooms, this book is uproarious: clever, charming, and utterly entrancing. Our drink is a frosty freezy Gotchimus!