name 'kuzhali manickavel' on top, young south indian girl with a spiral for a head and a melting mouth

Friends! I wrote my first novel! Please buy it!

Out October 6th, 2026

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[A stack of books amid garden irises (top to bottom): TALES FROM THE TERRITORY by Travis Baldree, PRECIOUS CHILDREN by Mary G. Thompson, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell, MULTITUDE by Marie Vibbert, TALES OF NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany, NEVERYÓNA by Samuel R. Delany, FLIGHT FROM NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany, RETURN TO NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany]

t's #MailbagMonday! This week we have dragon riders and clever clones, tentacles, aliens, and tales of adventure long past. Curling up for cozy reads on springtime picnic blankets and seeking out strange new worlds. I can't wait to dig in! What looks good to you??

I’m really excited!!

A huge thank you to the publishers and authors who have sent work my way the past couple weeks and a particular thank you to Wesleyan University Press for the complete set of Nevèrÿon stories, these have been a major hole in my sword and sorcery library. No longer!

[A stack of books amid garden irises (top to bottom): TALES FROM THE TERRITORY by Travis Baldree, PRECIOUS CHILDREN by Mary G. Thompson, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell, MULTITUDE by Marie Vibbert, TALES OF NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany, NEVERYÓNA by Samuel R. Delany, FLIGHT FROM NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany, RETURN TO NEVÈRŸON by Samuel R. Delany]

t's #MailbagMonday! This week we have dragon riders and clever clones, tentacles, aliens, and tales of adventure long past. Curling up for cozy reads on springtime picnic blankets and seeking out strange new worlds. I can't wait to dig in! What looks good to you??

And the end of the summer is Summer Sons' fifth birthday!

I am so beyond excited that @tenebrouspress.bsky.social has picked up @davevriser.bsky.social's debut novel "Not Only Will This Kill You But It Will Hurt The Whole Time You Are Dying," I think y'all are gonna love it 🖤👻🦴

Publisher's Marketplace announcment: Dave V. Riser's NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU BUT IT WILL HURT THE WHOLE TIME YOU ARE DYING, in which a trans street kid turned necromancer trying to bring about the end of the world is captured by rival cultists from across the ocean, but traps them in turn in his crumbling tower surrounded by cosmic storms, only for the three to find themselves locked in a tender erotic cannibalistic stalemate with each other and the Old Ones, to Alex Woodroe at Tenebrous Press, for publication in summer 2027.

SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT!

"O Tenebrous, WHY haven't you released more tender necromantic trans erotic cannibalism-tinged Weird Fantasy WHYYY"

Well we heard you, friends. We heard you.

NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU BUT IT WILL HURT THE WHOLE TIME YOU ARE DYING by @davevriser.bsky.social.

Summer 2027🖤☠️

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Woohoo!! I say with ~half of these already read and loved!

30K international book bundle giveaway from Solaris. Books include: HOME SICK by Rhiannon Grist SINOPHAGIA edited by Xueting C. Ni TERRIBLE WORLDS: DESTINATIONS by Adrian Tchaikovsky AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester INTERGALACTIC FEAST by Lavanya Lakshminarayan THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore

🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚

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The Queersar Not An Award 2021 For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.

Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.

2021 is here, and... 1/2

A copy of HYBRID HEART by Iori Kusano sits on a pale wood bookcase alongside a pastel pink highball cocktail.

HYBRID HEART by Iori Kusano is short, poignant, powerful, & timely. A near future sci-fi novella that offers a window into the life of a Japanese pop idol, this story is atmospheric & chilling. Short & sharp, it inspired Solo Act, a pastel pink highball.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJS...

With all that meat they eat, pretty sure MAHA stands for Make American’s Hearts Ail

Solo Act
1.5 oz vodka
1 oz cherry grenadine
.5 oz Italicus bergamot liqueur
1 oz lemon juice
Seltzer

Add all ingredients, except seltzer, to your cocktail shaker, then ice. Shake for 10 seconds and strain into a highball glass. Top with seltzer and enjoy!

spread the word

THE DEADLANDS IS BACK

clear your calendar and head to the graveyard

(bring something for the crows)

settle in to read

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It’s a tricky thing, but in the age of proshots, I do like a singer who can sell the youthful glory. The bit of needing to do everything and more.

All Siegfrieds are great, but I do prefer a hot Siegfried and that’s my cross to bear.

Brb, redirecting my entire career to stage a Ring Cycle deep in my Zothique feels.

What if you had me on your podcast to talk about Elric, a sad man whom I love? What if you did that?

This was so much fun!

Tal Charossa in A.K. Larkwood’s Serpent Gates duology. He’s the Worst (affectionate).

Maybe it’s an age thing, but I am desperate for a nice crisp plain seltzer rn

Maybe it’s an age thing, but I am desperate for a nice crisp plain seltzer rn

Being personally annoying is no great sin, but it is a mortal one.

Much to consider.

Sing, o goddess, of WRATH

Holding up a copy of BEARS DISCOVER FIRE AND OTHER STORIES by Terry Bisson in front of fresh blooming spring lilacs.

An iconic collection with a new face! I've had a great time the last two weeks with the Tor Essentials edition of BEARS DISCOVER FIRE by Terry Bisson. Fantastic introductory material, great stories, and, as a Kentuckian, it is really something special to see your home county in SFF. A true classic!

[Image desc: An advance reader copy of FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON by Cameron Johnston on a post alongside a tall reddish fizz with a white foam on top in a tall swizzle glass.]

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FIRST MAGE ON THE MOON by Cameron Johnston. This fantasy adventure does exactly what it says on the tin: puts a wizard on the moon. The moon in the SKY. So much fun, so clever, so bouncy. IN THE SKY. Our drink is the Fire Dragon Fizz!

An advance copy of Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity ed. by Lee Mandelo on a white mantle alongside a prismatic rainbow wash.

A vital and necessary anthology! AMPLITUDES is timely, at moments painfully so, rooted in persistent determination, and powerful in its hard-won perseverance. We have always been here and we will always be here, come flood and famine, beyond the atmosphere and in the heart of memory. A must read.

A stack of books on a brick plinth (bottom to top): THE OFF-SEASON ed. Marissa van Uden, URANIANS by Theodore McCombs, AMPLITUDES ed. Lee Mandelo, NEW SUNS 2 ed. Nisi Shawl

Bimonthly short story report! I had a great time with these anthologies and collections as well as the online magazines Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It’s a gay ole time for Pride month reading, and I can’t help getting a little Weird for the summer either!