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"Vivid and volatile, it’s historical fiction in which nothing feels foretold and everything is to play for."
Thanks so much to Hephzibah Anderson for this beautiful review of #Lightborne in today's Observer! 🥳
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Photo looking down into a box full of copies of Lightborne by Hesse Phillips.
Today is Pub Day for the UK trade pb edition of #Lightborne!
This also marks a bittersweet end of the road in my publishing journey. Unless I pull a Pachinko within the next year or two, this will be the last UK pub day Lightborne ever gets.
I ❤️ ed this book. I worked on it through my 20s and 30s-
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Coming to the UK 6th March 2025, the gorgeous new trade paperback edition of #Lightborne, from @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
"A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in Elizabethan England. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O'Farrell." uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ligh...
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Thanks so much to the Historical Novel Society for this lovely new review of #Lightborne!
"Trust, love and betrayal all compete in this fascinating take on the life and death of Kit Marlowe." #booksky ⌛️📚🌈📚💙
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/ligh...
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"Dazzling... A hugely impressive, visceral, and moving portrait." [The Times]
If not planned, then appropriate that #Lightborne is a Kindle Deal for #LGBTQhistorymonth! Grab an ebook while they're just £2.19. #booksky 🌈📚⌛️📚💙
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Screenshot of Amazon UK's Kindle portal with purchasing info for Hesse Phillips's Lightborne.
"Dazzling... A hugely impressive, visceral, and moving portrait." [The Times]
If not planned, then appropriate that #Lightborne is a Kindle Deal for #LGBTQhistorymonth! Grab an ebook while they're just £2.19. #booksky 🌈⌛️📚💙
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Si puedes leer en inglés #Lightborne es una novela histórica muy queer, muy dark muy brillante. Una auténtica maravilla!
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A paperback edition of Lightborne by Hesse Phillips lies on a white desk next to a black keyboard and mouse with a row of books visible in the background, including The Bandit Queen, Confessions, and In Ascension.
Editor just sent this photo to let me know paperback copies of #Lightborne are coming, and I cannot WAIT to hold one of these babies in my hands. #booksky 💙📚🌈
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This incident naturally has some pretty dire consequences for poor ol' Kit in my novel #Lightborne #shamelessbookplug
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Bc I've both gained and lost a ton of followers lately, maybe it's time to remind everybody that I wrote a book, and some people out there really dig it.
#Lightborne is a queer reimagining of the last days of troublemaker and playwright Christopher Marlowe. Spies, skullduggery, and ✨️yearning✨️. 💙📚🌈
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Screenshot of The Bookseller's preview page showing an entry for Lightborne by Hesse Phillips, "An Elizabethan tale of queer love, betrayal and survival featuring Christopher Marlowe. 'Vivid, punchy,' said the Sunday Times, who made it historical fiction book of the month on hardback publication." Atlantic Books, £9.99, 6 March 2025, ISBN 9781805460398
It's @the-bookseller.bsky.social official - the trade paperback edition of #Lightborne is coming to UK shelves on 6 March 2025, with a gorgeous new cover! (The price is pretty great too.) #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚🌈
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Thanks so much @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and for including #Lightborne on this list! #booksky 💙📚🌈
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I'm knocked for a loop at the generosity of the good folks at CrimeReads. Earlier this week they selected #Lightborne as one of their top historical novels of the year, now it's made their Best Debut Crime List too! 🥳
#histfic #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚🌈
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Thank you CrimeReads for naming #Lightborne one of the Best Historical Fiction Books of 2024! #booksky #histfic #writingcommunity #queerbooks 💙📚🌈
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Thank you @mattrees.bsky.social for letting me know this was out there. #Lightborne is one of @thetimes.com 's 10 Best Historical Fiction Books of 2024! 🥳 #booksky 💙📚🌈
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A set of 2 copies of Lightborne by Hesse Phillips, 1 being the US hardback and the other the UK paperback. Text in transgender flag colors of pink, baby blue and white reads, Support TK Book Auction is now open! Get both the US & UK editions of Lightborne - signed & personalized!
Text in transgender flag colors of pink, baby blue and white reads, Bidding starts at just $15, all funds raised will benefit the Transgender Law Center, Trans Lifeline, and True colors United. Go to: @STKbookauction on Instagram, or www.32auctions.com/stkbookauction to place your bid on a choice of over 180 bookish items! Get yer bid on!
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Over 180 bookish items and experiences to bid on, like a pack of 2 signed copies of my novel #Lightborne. #booksky 💙📚🌈
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A screenshot of the Top of Your Stack page from the San Francisco Bay Times, dated 11.21.24. Three books are featured, Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell, What I Know About You by Eric Chacour, and Lightborne by Hesse Phillips.
Screenshot zoomed in on previous image to show text beside entry for Lightborne. Reads, Lightborne is a reimagining of the final days of playwright Christopher Marlowe, as he navigates the dangerous political abd personal betrayals of Elizabethan England. In a world filled with spies, secrets, and forbidden love, Marlowe’s fate is sealed by a mysterious lover who will both save and destroy him. This is a Book Passage first edition pick.
Thanks so much to Book Passage for the #Lightborne shout-out in today's San Francisco Bay Times! #booksky #writingcommunity #queerbooks 💙 📚 🌈
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'As Marlowe says in Lightborne, “to live is a form of vengeance, when so many have sought to destroy you.”'
Check out the beautiful new UK paperback cover for #Lightborne on my blog. Coming 3/2025! 💙📚🌈 #writingcommunity #booksky
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Goodbye Boston, and thanks for the booklaunch of my dreams! #Lightborne is out now in the USA, and I'm so grateful to everyone who showed up to support me and my queer little book. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙 📚 🌈
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Were Frizer and he alone now, Marlowe would have so much to say, with his erring stars and parallaxes. He would point up at the heavens and draw his finger across the sky and explain how it all functions in that perorating way of his, and Frizer would heed nary a word, so consumed with gratitude to be with him, alive with him, anywhere but here."
Happy US Pub Day to #Lightborne! It's been a long road to get here, and I'm so grateful to everyone who helped and supported me along the way! ❤️ to you all! #writingcommunity #booksky 💙 📚 🌈
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Whitney Scharer, author of the beautiful AGE OF LIGHT, interviewed me about #Lightborne for Pangyrus Literary Magazine! Such an honor #writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚🌈
www.pangyrus.com/conversation...
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He imagines standing before a judge sometime in the future, being commanded to explain himself: How could you not know what he was? – or stood before God, rather, to whom there shall be little point in lying. And Frizer can imagine damnation of course, all his life he has been imagining it. But there is a chance, just a chance, that this is all but a test of his faith against the Devil's lies and if he should pass this trial, he will be shown mercy, he will be redeemed.
#Lightborne is out in the USA next Tuesday 😱🫠
#writingcommunity #booksky 💙 📚 🌈
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I've been interviewed by Dead Darlings about my debut novel #Lightborne, out in the USA next Tuesday! Read to find out about my obsession with triptychs, why Marlowe is so tall, and what Marlowe's bag of plays and a TARDIS have in common. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙 📚 🌈
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Graphic displaying the cover of Lightborne by Hesse Phillips, surrounded by large text that reads, "Out Now in Australia & New Zealand/ Aotearoa."
It's been brought to my attention that #Lightborne has gone Down Under! My book is officially far more well-travelled than I'll probably ever manage to be.
Find it on Booktopia, QBD, Dymocks,Amazon, or at your local booksellers. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙 📚 🌈
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Across the room, the open door shows him the top of the stairs. If he could but scream, someone would hear him. Any second, footsteps will ascend. A man will appear at the door. He will draw a knife; he will draw a sword. He will look ten feet tall; he will look like an archangel. Any second now, someone will come. Someone will save him.
#Lightborne comes out in the USA 1 week from tomorrow & I swear I'm fine, totes norms, most wellian 🙃.
Please preorder my dark queer historical with spies and religious trauma and boys in doublets!
#booksky #writingcommunity 💙 📚 🌈
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So little does he know this man, and yet so much would he like to give him, more than what seems either possible or sane.
The countdown to #Lightborne US Pub Day on 10/22 continues! #writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚🌈
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He knows without looking that the skull of Anthony Babington now hangs directly overhead, the chin aligned with his right ear, as surely as if he can feel breath upon his cheek. For one second, man and skull look south together, in the direction of the Marshalsea Prison. 'Wish me luck.'"
Just 2 weeks from today #Lightborne will be out in the USA - 10/22! #booksky #writingcommunity 💙 📚 🌈
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The man glances at the missing finger in his own hand as if he'd quite forgotten about it, but then laughs again a joke, one that Kit does not understand, but that he feels, suddenly, as if he will. You know, the stranger says, 'you remind me of someone. You are much taller, of course, but 'tis more in the shape of the face. The mouth. 'Tis almost uncanny.' The hairs on Kit's neck stand on end.
A sinister bit of #Lightborne for today's sneak preview. I can't believe there are only three weeks to go till US Pub Day - 10/22! #booksky #writingcommunity 💙 📚 🌈
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What should he say? He could ask about Marlowe's newest play, about which he has heard many distressing, enticing rumours. He could ask Marlowe if he really knows how to conjure devils, like Doctor Faustus. He could ask why Tamburlaine had to die at the end of Part Two. He could say, I have always admired the way you write about the stars for in Marlowe's words the stars are never still; they gallop and plunge, they cartwheel through the heavens. Is that how the stars look to ye? he would ask. To Frizer, the stars seem quite still.
Another sneak peak of #Lightborne to start out the week (sorry, couldn't help myself!) Coming to the USA 10/22 from Pegasus Books. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙 📚 🌈
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