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An LGBTQIA+ publisher of genre fiction with LGBTQIA+ protagonists. Find us at https://www.blackwarrenbooks.com/ Be the Hero, Not a Token.

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New Episode of #Shelflife with @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social & @isaac-fellman.bsky.social πŸ˜€β€οΈ #blackwarrenbooks #allorapublicradio

16.06.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shelf Life: Isaac Fellman Allora Public Radio Β· Episode

Our latest episode of Shelf Life @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social Skye has a fascinating conversation with @isaac-fellman.bsky.social about his new book, Notes From a Regicide. TBR list in show notes! #shelflife #isaacfellman #notesfromaregicide #bibliophiles #booksky
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16.06.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

You're very welcome. :)

16.05.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, what?

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

Thank you, @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social and @roundgreencat.bsky.social!

I am going to print this out so I can look at it all the time!

16.05.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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A gift from the art department director at #BlackwarrenBooks, @roundgreencat.bsky.social, to our favorite comics writer, @gailsimone.bsky.social, this portrait of Gail and her greyhounds. She's totally fine, see? :D

16.05.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Justifying My English Degree: A Survivor’s Recovery in Rise of the Tomb Raider β€” Blackwarren Books Trauma is a poison, a creeping sludge with acidy burns that seeps into deep, old wounds to make them twitch and sting and paint the world in a lens of anguish. It makes us feel like part of us has d...

This week, Vaughn justifies his gamer cred as well as his English degree.
#BlackwarrenBooks #BeTheHeroNotTheToken #JustifyingMyEnglishDegree #TombRaider #Critique
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16.05.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Novel Thoughts: What Work Surprised Your Expectations? β€” Blackwarren Books In this week’s edition of Novel Thoughts, Assistant Editor Lu Humbug delves into the works that played on genre expectations of mechanics and structure to elevate the experience and elicit unexpected,...

@lunostophiles.bsky.social contributes for #NovelThoughts on how his reading of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House surprised his expectations of Memoir.
#BlackwarrenBooks #BeTheHeroNotTheToken #Criticism #Memoir #Folklore #GenreStudy #LGBTQIA

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10.05.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Justifying My English Degree: Deconstructing an Anime Manic Pixie Dream Girl β€” Blackwarren Books Manic Pixie… what? In 2007, a film critic for The A.V. Club , Nathan Rabin, began a running feature he titled β€œMy Year of Flops”, where he would examine movies that financially or critically bomb...

In this edition of Justifying My English Degree, Vaughn barbecues an Anime sacred cow.
#BlackwarrenBooks #JustifyingMyEnglishDegree #criticism #anime #YourLieInApril

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09.05.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Last of Us, but it's at Gail's house, Joel is a Greyhound, and Ellie is a Shih Tzu.

08.05.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

QOTD: When bunnies hear death metal, do they throw the horns? 🀘 Or the ears? ✌️

07.05.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Justifying My English Degree: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and the Importance of Names β€” Blackwarren Books      All too often in a novel, you have to remember that everything is put such a way for a reason. The story happens in a specific place, at a specific time, and involving charact...

Vaughn returns with another edition of Justifying My English Degree and delves into Murakami.

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05.05.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Novel Thoughts: How Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy Surprised My Isekai Expectations β€” Blackwarren Books This month, Novel Thoughts asks, β€œWhat Work of Media Surprised Your Expectations?” To begin, Managing Editor Vaughn R. Demont lets his Weeb Flag fly… This month's "Novel Thoughts" topic asks us to e...

For this entry of Novel Thoughts, Vaughn lets his Weeb Flag fly.
#blackwarrenbooks #novelthoughts #weeb #anime #tsukimichi #BeTheHeroNotTheToken
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03.05.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Moonflow Annihilation meets ManhuntΒ inΒ three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novelβ€”a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic tripΒ int...

not gonna lie if i knew we were gonna be living under full-blown death cult fascism by this point, i would have written a book about a witch in the alps looking for her neighbor's cat instead πŸ€ͺ
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02.05.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Justifying My English Degree: The Razor’s Static, Frozen Edge β€” Blackwarren Books      One of the lines that I remember most from the movie Jerry Maguire is β€œthe neural pathways are set, which is way it’s so difficult for people to change.” When I’m reading a ...

Vaughn closes out April with a piece on stasis and dynamism in The Razor's Edge.
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30.04.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading the first chapter of Aethers' Call at the book launch party! Thank you for hosting Bourbon City Steam!

Get your copy here!

πŸ“· : Liam

#aetherscall #bourboncity #author #book #writer

25.04.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Justifying My English Degree: Dorian Gray is Overrated. β€” Blackwarren Books Oscar Wilde is a requirement in English programs, and if you’ve ever been to the gay district of Toronto you’ve likely seen the statue of Oscar Wilde leaning up as if waiting for a cigarette to be lit...

Vaughn Demont returns with another edition of Justifying My English Degree.
www.blackwarrenbooks.com/blog/justifying-my-english-degree-dorian-gray-is-overrated
#blackwarrenbooks #justifyingmyenglishdegree

24.04.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Justifying My English Degree: The Cask of Amontillado β€” Blackwarren Books Back in the day on my personal blog, I had a running β€œfeature” I called β€œJustifying My English Degree”, a place where I would critique works of media, often popular or genre that would be ignored as β€œ...

Vaughn Demont returns to his roots with his original blog's feature, "Justifying My English Degree."

www.blackwarrenbooks.com/blog/justifying-my-english-degree-the-cask-of-amontillado

21.04.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For real, I *loved* this book. It's sad and rough, but it's also very earthy and direct. Galchen cuts away as much romance as she can to get to the cruel nature of courts, rumour, and the ways social structures are manipulated for personal gain. Incredibly well-crafted.

17.04.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Allora Public Radio - the Blackwarren Books Podcast Channel β€” Blackwarren Books Your home for all Blackwarren Books podcast episodes!

Alternatively, if you'd like more audio from @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social, try Allora Public Radio! The most recent epsidode is also with M.J. Baerman, but older episodes feature author roundtables, live reads of Blackwarren books, and other interviews.
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17.04.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lucy's Shelf Life β€” Blackwarren Books

Are you looking for a new podcast featuring chill interviews with queer authors? @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social has a great one called Lucy's Shelf Life! 1st episode is with our own author M.J. Baerman, and is a chat between readers about nerdy reader things.
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17.04.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lu: I just finished Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. An impeccably-researched and thoughtfully-fictionalized account of a real 1619 trial. The 21st century resonances are quite obvious, and quite deft. Highly reccomended!

17.04.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The staff here at #BlackwarrenBooks aren't just writers and editors, we're also readers! :)
Vaughn: I write Urban Fantasy, but my shelf has a lot of memoir. What I'm currently reading? @blairbraverman.bsky.social Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, full throated recommend. Fantastic nature writing :)

16.04.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Redcap, Whitecap, Goblin, Thief β€” Blackwarren Books "A'right buddy, pay attention, 'cause I'm only gonna tell you this story once." In The City, just beyond the gaze of humanity, dwell dragons, lycanthropes, vampires, sorcerers, gods, and the Noble Fa...

Chases, escapes, mysteries, adventure! ...true love? This ain't that kinda story...
www.blackwarrenbooks.com/the-bookworm...

16.04.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Novel Thoughts: What Work Brought You to Tears? - Part 2 β€” Blackwarren Books Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This week, our newest Assistant Editor, Lu Humbug, shares a creative work and the effect it still has on him to this day… What is a god? Since the beginning of stories...

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11.04.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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96.7FM WPHX Allora University Radio - The Night Nest

Curious about the playlist for Chapter 9 and 10? Curated by the author David M. DeMar!
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09.04.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the Air (Certified Gold #1) by David M. DeMar β€” Blackwarren Books Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, nex...

An asexual dragon, an enbie satyr teammate, a blood hunt from the Fae... Typical college stuff, right?
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#blackwarrenbooks #lgbtqia #dragons #urbanfantasy #BeTheHeroNotAToken

09.04.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Novel Thoughts: What Work Brought You to Tears? - Part 1 β€” Blackwarren Books Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This month, Blackwarren’s staff will post a weekly piece exploring the works of mediaβ€”whether book, poem, song, film, or televisionβ€”that elicited tears, whether joyful,...

New Novel Thoughts for April!
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#blackwarrenbooks #blogpost #novelthoughts #vaughndemont #thefeels #BeTheHeroNotAToken

04.04.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@authormjbaerman.bsky.social, author of recent Blackwarren Books release, "Aether's Call" is all about that #ShelfLife. :D
Listen to her conversation with Blackwarren's own @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social on "Shelf Life!"

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21.03.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Allora Public Radio: Steampunk and Storytelling with M.J. Baerman Allora Public Radio Β· Episode

@authormjbaerman.bsky.social

is really good, isn't she? She goes into the lore and creation of the character in her Allora Public Radio interview! :D
open.spotify.com/episode/31nZ...

21.03.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aether's Call by M.J. Baerman - Softcover β€” Blackwarren Books London, 1893. Technology is booming, but mystic creatures and their human liaisons, the Ember Bloods, are becoming scarce. With this decline, the wisdom of the past is fading away, leaving mankind wit...

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