Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

[A pale drink in a gold rimmed glass on a cedar porch alongside PEARL CITY by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle.]

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about PEARL CITY by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle. The grand finale to one of my fave urban fantasy series, dragon magic is back in full force to devastating effect for the Sentinel of SF. Our drink is the Phoenix Hoard, a refreshing mocktail.

WHOA! Huge if true

Not on the cover, but a third centipede has hit the me!

There has been some gooshing, yes, but never a Stormbringer around when you need it. Probably for the best tbh…

I'm a good person, I don't deserve this!

WHOA! Huge if true

If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.

NO GODS, NO MONSTERS by Cadwell Turnbull is flanked by a low glass filled with crushed ice and a layered cocktail in gold and black. On the other side is a bottle of Cruzan aged rum, Pratt Standard ginger syrup, and Yes! Cocktail Co. Passion Fruit Syrup.

Backlist Bar Cart Bookshelf! NO GODS, NO MONSTERS by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social, a mosaic novel with genre-bending twists, tremendous prose, & a powerful exploration of communal economies. Our drink, The Fracture, is a tropical tribute to the prismatic POVs in the book.
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Kentucky Route Zero is so so rad, but I do confess that a big reason I included it in COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES was to share my perfect take on a bourbon slush, so do with that what you will.

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Always fascinating to me when people who talk a big game about identity seem to, like, completely forget that “queer man” is a specific and particular way of being in the world—an identity & a cultural experience!—that weighs on things like art, writing, editing, etc as much as other factors do too

Yeah! I've had a fun time scrolling the media tab this afternoon!

This is so goddamn cool!

Excerpt from MICHAEL MOORCOCK’s ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ: From his hoarse throat and through his parched lips Elric was able to utter but one word: "Arioch?" And a beautiful youth stood where the fly had hovered. The beautiful youth spoke in a beautiful voice-soft and sympathetic and yet manly. He was clad in a robe that was like a liquid jewel and yet which did not dazzle Elric, for in some way no light seemed to come from it. There was a slender sword at the youth's belt and he wore no helm, but a circlet of red fire. His eyes were wise and his eyes were old and when they were looked at closely they could be seen to contain an ancient and confident evil. "Elric." That was all the youth said, but it revived the albino so that he could raise himself to his knees. "Elric."

Arioch, are you free next Friday 👉👈

A hand holding up an advance review copy of THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes in front of garden greenery and bright white Queen Anne's Lace.

I'll have more to say (and sip) in a couple months, but you NEED to preorder THE WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social. It is ambitious powerful speculative fiction, soaked in ichor & perfume, a vengeful fever dream of operas, executions, & unending revolution in a Weird city riddled with rot.

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A bourbon slush is one of life's great treasures, you could learn how to make one here:

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And hopefully some more stories shortly after that. I've got a couple on submission now. I really love him!

More Peacock Wizard shenanigans being composed on MY laptop? It's more likely than you think!

Kentucky Route Zero is so so rad, but I do confess that a big reason I included it in COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES was to share my perfect take on a bourbon slush, so do with that what you will.

From author and medievalist Finn Longman: THE WOLF AND HIS KING. Deluxe limited edition hardback with gorgeous art, stencilled edges, gold foil on the hardback book, and painted endpapers.

A further look at the special edition hardback of THE WOLF AND HIS KING for US/North American readers! This is my queer retelling of Bisclavret, a medieval werewolf tale. Comes out in the US 27 January 2026.

You can pre-order this edition here: www.kensingtonbooks.com/pages/thewol...

Yeah, that's the sort of intimacy that I want from cozy fiction, that's the sweet spot.

[image desc: A dark reddish mocktail garnished with a cocktail cherry sits beside a copy of HELPMEET by Naben Ruthnum. The mood is dark and atmospheric.]

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HELPMEET by Naben Ruthnum. An intimate gothic in the last days of a dying surgeon and his wife, his final companion, this book chills. The Last Wilks is an apple-laced mocktail for darker days ahead.

Oh, that sounds PERFECT! It also pairs well with being curled up in bed in the dark, the world no larger than the ring of lamplight.

You say "Blood and Souls for my Lord Arioch" in an email ONCE and the house is all full of goddamn flies! WTF??!!

Elric Capital? In my Magnus Protocol? What are we cooking today?

A copy of BLOOD OF THE OLD KINGS by Sung-il Kim (translated by Anton Hur) sits on a wooden surface alongside a pale yellow-gold drink in a stemmed glass. A letter opener like a sword sits before the book and drink and two framed photos of white smoke and golden cloud sit in the background

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about BLOOD OF THE OLD KINGS by Sung-il Kim (trans. Anton Hur). An epic fantasy with a perfect balance of big ideas, engaging characters, & thrilling action, I was delighted. Our drink, Arland, is bright with a touch of smoke & fire.

There are some new old stories that crop up, yes. Love those books that open up new genres for you!

Should be sending it around this fall, but you know how these things are. You'll get to meet the character sooner though! He's showing up in the Neon Hemlock anthology: Shatter the Sun.

It was a fun series, I liked how the second two expanded things. I really liked Vol. 1, saving reading Vol. 2 for slightly cooler weather. Good stuff!

We! Love! To! Hear! It!