Kel Coleman

Moodboard of the evil hivemind of corrupted dragons. Everything is in red, there are three rows of three images, with a middle row having a text box in the middle. First row: a broken red crystal, red filter spacescape, and a close-up of red crowing crystals. Second row: red filtered snakescales (to stand in for robot dragons), text box that says: beware the Myriad, beware their crystals bright and red. Survive, survive, but don't let the Myriad take you alive. Third is a canyon crevasse in the shape of a menacing looking eye. Third row: more angry red space scape and then a red filtered texture effect.

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

✨mecha dragons
🪐disabled protagonist
💜Mexican American diaspora worldbuilding
🌈bi love interest + an ex-BFF
🌌epic space opera
🐉a hivemind of corrupted dragons somehow back after centuries in an entirely new solar system—it's fine!

#DVpit #A #SF #Latine #DIS #LGBT

Apex Magazine Issue 151 EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

And my second October story is here in issue 151 of @apexmag.bsky.social! “The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night” is a Shakespeare-inspired story about Stories featuring a doomed young lover(?), weird burial rites, and a cat.

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A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages...

Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only

Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction.

My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

Last Meal Aboard the Awassa - Lightspeed Magazine Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and t...

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!!

It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food.

Check it out:
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Psst! In honor of the spookiest month, you can grab a bundle of eerie ebooks from @undertow.bsky.social for just $10! The bundle includes my collection, The Ghost Sequences, along with several other wonderful titles!

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
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Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

On the advent of Black Speculative Fiction Month *and* Black History Month in the UK, I’d like to remind you that my very Bjack, very queer collection of short stories publishes on October 14! You can pre-order here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

I just backed OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.

Stacks of Year of the Mer paperbacks and one copy upright and centered

This calls for cake...and a new fountain pen lol

She's here!

"As the Little Mermaid's granddaughter marches to war."

Get some is obvious.

Ditto! It was so good finally meeting you!!

Got vaccinated for Covid and flu, negative on a rapid test this morning, stocked up on masks...

Ready for Capclave! Hope to see some familiar faces soon :)

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
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"I did nothing to these people, but every day I have to see them gleefully cheer online about the anticipated death of my chosen profession. I had no idea we artists were so hated—I still don't know why. What did my silly little cat drawings do to earn so much contempt?"

Black women protect your peace at all costs, even from you if necessary.

On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"

Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.

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Article in newspaper stating the removal of slavery images from public spaces by the administration. Features photograph of enslaved man with deep scars on his back.

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

I loved this collection. Thomas is one of our absolute best working right now. Go get it.

Find Eva at Flights of Foundry - Program Schedule - Panel: Pray for Us Sinners -- Dissecting the Film's impact, the History behind it, and More, Date Friday September 26 2025, Time EST 4:00pm to 5:00pm | Interview with the Vampire: The Fandom Squee Panel, Friday SEptember 26, 2025, 8:00pm - 9:00pm

I have a schedule for Flights of Foundry! It's Sep 26-28! Eeeee!
flights-of-foundry.org -- attaching my schedule in the image below. I hope I will see many of you there virtually! 🎉

Mask up and get your vaccines if you can, friends.

Simon and Schuster is in the top left hand corner next to a logo of a person in mid-stride. Below is it Product Details and below it in a gray bar is Raves and Reviews. Below that is a blurb quote from Brent Lambert. "Much like the sea, there are depths to L.D.'s writing that can't be fathomed. You will walk away from THE YEAR OF THE MER heartbroken, pondering the nature of power and desperately ready for more. L.D.'s a true talent that deserves a generational audience. Be here at Yemi's beginning." – Brent Lambert, author of A Necessary Chaos

This is a moment not lost on me. @ldlewiswrites.com and myself have been friends for almost (if not over) a decade now. I was a fan first though and getting to be the first blurb for YEAR OF THE MER is something I manifested for us years ago. Pre-order yall!

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What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.

As I'm using it for MULTIPLE examples of great writing this year in my talks/presentations, this is your occasional reminder that if you have not yet read THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS by @kurellian.bsky.social what are you even DOING with your life

GO READ IT

A jumble of pastel bugs, including an ant, praying mantis, and spider, overlayed on a smoky background. The spider is holding a piece of wood, and an orange ant is holding a sloshing cup.

In a newly integrated insect metropolis, generations clash around art, technology, and capitalism. Boris, a rural vesper, chases modernity to the city, but tradition is there first.

Next week. "Laurie on the Radio" by Sam Davis!!

Art by Michael Hirshon
Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Me, a brown woman with short black hair, wearing a black shirt and holding a copy of Countess.

Happy 1 year to my novella, Countess. Thank you to everyone who has spent even a moment with my rebellious Virika. You all have given this book a life beyond what I expected. It is a book about this very moment we are living through, and if art is an act of resistance, it is the rock I have thrown🖤💜