*extremely casual voice, studying nails* My Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning novella with American micropress @neonhemlock.bsky.social tops out at 76 pages!
This week I reviewed The Dead Withheld by LD Lewis, a short sapphic noir investigation you will love✨️✨️✨️
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Reading now: Embodied Exegesis from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and edited by @robotleblanc.bsky.social
Started it yesterday and it’s already just so good and mind-bending
this event is going to be moderated by the incredible Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social (who we will be bringing you some exciting news with soon), but whose writing you may also recognize from BAFFLING and LUMINESCENT MACHINATIONS and many other rad places
Also if you are in MA, please go check out the book release on march 20th where Tom will be in conversation with Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social (author of THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE)
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You can pick it up wherever books are sold or directly here:
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"...a fast-paced, action-packed romp..."
—Publishers Weekly
🪢 CYBERSCION from @tbjacobs.bsky.social is out in a less than a week! 🪢
Day two of my under-loved #TransRightsReadathon recommendations is OBVIOUSLY about small press novellas! Because what could be more satisfying during a readathon than a stack of novellas?
i can't wait for my libby hold to come in
Real talk. Everybody who's backed so far is INCREDIBLE and as a contributor I am so grateful! You've unlocked extra stories, story crits, and more pay for authors and illustrators!
We just need to get to ONE MORE AUTHOR RAISE and the reason is: I spent the money already (on a magazine sub).
Lil preview of @larazontally.bsky.social reading a snippet from an upcoming story in WHAT ELEGANT STARS!
Thanks to everyone who came out to Current Space last week! Please enjoy this photo of nearly everyone reading and then also @sharangbiswas.bsky.social looking serious under duress.
incredible
Next Friday in Somerville, MA! Come see me, @esther-alter.bsky.social and @tbjacobs.bsky.social talk about cyberpunk, food, and the future of queer literature!
Side Quest Books, Friday March 20th, 7:30pm
It's ticketed ($5), so you should go buy a ticket here:
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no worries!!
You’re combining the guidelines for two different calls :) WHAT ELEGANT STARS is for original work.
Heard! The Horrors are omnipresent. Though fwiw, in my personal experience, most stories get rejected 5-15 times before they find a home. I think I've only had two stories get accepted the first place I've sent them.
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yes and!
also up for stuff on the devils of fast fashion on a galactic scale, hankie code in space, postpodstpostpostmodern style & semiotics.....
I feel like the most direct way of explaining it might be "a space opera story where clothing, style or fashion plays an important role as part of character, setting, plot, or all three."
If that's not enough, let me know and I can try to explain further.
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haha por que no los dos etc
Just thinking aloud and hoping maybe hearing this will make more folks whip something up 🚀
We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
the way i cackled at this
✨ if we just met at AWP feel free to say hi ✨
brain is so empty right now, idk about y'all
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