Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
· May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
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This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.
Are you going to Novacon this weekend? ( @novacon.bsky.social ) The guest of honour is
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.
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There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
Going for an English | Goodness Gracious Me | BBC Comedy Greats
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
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The Incandescent by @EmilyTesh.net is $2.99 at multiple ebook vendors.
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Incandescent
Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emil...
us.macmillan.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Incandescent by @EmilyTesh.net is $2.99 at multiple ebook vendors.
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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"Instead of going to therapy I got a PhD about it" - The Incandescent.
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Instead of going to therapy I got a PhD about it" - The Incandescent.
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
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Life goals tbh
March 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Life goals tbh
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October 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
First Ink unveils award-winning Frances Hardinge’s YA historical fantasy
First Ink has acquired Traitors’ Nest, a historical YA fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree.
www.thebookseller.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
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Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.
I dream of being put on a panel about Classical Reception in Contemporary SFF just so I can talk about Kai Ashante Wilson’s Sorcerer of the Wildeeps the whole time.
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I dream of being put on a panel about Classical Reception in Contemporary SFF just so I can talk about Kai Ashante Wilson’s Sorcerer of the Wildeeps the whole time.
Was struck by the sudden powerful urge to eat a vegetable, something which almost never happens to me, and thanks to Senshi from Dungeon Meshi I know that I ought to listen to what my body is telling me it needs, which is why I poured myself an 8pm glass of wine and did incompetent veggie noodles.
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Was struck by the sudden powerful urge to eat a vegetable, something which almost never happens to me, and thanks to Senshi from Dungeon Meshi I know that I ought to listen to what my body is telling me it needs, which is why I poured myself an 8pm glass of wine and did incompetent veggie noodles.
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Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
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We've only had to go and do a reprint of The Spear Cuts Through Water AGAIN. Thanks to every single person who continues to recommend this dream of a book ❤️
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We've only had to go and do a reprint of The Spear Cuts Through Water AGAIN. Thanks to every single person who continues to recommend this dream of a book ❤️
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I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.
If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)
Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)
Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press
If you like cool shit get this 🕶️
geni.us/extremophile
If you like cool shit get this 🕶️
geni.us/extremophile
Extremophile
Pre-order now:
geni.us
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.
If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)
Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)
Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
Today marks five months since the release of THE INCANDESCENT. As we swing into the grimmest bit of the school year, spare a thought for the teachers you know, for whom a demon infestation would make very little noticeable difference to the dark tunnel that is the back half of the autumn term.
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Today marks five months since the release of THE INCANDESCENT. As we swing into the grimmest bit of the school year, spare a thought for the teachers you know, for whom a demon infestation would make very little noticeable difference to the dark tunnel that is the back half of the autumn term.
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The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is HEIR by Sabaa Tahir
October 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is HEIR by Sabaa Tahir
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The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
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"achillean" always amuses me as a descriptor because does it mean books about gay men being gay or does it mean more like oh you shot me in the leg you shot me in the fucking leg you fuck why would you do that, that's my goddamn ankle, my one weak spot, now I'm going to die you asshole
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"achillean" always amuses me as a descriptor because does it mean books about gay men being gay or does it mean more like oh you shot me in the leg you shot me in the fucking leg you fuck why would you do that, that's my goddamn ankle, my one weak spot, now I'm going to die you asshole
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Yeah
Here to stay but I totally get why people would leave. Esp marginalized folks who don't get as much support (I remain convinced the industry loves its marginalized debuts but hasn't scaled up to supporting long term careers)
Here to stay but I totally get why people would leave. Esp marginalized folks who don't get as much support (I remain convinced the industry loves its marginalized debuts but hasn't scaled up to supporting long term careers)
You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Yeah
Here to stay but I totally get why people would leave. Esp marginalized folks who don't get as much support (I remain convinced the industry loves its marginalized debuts but hasn't scaled up to supporting long term careers)
Here to stay but I totally get why people would leave. Esp marginalized folks who don't get as much support (I remain convinced the industry loves its marginalized debuts but hasn't scaled up to supporting long term careers)