Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, A Human Stain, Waters of Versailles https://kellyrobson.com/books
Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake
she/her in Toronto, Canada
Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake
she/her in Toronto, Canada
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Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com
· Sep 11
I wrote books. I'm writing more.
kellyrobson.com/books/
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Years of hard work and putting effort into the community, showing up for other writers, showing you care about the whole ecosystem, not just your damn self
They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Years of hard work and putting effort into the community, showing up for other writers, showing you care about the whole ecosystem, not just your damn self
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I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books!
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ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
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December 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
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For anyone in the US or Canada, Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for just 7 days, starting today.
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch...
www.kobo.com/us/en/search...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing...
#romancelandia
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch...
www.kobo.com/us/en/search...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing...
#romancelandia
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
For anyone in the US or Canada, Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for just 7 days, starting today.
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch...
www.kobo.com/us/en/search...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing...
#romancelandia
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch...
www.kobo.com/us/en/search...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing...
#romancelandia
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
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Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich do love
As someone who DNF’d The End of Policing because it wasn’t helping me envision what such a world might look like, I need an entire collection of speculative fiction a la @kellyrobson.com’s “Blockbuster” in We Will Rise Again.
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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As someone who DNF’d The End of Policing because it wasn’t helping me envision what such a world might look like, I need an entire collection of speculative fiction a la @kellyrobson.com’s “Blockbuster” in We Will Rise Again.
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
As someone who DNF’d The End of Policing because it wasn’t helping me envision what such a world might look like, I need an entire collection of speculative fiction a la @kellyrobson.com’s “Blockbuster” in We Will Rise Again.
Yes, give me a witchy barn. Or sawmill, or something. Račak, Croatia. #witchyskeet
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yes, give me a witchy barn. Or sawmill, or something. Račak, Croatia. #witchyskeet
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Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cougar (back half)
Bears, black and grizzly
Bighorn sheep
Mountain caribou
Mountain goat
Cougar (back half)
Bears, black and grizzly
Bighorn sheep
Mountain caribou
Mountain goat
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Honey Badger
Manta ray
Lion
Badger
Crocodile
Honey Badger
Manta ray
Lion
Badger
Crocodile
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Mongoose
Barracuda
Chamois
Dolphin
Badger
Mongoose
Barracuda
Chamois
Dolphin
Badger
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Cougar (back half)
Bears, black and grizzly
Bighorn sheep
Mountain caribou
Mountain goat
Cougar (back half)
Bears, black and grizzly
Bighorn sheep
Mountain caribou
Mountain goat
A writer's residency specifically for writers debuting after the age of 40? Amazing!!!
BLOOM your writing at the Debut 40 Residency in scenic Portland!
This residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, Lyft credit, a reading/reception at Bishop & Wilde, and plenty of uninterrupted creative time in beautiful Portland!
Apply: tinhouseonline.submittable.com/submit/34311...
This residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, Lyft credit, a reading/reception at Bishop & Wilde, and plenty of uninterrupted creative time in beautiful Portland!
Apply: tinhouseonline.submittable.com/submit/34311...
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A writer's residency specifically for writers debuting after the age of 40? Amazing!!!
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Coming soon: What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style
www.kickstarter.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
This this this this this. We desperately need fantasies of truth and justice because there sure as hell isn't any in the real world. Too much detective backstory gets in the way of that pleasure.
EXACTLY but most of the more recent adaptations misunderstand the importance of an inscrutable little man as a tool to realize our fantasies of truth & justice!!!
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This this this this this. We desperately need fantasies of truth and justice because there sure as hell isn't any in the real world. Too much detective backstory gets in the way of that pleasure.
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I was introduced to Dykes to Watch Our For as a baby gay in the late 90s and I felt like I was visiting friends within the comic strips via out alt-weekly newspaper.
Alison Bechdel's world showed me about queer chosen family and activism and the messy fun that is life lived with queer joy.
Alison Bechdel's world showed me about queer chosen family and activism and the messy fun that is life lived with queer joy.
Sit down children, I'm going to tell you a story about the olden times.
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I was introduced to Dykes to Watch Our For as a baby gay in the late 90s and I felt like I was visiting friends within the comic strips via out alt-weekly newspaper.
Alison Bechdel's world showed me about queer chosen family and activism and the messy fun that is life lived with queer joy.
Alison Bechdel's world showed me about queer chosen family and activism and the messy fun that is life lived with queer joy.
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For #EgyptologyWednesday here’s an ancient template for how to do wall paintings. My 📷 from Made in Egypt at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
For #EgyptologyWednesday here’s an ancient template for how to do wall paintings. My 📷 from Made in Egypt at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge
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It’s awards eligibility season in publishing, and I’d be honoured if you would consider All the Stars in the Daylight Sky in your reading for YA novels (Andre Norton Nebula, Lodestar, Locus).
I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.
I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.
![“This atmospheric, otherworldly fantasy by MacGregor (The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will) deploys Scottish mythology to touch on themes of grief and trauma brought about by past experiences with mass shootings and Covid-19…[An] empathic and accessible tale of belonging.” Publishers Weekly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ra5fowzg2p6xebdg72iyvxur/bafkreicjol3cac7hyagtragd5rj5cvb3tcnr25twcmxbcqhs6sj2s6ebqe@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It’s awards eligibility season in publishing, and I’d be honoured if you would consider All the Stars in the Daylight Sky in your reading for YA novels (Andre Norton Nebula, Lodestar, Locus).
I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.
I’m immensely proud of this book: a love letter to my Gaelic culture and our intergenerational bridges.
Sit down children, I'm going to tell you a story about the olden times.
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sit down children, I'm going to tell you a story about the olden times.
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
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This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.
The Mask Comes Off When I Write | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This year I've been reflecting upon and writing about my life as a neurodiverse author. Here's one of the most personal essays I've ever written about being on the spectrum. In addition, an updated version of my free booklet "Tips and Strategies for Neurodiverse Writers" is available.
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Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Someone You Can Build A Nest In [Wiswell, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Someone You Can Build A Nest In
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December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
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Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
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I've been waiting to share this one for a long time.
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
All That Means or Mourns - Reactor
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most…
reactormag.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I've been waiting to share this one for a long time.
Reposted by Kelly Robson
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
All That Means or Mourns - Reactor
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most…
reactormag.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
"All That Means or Mourns" by @r-emrys.bsky.social is out now!
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
Get yourself an agent who is an expert on your short fiction
This is a really important anthology, and also includes a story by @kellyrobson.com about abolition (and burlesque) which I consulted on!
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Get yourself an agent who is an expert on your short fiction
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This is a really important anthology, and also includes a story by @kellyrobson.com about abolition (and burlesque) which I consulted on!
In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is a really important anthology, and also includes a story by @kellyrobson.com about abolition (and burlesque) which I consulted on!