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Macey
@macey.bsky.social
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SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(
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Macey @macey.bsky.social · Aug 14
😱 it is announced!!!!!

👸🧟🗡️🔥💀
sagapressbooks.bsky.social Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of @macey.bsky.social 's BLOOD OF QUEENS, a gothic historical fantasy featuring Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and an audacious heist. For fans of M. A. Carrick’s The Mask of Mirrors and Holly Race's Six Wild Crowns, this hits shelves Spring ’27!
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there are authors whose work I can read on my phone while singing 'Fire & Flame' for the fifteenth time to a certain hiccuping gremlin.

Haruki Murakami is not one of them.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...any book with Dani involved would uh. Concern me. to make scented.

(you'd think the answer for Blood of Queens would be obvious. but actually, no, it's not blood - though that would work. it's bonemeal.

smells kinda like blue doritos. or so I've heard >.>)
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Oct 15
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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i have made the cardinal error of trusting New York public transit travel estimates, & for my hubris - FIRE TRUCK!

please. please. i just want to go pick up four yards of fancy imported book cloth to make my sister a bound copy of The Wind In The Willows the size of her clenched fist 😭
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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goodbye mountains; hello new york 💙
A photograph of two snow capped mountains from a plane A photograph of new york city from a plane
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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FFVII first came out approximately seven confederacies ago 🤷🏻‍♀️
ninocipri.bsky.social Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · Sep 20
This tank top I bought on clearance for $5 has lasted longer than the Confederacy
September 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
macey.bsky.social
oh delightful!!!
hornedlarkpress.com Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · Sep 16
We are so thrilled to announce another book coming from us next year: A DUBIOUS CLAMOR by @marissalingen.bsky.social! We were delighted by the unusual characters and we think you’re going to love them!
A graphic announcing the acquisition of A Dubious Clamor by Marissa Lingen, including author photo.
September 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"I am 77 pages in to Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation and I am still in the intro. I should pick up a new book for my flight tomorrow." - me, a fool

the new book: a 330 page work in translation with 81 pages of historical context before the text starts (& a 40-page bibliography at the end)

T_T
September 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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so I picked up a copy of the translated fin de siecle queer Czech fantasy novel Manfred Macmillan at WorldCon, and...

la plus ça change, huh?
A photograph of a text with the following sentence highlighted: "When Karásek was launching his literary career in the 1890s, juridical and medical discourses in Central and Eastern Europe were finding a powerful obsession with social degeneration and civilizational collapse, of which homosexuality was deemed a prime symptom"
September 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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yesssss I love this book, one of my all-time favorite scifis 👀👀👀

biker gangs! hot & Troubled ladies! labour activism turned deadly! immigrants getting jobs done!
hugobookclub.bsky.social An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · Sep 1
Hunger Makes The Wolf by ‪@katsudon.bsky.social‬ - A space western about miners resisting corporate exploitation of their planet. Accurately depicts the tactics used by union organizers to build solidarity, as well as the infiltration, starvation, and violence that union-busters will deploy.

3/X
Hunger Makes The Wolf
September 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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...well I somehow completely missed this going up BUT LOOK! CREEPY MUSHROOM MANDRAKE STORY!! who doesn't love a little body horror on the first day of fall!!! :D
smallwondersmag.com Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Jun 9
Take some time today to read a story from the point of view of a mandrake, in "A Feast for Mandrakes" by Jennifer Mace. You won't regret it:

smallwondersmag.com/...
A Feast for Mandrakes - Small Wonders
The summer is dying, and so are you.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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is it possible to have TOO much Restrained Summer Fun 🤔

anyway yes I now own an Extremely Tiny copy of Alan Turing's original essay on machine intelligence, citing Ada Lovelace.

(because I made it, as one does)

once one learns to make things into books truly the Sky becomes the Limit
A photograph of an extremely small handmade book with a quarter balanced on top for scale. The book has a yellow book cloth spine and a dark painting of florals as the cover. It is not quite 3 in tall. A photograph of the inside of the tiny book, showing the first page of a section titled "The Imitation Game".
August 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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so I had long decided what my Book present would be but, one cannot precisely just go out and Purchase One, so I have been waiting... and watching... ever vigilant...

and I have WON 😱😍 look how pretty it is! how large & strong!!

I'm gonna crush SO MANY books into good behaviour with this beauty 😈
A photograph of a heavy black cast iron book press. The base is decorated with golden paint, and this paint also outlines the curlicues on the arched bridge.
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
macey.bsky.social
😱 it is announced!!!!!

👸🧟🗡️🔥💀
sagapressbooks.bsky.social Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of @macey.bsky.social 's BLOOD OF QUEENS, a gothic historical fantasy featuring Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and an audacious heist. For fans of M. A. Carrick’s The Mask of Mirrors and Holly Race's Six Wild Crowns, this hits shelves Spring ’27!
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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just in time! I'll have three copies of each with me today, so if you're at #worldcon and like poetry (and flash!), come say hi!
The back cover of two zines, one ocean themed in blue, and the other City themed in yellow. Both list an author website: www.englishmace.com A photograph of a pile of three each of the same scenes from the front. One is titled Cityscapes, with a bottom border of skyscrapers. The other in blue is partially hidden, but the beginning of the word Oceanhearted can be seen, as can a wave pattern on the bottom.
August 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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soon... >:D
A photograph of several skeins of colorful thread sat on top of a blue pamphlet in the middle of construction. The pamphlet is titled Oceanhearted and the author name is Macey Levington. In the background, a similar but yellow pamphlet can be seen, titled Cityscapes.
August 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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sneak preview~ 😱

getting set for WorldCon - who's gonna be in town next week? say hi if you are!
A photograph of a set of collated pages laid out on a chopping board next to a bone folder and a craft knife. In the background, a completed pamphlet in yellow cardstock can be seen, and a ball of orange thread. The top page on the stack features a poem titled 'to ash' on one side, and a table of contents on the other.
August 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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aaa I forgot to repost! but! I made some little books!

these are the ones I was sewing at 4th Street and I'm in love, every book should be 4.25 inches tall, we can all just get bifocals it'll be FINE 😍
A photograph of three small cream-colored books, titled 'the wild geese'. They have been presented on a wooden board in front of a tiny vase of flowers. A photograph showing both the front and rear cover of the wild geese. The front cover is titled in gold with two large geese flying on either side. The rear cover has black mountains with a black author name, over which a tiny flock of golden geese fly. A photograph of the three books from the bottom. Each has a different colored ribbon, and each has slightly different variants of hand sewn end bands. A photograph of an open copy of the wild geese, displaying end papers covered in falling golden dandelion seeds.
August 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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illustration of a cat riding on a mini boat strapped to the back of a swimming crocodile. They are swimming under some arches and columns that were built over a now flooded ground.
August 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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love 2 squish a tiny book 😊
A low angled photograph peeking inside an improvised book press made of two chopping boards squeezed together by f-clamps. Inside the book press, a little green book can be seen. It is very compressed.
August 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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okay I'm proud of this one 😁
A close-up photograph of a book in progress of being made. The photo displays a hand zone double core end band in deep blue and Royal purple with flashes of golden yellow separating the main two colors. The leather core is still visible and has not yet been cut away. The book has no covers.
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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hello mountain 💙
A photograph taken from a plane window; Mount Rainier can be seen through the clouds framed by the plane's wing.
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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family portrait: the four books bound at this year's @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social , ready to pack away for the journey home 💙
A photograph of a pile of four handbound books. Two of them are tiny bound text blocks with French link stitch in exposed linen thread, in need of cases. The middle book is a Coptic stitch exposed spine bind with blue stitching and a blue and white flower cover. At the bottom of the pile, a full folio-sized text block bound in French link stitch over tapes. It, too, is in need of a case.
June 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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number four! this one's an exposed-spine Coptic, though, since I ran out of printed text blocks 😅 probably the last for now 😁
Photograph of a handmade notebook with blue and white floral covers.
June 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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and that makes three! I'll have to get a family portrait later, the tiny ones are back in my room 😅
Photograph of a freshly bound folio size book with tapes.
June 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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tiny book number two! pierced and sewn in panel one - these things knock out fast once you get the hang of it 😂
A photograph of two tiny books, with the sewn edges exposed.
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM