Neon Hemlock
@neonhemlock.bsky.social
World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Managing Editor: dave ring.
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Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
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What a really cool, rockstar list to be on. I’ve read the majority but now I have a couple of new ones to check out 👀👀
Thank you as always to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for being such a champion of A NECESSARY CHAOS ❤️🫶
Thank you as always to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for being such a champion of A NECESSARY CHAOS ❤️🫶
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
What a really cool, rockstar list to be on. I’ve read the majority but now I have a couple of new ones to check out 👀👀
Thank you as always to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for being such a champion of A NECESSARY CHAOS ❤️🫶
Thank you as always to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for being such a champion of A NECESSARY CHAOS ❤️🫶
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+1 to all of these that I've read (A Necessary Chaos in particular is brilliant), and also throwing in there Alex Jeffers' A Mourning Coat, which is seriously one of the most subtle, light touch pieces of fiction (speculative or otherwise) I've read in ages & more people should read it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
+1 to all of these that I've read (A Necessary Chaos in particular is brilliant), and also throwing in there Alex Jeffers' A Mourning Coat, which is seriously one of the most subtle, light touch pieces of fiction (speculative or otherwise) I've read in ages & more people should read it.
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I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
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This code is still working, for a very tasty discount on this monstrous collection!
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This code is still working, for a very tasty discount on this monstrous collection!
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
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As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
reactormag.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
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so excited to have a weird, kind of gross little story featured among so many other strange, haunting, queer gems in baffling. what an honor and a delight!
Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
so excited to have a weird, kind of gross little story featured among so many other strange, haunting, queer gems in baffling. what an honor and a delight!
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& you can read the full issue here :>
Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
& you can read the full issue here :>
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Sure!
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sure!
Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social!
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart.
And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover!
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
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Not the last book, but the one I remember best is @brentclambert.bsky.social's enthusiastic rec for Empire of the Feast: bsky.app/profile/bren... Not only was it EXACTLY as advertised, it really opened up new vistas for me on the place of explicit sex in speculative fiction.
Hey #BookSky! Quote this with the last book you picked up because someone here recommended it.
For instance the buzz for Tasha Suri's The Isle in the Silver Sea made me pre-order it so hard.
For instance the buzz for Tasha Suri's The Isle in the Silver Sea made me pre-order it so hard.
July 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Not the last book, but the one I remember best is @brentclambert.bsky.social's enthusiastic rec for Empire of the Feast: bsky.app/profile/bren... Not only was it EXACTLY as advertised, it really opened up new vistas for me on the place of explicit sex in speculative fiction.
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Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
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i always appreciate when people write books or edit collections targeted specifically at me
September 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
i always appreciate when people write books or edit collections targeted specifically at me
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Just picked up this novella, a trans sci-fi about… cheese? I’m excited.
“Millions Wayland… learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible, Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city.“
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️
“Millions Wayland… learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible, Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city.“
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just picked up this novella, a trans sci-fi about… cheese? I’m excited.
“Millions Wayland… learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible, Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city.“
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️
“Millions Wayland… learned someone had thrown her cheese cave into the sun. To find out who is responsible, Millions makes a copy of her digitally uploaded consciousness and transmits it to a nearby orbital city.“
📚💙 📚🏳️🌈 📚🏳️⚧️
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My recent book mail is pleasingly color coordinated and matches my office walls! Really looking forward to these: Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social's forthcoming collection The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, and Apprehension by @maryrobinettekowal.com.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My recent book mail is pleasingly color coordinated and matches my office walls! Really looking forward to these: Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social's forthcoming collection The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, and Apprehension by @maryrobinettekowal.com.
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Though we live in a degraded world, beauty still exists. Case in point, the luminous debut collection from @seraph76.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Though we live in a degraded world, beauty still exists. Case in point, the luminous debut collection from @seraph76.bsky.social
Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
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For Halloween, why not read my story "Red Flags", about being an eldritch horror who's into cruising. And murder. 😈
Plus all the other toe curling tales in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's The Crawling Moon.
Plus all the other toe curling tales in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's The Crawling Moon.
The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread — neon hemlock
Publication date: July 30, 2024. The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread is an anthology of gothic depravity, horror & perversion. It contains queer horrors both psychological and ...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For Halloween, why not read my story "Red Flags", about being an eldritch horror who's into cruising. And murder. 😈
Plus all the other toe curling tales in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's The Crawling Moon.
Plus all the other toe curling tales in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's The Crawling Moon.
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I finished reading "Call and Response" by Christopher Caldwell. Yay for reading! (Highest possible recommendation, by the way.)
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October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I finished reading "Call and Response" by Christopher Caldwell. Yay for reading! (Highest possible recommendation, by the way.)
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I really like this book written by a complete stranger’
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I really like this book written by a complete stranger’
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Christopher Caldwell's new collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is evocative, vivid, sometimes humorous, and wonderfully queer and Black. Out now from Neon Hemlock. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/29/r...
Review: “Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic” by Christopher Caldwell
Release Date: October 14, 2025Publisher: Neon Hemlock PressGenre: Anthologies Description In these deftly written stories of the fantastic, Christopher Caldwell unravels the complicities of personh…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Christopher Caldwell's new collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is evocative, vivid, sometimes humorous, and wonderfully queer and Black. Out now from Neon Hemlock. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/29/r...
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Thank you to Split Lip and Allison for doing the interview and letting me talk at length about horror and my ideas and influences. I'm happy it's something they are still reading! Also, hey feel free to buy Skin Thief! I am very proud of that book. And I hear its very very good from others. 😜
"I’ve always felt like an outsider and monster, but I wasn’t aware that it came through tangibly until readers said: Girl, you are horrifying!"
We're still reading @allisonwyss.bsky.social's interview with Suzan Palumbo about SKIN THEIF. Find it in our archives 👻: buff.ly/DBdYcEh
We're still reading @allisonwyss.bsky.social's interview with Suzan Palumbo about SKIN THEIF. Find it in our archives 👻: buff.ly/DBdYcEh
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thank you to Split Lip and Allison for doing the interview and letting me talk at length about horror and my ideas and influences. I'm happy it's something they are still reading! Also, hey feel free to buy Skin Thief! I am very proud of that book. And I hear its very very good from others. 😜
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There are TWO DAYS LEFT in our Kickstarter! If you want a short story critique from Suzan Palumbo + a subscription, now’s the time to back! @sillysyntax.bsky.social is the multi-award-nominated author of SKIN THIEF, COUNTESS, and so much more!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are TWO DAYS LEFT in our Kickstarter! If you want a short story critique from Suzan Palumbo + a subscription, now’s the time to back! @sillysyntax.bsky.social is the multi-award-nominated author of SKIN THIEF, COUNTESS, and so much more!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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Book 29: The Iron Below Remembers by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. I came for the combo of academia and superheroics set against a cool inversion of our colonial history—you should come for that and also for its delightful and unabashed horniness 😉 I'd gladly read more in this world!
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Book 29: The Iron Below Remembers by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. I came for the combo of academia and superheroics set against a cool inversion of our colonial history—you should come for that and also for its delightful and unabashed horniness 😉 I'd gladly read more in this world!
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An attempt at a different format - I talk about books that might pair well with Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, and have a go at making a rec list.
Things to read if you loved Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
First up, congrats on your amazing taste in books! High five. But alas, assuming you have already burned through Fellman’s back catalogue (if you haven’t, why not, fix that, and then come flail at …
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October 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An attempt at a different format - I talk about books that might pair well with Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, and have a go at making a rec list.