Mon
@nomonbooks.bsky.social
🌈Reader of queer & global majority fantasy / sci-fi & writer of speculative short stories. Featured in Torch Literary Arts, Midnight & Indigo and The Decolonial Passage.
My biosite: bio.site/Nomonbooks
My biosite: bio.site/Nomonbooks
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A Taste of Change - Expansion
Musing on expansion, my latest publication in Phano, and spotlighting author, editor, disability activist and illustrator Ella T Holmes.
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Cheeky little second newsletter to accompany my publication in Phano!
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Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
buttondown.com/NomOnBooks/a...
Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
Cheeky little second newsletter to accompany my publication in Phano!
buttondown.com/NomOnBooks/a...
Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
buttondown.com/NomOnBooks/a...
Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
A Taste of Change - Expansion
Musing on expansion, my latest publication in Phano, and spotlighting author, editor, disability activist and illustrator Ella T Holmes.
buttondown.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Cheeky little second newsletter to accompany my publication in Phano!
buttondown.com/NomOnBooks/a...
Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
buttondown.com/NomOnBooks/a...
Read some words, click some links & find out about the thoughtful @ellatholmes.bsky.social and my 5* read published by @michaellaborn.bsky.social
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We’ve been conditioned to believe that empathy, care, and justice are scarce resources, and that if someone gains rights or support, someone else must lose them.
This isn't the case.
We made this shit up.
Wanting better for everyone isn’t a threat, it’s the foundation of collective liberation!!
This isn't the case.
We made this shit up.
Wanting better for everyone isn’t a threat, it’s the foundation of collective liberation!!
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
We’ve been conditioned to believe that empathy, care, and justice are scarce resources, and that if someone gains rights or support, someone else must lose them.
This isn't the case.
We made this shit up.
Wanting better for everyone isn’t a threat, it’s the foundation of collective liberation!!
This isn't the case.
We made this shit up.
Wanting better for everyone isn’t a threat, it’s the foundation of collective liberation!!
How did I get a job, a bike and turn into someone who goes for a quick cycle over lunch in, like two weeks.
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
How did I get a job, a bike and turn into someone who goes for a quick cycle over lunch in, like two weeks.
My nesting partner wants us to be a cycling family. Not sure how I feel about this.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My nesting partner wants us to be a cycling family. Not sure how I feel about this.
Does anyone else find they're more unmasked when masking? Someone apologised for being in my way (??) on the train this morning and I started to try and make the appropriate face for the interaction, then realised I was wearing a mask and dropped all expression immediately. Felt like a relief. #life
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Does anyone else find they're more unmasked when masking? Someone apologised for being in my way (??) on the train this morning and I started to try and make the appropriate face for the interaction, then realised I was wearing a mask and dropped all expression immediately. Felt like a relief. #life
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Sometimes poor executive functioning means I preorder a book twice. Which cover do you prefer?? #booksky #binderybooks #cryvoidbringer
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes poor executive functioning means I preorder a book twice. Which cover do you prefer?? #booksky #binderybooks #cryvoidbringer
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The Growing Moon is one of my favourite short stories 💖
Everyone please read it and shower Mon in compliments! 😁
Everyone please read it and shower Mon in compliments! 😁
I have a new story out!
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
The Growing Moon
Every apocalypse is a story of love lost.
www.phano.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Growing Moon is one of my favourite short stories 💖
Everyone please read it and shower Mon in compliments! 😁
Everyone please read it and shower Mon in compliments! 😁
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🔥 Phano 11 is live!
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“The Growing Moon” by Mon Misir
“Three Days and Two Nights in the Eschatology Arms” by Frank Ward
“Elegy for the Nameless Man” by E. B. Helveg
Phano Issue 10 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue-10
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“The Growing Moon” by Mon Misir
“Three Days and Two Nights in the Eschatology Arms” by Frank Ward
“Elegy for the Nameless Man” by E. B. Helveg
Phano Issue 10 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue-10
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🔥 Phano 11 is live!
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“The Growing Moon” by Mon Misir
“Three Days and Two Nights in the Eschatology Arms” by Frank Ward
“Elegy for the Nameless Man” by E. B. Helveg
Phano Issue 10 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue-10
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“The Growing Moon” by Mon Misir
“Three Days and Two Nights in the Eschatology Arms” by Frank Ward
“Elegy for the Nameless Man” by E. B. Helveg
Phano Issue 10 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue-10
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I have a new story out!
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
The Growing Moon
Every apocalypse is a story of love lost.
www.phano.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I have a new story out!
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
It's speculative fiction piece about what's left at the end of the world, called The Growing Moon.
www.phano.co/articles/the...
#litmag #specfic #black #sapphic #phano
The Growing Moon
Every apocalypse is a story of love lost.
www.phano.co
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Is it weird that I like going places and taking pictures of books on shelves that I read or that I own? I get all excited like I'm seeing an old friend. Two old friends in this one specifically. Any guesses? #booksky #blackbooksky
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Is it weird that I like going places and taking pictures of books on shelves that I read or that I own? I get all excited like I'm seeing an old friend. Two old friends in this one specifically. Any guesses? #booksky #blackbooksky
Sometimes poor executive functioning means I preorder a book twice. Which cover do you prefer?? #booksky #binderybooks #cryvoidbringer
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes poor executive functioning means I preorder a book twice. Which cover do you prefer?? #booksky #binderybooks #cryvoidbringer
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I just finished the dystopian fantasy - Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho & this book took a hammer to my heart so many times I'm surprised I survived the experience. Suffice to say, it was a wonderful experience. #booksky #blackbooksky
July 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I just finished the dystopian fantasy - Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho & this book took a hammer to my heart so many times I'm surprised I survived the experience. Suffice to say, it was a wonderful experience. #booksky #blackbooksky
Omg kids (and NGL a fair few adults) need headphones for public transport because this wild. Four competing sets of phone noise 😭 maybe I need ear defenders.
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Omg kids (and NGL a fair few adults) need headphones for public transport because this wild. Four competing sets of phone noise 😭 maybe I need ear defenders.
I read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler this year and I can still visualise so much of it in my mind's eye as if it were a memory. Can't have a Black Speculative Fiction month without her. Needed some time to recover after that book though! #blackbooksky #booksky
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler this year and I can still visualise so much of it in my mind's eye as if it were a memory. Can't have a Black Speculative Fiction month without her. Needed some time to recover after that book though! #blackbooksky #booksky
I read YA sparingly & only if it's queer and/or POC. That said, Pet by Akweke Emezi is wonderful. Genre - Black Speculative Fiction. Lucille didn't feel like a fantasy to me. Every part touched this reality & a book for kids that discusses CSA in this way. Ofc I ate it up #booksky #blackbooksky
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I read YA sparingly & only if it's queer and/or POC. That said, Pet by Akweke Emezi is wonderful. Genre - Black Speculative Fiction. Lucille didn't feel like a fantasy to me. Every part touched this reality & a book for kids that discusses CSA in this way. Ofc I ate it up #booksky #blackbooksky
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Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly
September 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly
The concept behind the Deep by Rivers Solomon has really stuck with me. I absolutely love the creative journey of this book which began in an album by the clipping & a song by the same title: forgotten Black history as Black music & as Black speculative fiction. #blackbooksky #booksky
Same rating, different vibes. Both a solid 3.5. The Deep by Rivers Solomon is gorgeous in concept and the images built are decadent. But, it tries to do too much. More to Love by Georgina Kiersten is a cute m/m romance novella with bi & fat rep 💕 - cozy & steamy #blackbooksky #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The concept behind the Deep by Rivers Solomon has really stuck with me. I absolutely love the creative journey of this book which began in an album by the clipping & a song by the same title: forgotten Black history as Black music & as Black speculative fiction. #blackbooksky #booksky
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjayei Brenya is today's Black Speculative Fiction mention. I could feel the groundwork of Chain Gang All Stars on each page & that book grew every seed. The first story in particular was the best but the whole collection felt bleak and immediate. #booksky #blackbooksky
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjayei Brenya is today's Black Speculative Fiction mention. I could feel the groundwork of Chain Gang All Stars on each page & that book grew every seed. The first story in particular was the best but the whole collection felt bleak and immediate. #booksky #blackbooksky
As a reader I define speculative fiction as the broader umbrella under which fantasy and sci-fi, magical realism etc sits but doesn't fit comfortably into any carved out sections. Black speculative fiction has us at the centre of the narrative with no explanation or apology. #booksky #blackbooksky
October 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
As a reader I define speculative fiction as the broader umbrella under which fantasy and sci-fi, magical realism etc sits but doesn't fit comfortably into any carved out sections. Black speculative fiction has us at the centre of the narrative with no explanation or apology. #booksky #blackbooksky
Chocolate Chip City is cosy speculative fiction. Cosy for me isn't a lack of political reality. What makes something cosy is that the story is still a warm hug while engaging with the setting. The prevalence of Black joy, Black love and queerness was political AND joyous #blackbooksky #booksky
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Chocolate Chip City is cosy speculative fiction. Cosy for me isn't a lack of political reality. What makes something cosy is that the story is still a warm hug while engaging with the setting. The prevalence of Black joy, Black love and queerness was political AND joyous #blackbooksky #booksky
Today for Black speculative fiction month I'm highlighting Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell. This book is so warm yet so politically real and uses sprinkles of magic to enhance all the Black joy it depicts. #blackbooksky #booksky
Lesbian. Black. Witchy. Political. Romance. Contemporary. Filled with self love. Filled with Black Joy. I read an ARC of this book and I LOVED it.
Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell 💕 #booksky #blackbooksky
Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell 💕 #booksky #blackbooksky
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Today for Black speculative fiction month I'm highlighting Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell. This book is so warm yet so politically real and uses sprinkles of magic to enhance all the Black joy it depicts. #blackbooksky #booksky