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An LGBTQIA+ publisher of genre fiction with LGBTQIA+ protagonists.
Find us at https://www.blackwarrenbooks.com/
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Blackwarren Books @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social · Feb 10
Greetings, readers and writers, we're very happy to announce that Aether's Call, the first in the Ember Blood series by @authormjbaerman.bsky.social is now available for pre-orders! Adventure, romance, intrigue, magic and more await. Check the link below for more info!
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New Episode of #Shelflife with @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social & @isaac-fellman.bsky.social 😀❤️ #blackwarrenbooks #allorapublicradio
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Our latest episode of Shelf Life @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social Skye has a fascinating conversation with @isaac-fellman.bsky.social about his new book, Notes From a Regicide. TBR list in show notes! #shelflife #isaacfellman #notesfromaregicide #bibliophiles #booksky
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Shelf Life: Isaac Fellman
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June 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Wait, what?

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

Thank you, @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social and @roundgreencat.bsky.social!

I am going to print this out so I can look at it all the time!
blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social Blackwarren Books @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social · May 16
A gift from the art department director at #BlackwarrenBooks, @roundgreencat.bsky.social, to our favorite comics writer, @gailsimone.bsky.social, this portrait of Gail and her greyhounds. She's totally fine, see? :D
May 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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A gift from the art department director at #BlackwarrenBooks, @roundgreencat.bsky.social, to our favorite comics writer, @gailsimone.bsky.social, this portrait of Gail and her greyhounds. She's totally fine, see? :D
May 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This week, Vaughn justifies his gamer cred as well as his English degree.
#BlackwarrenBooks #BeTheHeroNotTheToken #JustifyingMyEnglishDegree #TombRaider #Critique
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Justifying My English Degree: A Survivor’s Recovery in Rise of the Tomb Raider — Blackwarren Books
Trauma is a poison, a creeping sludge with acidy burns that seeps into deep, old wounds to make them twitch and sting and paint the world in a lens of anguish. It makes us feel like part of us has d...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@lunostophiles.bsky.social contributes for #NovelThoughts on how his reading of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House surprised his expectations of Memoir.
#BlackwarrenBooks #BeTheHeroNotTheToken #Criticism #Memoir #Folklore #GenreStudy #LGBTQIA

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Novel Thoughts: What Work Surprised Your Expectations? — Blackwarren Books
In this week’s edition of Novel Thoughts, Assistant Editor Lu Humbug delves into the works that played on genre expectations of mechanics and structure to elevate the experience and elicit unexpected,...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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In this edition of Justifying My English Degree, Vaughn barbecues an Anime sacred cow.
#BlackwarrenBooks #JustifyingMyEnglishDegree #criticism #anime #YourLieInApril

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Justifying My English Degree: Deconstructing an Anime Manic Pixie Dream Girl — Blackwarren Books
Manic Pixie… what? In 2007, a film critic for The A.V. Club , Nathan Rabin, began a running feature he titled “My Year of Flops”, where he would examine movies that financially or critically bomb...
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May 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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QOTD: When bunnies hear death metal, do they throw the horns? 🤘 Or the ears? ✌️
May 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Vaughn returns with another edition of Justifying My English Degree and delves into Murakami.

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Justifying My English Degree: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and the Importance of Names — Blackwarren Books
     All too often in a novel, you have to remember that everything is put such a way for a reason. The story happens in a specific place, at a specific time, and involving charact...
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May 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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For this entry of Novel Thoughts, Vaughn lets his Weeb Flag fly.
#blackwarrenbooks #novelthoughts #weeb #anime #tsukimichi #BeTheHeroNotTheToken
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Novel Thoughts: How Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy Surprised My Isekai Expectations — Blackwarren Books
This month, Novel Thoughts asks, “What Work of Media Surprised Your Expectations?” To begin, Managing Editor Vaughn R. Demont lets his Weeb Flag fly… This month's "Novel Thoughts" topic asks us to e...
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May 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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not gonna lie if i knew we were gonna be living under full-blown death cult fascism by this point, i would have written a book about a witch in the alps looking for her neighbor's cat instead 🤪
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Moonflow
Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Vaughn closes out April with a piece on stasis and dynamism in The Razor's Edge.
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Justifying My English Degree: The Razor’s Static, Frozen Edge — Blackwarren Books
     One of the lines that I remember most from the movie Jerry Maguire is “the neural pathways are set, which is way it’s so difficult for people to change.” When I’m reading a ...
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April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Reading the first chapter of Aethers' Call at the book launch party! Thank you for hosting Bourbon City Steam!

Get your copy here!

📷 : Liam

#aetherscall #bourboncity #author #book #writer
April 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Vaughn Demont returns with another edition of Justifying My English Degree.
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Justifying My English Degree: Dorian Gray is Overrated. — Blackwarren Books
Oscar Wilde is a requirement in English programs, and if you’ve ever been to the gay district of Toronto you’ve likely seen the statue of Oscar Wilde leaning up as if waiting for a cigarette to be lit...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Vaughn Demont returns to his roots with his original blog's feature, "Justifying My English Degree."

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Justifying My English Degree: The Cask of Amontillado — Blackwarren Books
Back in the day on my personal blog, I had a running “feature” I called “Justifying My English Degree”, a place where I would critique works of media, often popular or genre that would be ignored as “...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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For real, I *loved* this book. It's sad and rough, but it's also very earthy and direct. Galchen cuts away as much romance as she can to get to the cruel nature of courts, rumour, and the ways social structures are manipulated for personal gain. Incredibly well-crafted.
blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social Blackwarren Books @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social · Apr 17
Lu: I just finished Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. An impeccably-researched and thoughtfully-fictionalized account of a real 1619 trial. The 21st century resonances are quite obvious, and quite deft. Highly reccomended!
April 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Alternatively, if you'd like more audio from @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social, try Allora Public Radio! The most recent epsidode is also with M.J. Baerman, but older episodes feature author roundtables, live reads of Blackwarren books, and other interviews.
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Allora Public Radio - the Blackwarren Books Podcast Channel — Blackwarren Books
Your home for all Blackwarren Books podcast episodes!
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April 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Are you looking for a new podcast featuring chill interviews with queer authors? @blackwarrenbooks.bsky.social has a great one called Lucy's Shelf Life! 1st episode is with our own author M.J. Baerman, and is a chat between readers about nerdy reader things.
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Lucy's Shelf Life — Blackwarren Books
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April 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Lu: I just finished Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. An impeccably-researched and thoughtfully-fictionalized account of a real 1619 trial. The 21st century resonances are quite obvious, and quite deft. Highly reccomended!
April 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The staff here at #BlackwarrenBooks aren't just writers and editors, we're also readers! :)
Vaughn: I write Urban Fantasy, but my shelf has a lot of memoir. What I'm currently reading? @blairbraverman.bsky.social Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, full throated recommend. Fantastic nature writing :)
April 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Chases, escapes, mysteries, adventure! ...true love? This ain't that kinda story...
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Redcap, Whitecap, Goblin, Thief — Blackwarren Books
"A'right buddy, pay attention, 'cause I'm only gonna tell you this story once." In The City, just beyond the gaze of humanity, dwell dragons, lycanthropes, vampires, sorcerers, gods, and the Noble Fa...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Novel Thoughts: What Work Brought You to Tears? - Part 2 — Blackwarren Books
Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This week, our newest Assistant Editor, Lu Humbug, shares a creative work and the effect it still has on him to this day… What is a god? Since the beginning of stories...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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An asexual dragon, an enbie satyr teammate, a blood hunt from the Fae... Typical college stuff, right?
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#blackwarrenbooks #lgbtqia #dragons #urbanfantasy #BeTheHeroNotAToken
On the Air (Certified Gold #1) by David M. DeMar — Blackwarren Books
Welcome to Allora University, the Argent City's premier institute of higher learning! You'll find all kinds of mythic creatures here - including Allora University's newest freshman, Ricky Konacsz, nex...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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New Novel Thoughts for April!
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Novel Thoughts: What Work Brought You to Tears? - Part 1 — Blackwarren Books
Welcome back to Novel Thoughts. This month, Blackwarren’s staff will post a weekly piece exploring the works of media—whether book, poem, song, film, or television—that elicited tears, whether joyful,...
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April 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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@authormjbaerman.bsky.social, author of recent Blackwarren Books release, "Aether's Call" is all about that #ShelfLife. :D
Listen to her conversation with Blackwarren's own @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social on "Shelf Life!"

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March 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM