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Elijah Kinch Spector
@elijahkinchspector.com
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Novelist. Dandy. British Fantasy Award finalist.
Bay Area counterculture kid, now New Yorker.
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Come say hi if you're at Worldcon! And/or ConCurrent!
Elijah Kinch Spector Worldcon Schedule Aug 13-17, 2025 Wed 12PM: Table Talk Room 430 Thu: I'll be at ConCurrent! Fri 10:30AM: Queering History Room 423-424 Sat 6PM: Signing Garden Lounge (3F)
August 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Oh my God, Lakeside had the best covers

The Robin Hood one? Are you kidding me???
The cover of Lakeside's album Untouchables, which is a painting of the band as gangsters. The cover of Lakeside's Fantastic Voyage, which is a painting of the band as pirates. Lakeside's Shot of Love, which shows them as Robin Hood's Merry Men. (No one is clearly Robin Hood) Lakeside's Party Patrol, where they're, like, on motorcycles and in a jeep, in uniforms of some kind. One of them is surfing. It might be copaganda?
July 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Just finished @elianeboey.bsky.social's excellent, and vividly described, Club Contango!

(I didn't mean to coordinate my drink order and my hand fan with the cover, but I'll take it)
Club Contango by Eliane Boey on a table between a hand fan and a matcha latte, all in similar greens and golds. (Part of my hand is there too.)
July 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Next week I'll be discussing modern fantasy, older SFF, politics, writing, and probably more at @balticon.bsky.social. Come say hi!
Elijah Kinch Spector Balticon Schedule May 23-26 Sat 1PM: A Manifesto is not a Novel Gibson 60 Sat 8:30PM: Modern Sensibilities in Current Fantasy St. George 42 Sun 10AM: Reading St. George 598 Sun 2:30PM: Assembling Your Cast Pride of Baltimore II 119 Sun 5:30PM: Reframing Older Works Mount Washington 52 Sun 7PM: Signing 5th Floor Lobby 624
May 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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In repose, but festive
Me in a disheveled tux sitting on the floor smiling
January 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Guess this is a good place to put @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social saying such thoughtful and complimentary things about my work that I do a legit double take
December 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Love this photo from last week's KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT launch of @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and me just CACKLING
Two authors seated at a bookstore event laughing uproariously.
December 9, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Read this bit last night, just before bed, and thought it seemed a little on the nose!

From Stendhal's The Red and the Black (1830):
Photo of text from a book, saying: "M. Valenod had as good as said to the businessmen in town: Give me your two biggest fools; to the lawyers he'd said, pick out a pair of your dumbest; and to the medical men, name me your two biggest charlatans. When he had assembled the most shameless members of every trade, he said to them, let's get together and make a government."
December 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Did an interview with my oldest friend in the world!

We talked about fantasy, politics, and the influence of a '90s JRPG on my books

He also brought out the baby pictures...
An old picture of two smiling kids.
November 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Now what the fuck am I gonna do with all of these?
A manicured hand holding a bunch of bookmarks featuring the cover to Kalyna the Cutthroat and the words "COMING SOON."
November 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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I was honestly trying to get one where I looked approachable
The author in a cozy turtleneck leaning his head against his hand and looking out the window, in what seems deep thought. It's visibly overcast outside.
November 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT is out next week from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!

It's a queer fantasy novel about con artistry, dark magic, and relying on mutual aid when systems fail us.

Writing this book kinda wrecked me, but I'm extremely proud of it.

Pre-order: bookshop.org/a/88223/9781...
The author smiling and holding a copy of KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT.
November 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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As far as I know, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid popularized the term. This copy used to belong to an old school leftist—the father of one of my best friends.

The first 70 pages are actually about mutual aid among animals!
A copy of Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid with an abstract, brutalist cover.
November 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Because @jayasax.bsky.social reminded me of them earlier today, here are KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT's uncomfortably relevant epigraphs!
"It is not love to my neighbour—whom I often do not know at all—which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire." - Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid "It was my destiny to see the disjointing of a world." - Younghill Kang, East Goes West
November 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM