Isaac Fellman
@isaac-fellman.bsky.social
Writer and archivist. NOTES FROM A REGICIDE (Spring '25), THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI (Fall '22), DEAD COLLECTIONS (Spring '22), THE BREATH OF THE SUN ('18, Lambda winner). He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Rep Kate McKean.
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Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...
I've only been logging on to check my mentions lately, but I did have to post this W.H. Auden captcha. "Choose all the clocks/select the telephone/click on the squares that show a juicy bone..."
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I've only been logging on to check my mentions lately, but I did have to post this W.H. Auden captcha. "Choose all the clocks/select the telephone/click on the squares that show a juicy bone..."
Incredible lineup for our trans event at Lit Crawl this Saturday! Also, it's at Silver Sprocket, so you can buy comics before/during/after the reading -- a truly ideal combination.
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Incredible lineup for our trans event at Lit Crawl this Saturday! Also, it's at Silver Sprocket, so you can buy comics before/during/after the reading -- a truly ideal combination.
Ad for cassette of music for your "walk-woman," from a 1996 Imperial Queens & Kings of NY, LI, & NJ newsletter. Working on this for an upcoming online collection from the Center, New York's LGBTQ archives. Full name and address redacted for the creator's privacy; hope she's still singing out there.
August 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Ad for cassette of music for your "walk-woman," from a 1996 Imperial Queens & Kings of NY, LI, & NJ newsletter. Working on this for an upcoming online collection from the Center, New York's LGBTQ archives. Full name and address redacted for the creator's privacy; hope she's still singing out there.
every photo taken of me on this trip reminds me that I look these days like a little beakless bird who is always chortling, and I'm coming to terms with that because I did not enjoy the waifcore days of my twenties (and early thirties) (and late thirties)
August 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
every photo taken of me on this trip reminds me that I look these days like a little beakless bird who is always chortling, and I'm coming to terms with that because I did not enjoy the waifcore days of my twenties (and early thirties) (and late thirties)
NEW YORKERS: I'm flying TO YOU for a book event on August 20 at P&T Knitwear, with Mattie Lubchansky and Calvin Kasulke! This is a dream lineup for me, I get to share the stage with two brilliant people, and I hope you can come! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
August 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
NEW YORKERS: I'm flying TO YOU for a book event on August 20 at P&T Knitwear, with Mattie Lubchansky and Calvin Kasulke! This is a dream lineup for me, I get to share the stage with two brilliant people, and I hope you can come! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
The blurb in question. I absolutely meant every word of this.
July 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The blurb in question. I absolutely meant every word of this.
Working with digitized photos from the astonishing Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue collection at UW, which chronicles the lifelong friendships of old-school drag performers from a Seattle venue called the Garden of Allah. This drag wedding photo! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...
July 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Working with digitized photos from the astonishing Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue collection at UW, which chronicles the lifelong friendships of old-school drag performers from a Seattle venue called the Garden of Allah. This drag wedding photo! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...
I made the intersection of art and politics in Notes from a Regicide as insane and on-the-nose as I dared, but last night I googled "mummy brown" and remembered that history will always have you beat
May 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I made the intersection of art and politics in Notes from a Regicide as insane and on-the-nose as I dared, but last night I googled "mummy brown" and remembered that history will always have you beat
"grubbiness," "starchy"...she's applying ALL the right Isaac words
April 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"grubbiness," "starchy"...she's applying ALL the right Isaac words
a second, even more mysterious missive
April 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a second, even more mysterious missive
my cat loves my new mechanical keyboard, and to celebrate, she's gained sentience
April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
my cat loves my new mechanical keyboard, and to celebrate, she's gained sentience
They did very much put me in People (@people.com).
April 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
They did very much put me in People (@people.com).
Uncropped version of the FMA self-portrait. He had legs for days
April 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Uncropped version of the FMA self-portrait. He had legs for days
Sigismund Righini, "Self-Portrait Where I'm A Fullmetal Alchemist Character Whose Bit Is That He Looks Like Vincent Van Gogh" (left). "Self-Portrait As a Portland Bartender" (right).
April 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Sigismund Righini, "Self-Portrait Where I'm A Fullmetal Alchemist Character Whose Bit Is That He Looks Like Vincent Van Gogh" (left). "Self-Portrait As a Portland Bartender" (right).
I'm finding things to celebrate so I can keep going right now, so I'm not even posting this in a spirit of promo (I'm sure all my followers know I have a damn book coming out), just in a spirit of "I'm proud I got a hat trick of starred reviews in the trades": www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
April 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I'm finding things to celebrate so I can keep going right now, so I'm not even posting this in a spirit of promo (I'm sure all my followers know I have a damn book coming out), just in a spirit of "I'm proud I got a hat trick of starred reviews in the trades": www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
It's me (Isaac) on the front page of Booklist
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's me (Isaac) on the front page of Booklist
I'm very excited to report that Booklist has just made Notes From a Regicide their Review of the Day! The librarians like it. Making this logo into a sticker and pasting it onto my forehead.
www.booklistonline.com/products/980...
www.booklistonline.com/products/980...
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm very excited to report that Booklist has just made Notes From a Regicide their Review of the Day! The librarians like it. Making this logo into a sticker and pasting it onto my forehead.
www.booklistonline.com/products/980...
www.booklistonline.com/products/980...
Obligatory Notes from a Regicide unboxing video! An absolutely gorgeous book, hadn't really predicted just how opulently blue it is. Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
March 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Obligatory Notes from a Regicide unboxing video! An absolutely gorgeous book, hadn't really predicted just how opulently blue it is. Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Another great trade review for Notes from a Regicide, this one from Booklist (⭐): "A triumphant and blistering chronicle of found family, love, and resistance. Brimming with wit and queer joy [...] For readers of Catherine Lacey's Biography of X and Justin Torres' Blackouts."
March 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Another great trade review for Notes from a Regicide, this one from Booklist (⭐): "A triumphant and blistering chronicle of found family, love, and resistance. Brimming with wit and queer joy [...] For readers of Catherine Lacey's Biography of X and Justin Torres' Blackouts."
Min Goto has burst through the wall with our final Notes from a Regicide character sketch. This is Griffon, our sharp but brittle journalist who's trying to reconstruct his late parents' over-the-top, revolutionary lives. Always waiting for some kind of emergency in which he can prove himself.
March 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Min Goto has burst through the wall with our final Notes from a Regicide character sketch. This is Griffon, our sharp but brittle journalist who's trying to reconstruct his late parents' over-the-top, revolutionary lives. Always waiting for some kind of emergency in which he can prove himself.
New character commission from the great @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social. Here's Zaffre, a woman everyone wants to idealize -- to make a folk hero or perfect mother -- in her real element, pushing through the mental cobwebs and dissociating herself into a new painting.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New character commission from the great @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social. Here's Zaffre, a woman everyone wants to idealize -- to make a folk hero or perfect mother -- in her real element, pushing through the mental cobwebs and dissociating herself into a new painting.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The first in a series of character portraits from Notes from a Regicide that I commissioned "for promo" ("for fun"). @egallagher.bsky.social read my mind. This is Etoine, art fabricator, wife guy, gleam of madness in his eye almost imperceptible, once did one (1) murder but it was a really key one.
February 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The first in a series of character portraits from Notes from a Regicide that I commissioned "for promo" ("for fun"). @egallagher.bsky.social read my mind. This is Etoine, art fabricator, wife guy, gleam of madness in his eye almost imperceptible, once did one (1) murder but it was a really key one.
Bizarre to be promoting a book right now, when everyone's struggling and I'd rather be invisible. Still, this has been twelve years in the making. It's my favorite of my books so far, and it's about trans people and artists and writers, trying to meet their devastating times by loving each other.
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Bizarre to be promoting a book right now, when everyone's struggling and I'd rather be invisible. Still, this has been twelve years in the making. It's my favorite of my books so far, and it's about trans people and artists and writers, trying to meet their devastating times by loving each other.
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Notes from a Regicide "prescient, emotionally nuanced, and remarkably well told." If those are the adjectives you love to hear, let me gently wrap this preorder link around your shoulders: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls Notes from a Regicide "prescient, emotionally nuanced, and remarkably well told." If those are the adjectives you love to hear, let me gently wrap this preorder link around your shoulders: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...