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E. H. Lupton
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Author (Dionysus in Wisconsin, 2023; Old Time Religion, 2024; Troth, 2024; Lazarus, Home from the War, 2025), poet, podcaster (Ask a Medievalist), pansexual, psychopomp. She/they.
Website: https://ehlupton.com
Books: https://ehlupton.com/links/
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The dinosaurs are abroad in search of food.
A flock of wild turkeys crosses a snowy street.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Hey, if you need a gift for the weirdo (affectionate) in your life, or something to read while you're hiding from your family, I got you covered.

Links for the novels: ehlupton.com/links

Preorder The Alignments novella: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

#booksky #romancelandia
Queer historical romance for once and future academics, librarians, and everyone who loves a good Shakespeare reference and wishes magic was real. Available at all major online outlets, Kobo+, or order from your favorite bookstore. The books are: Dionysus in Wisconsin Old Time Religion Troth Lazarus, Home from the War and The Alignments (preorder now!)
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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With Lazarus, Home from the War being named to the Fated Mates best of 2025 list this week, it seems like the perfect time to announce the preorder for my new novella!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36CHZ4S

Comes out 12/21 (Sam's birthday) but it's more about the solstice than Christmas.
Brown square with stripes on it, vaguely 1970s vibe. The cover of The Alignments has several standing stones along a beach with some clouds. It says The Alignments, by E. H. Lupton. On the left it says “Sam and Ulysses on their honeymoon in France” with an arrow pointing to the cover. On the right it says, “A dead body turns up” with another arrow pointing to the cover. Below it says “Available 12/21, Preorders now open!” Another brown and stripe slide. At the top it says Frequently Unasked Questions Q: Will there be a paperback? A: Yes, but not right away. I'm going to do a volume with all the shorter stuff in 2026. Q: How long is it? A: Not quite 30,000 words. Q: Is it spicy? A: About like the other books? There is some light bondage. Q: Will it be available everywhere? A: Yes! Not every site does preorders, so that's only available through the 'Zon, but you'll be able to get it most places after 12/21.
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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There is a tiny amount of overlap between people who listen to Ask a Medievalist and people who play Learned League, but if you're in both, we got you covered yesterday.

askamedievalist.com/2022/07/23/e...
A trivia question: 2. The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has famously, since 1634, hosted a production of what type of alliteratively named theatrical performance, to honor a vow made during an outbreak of the plague?
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I ordered a print AND got it framed within, uh, a month of it arriving! Impossible but true.
A print called "The Apocalypse is Blooming" by Lesley Anne Numbers. It has a skull and some bones with hawks sitting on them at the bottom and amazing multicolored flowers above.
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Here is a thing I should probably mention here. If you're in the Twin Cities, come see me interview MA Wardell on stage next week, 11/18! Tickets and preorders here: tropesandtrifles.com/events/37518...
Tropes & Trifles presents... Book Launch with M.A. Wardell! with E.H. Lupton 7–9pm Join us for conversation and signing! Registration required. Ticket price includes a copy of Husband of the Year.
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Skill issue, David.

I need a flowchart that says "character(s) is/are having sex; is it fun?" And if you say "yes, everyone has a good time" the book is worthless, and if you say "no, everyone hates it" you get to win a literary prize.
'It's notoriously difficult to write about sex': David Szalay on Flesh, his astonishing Booker prize-winner.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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From up on my roof yesterday.
A pink and green aurora with silhouetted trees in the foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Sometimes your brain goes "I will create a focus so hyper," and then five days later you've finished a quilt.

This is a hand-tied panel quilt for my 4yo. It has a bunch of problems but it is done. And for a 4yo. The back is a repurposed crib sheet. (Actually, everything here was in my stash.)
The front of the quilt. It is a large rainbow striped panel with a blue sashing along the bottom. Close up on the ties. The back of the quilt is a gray arrow pattern with pieces of fabric with rainbow coneflowers on it sewn into the corners.
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Sturgeon Bay, WI.
A sign on a convenience store door that says "BY LAW we can not sell beer or alcohol until 6 a.m."
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Dionysus in Wisconsin is 40% off on Kobo until November 17th with the code NOVEMBER40! (In AU, CA, NZ, UK, US.) If you like books about guys walking around with a god in their head, academia, Shakespeare jokes, and magic, you should check it out.
Wisconsin Gothic book 1 The Dionysus in Wisconsin cover has two guys, one dressed like a Greek god, one dressed like a greaser. The arrow pointing to the god says "turning into a god," and the arrow pointing to the greaser says "definitely going to fix this."
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This is in Middleton, maybe two miles from here. Homemade artisanal stuff.
A statue of a mothman. It's taller than the garage (like maybe twelve feet tall?), with red eyes, brushy antennae, black clothing, and some kind of gray beard thing. It has red eyes.
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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André looking cute this morning.
A large, furry orange cat with his paw curled over his nose. He's lying on a gray sofa.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#tooMidwestTooFurious
A sign on a cooler in a gas station convenience store. It says: FAFO Fish Around, Find Trout Nightcrawlers $3.99 Red worms: $4.99
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The 8yo asked me to build a castle for the dragons. I said if he'd draw a blueprint, I'd see what I could do.

I am not at all handy (there's more than a little wish fulfillment in Laz "I fix everything " Lenkov) but I made this. Kids are pleased. Maybe sometime we'll paint it.
A square castle with a door that swings open and a balcony around the inside for the dragons to look out from. There are plastic dragons on it.
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I find this very amusing. I'm very lucky with my readers, but the seasons people most want to read my books (in paperback) are: gay and spooky.
A bar graph showing paperback sales by month. The highest sales are in June and October.
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I made a test puff this morning. I think ironing, measuring, and cutting is going to be the most time-consuming part of this. I had to dig the ironing board out from under various knit things I was blocking on it.
A square of fabric, maroon with lighter maroon flowers, sewed on three sides and pinned on a fourth, and lightly stuffed.
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Our skeleton Rasputin. He's sitting on the ground by the lamp post. It's rude to point your feet at people so his knees are drawn up.
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Just to clarify my complaint, this is what the database looks like. It's called a MARC record and for historical reasons it uses numbers instead of field names. So for the "and" in "publisher and date" to be highlighted, it's somehow searching the metadata the system is using on the front end.
A screenshot of a MARC record. 100 1 _aLapide, Pinchas, _d1922-1997 _0(DLC)n79006744 245 10 _aThree Popes and the Jews / _c[by] Pinchas E. Lapide. 250 _a[First edition]. 264 1 _aNew York : _bHawthorn Books, _c[1967] 300 _a384 pages : _bportraits ; _c23 cm 336 _atext _2rdacontent 337 _aunmediated _2rdamedia 338 _avolume _2rdacarrier 504 _aIncludes bibliographies. 505 00 _g1. _tISRAEL AND THE "NEW ISRAEL" -- _tChristianity: the Genesis -- _tDeicide or Fratricide? -- _tJesus: a Jewish Reappraisal -- _tChristianity: the Exodus -- _tPaul and the Church of the Gentiles -- _tChristianity among the Gentiles -- _tFrom de-Judaization to Hebraeophobia -- _tFrom Hebraeophobia to Anti-Judaism -- _g2. _tTHE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- _t"Usury" and "Interest" -- _tCoercion and Conversion --
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Not to put my library on blast, but when I am doing a title search, why is it highlighting an "and" in the record metadata rather than the 245 field?

Also, why is this coming up at all? Fifty-one libraries have No Exit in French but they don't have Anti-Semite and Jew?
A search result showing a title search for "Anti-Semite and Jew" that has returned the book Three Popes and the Jews. The "and" and the "Jews" are highlighted, as is the "and" in the phrase "publisher and date" in the metadata below.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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This is the shirt.

The deeper I get into this project, the more it changes me in ways I cannot predict nor prepare for.
A person wearing a very paisley shirt under a suede jacket.
October 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Something something closed-door romance?
A cardboard sign that says Wood Not Available Please DO NOT Take Thank You
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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An interesting question. I've been working on a project set in France. So I was looking at a map of the area around Carnac and found this notation. (Google Maps maybe labels it as "les 2 cheminées" instead, or it might be "les deux frères.")
A map of a region slightly northeast of Carnac-Plage on the Bay of Quiberon. A little tower icon with the label "Ancien four à goémon" is circled in red.
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Nice.

(Have I been watching this for a while as it crept closer? Yes.)
A screenshot from Goodreads showing the book Troth, by E.H. Lupton has 69 ratings.
October 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This would be an excellent missing scene from Dionysus in Wisconsin...or a Harry/Ellen spin-off? What *are* they doing in Berkeley after the summer of 1971?
(Looking at map of State Street) Ellen: the National Guard will be here...so we want Richard III to ride past here. Sam: ride? Where am I supposed to get a horse? Ellen: there's an ag school here. There's a vet school. Sam: they hang horse thieves, El.
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM