I always think fantasies and romances could be funnier, even (especially) if they’re dark. lately I’ve been reading Lois McMaster Bujold’s Chalion books for the first time, and I love how she slips in dry humour between the joys and sorrows. Zen Cho does it brilliantly, too.

that’s me! blurbing the GOAT!

Thank you Kinokuniya Singapore! 🥰🥰🥰

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I have just finished reading an ARC of The Witchwood Knot by @oliviaatwater.com (bsky) and it was gothic perfection. Dark, frightening, romantic, and entrenched in myth and fairy magic, a stunning autumn read.

All right, fuck it. I wasn't going to do this on main but this just kicked me over the edge.

I've spent the last year recording every english language fiction deal in Publisher's Marketplace, googling over 4000 authors, and this is what the current book deal landscape looks like

“[Lee Mandelo] doesn’t pull any punches, including in his delivery of PEAK queer revenge. If you don’t absolutely howl with schadenfreude at the ending, I don’t know what to do with you.” — Shelley Parker-Chan for SciFiNow

#ICYMI Join us tomorrow in association with The Broken Binding | Bookstore for an evening with Shelley Parker-Chan and Aliette de Bodard (hiatus) in conversation with On hiatus—writing cave! as part of #ESEA Heritage Month!

Save your spot here: crowdcast.io/c/rdzw75rq1agy

Today's the day, The Fractured Dark is out now!! 🖤🚀🍄

many men sublimate their homosexual desire into aggression against fish. Melville, however, sublimated his aggression against a fish into homosexual desire.

every now and then I just get a flash of the perfect specificity of PLACE from this book

now that’s a fucking BLURB. if it doesn’t make you want to devour this book, I’m not sure we can be friends

finished reading he who drowned the world by Shelley Parker-Chan finally, highly recommended for anyone who wants to experience every flavour of insanity!!!!
bonus: a meme that inexplicably feels ouyang-coded 💀

I am very proud I've managed to write (and post!) my first review since last November. Also proud that I managed to write this specific review without using the word 'babygirl' once. He Who Drowned the World, by Shelley Parker-Chan :
thefantasyinn.com/2023/09/02/he-…

'The Woods All Black [by Lee Mandelo] is a hopeful, wrathful meditation on monstrous religiosity and queer survival. A bloody, howling catharsis of a book.' — Tasha Suri Updates - Not Here

He Who Drowned The World author Shelley Parker-Chan runs down five non-cosy fantasy books that explore the dark parts of the world....
scifinow.co.uk/books/through-…

🎂 🎉 Happy book birthday to THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu!

The queer scifi retelling of Hamlet as a locked room thriller that you never knew you needed...

Buy it now! bit.ly/3zVU8iT

'oh, the tension! It will murder you.” - Shelley Parker-Chan

In our latest Show Your Working column, author Shelley Parker-Chan (Shelley Parker-Chan) shares their workspace and writing practice. Their second novel, 'He Who Drowned the World', is out now.

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a really lovely (nb: spoilery) review—“The Fierce, Vibrant Optimism of He Who Drowned the World'

psst SOUND THE GONG is 25% off on B&N if you're a member! make sure to save your receipts because there WILL be another velinxi art card to go with the first :)

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