Read MOONFLOW by Bitter Karella if you love mushrooms and drugs and women and forests and cults and mushrooms and corpses and cats and women and gods and mushrooms and Gender and glitches and transwomen and corpses and blood and f*cking and mushrooms and mushrooms and mushrooms and...
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I had a wonderful time at Amal El-Mohtar's book reading last night for SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON! Look at that cover--it's gorgeous!
Some of the moments that stuck with me:
• Your artistic style emerges through what you're bad at, or by what you find comes innately rather than what you struggle with.
• Sometimes your best writing comes by being in communication with others.
• I love women 💜💜💜
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Read THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE by Hester Steel if you love beautiful islands, running away from your life, ancient mysteries, cults, manipulations, abuse narratives, eldritch horrors, fragmented reality, chrysalis & butterflies, figuring out where & how you fit, the rot beneath it all, the incomprehensible & lemons.
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Read THE INTRIGUE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia if you love incredibly charming conmen, once grand families brought low, small towns, terribly flawed people making bad decisions, deep family lore, being forced to play a part, rotting with stagnation, yearning for something greater & torrid affairs.
I received an advance copy of this book for review.
The anticipated publication date is July 14, 2026.
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Read THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar if you love fairy tales, love stories, murder ballads, riddles, the love between sisters, unwanted suitors, getting lost, swan songs, harps, grammar, conjugations, transformations, voices, willow trees, rivers, borderlands & changing course.
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Read OLD SOUL by Susan Barker if you love a story told through interviews, mysteries, portrait photography, malevolent presences, immortals, grief & abuse narratives, exploring cities, new identities, the female gaze, strangers, digging deep into old wounds & the desire to survive at all costs.
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Read THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow if you love how stories are created, lady knights, making myths, quests, propaganda machines, time travel, scars, always finding each other, genderfuckery, broken & dislikable people doing their best, interesting interpersonal dynamics & rewriting history.
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Read THIS GILDED ABYSS by Rebecca Thorne if you love old loves, old wounds, old griefs, militaristic societies, strict & violent hierarchies, horizontal cities, giant ships, rose gold, dangerous outbreaks, sapphic longing twinged with bitterness, film photography & Leviathans.
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Read THE BIG M (13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause) edited by Lidia Yuknavitch if you love personal essays, feeling seen, reclaimed narratives, transitions, vastly different experiences, speaking the unspeakable, the many ways through, finding meaning through storytelling & shape-shifting.
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My current favorite scifi worldbuilding:
Becky Chambers' WAYFARERS
Ada Palmer's TERRA IGNOTA
Karen Lord's CYGNUS BETA
Claire North's SLOW GODS
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