Mon
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🌈Reader of queer & global majority fantasy / sci-fi & writer of speculative short stories. Featured in Torch Literary Arts, Midnight & Indigo and The Decolonial Passage. My biosite: bio.site/Nomonbooks
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A Taste Of Change - Connection
Musing on connections, reviewing my latest publication in Bi All Accounts, and spotlighting Boys With Tits!
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I read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler this year and I can still visualise so much of it in my mind's eye as if it were a memory. Can't have a Black Speculative Fiction month without her. Needed some time to recover after that book though! #blackbooksky #booksky
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I read YA sparingly & only if it's queer and/or POC. That said, Pet by Akweke Emezi is wonderful. Genre - Black Speculative Fiction. Lucille didn't feel like a fantasy to me. Every part touched this reality & a book for kids that discusses CSA in this way. Ofc I ate it up #booksky #blackbooksky
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Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly
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The concept behind the Deep by Rivers Solomon has really stuck with me. I absolutely love the creative journey of this book which began in an album by the clipping & a song by the same title: forgotten Black history as Black music & as Black speculative fiction. #blackbooksky #booksky
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Same rating, different vibes. Both a solid 3.5. The Deep by Rivers Solomon is gorgeous in concept and the images built are decadent. But, it tries to do too much. More to Love by Georgina Kiersten is a cute m/m romance novella with bi & fat rep 💕 - cozy & steamy #blackbooksky #booksky
This is the cover of the Deep. It's a mermaid swimming upwards in front of a whale maybe? Lots of different tones of blues. I think it's lovely. This is the cover more to love. It has a Black man and a Korean-American man on the front, standing in front of a book case. Unusual style for a book cover which is nice, but looking at it now these characters are way slimmer than the characters in the text and I'd prefer the cover where they're both fat.
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Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjayei Brenya is today's Black Speculative Fiction mention. I could feel the groundwork of Chain Gang All Stars on each page & that book grew every seed. The first story in particular was the best but the whole collection felt bleak and immediate. #booksky #blackbooksky
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I don't have any books published yet! I'm working on a collection of short stories (some of which have been published by lit journals so far) & a novel about a polycule fleeing the authorities with an alien by going on a sapphic bike ride!
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As a reader I define speculative fiction as the broader umbrella under which fantasy and sci-fi, magical realism etc sits but doesn't fit comfortably into any carved out sections. Black speculative fiction has us at the centre of the narrative with no explanation or apology. #booksky #blackbooksky
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Chocolate Chip City is cosy speculative fiction. Cosy for me isn't a lack of political reality. What makes something cosy is that the story is still a warm hug while engaging with the setting. The prevalence of Black joy, Black love and queerness was political AND joyous #blackbooksky #booksky
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Today for Black speculative fiction month I'm highlighting Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell. This book is so warm yet so politically real and uses sprinkles of magic to enhance all the Black joy it depicts. #blackbooksky #booksky
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Lesbian. Black. Witchy. Political. Romance. Contemporary. Filled with self love. Filled with Black Joy. I read an ARC of this book and I LOVED it.
Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell 💕 #booksky #blackbooksky
The cover of chocolate chip city by Be Steadwell. Illustrated by artist Ggggrimes - two Black women looking intimately at eachother.
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It's Black Speculative Fiction Month and this is a read from earlier this year that uses speculative fiction to deepen understanding of Black history - Harriet Tubman Live in Concert! 💕 #blackbooksky #booksky
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Yes I'm still reading Bloody Rose 😭 It's so long! I started the audio book of Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen and I'm kinda enjoying it. It's a nice way to ingest some black history. #booksky #blackbooksky
The cover of Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, which is mostly those words. It also says a novel and read by the author bob the drag queen. Images are a broken chain. And there's a picture of clasped hands over a microphone with a drawn tail(?) the hands look like they belong to someone Black and old, short cropped nails and lines of age.
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Yes I'm still reading Bloody Rose 😭 It's so long! I started the audio book of Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen and I'm kinda enjoying it. It's a nice way to ingest some black history. #booksky #blackbooksky
The cover of Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, which is mostly those words. It also says a novel and read by the author bob the drag queen. Images are a broken chain. And there's a picture of clasped hands over a microphone with a drawn tail(?) the hands look like they belong to someone Black and old, short cropped nails and lines of age.
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It's Black Speculative fiction month and I'm reflecting on this wonderful collection I had the privilege to be in & read earlier this year. Midnight & Indigo are a Black women owned publisher. I called out some of my favourite stories and this one still sticks with me now. #blackbooksky #booksky
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Remnants of Red by L Nabang in Midnight was so wonderful. I'm kind of blown away by this short story of magic, sisterhood and regret. It HAD me throughout. #booksky #blackbooksky #shortstories
The cover of Midnight & indigo, 21 speculative stories by black women writers. It's the face of a black woman caught in a blur.
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Feeling under the weather and have set aside reading for Stardew Valley. I'm in year two and incredibly antisocial. Loving my golden watering can though. #gaming
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Bi All Accounts is out today!
This anthology has detailed diversity data about its contributors at the front. It sees itself and it's privilege. It tells stories of erasure with self-insight. It spans poetry, non-fiction and fiction. And it's out now!!! #queerbooksky #booksky
This is the cover of Bi All Accounts rendered as a book. It has the title on it and says it was edited by Bailey Merlin. The cover is black and covered jn flowers about to unfurl.
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I didn't even know it was Black speculative fiction month but I just finished Loving Safoa and it was so fun! Brilliantly written, reflective, leisurely and well crafted. I also didn't realise Stone and Steel was Neon Hemlock. Maybe I'll try and get to that this month too! #blackbooksky #booksky
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Once again, white people can get all the grace but if a Black person is not excellent? It's over for us. This fucking double standard is galling.
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The forever workshop emailed this morning with a line about writing stories that will make people say “damn, you wrote that? Also, you ok?”. This is the consistent response I get to most things 😂 Especially this one: www.torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-... #litmag
Friday Feature: Mon Misir
Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets of their experience as a black woman, with a speculative bent. ...
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nomonbooks.bsky.social
The forever workshop emailed this morning with a line about writing stories that will make people say “damn, you wrote that? Also, you ok?”. This is the consistent response I get to most things 😂 Especially this one: www.torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-... #litmag
Friday Feature: Mon Misir
Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets of their experience as a black woman, with a speculative bent. ...
www.torchliteraryarts.org
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That concept makes me think of Deanna Grey books. But now you're making me wanna see a list of them all next to each other 😂

Genuinely loads of people use Leni Kaufman and it seemed like she was the only romance illustrator for a while.
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Ugh that feeling when you're late and you knowwww you could have done better. But still, here we are 🙃
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Whaaat? I just published my first newsletter! You can read it here if you want a taste before subscribing. It's going to be pretty sporadic but if you like my work & the things I've recommended... there's a sign up button at the bottom of the page 😍
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A Taste Of Change - Connection
Musing on connections, reviewing my latest publication in Bi All Accounts, and spotlighting Boys With Tits!
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It's a big day: Bi+ Visibility Day! Check out these three anthologies, which all release TODAY.

💗Bi All Accounts, ed. Bailey Merlin

💜Best Bi Erotica of the Year 2, ed. Christian Pan

💙Bi the Way, I Love You (proceeds support @biprideuk.bsky.social & Rainbow Railroad)

#bisexual #biweek #bisky #🌈💜
Cover of Bi All Accounts: an anthology, edited by Bailey Merlin, featuring antique-looking flowers on a back background with lavender and white text Cover of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume 2, edited by Christian Pan, featuring a photograph of an androgynous person with rainbow-dyed hair. Photo by @Jennacitrus Cover of Bi the Way, I Love You: a Charity Anthology of Diverse Bi+ Love Stories by Diverse Bi+ Authors, featuring a digital painting of a bouquet of wildflowers on a baby-pink background, with white text.
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Sorry you didn't get raptured today, but today is Bisexual Visibility Day so you should check out Bi All Accounts. An anthology about bisexual erasure.