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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

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Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 Inquiries: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/eliaseells

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Sep 10

COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES is here!! Thank you so much to everyone who has loved this book so far and thank you to everyone who is discovering it. I am so grateful.

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Self portrait with COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES and a Mariogarita

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 38m

Snag a copy for yourself and another as a gift today!

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Cocktails and Consoles

Press start and get ready to craft delicious cocktails. With 75 unique and easy-to-prepare recipes inspired by some of the most popular video games in histor...

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Sep 18

The best thing about backing Neon Hemlock’s annual novella crowdfunding is getting special treats all year! Eager to dig into Suzan Palumbo’s collection SKIN THIEF & y’all know I’ve been holding my breath for Brent C. Lambert’s A NECESSARY CHAOS ever since it was announced.

[image desc: a copy of SKIN THIEF by Suzan Palumbo and A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent C. Lambert on a soft red back drop.]

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Jul 16

Considered snagging the shed skin that's been draped over pipes in my basement for the past year to use in this photo, but since I haven't found the right little glass box to keep it in yet, it stays where it is and where I know it is.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Jul 16

I just found out that it's #WorldSnakeDay, so I *had* to pull a stack together real quick: some faves redolent with reptiles from deep space to my own backyard. I prefer a serpent to a rat, but I'm happiest when they're safe between the pages. How bout y'all? What are your favorite bookish snakes?

A stack of books (bottom to top): EXORDIA by Seth Dickinson, THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A.K. Larkwood, MOTHEATER by Lin Codega, THE TROPIC OF SERPENTS by Marie Brennan, TWO SERPENTS RISE by Max Gladstone, LET THE MOUNTAINS BE MY GRAVE by Francesca Tacchi, IF FOUND RETURN TO HELL by Em X. Liu, REDSIGHT by Meredith Mooring

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Oct 15

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE SECRET SKIN by @wnwagner.bsky.social. A gothic novella with a truly magnificent sense of place, this window into the world of Prohibition-era coastal Oregon was evocative and chilling. Our drink is the Storm Break.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 2h

Goofus and Gallant style buddy comedy about a stoner and her prim friend, call it Space and Grace

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 23h

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes. A entomological epic in a Weird city where art & revolution are intimately entwined, this queer puzzle box is TRANSCENDENT. Our drink is the Extemporist, for a perfume-soaked night at the opera.

THE WORKS OF VERMIN alongside a pale gold drink in a large coupe surrounded by greenery.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 3h

Cocktails and Consoles would smell like gin, oranges, and hot plastic

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 13h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 16h

ROCK ON!! Happy release day!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 17h

Yes!! #influencer

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Read THE WORKS OF VERMIN and read LEECH too!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Oct 25

LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.

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LEECH by Hiron Ennes on a limestone hearth beside a stemmed glass with a pale drink topped with a dark float.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Aren't they great?! I'm so excited for the next one in the spring: A TRADE IN BLOOD. I love a good mystery, as well you know, absolute favorite plot type.

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Good! To! Know!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

I should really do a pink spine stack one of these days...

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Yes! Yes! Yes!! Both are great!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Mmmmhmm, always a special treat!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Yes!! Now back in print! And trade paperback too!!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, I know the feeling! Just read FATE'S BANE too and it was GUTTING

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

YES!! HAVE SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

I like my men like I like my medicine: mellified.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13d

I’m poor as fuck on strike pay, so now would he a great time to get an ULTRA sub to @funfactorpod.com if you’ve been thinking about it.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13d

Celebrating 5.5 weeks on strike by freezing my ass off in literal sideways-driving rain while @davidebybc.bsky.social and his negotiating team stand up my union for scheduled meetings and present laughable offers from the warm offices of the BC Legislature in beautiful Victoria, BC.

Me in a blue rain jacket looking miserable.

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Haven MisFortuna @havenfortuna.bsky.social · 23h

Same is true for all artists! Get weird kids! (the good kind)

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 23h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 23h

I'm so tired of DUNE readalikes because they never quite get at the ideas that make DUNE actually great. It's not just vibes and Bene Gesserit, you gotta be obsessed with something like ecology and the boundless light of Islam and alas, too few are.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 23h

And you can do really interesting things with substitutions, IF you know what you're doing. For example, in COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, we have a drink inspired by Death Stranding, the Timefall Fizz, which uses whole milk powder in place of an egg white. And this is intentional

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Timefall Fizz reference photo. With turbinado sugar chiral crystals.

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Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 19h

You there, boy, what day is it?

Why, it's Bloodtide day, sir!

Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social · 1d

BLOODTIDE, the second book and feral middle child of the Ex Romana trilogy, hits shelves today! Read more queer, anti-fascist books!

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Bloodtide - Astra Publishing House

The fate of the empire hangs in the balance in the second installment of the genre-bending Ex Romana trilogy Perfect for readers of Saara El-Arifi and C. L. Clark and stories with strong, queer voices...

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