Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
· May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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Finally, we've made it all the way from Drowned Ammet to Crowned Ammet, and we do feel very lucky that, unlike readers in the 70s, we didn't have to wait 15 real time years for it
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The Crown of Dalemark by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Mitt at last came out with the real cause of his disappointment with the North. "They told me it was free here," he said. "They told me it was good."
North and South, history-time and story-time, pas...
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February 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Finally, we've made it all the way from Drowned Ammet to Crowned Ammet, and we do feel very lucky that, unlike readers in the 70s, we didn't have to wait 15 real time years for it
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we WILL be returning to Dalemark in bonus stuff so please do feel free to write in with your hot takes on who comes first in the Dalemark Bad Dads Pageant (Mitt's dad disqualified for blowing all the competition out of the water)
Finally, we've made it all the way from Drowned Ammet to Crowned Ammet, and we do feel very lucky that, unlike readers in the 70s, we didn't have to wait 15 real time years for it
zencastr.com/z/wv-F0dWm
zencastr.com/z/wv-F0dWm
The Crown of Dalemark by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Mitt at last came out with the real cause of his disappointment with the North. "They told me it was free here," he said. "They told me it was good."
North and South, history-time and story-time, pas...
zencastr.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
we WILL be returning to Dalemark in bonus stuff so please do feel free to write in with your hot takes on who comes first in the Dalemark Bad Dads Pageant (Mitt's dad disqualified for blowing all the competition out of the water)
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my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
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February 11, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net is on sale today on kindle for only 99p! I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this book and its politics are only too relevant. I believe it was quite influenced by Hexwood, the discussion of which on @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social I am currently savouring.
February 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net is on sale today on kindle for only 99p! I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this book and its politics are only too relevant. I believe it was quite influenced by Hexwood, the discussion of which on @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social I am currently savouring.
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#UKSFFBookBargains offers a daily deal on Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net. 99p.
One of the best books of the last ten years. A very well deserved Hugo winner. If you've not read this you're missing out.
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One of the best books of the last ten years. A very well deserved Hugo winner. If you've not read this you're missing out.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Despera...
Some Desperate Glory ebook by Emily Tesh - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Some Desperate Glory The Hugo Award-winning novel" by Emily Tesh available from Rakuten Kobo. **WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD**
** SHORTL...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
#UKSFFBookBargains offers a daily deal on Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net. 99p.
One of the best books of the last ten years. A very well deserved Hugo winner. If you've not read this you're missing out.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Despera...
One of the best books of the last ten years. A very well deserved Hugo winner. If you've not read this you're missing out.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Despera...
Career milestone: saw my own book in my local library!
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Career milestone: saw my own book in my local library!
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Pre-orders for this edition are still available on our website! We are SO excited to see this book in person, and we hope you are too 🤭
*Please note this is a digital mockup, final product may differ slightly*
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*Please note this is a digital mockup, final product may differ slightly*
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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Signed Special Edition - PREORDER
Discover your new Dark Academia obsession in the LitPins&Co Special Edition of The Incandescent by Emily Tesh!
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February 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Pre-orders for this edition are still available on our website! We are SO excited to see this book in person, and we hope you are too 🤭
*Please note this is a digital mockup, final product may differ slightly*
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*Please note this is a digital mockup, final product may differ slightly*
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We are so excited to reveal the hardcover artwork for our special edition of The Incandescent! 🐦🔥
This stunning artwork is by our very own @buttercupgrove.bsky.social and will be featured underneath the dust jacket (designed by RiotBones) 🥰
@emilytesh.net #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #TheIncandescent
This stunning artwork is by our very own @buttercupgrove.bsky.social and will be featured underneath the dust jacket (designed by RiotBones) 🥰
@emilytesh.net #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #TheIncandescent
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
We are so excited to reveal the hardcover artwork for our special edition of The Incandescent! 🐦🔥
This stunning artwork is by our very own @buttercupgrove.bsky.social and will be featured underneath the dust jacket (designed by RiotBones) 🥰
@emilytesh.net #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #TheIncandescent
This stunning artwork is by our very own @buttercupgrove.bsky.social and will be featured underneath the dust jacket (designed by RiotBones) 🥰
@emilytesh.net #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #TheIncandescent
The only thing I've written in the last two months was my father's eulogy. Starting work on this book again feels impossible. But I reread what there is the other night, and you know, it's not bad.
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The only thing I've written in the last two months was my father's eulogy. Starting work on this book again feels impossible. But I reread what there is the other night, and you know, it's not bad.
Very happy to see The Incandescent on the list!
February 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Very happy to see The Incandescent on the list!
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So what I want to do is, Gaylactic Spectrum style, ask folks to think back to the 6 years the award has not run, and think of what longform queer speculative fiction (novel or novella) you liked for each year from 2020-2025. I'll bung that together with my own reckons to a shortlist & a favourite.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
So what I want to do is, Gaylactic Spectrum style, ask folks to think back to the 6 years the award has not run, and think of what longform queer speculative fiction (novel or novella) you liked for each year from 2020-2025. I'll bung that together with my own reckons to a shortlist & a favourite.
here it is: the DWJ that has been most influential on Me Personally and the whole reason I wanted to do this podcast project. are you read for the greatest portal fantasy space opera arthuriana of all time. hexwood!!!
perhaps you'll say: was it really necessary for this to be a four hour episode? to which I say: look forward to at LEAST another hour of Hexwood Time in this season's Q&A. Happy Hexwood Day, everyone!
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Hexwood by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
This wood is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?
It's a portal fantasy! It's a space opera! It's an ...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:45 PM
here it is: the DWJ that has been most influential on Me Personally and the whole reason I wanted to do this podcast project. are you read for the greatest portal fantasy space opera arthuriana of all time. hexwood!!!
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perhaps you'll say: was it really necessary for this to be a four hour episode? to which I say: look forward to at LEAST another hour of Hexwood Time in this season's Q&A. Happy Hexwood Day, everyone!
zencastr.com/z/Y9k1q1AZ
zencastr.com/z/Y9k1q1AZ
Hexwood by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
This wood is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?
It's a portal fantasy! It's a space opera! It's an ...
zencastr.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:26 PM
perhaps you'll say: was it really necessary for this to be a four hour episode? to which I say: look forward to at LEAST another hour of Hexwood Time in this season's Q&A. Happy Hexwood Day, everyone!
zencastr.com/z/Y9k1q1AZ
zencastr.com/z/Y9k1q1AZ
does anyone else feel like SFF criticism is in a really good place right now? perhaps I just wasn't paying enough attention before. reading through the latest Strange Horizons and thinking about all the cool conversations I've seen and all the books I've picked up because of them. thank you critics.
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
does anyone else feel like SFF criticism is in a really good place right now? perhaps I just wasn't paying enough attention before. reading through the latest Strange Horizons and thinking about all the cool conversations I've seen and all the books I've picked up because of them. thank you critics.
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My essay in the @strangehorizons.bsky.social criticism special is up! I muse about genre, vibes and the difficulty of pinning things down in an ever-shifting landscape.
I promised ducks, quacking: well! @chloroformtea.bsky.social (not a duck) provides Thursday's essay on knowing genre when you see it.
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
Quacking Like A Genre
What is SF? Idk, vibes.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:32 PM
My essay in the @strangehorizons.bsky.social criticism special is up! I muse about genre, vibes and the difficulty of pinning things down in an ever-shifting landscape.
new author photo! the old one was taken shortly before my wedding in 2018 and is the most femme I have ever looked in my entire life. people kept getting confused when they met me. (where did the long blonde hair go? I cut it all off with a sigh of relief two weeks after the old photo was taken.)
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
new author photo! the old one was taken shortly before my wedding in 2018 and is the most femme I have ever looked in my entire life. people kept getting confused when they met me. (where did the long blonde hair go? I cut it all off with a sigh of relief two weeks after the old photo was taken.)
Sitting down to record the Hexwood episode of Eight Days and I am not exaggerating when I say THIS is the one I have been waiting for the entire time we've worked on this podcast, I am so so so so excited.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Sitting down to record the Hexwood episode of Eight Days and I am not exaggerating when I say THIS is the one I have been waiting for the entire time we've worked on this podcast, I am so so so so excited.
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New year, new DWJ - and in today's episode, it's definitely a new DWJ, as she throws everything she knows out the window and sets out to write the wildest book of her career to date. We're definitely in the back half of the nineties now!
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A Sudden Wild Magic by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
The restraints of knowledge harmed this wild power. In order to use it, Zillah could not know what it was. It would only answer a being as untrammeled as itself.
Time for elves, centaurs, demons, god...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:19 PM
New year, new DWJ - and in today's episode, it's definitely a new DWJ, as she throws everything she knows out the window and sets out to write the wildest book of her career to date. We're definitely in the back half of the nineties now!
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BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.
Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
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COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
“Fierce, emotional, queer, and powered by love and splendid, simmering anger. I loved every moment.“
…is what I said about this one, and I stand by it.
…is what I said about this one, and I stand by it.
The cover of this is now up and 1. she is sexy looking and 2. "ultimate weapon meets complete disaster" is such a tagline.
( @hawkwinglb.bsky.social I assume you've already seen but if not...)
( @hawkwinglb.bsky.social I assume you've already seen but if not...)
Call Me Traitor
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January 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
“Fierce, emotional, queer, and powered by love and splendid, simmering anger. I loved every moment.“
…is what I said about this one, and I stand by it.
…is what I said about this one, and I stand by it.
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one of the issues has some poems and riddles etc sent in by authors instead of children (some of them with notes from their kids) and there’s one by Diana Wayne Jones!
January 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
one of the issues has some poems and riddles etc sent in by authors instead of children (some of them with notes from their kids) and there’s one by Diana Wayne Jones!
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Some Desperate Glory has been a topic of conversation between my partner and me for months now, definitely one of my favourite books of 2025! It's not much but I have a few extra drawings I hadn't posted, in case it might help your days a little
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Some Desperate Glory has been a topic of conversation between my partner and me for months now, definitely one of my favourite books of 2025! It's not much but I have a few extra drawings I hadn't posted, in case it might help your days a little
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Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Thucydides did not write the Melian Dialogue for people to forget Athens lost the Peloponnesian War.