Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
@eliaseells.bsky.social
Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
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Inquiries: [email protected]
https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
Monthly round up! We covered four books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this November: time loops and yearning, the end of the world and the oddities of Oz, lady knights, skeleton kings, glacial dragons, witches and wit and wiles. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Monthly round up! We covered four books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this November: time loops and yearning, the end of the world and the oddities of Oz, lady knights, skeleton kings, glacial dragons, witches and wit and wiles. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?
He’s a pie guy
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
He’s a pie guy
Not so smol anymore
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not so smol anymore
Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Timely and transcendent. I've had a marvelous time recently with ECO24, collecting some of the finest ecofiction of the last year. A chance to reflect on the anxieties of a changing world, and to consider possibilities for transformation and alternative paths. A critical collection for our time!!
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee. The final book in the Crowns of Ishia novella trilogy, this has even more dragons, even more madness, and even more magic than before. A queer fever dream that inspired the Suon, a perfect digestif!
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee. The final book in the Crowns of Ishia novella trilogy, this has even more dragons, even more madness, and even more magic than before. A queer fever dream that inspired the Suon, a perfect digestif!
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have songs and stories, the travails of the Eternal Champion, and the land beyond the Witch Roads, darkness and light, beneath the earth and beyond the stars, so many favorite authors and a new voice or two. What looks good to you?
![[image desc: A stack of books on a fence post (bottom to top): THE WHITE WOLF by Michael Moorcock, THE BEST OF ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY by Adrian Tchaikovsky, BURIED DEEP AND OTHER STORIES by Naomi Novik, THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar, ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS by Hwang Jungeun, THE NAMELESS LAND by Kate Elliott, BEARS DISCOVER FIRE AND OTHER STORIES by Terry Bisson]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreifrnc733elkkp7d2d6n44ch7nxiz5esiuyifcut67s6f7i5e7eka4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have songs and stories, the travails of the Eternal Champion, and the land beyond the Witch Roads, darkness and light, beneath the earth and beyond the stars, so many favorite authors and a new voice or two. What looks good to you?
Quick stack for the LADS on #InternationalMensDay!
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Quick stack for the LADS on #InternationalMensDay!
Have another drink of Green Elixir and we'll have ourselves a little mixer on Bar Cart Bookshelf! Today we're talking about WICKED by Gregory Maguire. A prickly meditation on the nature of evil, this modern classic remains immensely rewarding & a true favorite reread. A long awaited cocktail treat!
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Have another drink of Green Elixir and we'll have ourselves a little mixer on Bar Cart Bookshelf! Today we're talking about WICKED by Gregory Maguire. A prickly meditation on the nature of evil, this modern classic remains immensely rewarding & a true favorite reread. A long awaited cocktail treat!
I don’t know if I believe that’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don’t know if I believe that’s true, but I know I’m who I am today because I knew you.
Just say 'no'.
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just say 'no'.
And some more because books look best in a beautiful setting!
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And some more because books look best in a beautiful setting!
Some outdoor book pics since indoor weather is swift approaching :)
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Some outdoor book pics since indoor weather is swift approaching :)
The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see! Including in a glass. Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about DEAD HAND RULE by Max Gladstone: the great powers of the world converge, struggling for tenuous alliance at the end of all things. Time for a Two Toxicity Lunch!
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The Craft Sequence is everywhere for those with eyes to see! Including in a glass. Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about DEAD HAND RULE by Max Gladstone: the great powers of the world converge, struggling for tenuous alliance at the end of all things. Time for a Two Toxicity Lunch!
Harrow the Ninth (2021, colorized)
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Harrow the Ninth (2021, colorized)
For the good of the Dreaming City, Imrryr!
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
For the good of the Dreaming City, Imrryr!
Tome season is upon us, so it's time for a #SundayShelfie! I love my bookcase for classic SFFH and all the more so with my little lights and trinkets. Hope you're having a cozy afternoon curled up with a good book!
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Tome season is upon us, so it's time for a #SundayShelfie! I love my bookcase for classic SFFH and all the more so with my little lights and trinkets. Hope you're having a cozy afternoon curled up with a good book!
“How could I sound anything, silly? I’m plastic! I don’t even have a voice box.”
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“How could I sound anything, silly? I’m plastic! I don’t even have a voice box.”
A perfectly marvelous collection!
@theodoragoss.bsky.social delights in LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, a new collection in conversation with folklore, Victorian lit, classics of genre fiction, & the human spirit of creativity. Lyrical and lovely: a highlight of my autumn as the weather turns.
@theodoragoss.bsky.social delights in LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, a new collection in conversation with folklore, Victorian lit, classics of genre fiction, & the human spirit of creativity. Lyrical and lovely: a highlight of my autumn as the weather turns.
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A perfectly marvelous collection!
@theodoragoss.bsky.social delights in LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, a new collection in conversation with folklore, Victorian lit, classics of genre fiction, & the human spirit of creativity. Lyrical and lovely: a highlight of my autumn as the weather turns.
@theodoragoss.bsky.social delights in LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, a new collection in conversation with folklore, Victorian lit, classics of genre fiction, & the human spirit of creativity. Lyrical and lovely: a highlight of my autumn as the weather turns.
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.
![[Image desc: an advance reader copy of THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow sits alongside a green drink in a stemmed glass in front of a dark evergreen.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreibzxj6r53w5j3nibcro46w7f34qiakeb4wnj7qid4mihtnn7cgrue@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE EVERLASTING by Alix E. Harrow. A time looping fantasy of ferocious lady knights & the nervy chain-smoking scholars who love them: folklore amid fascism. Fierce, clever, & impassioned. Our drink is Valiance, beneath the yew tree.
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have monks in space, medieval monsters, otherworldly entities in cities real and unreal, short stories and epic sagas, horrid hospitals, towering trees, wriggling worms and soooo many bones. What looks good to you?
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have monks in space, medieval monsters, otherworldly entities in cities real and unreal, short stories and epic sagas, horrid hospitals, towering trees, wriggling worms and soooo many bones. What looks good to you?
I'll be at the Kentucky Book Festival all day today! Come try a Pom of Power and snag a lil sweet treat at Joseph-Beth Lexington!!
![[image desc: a picture of Elias Eells with a stack of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, a pitcher of delicious drinks, and a big ole grin.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreialmo2uwnqsihgvfpzdnwlrrudjgz5iwatunrxooizcaygxsyut7m@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'll be at the Kentucky Book Festival all day today! Come try a Pom of Power and snag a lil sweet treat at Joseph-Beth Lexington!!
Happy Halloween! We covered four books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this October: haunted houses, vampires, monstrous millipedes, blood-soaked operas, devilish deer, and more sins of the past than I can shake a stick at. Have you seen all of this month's episodes? Have you tried any of the drinks?
![[Image desc: A stack of books on a brick plinth (bottom to top): THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes, THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones, SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree, A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreia3gwozqx5ljij6ijq3n7wek7okhlt62rfbjiefkax32hgacgm4e4@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Happy Halloween! We covered four books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this October: haunted houses, vampires, monstrous millipedes, blood-soaked operas, devilish deer, and more sins of the past than I can shake a stick at. Have you seen all of this month's episodes? Have you tried any of the drinks?
Bumpin that
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Bumpin that
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones. A modern horror classic where guilt, regret, and the natural world converge, I was enraptured. Powerful and propulsive. Our drink is Elk Blood, it's the aftertaste that gets ya!
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones. A modern horror classic where guilt, regret, and the natural world converge, I was enraptured. Powerful and propulsive. Our drink is Elk Blood, it's the aftertaste that gets ya!
It's #WorldOperaDay, so I had to pull together some of my favorite operatic books. From the wide expanse of space to Weird Cities in trees, from the reception of a Problematic Fave to squid operas inspired by his work, this art form moves the spirit and shakes the rafters. See any faves?
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's #WorldOperaDay, so I had to pull together some of my favorite operatic books. From the wide expanse of space to Weird Cities in trees, from the reception of a Problematic Fave to squid operas inspired by his work, this art form moves the spirit and shakes the rafters. See any faves?