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Nicholas Perez
@zephonsacriel.bsky.social
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Blanco Cuban Writer of SFF. To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation and The Vanisher on Chain Letter Substack, both are OUT NOW! ¡Palestina Libre! No AI.
Unagented. Seeking representation.
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4 out of 5 stars to Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

This was a good time with a memorable cast and poignant themes about what remains buried in the past that many don't want to confront. I just wish it leaned into the Gothicness a bit more.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Cover to Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. Starling birds fly around a night sky with a crescent moon, many of them holding golden flowers in their beaks. Some hold keys.
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Just watched Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc.
I really liked it! The fight scene between Denji, Reze, Beam, and Typhoon was one of the craziest, most balls to the wall experiences of my life.
Movie poster for Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc Denji stands in the middle in Chainsaw Man form while other characters surround him. Clockwise from top: Bomb Devil, Angel Devil holding a spear, Makime looking at a mouse on her hand, Beam in shark form, Kobeni cringing, Violence Fiend kicking, Reze looking at a flower, and Aki holding his fist up.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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She isn't here much anymore, but congratulations to Gabriela Romero Lacruz for her newest book deal: SONG OF FALLEN STARS
A re-imagining of the pre-Columbian Andean legends of Tibisay and Murachi in an anti-colonial fantasy.
Publishers Marketplace Deal Port for the category of fiction sci-fi/fantasy. Deal Report November 13, 2025 SONG OF FALLEN STARS by Gabriel Romero Lacruz Imprite: Primero Sueno Author of Sunday Times bestselling Warring Gods duology Gabriel Romero Lacruz's SONG OF FALLEN STARS, set in a time of gods and demons in a pre-Columbian Andes, pitches as Princess Mononoke meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS and as a fantasy retelling of the legend of Tibisay and the warrior Murachi, in a romantic tale of resistance against colonial powers, in which a princess must team up with a shadow-puma-shifter to rescue their tribe's oracle, oust the Spanish settlers, and appears the mountain gods, to Norma Perez-Hernandez at Primero Sueno, for publication in February 2027, by Naomi Davis at BookEnds (word English and Spanish).
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Japanese cover of Death's Master by Tanith Lee. Artwork by Toshiaki Kato.
That's Simmu and Zhirem in the center. My babies 🥲

Apologies for low quality, could not find a better image.
Japanese cover to Death's Master by Tanith Lee. Left to right: Uhlume, Lord of Death, a man with a dark face with long white hair and wearing a long white robe stares in profile at the center figures of the picture; Simmu, one of the center figures, is pale-skinned with long blonde hair with flowers in it, looks down, a green pendant on a necklace hangs from their neck; Zhirem, the other center figure, wears a crown of thorns over his long, black and hair and looks down in profile at Simmu; and Azhrarn, Lord of Wickedness, looks in profile at the center figures, his face is pale white and his hair is long and black and he wears a robe of black feathers.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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5 out of 5 stars to Death's Master by Tanith Lee

Hands down not only one of the best sequels ever, but one of the best fantasy books ever. Equals parts tragic and beautiful, it is a reminder that death is unavoidable but sometimes love, unfortunately, isn't.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Cover to Death's Master by Tanith Lee. A black figure with a long skirt and white hair, stands on some steps in an ancient ruin in front of the moon.
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I just finished Death's Master by Tanith Lee AND I AM COMPLETELY BROKEN. Tanith, why would you hurt me like this!?
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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No, no! Please, no! Not like this, please! ;____;

Marked sensitive for spoilers.
""You are the only would I am able to give myself," Zhirek said to Simmu. "Your terror and your agony will dwell with me through all the years which are to come. I shall run from this spot. I will seal my ears against the memory of your cries, I will writhe and sweat in horror at what I have done to you. So I shall live."" "And he too, like a child, rocked himself, knuckling his eyes, and thus we wept and the rusty noises of grief rasped in his chest till the Eshva lost their pleasure in the spectacle and smoked away. And long after that, yet he cried and rocked himself, till the moon set and the stars faded and a red rose bloomed in the east."
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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In happier news, my copy of The Isle in the Silver Sea arrived.
My hand holding a copy of The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri. Behind cascading waves, a lady knight with short hair holds the face of a witch with long dark hair who grabs the knight's wrist. Cover art beneath of the sleeve of The Isle in the Silver Sea. A white-haired witch dressed in medieval robes holds a lady knight dressed in armor kneeling before her. They look at each other longingly. Inside cover image of The Isle in the Silver Sea. A lady knight dressed in medieval courtier clothes grabs the hand of a witch dressed in a black dress with a long braided ponytail. In the throne room behind them, a queen sits upon her throne flanked by a man knight a servant woman. Back interior art for The Isle in the Silver seas. A lady knight and a witch embrace behind a table. The witch holds a goblet close to her face.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The lesbian queen and the bisexual witch are becoming "very good friends" it seems.
From Death's Master by Tanith Lee. "My weakness, not yours, elder sister. The weakness of my longing to please you. Count me your handmaiden." Narasen drew up a handful of the witch's hair in her fleshed fingers, let it pour away like water, drew up more. Lylas suffered the game to go on and on.
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Brownie bottom cheesecake cooling to room temperature.
Brownie bottom cheesecake, with pieces of brownie on top, sitting in a 9 inch springform pan on a stovetop.
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Well, damn.
""I trusted myself rid of you," said Zhirem. "I made no jest when I bade you choose another road than mine. I cannot breathe the air if you are near, all winds that blow become a poison. You are my shame and my defeat. I will not see you. I will offer myself to corruption, but I will not suffer you as my reminder. May the maleficent gods blast you, for they have venom to spare if they exist. If not gods, then carry my everlasting enmity. Shrivel and be damned and get from my sight.""
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Book Haul. Finally found @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's book in the wilds.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right, top to bottom: The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes, The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell, Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai, Herculine by Grace Byron, Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud.
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The horror of Fabio
A paper copy of Rogue Fabio sits on a bookshelf marked horror.
October 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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My mutual did not hold back
Pearl clutching to Tanith Lee by Alchemiesed or however you spell it is up and down my tl getting glazed. Diabolical.
October 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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4 out of 5 stars to American Rapture by C. J. Leede

It's not perfect, but Leede shows us a cruel and corrupted apocalyptic America and a girl twisted by guilt. It was gut-wrenching, sad, and tender all at once. Leede is definitely a rising horror star.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Cover to American Rapture by C. J. Leede A young woman with blue skin, holds up a rosary and a hand with stigmata wound with her eyes closed while wearing a magenta veil with green stars.
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A pretty morning
Photo of a sky in sunrise. The sky is early morning blue covered in shaded clouds gilded by sunlight. Trees and a building are darkened. The lake reflects everything.
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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One of the best lines ever written in fantasy literature.
From Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien "Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price."
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Facebook memories reminded me one of the funniest moments from my graduate school days.
Picture from a Hebrew translation textbook. Top of the page says Chapter 14 The Adjective In the middle it says The Four Forms of Adjective with Feminine Plural and Masculine Pural beneath. The latter is misspelled. Beneath them further are two Hebrew words.
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A slice
A slice of Dubai chocolate tart on a plate.
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Dubai chocolate tart for tonight.
Dubai chocolate tart in a tart pan on top of a stove.
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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4 out of 5 stars to Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja

Return to Wuthering Heights through eyes of Cathy's ghost and the eyes of her daughter. A book which reminds that in the original novel love, even twisted, still lingers after death. And how in life it can heal.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Cover to Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja A fair-skinned, blonde woman in a green dress looks out a window, while beneath her the ghost of a woman with brown hair and a ribcage reaches in, surrounded by black smoke.
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Ancestry DNA Results updated. How on Earth did I get Indigenous South American?
Ancestry DNA results. At the top is my name next to a circle of many different colors around the Ancestry.com logo. Ancestral Regions from top to bottom: England: Southeastern and Northwestern Europe 38%, West Midlands 5%, North East England 2% Iberian Peninsula: Northern Spain 12%, Spain 12%, Madeira 4%, Basque 1% Celtic & Gaelic: Connacht, Ireland 7%, Munster, Ireland 2%, Central Scotland & Northern Ireland 1% Western Europe: Northwestern Germany 5%, France 3%, The Netherlands 2% West Africa: Benin & Togo 1%, Yorubaland 1% Western Mediterranean Islands: Sardinia 2% Indigenous Americas: Eastern South America 1% Jewish: Sephardic Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean 1%
October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I got my copies of The Prince & The Coyote and Love/Aggression from the Bookshop Anti-Prime sale. They also sent me a copy of Maurice? I double checked my order and I didn't order it nor did Bookshop charge me for it. Not against a free book but I hope I didn't take someone else's book.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: The Prince & The Coyote by David Bowles and Love/Aggression by June Martin. My hand holding a copy of Maurice by E. M. Forster over some other books and a carpeted floor.
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I can hear the British accent hissing in this tweet. TERFs are too frickn' funny man.
Screenshot from Twitter. Mrs Tomlinstan quote retweets me saying "Menacing." My original tweet says "After what happened with Emma, you would think she'd know better."
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM