Neon Hemlock
@neonhemlock
World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
We'll be tabling at Little District Book's Lavender Con this weekend, with at least two authors in attendance: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social & @izzyxen.bsky.social. Come hang out! lavendercon.com
🌊 🔪 All was possible now. 🔪 🌊 THESE HOLLOW BODIES by @pegasusunder.bsky.social, coming November 10th 2026.
The finalfinalfinalforreal.doc title is @esther-alter.bsky.social's QUIET HOURS, a truly disturbing and keenly rendered literary queer housing horror. Esther's book will be added to this novella series as our first STRETCH GOAL, so please help us fund!
As part of the launch of our novella crowdfund, hype to share the cover for THESE HOLLOW BODIES by Z.K. Abraham (@pegasusunder.bsky.social)! The cover was illustrated by Anan Sonn Kaaren @acloudboiii.bsky.social 🖌️
📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!
I think the last official official book to be announced in the series is @antoinettev.bsky.social's RED RHEN, an Afrocosmic space opera with impeccable prose, epic set pieces, and at its heart, an iron will that will never be forgotten.
Excited to share that we'll be re-releasing QUEENS OF NOISE from @leighharlen.bsky.social alongside the sequel (MONARCHS OF MISCHIEF) and an eventual third (LORDS OF PANDEMONIUM), in the newly dubbed Dirtbag Dynasty series.
Last year a mysterious patron commissioned a zine of dark trans fable and myth. Editorial intern MJ Woods and I put it together for you with some wonderful contributors. Limited run, 100 copies, coming 9/15. You can get it via Club Serpentine or pick it up here: www.neonhemlock.com/chapbooks-zi...
Delighted to share our twenty-fourth issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social, edited by @davorobyov.bsky.social, and with a cover by @grimolkin.bsky.social, on the theme of mecha vs kaiju. 🤖👾 You can read the issue here: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty... 👾🤖
While you are spending your wrath bucks, may I direct you towards some lauded delayed gratification? If you use code SLOWFANCYANGRY you can have $5 off @seraph76.bsky.social's CALL AND RESPONSE to celebrate it's thus-far 5 award nods. Books will be mailed 7/20. www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
getting hype for this MA event at @copperdogbooks.bsky.social with @ceciliatan.com @tbjacobs.bsky.social & @omgjulia.bsky.social
tabling at the @thewriterscenter.bsky.social with @wwph.bsky.social today 📚
Next up is THE SAINTS WE MAKE by @josiewrites.bsky.social (who has just arrived on Bluesky so please give her a follow)! SAINTS is a sapphic novella of yearning and empire and lady knights, with (sommelier voice) vibes of Paksenarrion and Alanna and Robin Hood and maybe even Tain Hu.
50% off all ebooks until July 4th in dishonor of Amaz*n. Use code COMPOSITE at www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks.
The Pride @storybundle.bsky.social is live for ten more days! Pick up 16 great books for an incredible price while supporting the authors and a great nonprofit 📚 Here are a few questions for the authors that they are welcome to answer! (Anthology contributors, please answer for your story!)
Next book in our upcoming novella series is @pegasusunder.bsky.social's THESE HOLLOW BODIES. This book sits between cosmic horror and the new weird, exploring a fine art ceramicist encountering the otherworldly at an artist residency while at a fictional, unnamed East African coastal university.
If you’re in Baltimore, come hang out with us at Current Space on Thursday night! pools.events/event/cNvte4...
We're in the Pride Storybundle (@storybundle.bsky.social) again this year with some wonderful books. Please consider checking it out and backing at the full bundle size. You can also donate 10% of the bundle's cost to Rainbow Railroad. storybundle.com/pride
Another announcement from our upcoming novella series! THE WOLF MAID FROM THE SEA from @ferretly.bsky.social is a gnarly science fantasy novella that I'm tempted to describe as Gene Wolfe meets Storm Constantine! Innovative, visceral, and layered with history.
The next announcement for the upcoming crowdfund is a short story collection! We are hype to announce LET THE STAR EXPLODE, a collection of short stories by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social 💫 Shingai Njeri Kagunda's work is tender and sharp, vulnerable and powerful. We can't wait to share it with you.
As part of the lead up, over the next few weeks, we'll be announcing the upcoming lineup! First up, THE CURSED BLADE OF WEK from @tkrex.bsky.social! A sword & sorcery novella with an eye for economics that feels very in conversation with Delany's Neveryon. Badass and beautiful.
Gearing up to start promo for our next novella series! This will be another set of novellas alongside a short story collection, with an especial interest in queer speculative fiction. You can sign up here to get notified when we go live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word