Macey Levington

@macey

SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(

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Macey Levington@macey· 11d

I took uh. several 🤣

A screenshot of a Google photos app spread of several photographs. Six of them are very similar copies of the shelfie from Macey's earlier post. Several of those are actually stacks of multiple photographs.

Macey Levington@macey· 11d

look at all these lovely books hanging out on the new fiction hardcover display together 😍 🍜🦄🐉 @johnchu.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social

A photograph of a bookshop's new hardcover fiction display, focused on three: John Chu's the subtle art of folding space, Katherine Arden's the unicorn hunters, and John Wiswell's the dragon has some complaints

Macey Levington@macey· 16d

sunday book (& fabric) haul! w/ thanks to @erikgrove.com for recs 😁 now, where to start?

A photograph of a pile of books and fabric on a cutting mat. The books include between two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the spare cuts through Water by Simon Jimenez, the Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and 9th house by Leigh bardugo.

Macey Levington@macey· 16d

oh boy, someone dropped an absolute motherlode of beads at the ReCreative in Greenwood... makes me wish I had the slightest ability to work with these but seriously @hernibsen.bsky.social @peripateticmeg.bsky.social look at all the pretties 😍

Macey Levington@macey· 16d

okay book industry friends, do I know anyone who knows anyone on the PHYSICAL book construction side of the industry On Here? because I just keep having questions. so many questions. for example: what on earth is going on with this perfect binding. who are NYRB using and what are they DOING.

A close-up photograph of the spine of a paperback perfect bound book, that nonetheless looks as if it might be sewn. There are visible center partings and curved folios.

A close up of the same books spine from the other side. This time, it appears far more as if the pages have been cut. They are arranged in pyramids and seem to be pointed. There is no evidence of curved folios or center parts.

Macey Levington@macey· 26d

I made a thing! it is very smol! it has peacocks on the inside!! more importantly however, @marissalingen.bsky.social made a thing, ie, the actual words wot went inside. they are delightful & important & full of bashing fascism in the wotsits with swordfuls of skepticism. also there's a musical!

A photograph of the very small book being propped open on a piano by a small golden peacock. Inside the book, one can see an intricate set of end papers with very colorful flowers and peacocks.

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 13

chased the sunset all the way home from #readercon - or at least halfway across the continent. surreally beautiful timing of a flight! safe on the ground in Seattle after an invigorating & thought-provoking first experience of the con. I may well return...

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 9

landed! the mountain was being very photogenic on the way out of Seattle, too 😂🗻💙

A photograph of Mount Rainier seen from a plane, framed by foothills and the blue summer sky.

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 9

we continue to trundle contentedly around the tarmac, as we have been doing lo these last forty minutes or so. @alaskaairlines.bsky.social I don't mean to tell you how to do your job or anything but usually planes work better when they are, you know. airborne.

A photo of seatac from a plane on the ground. It is sunny.

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 9

about to take my third (& then fourth) transit train because SEA-TAC is playing gate tag with me, but, #readercon I am on my way!!

an airport selfie of the Macey on an escalation in a green dress and grey mask

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 7

dilemma: which Delightful Light Nonfiction paperback will make my rowmates on the flight to Boston respect and fear me enough to let me read in peace, but NOT weird out the cabin crew so much that they might confiscate my snacks 🤔

A photograph of a stack of nonfiction books. From the top down, these include: black tudors by Miranda Kaufmann, against the grain by James c Scott, Orwell's roses by Rebecca solnit, dark archives by Megan Rosenbloom, cannibalism by Bill Shutt, and salt by Mark kurlansky.

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 6

anyway so does it count as murder if the person you kill gets gruesomely resurrected again w/in minutes? ...if they consent 🗡️🩸🤔? book two is going great why are you looking at me like that here have a placeholder cover for book one. could a procrastinating author do THAT. i think not. czech mate!

A mock-up cover of the novel 'Blood of Queens' by Macey Levington, forthcoming in Summer 2027 from Saga Press. The cover features dramatic white text on a dark grey background. There are red blood droplets falling from the capital letters. A small banner on the bottom right reads 'cover to be revealed.'

Macey Levington@macey· Jul 4

hanging out, sewing chapbooks, getting hype for #readercon next weekend :D who am I gonna see there? any fun panels to hit up?

A photograph of a workbench covered in supplies for pamphlet making. Two different pamphlets are in the process of being made in multiple copies. One is a yellow pamphlet titled cityscapes, and the other is a blue pamphlet titled ocean-hearted. There are multiple copies of each, and tools such as an all, a pair of scissors, and several balls of string all spread out over a blue cutting mat.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 28

possibly my only bone to pick with Dungeon Crawler Carl was that I picked it up this morning, and by 4pm (with errands!!) I'd gulped down the whole thing 😂 this book knows exactly what it's doing, where it's going, & how to have fun while getting there. now to pick what format to get the rest in...

A photograph of the book "Dungeon crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman propped up against a stuffed Cerberus. A small lucky cat figurine and a strange rainbow crochet pig frame the book.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 26

so okay. how to explain @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social's SWBtS. grab a handful of genderweird disasters in a war zone, give 'em Trauma + the worst decision-making skills imaginable, & strap 'em to rocket-boots labeled 'Destiny.' doomed gay yearning! ghosts! siege warfare! maiming!! delightful >:D

A photograph of Shelley Parker-Chan's novel She Who Became The Sun, posed with a wooden hair stick shaped like a sword. It is being held up by a wooden poseable hand mannequin which is draped with a small golden sun pendant.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 25

my go-to (that keeps well in the fridge & is ready to eat cold with a fork straight out the Tupperware):

A photograph of a recipe for yellow squash and red quinoa salad

A photograph of a photograph of a bowl of red quinoa and squash salad

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 24

so there's this YouTuber comedian who has this bit where she finds stupidly expensive designer bustier tops with about enough space for a lychee in each cup and then cackles at them in F cup. and. well. my fancy new reading journal from Archer & Olive just arrived. it has space for 32 books.

A photograph of a gorgeous pale blue journal with gold detailing. The detailing shows a stack of books and an archway of golden roses. in the foreground, there is a golden cup of tea.

The same journal is propped open to a book review tracker spread in a basket of cloth scraps. It is clearly near the end of the journal. There is a numbered flag at the top of the page that reads 32.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 21

also yes the tinybooks are proceeding Apace >:D

An aerial photograph of a large craft mat. Five book blocks with end bands can be seen from above, standing upright on their pages. Above them, there are five decorated bradel covers ready to be glued to the book blocks. The covers have gold book cloth spines and blue floral paper covers which look a little bit like clouds. Each book block is perhaps 3 inches long.

A photograph of a complicated bookbinding setup on some extremely grubby wax paper. In the foreground, there's a small pair of scissors and a craft knife. The star of the show is a length of homemade cloth wrapped end band with a leather core, which is being cut into segments. In the background, two book blocks have had end bands applied, and three stand waiting. There is also a pot of open glue with a brush on top. The end bands are made of a floral blue cloth.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 15

tiny books? tiny books. 😍 got a proper little factory line going this weekend 😂 chop chop! monsieur le guillotine waits for no book!

A stack of five little rough edged naked book blocks waiting to be trimmed. They are sitting on a cutting mat, which shows that the short edge is roughly 2 in long.

The same five books, sitting upright with their hand sewn spines pointing towards the camera. One shows a title: 'the profounder is the stain'. Their pages are very rough indeed.

A photograph of a pile of offcuts fallen at the base of a guillotine. The photo is very close up. In the background, a few of the books can just be seen.

A photograph of a stack of the same five books, now very neatly trimmed. There is a penny sitting on top of the stack to show the size of them.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 13

but on the theme of 'finally getting around to it after ten million years of longing to'... 👀👀👀

A photograph of a hand holding up a stripped yellow hardcover copy of the book she who became the sun by Shelly Parker-Chan

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 13

i am highly skilled at going on errands which do not involve entering bookshops or purchasing new books in any way 😐

A photograph of a stack of three nonfiction books balanced on a hand with the sidewalk in the background. From the top down: in the shadow of the sword by Tom holland, the surgeon the midwife the quack by Alanna Skuse, and cruel optimism by Berlant

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 13

my kind of guy... chased by the French army, actively suffering from cholera, living in a pit, surrounded by injured and dying soldiers,,, & Will Not Stop Writing To His Friends About Trees 😂🌳👌🏻

A photograph of a passage from the book Rites of Peace, roughly as summarized in the skeet (but far denser and more academic).

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 8

so fun story. you know how in the US queer families need to adopt their own kids to reliably cross borders with them, right? (now you do.) if you're not married, you gotta get fingerprinted by the FBI as part of that. wanna see the privacy statement on what they can do with those fingerprints? ✌️

A screenshot of a three-paragraph 'FBI Privacy Statement and Privacy Notice'. One sentence is highlighted. It reads: "The FBI may retain your fingerprints and associated information/biometrics in NGI after the completion of this application and, while retained, your fingerprints may continue to be compared against other fingerprints submitted to or retained by NGI."

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 6

(the sentence in question, for any as wish to play along from the gallery seats:)

A photograph of a truly awful sentence in the book "Rites of Peace." It reads: "While the Tsar of Russia was theoretically an autocrat with no limits on his power, the overwhelming majority of educated Russians concentrated in the army, the administration, at court, in St Petersburg or in Moscow represented the sole agency through which the state could function, and without its good will the autocrat was literally powerless."

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 5

three! @nataliezed.bsky.social's Villain which has me feeling so many things I'm reeling, but also the most nuanced & intoxicating portrayal of power differentials I've ever ever read. Deprogramming! Complex systems analysis! Deeply gross superpowers! Unavoidable yet tragic schisms! A masterpiece 😍

A photograph of a hardcover (signed first edition) copy of Natalie Zina Walschots' book Villain, sitting above and slightly behind a wooden trophy with a computer chip embedded in the front. Sitting in the empty top of the wooden trophy is a small wooden awl.

IYKYK.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 5

one makes a lot of choices in one's life and sometimes those choices result in staring down a TBR that looks a little bit like this: (look,,, book two wants what book two wants. you think I have any kind of say in that? I'm not steering the ship, I'm out back on the jetski screaming 😭😭)

A pile of extremely large intimidating history textbooks. The one on top is titled rights of peace: the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. The second one is titled dancing to the precipice: the life of lucie de la tour du pin, eyewitness to an era. The third is Catherine the Great.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 1

the construction quality of this physical object is uh. Not Great

A close-up photograph of the same book, showing that several pages are glued about a centimeter together near the spine. There are visible chunks of glue extending into the book in several other places throughout.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 1

okay so today's book I'm super excited for - the Hench sequel, Villain - I strip my hardcovers to read, right, 'cause that's civilized, but like. HarperCollins come over here I wanna have a little chat what are you DOING this is not how SPINES work look! Penguin Classic can show you!

A close up of the end of a hardcover book with a pink cover

A close-up of the same book, slightly opened. The cover at the spine does not seem to be flexing.

A close-up of the same book significantly more open. The spine cover has still not flexed at all, and there is no visible gap between the book block and the cover.

A close-up of a new hardcover book, this time with a blue cover, flexed open less than the last picture. There is a noticeable rounding to the spine cover, and a visible gap between the book block and the spine.

Macey Levington@macey· Jun 1

& two! this time it's @djangowexler.bsky.social's isekai romp, featuring my new favorite potty-mouth trauma bomb of an MC, Davi, who sets a new bar for Disaster Bisexuals 👌🏻 come for the quest satire, stay for Evil Bureaucracy Simulator 5000? no lie I yelled when she added middle management 😂

A photograph of Django Wexler's novel, how to become the dark lord and die trying

Macey Levington@macey· May 31

one down! post-apocalyptic Gothic in the finest attic wife tradition, w/ the most exquisitely grotesque lesbian sex since Hannibal S3, I'm in love w/ the mycelial worldbuilding (& all the horrid women >:D) definitely recommend if you liked Leech's body horror & Annihilation's eco-weird vibe! 👰🏻‍♀️🍄🗡️