Elizabeth Kilcoyne

@eakilcoyne.bsky.social

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Kentuckian who writes about dead things. William C Morris Award Finalist. Author of WAKE THE BONES.

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Bar Cart Bookshelf is on hiatus this week, but I have a very exciting announcement!! The 3rd anniversary of Bar Cart Bookshelf is Saturday, July 6th, and to celebrate I will be hosting a special live conversation with two of my dearest friends: @leemandelo.bsky.social & @eakilcoyne.bsky.social!!

Do the people who created 4thewords understand that it is everything to me

I still can’t imagine a better cover than the one Jorge Mascarenhas created for WAKE THE BONES. The shadowy hands in the roots that are dragging Laurel down, the tobacco leaves on the cover… I still stare at it in wonder sometimes and will brag to anyone who asks about his incredible work.

Authors! Please come flaunt your human-drawn covers. Quote this naming the artist of your cover and what you like about it!

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This is a super interesting conv with the *team* behind @leemandelo.bsky.social's upcoming "The Words All Black". And I was excited *before* reading "In a media landscape that wants to sanitizes queer fiction to please a broader audience, I'm happy to keep editing and publishing unsanitary work."🔥🔥

Stories About Stories is this year's Stone Soup series, in which I interview the people behind your new favorite books! Go check out the first installment, featuring the brilliant team behind THE WOODS ALL BLACK.

Unsanitary Work: The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelostone-soup.ghost.io Stories About Stories

Just coughed blood into a delicate handkerchief, thank you daycare crud for making my dreams come true.

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In recent years, I've paid closer attention to juried awards like World Fantasy & the Shirley Jackson Awards. For awards with large voting bodies, the Ignytes consistently offer an amazing slate of some of the best work in the field. I wish they would get wider recognition in SFF fandom & beyond.

SFF deserves a better award than the Hugos

My child is making wizard hand motions while chanting "meat. Meat. MEAT. MEAT! MEAT!!!" at me with increasing enthusiasm. He's covered in marker. He won't tell me what the symbols he's drawn on himself mean. Help?

Just passed a headshop called World of Smoke and Vape. Whose fantasy novel is this?

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Here is of the first chapter of the 1986 novel TALKING MAN by the late Terry Bisson, a great American. It’s a short first chapter. I believe this to be one of the great openings in American fantasy. Servants of the Secret Fire and wielders of the flame of Anor can ride in the back seat.

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COVER REVEAL TIME!! I am so excited to share the cover of my first beverage book: COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, coming September 10th, 2024. This book has been a dream to write, celebrating cocktails and mocktails for video games I had loved for years finding & new favorites along the way! LINKS BELOW.

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When I met Terry Bisson, I thought he was already dead. Terry gave me a lot of things, including The Pill. I'll always be grateful, and I'll find a way to pass it on.

Terry Bisson: Editor, Mentor, and Friendmegelison.com When I met Terry Bisson, I had thought he was already dead. I had just moved to the Bay, and someone told me about the monthly event with Tachyon Publications that he emceed: SF in SF. I was a bran…

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Our @tkingfisher.bsky.social effigy monster is looking very cool in the smoke and lights.

Writing horror is really just a bunch of “stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself” moments

Emotional avoidance in the form of closing my laptop and going snack hunting every time my character suffering a loss makes me want to cry.

Into the disturbing google search portion of the story where everything's like. Collarbone break image search. How to kick down a door. Concussion symptoms. Carp pharyngeal teeth. Blood pooling.

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HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson! Do you like your vampires to be horny gothic lesbians? You should! This zippy velvet-draped novel is a sumptuous take on the Gothic and truly decadent. Our drink, the Bloodmaid, is a heady blend of dark fruits and sanguine desire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxqG...

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Folks, look, Scholastic is only a billion-dollar juggernaut that dominates the children’s book industry. What are they supposed to do about fascist book banning and censorship in the face of 11 racists sending angry emails? Whatever they want because they literally can? C’mon. Be reasonable.

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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." 📚

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An excellent opportunity, if you should so desire, to pre-order 'The Woods All Black' from Bookshop!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

So today and tomorrow bookshop.org is offering free shipping as an Anti-Prime Day promo. Definitely planning to do some early Christmas shopping and also adding to my tbr pile while supporting independent bookstores!

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The Woods All Black a book by Lee Mandelobookshop.org The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s Appalachia Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Front...

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Scholastic asks, "Do you want to opt out of 'diverse' books at your school's next book fair?" Your participation in white supremacy has never been easier, just uncheck the 'diverse' books box– poof, no problems. 🙄

Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairswww.themarysue.com Scholastic has been accused of bending to right-wing pressure, making having diverse books optional for school book fairs.

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Three great tastes that taste great together! What contemporary Southern horror are you reading this Spooky Season? I always prefer a Kentucky author myself 😉

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It’s my pleasure to reveal the cover for EVOCATION, my polyamorous urban fantasy, and book one in the Summoner’s Circle series! Designer Alice Coleman and artist Eleonor Piteira knocked it out if he ballpark, and I’m thrilled to finally share the cover with you all I refer to as “oh no he’s hot!”

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WAKE THE BONES (Better (or Bitter) Back Home): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAqy...

Mocktail Recipe & Book Review: Better Back Home (WAKE THE BONES by Elizabeth Kilcoyne)www.youtube.com Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf, we're talking about WAKE THE BONES by Elizabeth Kilcoyne. A YA horror novel set in the fields and farms of rural Kentucky, WAKE ...

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WAKE THE BONES by @eakilcoyne.bsky.social is YA horror at its finest. Set in the hollers of Kentucky, WtB is redolent with herbs, taxidermy, & muddy river water. For those who feel at home & those who hear the call of somewhere new, I recommend our mocktail Better (or Bitter) Back Home. LINK BELOW.

Ah, the joys of driving on the highway in the fog, passing bridge after bridge with sinew. Sinew. SINEW. Tagged on them.

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Pls boost! Looking to support an online action against anti-trans bigots? My comrades in NYC are fighting a new chapter of "Gays Against Groomers" who are fundraising money with a counter fundraiser! All proceeds go to New Alternatives Details at outfundraisehate.com Please share far & wide! 🖤✊🏳️‍⚧️

Clearly I’d be a monster if I tried to put a pillowcase on that pillow now.

I keep forgetting Cocaine Bear is like a celebrity now and not just nearest taxidermied neighbor (to my knowledge)

I have the best job in the world. There is nothing cooler than seeing someone with leaves for earrings walk into a room and immediately knowing you’re about to have the best conversation with a reader that’ll no doubt involve a good folk tale or woods anecdote. Love y’all.

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Sheree Renée Thomas has been a transformative editor at F&SF, publishing essential writers and stories. She doesn't deserve the problem she currently has to deal with there. But it doesn't surprise me that she has been forced to deal with it without publisher support. A thread. 1/x