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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Recently, I had the immense pleasure to read an early copy of CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, the newest collection from Neon Hemlock, and I absolutely adored it!! Ten stories in matched pairs, structural brilliance for a thrilling, magical, and deeply humane, this is a MUST READ!!

The cover of CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell against a jovial marbled backdrop.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

TOMORROW!! Join me at the Louisville Book Festival from 10AM-5PM. We'll have 150 authors signing books, hosting panels, & sharing fun activities, including a mocktail demonstration & tasting from yours truly. Plus a keynote address by Mychal Threets, the new host of Reading Rainbow! See ya'll there!

Poster for the Louisville Book Festival on Saturday October 11, 2025, from 10AM to 5PM at the Kentucky International Convention Center.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 13h

(Side note: my bimonthly short story stack will be a few days late this go around because I NEED to include my physical copy when it arrives)

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

After the third constitutional convention, fixing publishing is going to come right after taxing churches and breaking the car dealerships.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 17h

Gorgeous goopy gworls!!

Hiron Ennes (Works of Vermin out 10/14/25) @hironennes.bsky.social · 7d

Look at this Halloween ass book

You want it

WORKS OF VERMIN with sweet ass halloween orange spredges

First page of the broken binding special edition of Works of Vermin, with my signature, which is, in fact, almost legible

More orange spredges with some linework on the pages

Works of Vermin spine without the dust jacket, bright gold with sick gothic font

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

The omnibus is the dream, sure, but let us not steer away from the pleasures that are silly-goofy-earnest

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Editors and readers, love him enough that I can one day put out a collection called "The Coming of the Peacock Wizard" that's just his horniest gay boy adventures. That would be so fun and cool and groovy!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

TOMORROW!! Join me at the Louisville Book Festival from 10AM-5PM. We'll have 150 authors signing books, hosting panels, & sharing fun activities, including a mocktail demonstration & tasting from yours truly. Plus a keynote address by Mychal Threets, the new host of Reading Rainbow! See ya'll there!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Make sure you're subscribed to the @neonhemlock.bsky.social newsletter so you can catch my interview with @seraph76.bsky.social about the collection!

And order your copy here:

www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock

A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

www.neonhemlock.com

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Personal favorites included "Serving Fish", "Deep Like the Rivers", and "Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan", but it really is all hits, no skips. Absolutely magical from start to finish.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

I had read one of the 'response' stories earlier this year in NEW SUNS 2 (available from @solarisbooks) and it was exactly the right kind of frisson to read the 'call' story, that edge of awareness and familiarity, really effective as a pair!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

The stories are arranged in two halves, the titular 'call' and 'response', where stories in the first half have echoed loose sequels in the second. Rings within rings, melodies and their counterpoints or descants, drawing deeper into unknown worlds and reflections of our own.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18h

Recently, I had the immense pleasure to read an early copy of CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, the newest collection from Neon Hemlock, and I absolutely adored it!! Ten stories in matched pairs, structural brilliance for a thrilling, magical, and deeply humane, this is a MUST READ!!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 21h

It’s an easy giveaway to enter and the odds are super good!!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

That’s alright. I think there’s a pretty clear divide between some m/f fiction and work that is culturally straight. Fiddly distinctions sometimes!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

I think money talks and spending money on books like Alchemised speaks incredibly poorly of the buyer, especially when they’re Online enough to be aware. There’s great work of all sorts, but I’m talking theist cynical midrange big budget slop here.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 1d

People on r/fantasy keep asking “Why is modern fantasy all so UNORIGINAL and BORING,” and I immediately assume they must not be reading, say, N.K. Jemisin or Vajra Chandrasekera or Simon Jimenez or Premee Mohamed or anything published by Neon Hemlock, and frankly that sounds like a them problem.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Mar 27

It always feels extra weird when queer bookstagrammers and booktokkers are going absolutely gaga for super straight stuff. Like 1) whyyyyyyyy and 2) how can this be the sort of material you find titillating??

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 10d

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf, we're talking about THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott. A fabulous fantasy of montane hiking, mysterious spirits, & sinister conspiracies, the first book in a propulsive duology, showing a master at the height of skill. Our drink is the Deputy Courier.

A hardcover copy of THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott alongside a pinkish-orange blush colored drink in a stemmed glass. Book and drink are on a rough limestone slab.

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WRAITH 👻🍉 @straith.ca · 16d

always reblob

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Aug 9

One thing I'm loving about spending more time in the sword and sorcery milieu is that it's not the genre of curing cancer, it's the genre of turning people into dinosaurs, y'know?

Spider-Man meme panel about the super villain who wants to rewrite DNA to make dino hybrids instead of curing cancer

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Keenan's BLUE HEAVEN, my beloved

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

The Washing Post just discovered beards

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.
Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.
By Shane O’Neill

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Keenan's BLUE HEAVEN, my beloved

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

The Washing Post just discovered beards

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18d

I love Foundation for a lot of reasons, but one of the best is that there are people on their team who are exceptionally horny for man ass and that's a critical segment of our television ecosystem.

Ki @ SHOP IS OPEN ✨ @gawki.bsky.social · 19d

Dreamily yearning for a crop chainmail top like Lee Pace has in season 2 Foundation. 🥺✨🤲

Lee pace in a chainmail crop portraying Day from the second season of the Foundation series

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

YES!! That's the coolest room. I am OBSESSED..