Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
@bonabooks.bsky.social
Publishing radical queer Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror from London, UK. Founded by @trip.bsky.social, @chrismccartney.bsky.social and @robwillb.bsky.social.
🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024)
🧱Wrath Month (2025)
https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd
🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024)
🧱Wrath Month (2025)
https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd
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Wrath Month - Stories of Queer Rage
The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
Missed the campaign? It's not too late to get your copy of Wrath Month and support our indie company of queer creatives!
While we work on getting the book together, we're keeping preorders for it and some of the add-ons open throughout actual Wrath Month! Keep on raging, rioters! 🤘🤘🤘
While we work on getting the book together, we're keeping preorders for it and some of the add-ons open throughout actual Wrath Month! Keep on raging, rioters! 🤘🤘🤘
Heyo! If you have already sub'd to Fantabulosa! and have not hears back, we are working on slush. Its just taking us a bit longer than planned to get our magazine slush process up and running on the new magazine with the new software.
Thank you for bearing with us! 💙
Thank you for bearing with us! 💙
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Heyo! If you have already sub'd to Fantabulosa! and have not hears back, we are working on slush. Its just taking us a bit longer than planned to get our magazine slush process up and running on the new magazine with the new software.
Thank you for bearing with us! 💙
Thank you for bearing with us! 💙
Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
Submissions — Bona Books
www.bona-books.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
Twink obliteration - pairs brilliantly with coffee, a crisp sauvignon blanc, or schadenfreude.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Twink obliteration - pairs brilliantly with coffee, a crisp sauvignon blanc, or schadenfreude.
THIS SATURDAY.
The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip.
...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙
The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip.
...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙
We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house.
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
THIS SATURDAY.
The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip.
...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙
The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip.
...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙
👇 🧱 🤘
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
👇 🧱 🤘
First: queer books.
Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!
Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
First: queer books.
Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!
Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!
Do you write genre fiction? Want the inside scoop on the UK's newest queer small press? Keen to ask us awkward questions?
Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.
Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.
We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house.
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Do you write genre fiction? Want the inside scoop on the UK's newest queer small press? Keen to ask us awkward questions?
Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.
Come to the Cymera Writer's Conference, and hear two bona omi-palones cackle about zhushing books.
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We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house.
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We'll be chatting with indie publisher Bona Books about their journey from reader/writer to setting up a publishing house.
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
@bonabooks.bsky.social was founded by 3 book-obsessed friends to produce high-quality, subversive & unapologetically queer SFFH books.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
Our very own Trip Galey has an EXTRA special announcement!!
A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY is getting a LIMITED EDITION *beautifully* blinged-out HARDCOVER print run!
Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE
So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out...
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Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE
So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out...
litpinsandco.com/products/a-m...
A Market of Dreams and Destiny Signed Special Edition - PREORDER
The Untermarkt is calling you, now join Deri and his adventure in LitPins&Co's special edition of A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey!
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November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Our very own Trip Galey has an EXTRA special announcement!!
Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees for the British Fantasy Awards! It was a fucking honour to be among you this year.
And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️🌈🎉💙🎉
And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️🌈🎉💙🎉
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees for the British Fantasy Awards! It was a fucking honour to be among you this year.
And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️🌈🎉💙🎉
And there were some fantastic queer voices that took home awards...we are so proud of and happy for you! 🎉🏳️🌈🎉💙🎉
Glad to see our merch being put to good use. 😈
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Glad to see our merch being put to good use. 😈
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ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Fantabulosa's Poetry Editor has thrown down a gauntlet. 👀
Just checked Moksha. We're a week in and Fiction subs currently outnumber Poetry subs by 4 to 1.
Come on poets! We're not going to let that stand are we? 💪
Come on poets! We're not going to let that stand are we? 💪
Follow us to hear all the news, and - if you know any queer writers - please share this FAR and WIDE.
We're ravenously seeking:
QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)
QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)
No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙
We're ravenously seeking:
QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)
QUEER SPECULATIVE POETRY ($50 /poem)
No reprints. #writersky 🌈📚💙
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fantabulosa's Poetry Editor has thrown down a gauntlet. 👀
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99% Funded. Anyone got £37 to pledge? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
www.kickstarter.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
99% Funded. Anyone got £37 to pledge? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
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🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈
@bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors.
💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color)
👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...
@bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors.
💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color)
👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🌈 Paying Market Alert! 🌈
@bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors.
💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color)
👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...
@bonabooks.bsky.social is taking submissions for Fantabulosa - a celebration of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative horror from queer authors.
💰 8¢/word/fiction | $50/poetry
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30 (Dec 15 for trans authors & authors of color)
👉 horrortree.com/event/taking...
Reposted by Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
This week's Sunday Summary includes:
- Lots of book lists
- How to organise your pre-orders
- FANTABULOSA! by @bonabooks.bsky.social
- @runalongwomble.bsky.social's TBR building blog post
- And the influence of @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @chloroformtea.bsky.social on TBRs
- Lots of book lists
- How to organise your pre-orders
- FANTABULOSA! by @bonabooks.bsky.social
- @runalongwomble.bsky.social's TBR building blog post
- And the influence of @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @chloroformtea.bsky.social on TBRs
Sunday Summary: 19 Oct 25
Sunday Summary mainly functions as my personal record of book-related topics that have captured my interest over the past week. It also acts as a public memory prompt and bookmarking system. Keepin…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This week's Sunday Summary includes:
- Lots of book lists
- How to organise your pre-orders
- FANTABULOSA! by @bonabooks.bsky.social
- @runalongwomble.bsky.social's TBR building blog post
- And the influence of @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @chloroformtea.bsky.social on TBRs
- Lots of book lists
- How to organise your pre-orders
- FANTABULOSA! by @bonabooks.bsky.social
- @runalongwomble.bsky.social's TBR building blog post
- And the influence of @danhartland.bsky.social @niallharrison.bsky.social @chloroformtea.bsky.social on TBRs
I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED! would smell of…
…well, probably best left unsaid.👃🏼
…well, probably best left unsaid.👃🏼
My forthcoming novel JITTERBUG would smell of rocket fuel, gun smoke, and ramen.
SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL would smell like shoe polish, smoke, rocket fuel and diner coffee. Hmm… @starsandsabers.bsky.social I think it might be best to skip this particular marketing strategy.
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED! would smell of…
…well, probably best left unsaid.👃🏼
…well, probably best left unsaid.👃🏼
Reposted by Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
My friends at Bona Books are starting a queer lit magazine and planning four issues for 2026! Submissions now open for the first two issues. The first issue's theme is Solidarity.
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My friends at Bona Books are starting a queer lit magazine and planning four issues for 2026! Submissions now open for the first two issues. The first issue's theme is Solidarity.
Reposted by Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
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
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Reposted by Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
I have 2 short stories out soon: 1 in Wrath Month @bonabooks.bsky.social & 1 in HAVOC Files 6 Candy Jar Books www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
The Disinformation War is still relevant & available: mitpress.mit.edu/978191338080...
#AmWriting
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The Disinformation War is still relevant & available: mitpress.mit.edu/978191338080...
#AmWriting
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October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have 2 short stories out soon: 1 in Wrath Month @bonabooks.bsky.social & 1 in HAVOC Files 6 Candy Jar Books www.freewebstore.org/candy-jar-st...
The Disinformation War is still relevant & available: mitpress.mit.edu/978191338080...
#AmWriting
💙📚🪐
The Disinformation War is still relevant & available: mitpress.mit.edu/978191338080...
#AmWriting
💙📚🪐
If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it...
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Not all mothers love their children; not all rulers deserve their crown.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA
Coming in 2026
(Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️)
#booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA
Coming in 2026
(Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️)
#booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
Coming soon: The Fall of the House of Valenziaga
A queer, science fantasy novel featuring a city beyond the edge of time and space, drag magic, and world-shaking family drama! LGBTQ+
www.kickstarter.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Not all mothers love their children; not all rulers deserve their crown.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA
Coming in 2026
(Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️)
#booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA
Coming in 2026
(Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️)
#booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
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Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston.
Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
October 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Gay gasps abound on our episode about The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social when discussing other actresses potentially considered for the role of the Grand High Witch, so memorably played by Anjelica Huston.
Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs
Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs