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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

@eliaseells.bsky.social

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Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 Inquiries: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/eliaseells

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

COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES is here!! Thank you so much to everyone who has loved this book so far and thank you to everyone who is discovering it. I am so grateful.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias...

Self portrait with COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES and a Mariogarita

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

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 · 10h

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 · 19h

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 · 9d

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 · 15d

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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 · 16h

Joe Keenan's BLUE HEAVEN, my beloved

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17h

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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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

Joe Keenan's BLUE HEAVEN, my beloved

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 17h

The Washing Post just discovered beards

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

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 · 18d

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 · 17h

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

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

The Art Institute is 🔥, but I do have a special place in my heart for the terrorist lions at the Field. I haven't toured the ISAC yet and I really want to get back up there to check it out!

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

LRT, and still, the easiest way to get me to read something is for it to already be in my house.

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 21h

Say the line, Bart! three panel meme but it’s SAY THE LINE, ZACH and then then I HAVE A COPY OF THAT BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO READING IT YET and then the cheering

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 18h

I wasn't surprised that my post about not loving the Golden Age sci-fi writers got a lot of... engagement. 😅

What *did* surprise me was that when I casually mentioned that Ray Bradbury was the lone exception, a ton of great writers chimed in to echo that sentiment.

So I dug deeper into why.

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why do we still like Ray Bradbury?

Greetings, fellow undercover artists embedded in the apocalypse! It's a funny business, connecting with other covert operatives across time and space. Tracking what holds true and what changes. What ...

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

Okay, this is wonderful!!

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 19h

It’s hard to imagine how this is even possible on the web, but it is, and we should celebrate that.

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It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19h

Everything should be remote work, but if not remote, Chicago is THEE superior American metropolis. Second to none!!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19h

On shelves now!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm reading a lot more short story collections lately, spending time with a single author's body of work and that's been so much fun! Yesterday I finished @kristinaten.bsky.social's forthcoming collection TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (10/14/25) and had such a marvelous time!

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[Image desc: TELL ME YOURS I'LL TELL YOU MINE by Kristina Ten at golden hour in the garden alongside some red-orange-yellow marigolds.]

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Sep 3

Have discovered I get way more royalties from library orders (as in from a single library order, based on the statement I just received) than from other sales. Wow. Neat.

Folks, order books for your libraries, make authors happy and share the love with other readers!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19h

Not the main issue with LLMs by a long shot, but their existence has really soured the wry jokes authors make to each other about wishing a book would write itself

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

Sunset shelfie 🥰

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

Bookshop.org is offering free shipping today! You can snag COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES there AND get 10% off too, a heckuva deal! We've got cocktails & mocktails from games like Pac-Man, Tetris, & Myst on up to Hades, Undertale, & Breath of the Wild! A perfect treat for savvy sippers and groovy gamers!

Cocktails and Consoles: 75 Video Game-Inspired Drinks to Level Up Your Game Night

75 Video Game-Inspired Drinks to Level Up Your Game Night

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

Parents' rights is just a way of saying you think your kids are your property and they aren't people, just vessels for indoctrination, and buddy, kids are people.

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