Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
@eliaseells.bsky.social
Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
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https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
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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.
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Moonlight guide you! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HADES 2. Battling through the depths of the Underworld and to the heights of Olympus, Melinoë's war against time is endlessly replayable: my most anticipated story of 2025! Our drink is the Golden Apple, strife not required.
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Moonlight guide you! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HADES 2. Battling through the depths of the Underworld and to the heights of Olympus, Melinoë's war against time is endlessly replayable: my most anticipated story of 2025! Our drink is the Golden Apple, strife not required.
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It's post on a post this Mailbag Monday! This week we have fantasies from the PNW and Filipino diaspora, sword & sorcery of some several lengths, double dark academia, a fave series at its grand finale, & ensouled radishes, with their wives! A bounty of riches for my TBR. What looks good to you?
August 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's post on a post this Mailbag Monday! This week we have fantasies from the PNW and Filipino diaspora, sword & sorcery of some several lengths, double dark academia, a fave series at its grand finale, & ensouled radishes, with their wives! A bounty of riches for my TBR. What looks good to you?
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It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have songs and stories, the travails of the Eternal Champion, and the land beyond the Witch Roads, darkness and light, beneath the earth and beyond the stars, so many favorite authors and a new voice or two. What looks good to you?
![[image desc: A stack of books on a fence post (bottom to top): THE WHITE WOLF by Michael Moorcock, THE BEST OF ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY by Adrian Tchaikovsky, BURIED DEEP AND OTHER STORIES by Naomi Novik, THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar, ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS by Hwang Jungeun, THE NAMELESS LAND by Kate Elliott, BEARS DISCOVER FIRE AND OTHER STORIES by Terry Bisson]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreifrnc733elkkp7d2d6n44ch7nxiz5esiuyifcut67s6f7i5e7eka4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have songs and stories, the travails of the Eternal Champion, and the land beyond the Witch Roads, darkness and light, beneath the earth and beyond the stars, so many favorite authors and a new voice or two. What looks good to you?
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It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have gothics, gays, and scholars, sword and sorcery and planet and the madness of the mind, fallen temples and magical libraries, ghosts and serpents and evil gods. Wonderful reading for my winter break! What looks good to you?
![[A stack of books (bottom to top): Issues 1-7 of New Edge Sword and Sorcery ed. Oliver Brackenbury, THE TEETH OF DAWN by Marina Lostetter, HONOR & HERESY by Max Francis, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by Victor Manibo, THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA MCKILLIP by Patricia McKillip, THE HAUNTING OF WILLIAM THORN by Ben Alderson]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ry77yg67bhrjsh4h5ptccng6/bafkreieivw3kwmsd7wjk7l5gdaczy4ajh2nnqx4q5cb64fghgkaqta74hu@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It’s Mailbag Monday! This week we have gothics, gays, and scholars, sword and sorcery and planet and the madness of the mind, fallen temples and magical libraries, ghosts and serpents and evil gods. Wonderful reading for my winter break! What looks good to you?
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It's Mailbag Monday! The holiday weeks were good to me (can you tell I put nonfiction on my wishlist?) & we have some real treats to celebrate! Epic fantasy, ecology, horror & Canadiana, snakes, cats, waterways, & the places that introduce so many of us to the world of animals. What are you reading?
January 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
It's Mailbag Monday! The holiday weeks were good to me (can you tell I put nonfiction on my wishlist?) & we have some real treats to celebrate! Epic fantasy, ecology, horror & Canadiana, snakes, cats, waterways, & the places that introduce so many of us to the world of animals. What are you reading?
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Nothing more chic than a hilly city. The people long for Pittsburgh, for Chongqing, for Cincinnati.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Nothing more chic than a hilly city. The people long for Pittsburgh, for Chongqing, for Cincinnati.
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I want the chance to write enough Peacock Wizard to have an illustration omnibus edition some day.
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I want the chance to write enough Peacock Wizard to have an illustration omnibus edition some day.
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I surely will! I had the great pleasure of reading a couple chapters this weekend alongside one of our Amur tigers here in Louisville!
January 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I surely will! I had the great pleasure of reading a couple chapters this weekend alongside one of our Amur tigers here in Louisville!
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Shelfie featuring prisms and the Dame in portrait.
September 14, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Shelfie featuring prisms and the Dame in portrait.
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Sunset shelfie 🥰
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Sunset shelfie 🥰
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Tome season is upon us, so it's time for a #SundayShelfie! I love my bookcase for classic SFFH and all the more so with my little lights and trinkets. Hope you're having a cozy afternoon curled up with a good book!
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Tome season is upon us, so it's time for a #SundayShelfie! I love my bookcase for classic SFFH and all the more so with my little lights and trinkets. Hope you're having a cozy afternoon curled up with a good book!
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I have always hated Millennial Gray. I am very brave.
January 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I have always hated Millennial Gray. I am very brave.
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PASHA THE STORM comes out at the end of June, 2026. It will be published a month after @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's AMINA EL-SIRAFI sequel and two months before @victoriaaveyard.bsky.social's TEMPEST.
PASHA in between two hot pirate women?? Do NOT save her, she's exactly where she wants to be.
PASHA in between two hot pirate women?? Do NOT save her, she's exactly where she wants to be.
Pasha the Storm
Check out Pasha the Storm - <b><i>Moby-Dick </i>meets <i>The Bone Shard Daughter</i> in this swashbuckling queer fantasy adventure packed with piracy, political intrigue, and the eternal souls of the ...
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January 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
PASHA THE STORM comes out at the end of June, 2026. It will be published a month after @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's AMINA EL-SIRAFI sequel and two months before @victoriaaveyard.bsky.social's TEMPEST.
PASHA in between two hot pirate women?? Do NOT save her, she's exactly where she wants to be.
PASHA in between two hot pirate women?? Do NOT save her, she's exactly where she wants to be.
What do I have to do karmically to come back as a zoo animal?
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
What do I have to do karmically to come back as a zoo animal?
I want the chance to write enough Peacock Wizard to have an illustration omnibus edition some day.
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I want the chance to write enough Peacock Wizard to have an illustration omnibus edition some day.
Spending my Sunday posting all the thoughts that occurred to me while driving during the week. Wyd
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Spending my Sunday posting all the thoughts that occurred to me while driving during the week. Wyd
Nothing more chic than a hilly city. The people long for Pittsburgh, for Chongqing, for Cincinnati.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Nothing more chic than a hilly city. The people long for Pittsburgh, for Chongqing, for Cincinnati.
It’s a shame Gen Z never got a Spring Awakening revival.
January 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It’s a shame Gen Z never got a Spring Awakening revival.
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Summer in the House of the Departed is a novella close to my heart. I’d love more folks to check it out and help spread the word. For fans of ghosts and grief and occult rituals and town-swallowing portals and melancholy vibes.
psychopomp.com/summer-in-th...
psychopomp.com/summer-in-th...
Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Summer in the House of the Departed, by Josh Rountree
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January 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Summer in the House of the Departed is a novella close to my heart. I’d love more folks to check it out and help spread the word. For fans of ghosts and grief and occult rituals and town-swallowing portals and melancholy vibes.
psychopomp.com/summer-in-th...
psychopomp.com/summer-in-th...
I have always hated Millennial Gray. I am very brave.
January 18, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I have always hated Millennial Gray. I am very brave.
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What’s your favorite book set in springtime? Or a book that feels like a spring book
January 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
What’s your favorite book set in springtime? Or a book that feels like a spring book
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This is a great series. Good mysteries, nicely drawn depiction of midcentury queerness; neither sadsack nor starry eyed.
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about MIRAGE CITY by Lev A.C. Rosen. The latest Andy Mills queer historical mystery, this exploit is a roadtrip down to sunny sinister Los Angeles on a missing persons case. Our drink is the Bacchanal, for motorcyclists & Mattachines alike!
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January 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
This is a great series. Good mysteries, nicely drawn depiction of midcentury queerness; neither sadsack nor starry eyed.
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What do you mean it's been a week and a half since I got a little bookie in the mail?!
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What do you mean it's been a week and a half since I got a little bookie in the mail?!
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Yes, I got books I'll be slow to read in the mail yesterday, but have you considered that I should also get books I'll be slow to read in the mail today?
November 5, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Yes, I got books I'll be slow to read in the mail yesterday, but have you considered that I should also get books I'll be slow to read in the mail today?
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It is heartening to look back at old mail stacks and see what has become a Bar Cart Bookshelf book since then. The system works.
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It is heartening to look back at old mail stacks and see what has become a Bar Cart Bookshelf book since then. The system works.