Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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Emily Tesh
@emilytesh.net
· May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!
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be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
FWIW: Mention books you like or you think others might like. You never know what'll happen:
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I saw The Sad Bastard Cookbook here so I mentioned it on Masto (in a "in case you need this" sense). It kinda went viral (1K shares). It jumped to a high ranking on Amazon and then they got media attention.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Muttering ‘technically this is a business expense’ every time I pony up forty quid minimum for an interesting book from an academic press.
Posted origfic on AO3.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Posted origfic on AO3.
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Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
novacon.uk
novacon.uk
Novacon – The UK's longest-established science fiction convention
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Absolutely delighted to say that I'll be next year's Guest of Honour at #Novacon 55, 6-8 November 2026! See you in Buxton!
novacon.uk
novacon.uk
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author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
author rejecting an editor's note with "wontfix, working as intended," game dev kicking a bug with the comment "STET," we're not so different you & i
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Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
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The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Welcome to the 1990s with Diana Wynne Jones! For the first episode of S3, Iona Datt Sharma @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us to talk about The Lives of Christopher Chant, and also Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and the magical civil service.
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we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
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WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)
we're back and launching S3 with a BANGER today as the fabulous @singlecrow.bsky.social joins us for a TWO HOUR episode on our favorite future-dressing-gown-wearing disaster, Christopher Chant
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
zencastr.com/z/26xps9hC
The Lives of Christopher Chant by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Nobody should be losing lives at this rate. What is wrong, Christopher?
In our first episode of Season Three, the brilliant Iona Datt Sharma joins us for a discussion of bureaucracy, cricket boys, Bu...
zencastr.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
WE'RE BACK (with bonus @singlecrow.bsky.social to dazzle us with wit and insight)
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If you like Becky Chambers' writing, might I suggest Iona Datt Sharma? I inhaled all their short stories last year, and find myself not minding not being able to settle after late shifts because it means I get to read more of Division Bells.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
John, Alison, and stunt Liz @emilytesh.net are live from Novacon 54! We discuss the convention, what it’s like to be a Guest of Honour, parenting at cons and also whether or not John should read the Silmarillion. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/148-i-m-wi...
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Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Shoutout for teachers who hold a degree and/or QTS, and think anti-trans policies are unethical...
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
Please comment if you would be interested in taking on some paid online tutoring work for UK trans kids who have been forced out of schooling by policy and/or bullying.
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Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Had a great time at Novacon, including seeing @emilytesh.net on the @octothorpecast.bsky.social liveshow! Renewed (and correct) push to get everyone to read Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.
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Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
『宙の復讐者』エミリー・テッシュ
"Since birth, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity"
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This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This weekend saw Novacon 54 take place in Buxton, Derbyshire. I produced the cover art for the short story 'Salvage' by @emilytesh.net , which was included in members' packs.
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am at Novacon! I contributed a short story set in the same universe as Some Desperate Glory to the programme and I’m very happy to see it so beautifully in print, with cover art by Alex Storer.
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.
Are you going to Novacon this weekend? ( @novacon.bsky.social ) The guest of honour is
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
@emilytesh.net and it should be fabulous fun.
Come see us at the Iridescence 2026 Fan Table, and pick up a membership for 2026's Eastercon coming to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I am indeed going to Novacon this weekend and I am very excited! I am ALSO going to Eastercon next April so if you miss me this time you can catch me there.
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There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
Going for an English | Goodness Gracious Me | BBC Comedy Greats
YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There is a little bluesky meme going around asking what your “curry order” is, which is not aimed at a community I am part of, but I am going through a Goodness Gracious Me renaissance right now so here’s the classic for everyone’s delight youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?...
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The Incandescent by @EmilyTesh.net is $2.99 at multiple ebook vendors.
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Incandescent
Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emil...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Incandescent by @EmilyTesh.net is $2.99 at multiple ebook vendors.
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
An academia fantasy about a magic school told from the perspective of the teachers ….lesson plans, societal class issues, demons, and a hot butch lesbian demon hunter.
A very good read! 🌈📚💙
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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"Instead of going to therapy I got a PhD about it" - The Incandescent.
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Instead of going to therapy I got a PhD about it" - The Incandescent.
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
Good lord just call me out personally @emilytesh.net 😂.
(The Incandescent is excellent magic academia (I refuse to say ~dark academia~). Recommended ifs you've taught at a secondary school or university)
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Life goals tbh
March 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Life goals tbh
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October 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
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First Ink unveils award-winning Frances Hardinge’s YA historical fantasy
First Ink has acquired Traitors’ Nest, a historical YA fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
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Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)