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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · 10h

HECK YEAH! We couldn’t be more proud of @pegasusunder, the editor of our recent SILK & FOXGLOVE anthology, for this monumental achievement! 🎉🩷🎉

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 20h

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’re so so so SO incredibly excited to announce the latest addition to the Hedone 2026 lineup: V. T. Hoàng’s BAT TASTE IN HER MOUTH 🍽️

#hedonebooks #indiehorror #queerpublishing #queerhorror

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Get yours today at HedoneBooks.com

Hedone Books

We are a queer-owned and operated indie press specializing in pushing boundaries and telling the stories that need to be told.

HedoneBooks.com

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

You yearn for the mine, you yearn for the soothing formula of Blanche Skin, but mostly you yearn for ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social 💄

Get yours today!

#queerpress #hedonebooks #indiehorror

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Preorder your copy of this hot and horrifying anthology today at HedoneBooks.com 🌺🌸

Hedone Books

We are a queer-owned and operated indie press specializing in pushing boundaries and telling the stories that need to be told.

HedoneBooks.com

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

🌿🪾Meet The Authors of ‘Silk and Foxglove’🪾🌿

@cristianpresgraves.bsky.social is a Chilean-American writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. A tea enthusiast and an occultist, he was born and raised in Santiago de Chile, though now lives in New Jersey with his husband.

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 16

Too shy to sport the bold colour of Radium Rouge? 💄Then grab a copy of ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social instead! Find it on our website and everywhere books and sundries are sold.

#hedonebooks #queerhorror #queerpress #indiehorror

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 11

We’re so excited to announce the official table of contents for SILK & FOXGLOVE🪻🔪🪷🔪We’re so grateful to all the authors who sent work in and we can’t for you all to read this collection @pegasusunder.bsky.social has curated 😍

#queer #indiehorror #queerpublishing #hedonebooks

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

Alchemists may have failed to distill youth, but Josephine is determined to bottle beauty.

Grab your copy today at hedonebooks.com

Hedone Books

We are a queer-owned and operated indie press specializing in pushing boundaries and telling the stories that need to be told.

hedonebooks.com

Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10

Happy release day Shelley Lavigne! 🎉🥳🎉 ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH is finally out and we couldn’t be happier to see this gruesomely beautiful and unapologetically queer book making its way into the hands of readers everywhere. 💄

#hedonebooks #queer #indiehorror #indiepublisher

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Jun 11

"horrifying, humorous, horny" — that sums up so much of my work, and especially SUNBATHERS, my queer eco-horror sun-vampire novella which is available in paperback, ebook, AND audiobook!

The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · Jun 11

New Review
Sunbathers by Lindz McLeod is a horrifying, humorous, horny audiobook that’s short yet satisfying.

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social

thelesbianreview.com

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Cindy Creature Feature Phan 💀 @cindyphanauthor.com · Jul 8

My, my, my, what do we have here...? 👀

Oh, just a little teaser for Silk and Foxglove, the all BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology from @hedonebooks.bsky.social, which includes my smutty and unnerving tale of true monstrous love, and lust...and gourds.

Teaser image of the upcoming anthology Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology, featuring a book wrapped in parchment paper with a bow of twine holding it together. The book is bordered by blue foxglove flowers and is stamped "Satisfaction Guaranteed" in its top right corner. Text below the stamps reads: "curated and edited by Z.K. Abraham" while text above reads: Cover Reveal July 9th"

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · Jul 8

Getting closer to cover reveal day. This is like a slow-mo striptease for a book! My story "All That Came From Our Lips Was Lilies" is in these sheets. Silk and Foxglove is being published by Hedone Books. #horror #anthology #ecohorror #BookSky #WritingCommunity @hedonebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal July 9th

Curated and edited by Z. K. Abraham.

Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology.

Just under half of the cover is showing. Two semicircles are visible: one red and the other in greyscale. The red one contains abstract looping line drawings.

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetang.myatproto.social · Jul 8

Today you get a hint of the cover for "Silk and Foxglove". I'll also hint at the inspiration behind my story for this anthology: I love the rivers that run through my city. I'd hate to see them threatened by... Something. 👀

Tune in tomorrow for the full cover reveal from @hedonebooks.bsky.social!

Yesterday's wrapped up book parcel is now partially open, revealing a third of the cover. A portion of a red circle can be seen, with curving abstract black and white lines on it. Below that, part of the book's title is superimposed over a rounded grey shape.

The text on the graphic reads: "Cover reveal July 9th. 'Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-horror Anthology'. Curated and edited by Z. K. Abraham." A stamp on the bown paper covering the rest of the book, declares: 'Satisfaction Guaranteed'."

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

We can't wait to reveal the cover for @pegasusunder.bsky.social Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology tomorrow!! TOC announcement 7/11
Release Date: 9/9 | Preorders on site 7/11

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

@shelleylavigne.bsky.social Shelley Lavigne’s Enamoured: A Triptych has some fantastic early reviews. Be ready for Thursday, July 10th, when this beauty drops!

We’re so grateful for everyone’s kind words! Links in bio!

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jun 10

🏳️‍🌈ARC SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN🏳️‍🌈
'Enamoured: A Triptych' by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social
Have you ever wished your anti-capitalist sapphic reading was a bit horrifying? Look no further 😉
🔗 in bio for the sign-up sheet!

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

!!! Let's get this queer antho funded !!

Cozy Library Press @clcpress.bsky.social · Jun 7

THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! And the cover is here. What do y'all think of our new anthology curated by @marsadler.bsky.social & @wolfehorror.itch.io

Back here

www.kickstarter.com/projects/coz...

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Who’s ready for ARC sign-ups tomorrow? I wonder which book it’ll be…

*powders nose*

a cartoon of a woman sitting at a table with bubbles coming out of her face

ALT: a cartoon of a woman sitting at a table with bubbles coming out of her face

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Jun 6

It was us. That little bird was us 🐦

Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Jun 3

A little bird just told me that the paperback of SUNBATHERS, my eco-horror sun-vampire book, is on sale RIGHT NOW for less than $7.

It would be a CRIME not to buy it, and certainly it would be a worse crime than any of the ones my queer protagonist commits.
Probably.
*cough*

Sunbathers

Amazon.com: Sunbathers (Audible Audio Edition): Lindz McLeod, Lucia Vinyard, Hedone Books: Audible Books & Originals

www.amazon.com

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · May 9

The cover reveal for @shelleylavigne.bsky.social’s ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH is finally here and it’s EXCLUSIVELY at @ruemorguemag.bsky.social 🖤💀🖤 Go check it out & get all the info on how to grab a free copy of “La Petite Mort,” while you’re at it 😉

Find it at rue-morgue.com/exclusive-co...

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · May 8

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

The cover reveal for @shelleylavigne.bsky.social’s upcoming novella, ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH, is coming tomorrow!

Be sure to follow our good friends at @ruemorguemag.bsky.social and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the exclusive announcement!

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Apr 28

Today is election day in Canada! So this is your friendly reminder that if you vote for Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party, then we don’t want you reading our books and we hope you can’t climax for the rest of the year 🥰

#Canadian #electionday

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Apr 24

If you’re reading a book and find yourself both terrified for your life AND stiff as a board, that’s how you know you’ve picked up a #HedoneBooks title 😈

#queerbooks #horror #indiepublishing #spicybooks #nsfw

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Hedone Books @hedonebooks.bsky.social · Apr 22

Hey baby, you look like someone who appreciates #queerbooks 😏

#hedonebooks #queer #indiepublishing

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