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jay kang romanus

@jelliclejay.bsky.social

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he/him 🏳️‍🌈 sffh writer, big fan of the separation between fiction and reality. editor of DUDES ROCK (the circus '25), short stories in anathema: spec from the margins, prismatica magazine, and more 🔞

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · Jan 10

we rly did it guys im gonna cry 🥹 my baby is out in the world now, and i feel so lucky to have gotten this opportunity. i'm deeply proud of this anthology; it's everything i could've ever hoped it would be, and frankly i think the world needed a book like this! queer joy! queer men being dudes!!

The Circus Collective @circuslit.bsky.social · Jan 10

Our new anthology DUDES ROCK, edited by @jelliclejay.bsky.social with assistance from @audriserat.bsky.social, is out now ❤️‍🔥✨

From buff aliens to gender-affirming werewolf bites, this anthology is about celebrating everything that queer masculinity can be, and we want you to rock with us!

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 4h

WOOO so proud to have a story in this now award-winning anthology

Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild @csfg.org.au · 4d

Australasian Shadows Awards 2024
Edited Works:

The Winner is:
Death in the Mouth Vol2:
By Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart

#AustralasianShadows Awards 2024 #CSFG #Conflux

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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 4d

omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈

Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 18h

ooh i haven’t but it’s definitely going on the list. the weird tech aspect isn’t what i’m going for but in the sense that i mixed apocryphal christian lore, my own mythology, and aliens then the comparison isn’t inaccurate!

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

😊😊

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

ohhh this is rly exciting to me 👀👀

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

i sure think so ;)

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

oh goodness what a compliment! very much in that vein for sure, just replace appalachia with the southwest

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for all the work you did on it!! i’m thrilled it made such an impression 🥰🥰

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

A collage with images of sweaty boys almost kissing, a human/bird monster, and a cowboy pulling a horse under an intensely cloudy sky. There are also the words “A love like that made me someone new. Not even because I chose to change, I had no choice in the matter; the feeling swept me up and molded me into someone I didn’t recognize before I could look down and understand just what I had gotten myself into.”

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

ahhh thank you so much 🥺🥺 i’m a huge fan of erewhon’s catalogue/ethos so this means a lot ❤️❤️

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Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com · 1d

this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

will do 😊😊

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

i'm obsessed with these two comps together

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

amazing endorsement thank u!!

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August @king-goldfish.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't realize I was into gay trucker apocalypse cult stories until just now

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

excuse you 😤 i'm much too tight to leak

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

so it was in fact just ragebait and my replies are full of ppl laughing at me bc i fell for it. which is a stupid thing to get upset abt bc they're all children but nevertheless im not a fan

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

they're calling me stupid on twitter they're saying my brain must leak out of my ears when i sleep

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! i also love this art style; all credit to @sydmish.bsky.social

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

Elton is running, he just can't remember from what. When he runs into lonely trucker Beck, they learn together what it takes to rebuild a person, but dark things from his fractured past are on his trail. Remembering may destroy him, but what he's forgotten may destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

An art piece of a buff wasian man with a scruffy red beard and hair in a baseball cap and white t-shirt playfully holds a scrawny white guy wearing a dark hoodie with yellow eyes and stringy black hair in a headlock, both are smiling.

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

it’s been a long two years of querying so i rly appreciate this 🫶🫶🫶

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scott vaughn @woodlandrattler.bsky.social · 1d

Jay has such a compelling narrative voice and his passion is so clear in everything he writes!! I’m still working my way through the manuscript bc I’m a slow reader </3 but already it is such a strong work of horror, cannot recommend him and Blessed Be The Flesh enough!

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival.

#DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 1d

:D ilyt bestie and i am ALWAYS happy to talk abt ur work