Ann LeBlanc
@robotleblanc.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Woodworker. www.annleblanc.com
Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit.
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Ann LeBlanc
@robotleblanc.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hello new followers!
I'm a woodworker, a writer (mostly short fiction), and an editor.
My most recent book is THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE, a cyberpunk cheese heist (in space)
I'm also the editor of EMBODIED EXEGESIS, an anthology of weird transfem cyberpunk stories.
I'm a woodworker, a writer (mostly short fiction), and an editor.
My most recent book is THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE, a cyberpunk cheese heist (in space)
I'm also the editor of EMBODIED EXEGESIS, an anthology of weird transfem cyberpunk stories.
Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex
by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Do you (like me) have strong feelings about worms and/or your voice (knife voice)?🪱🔪
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
You should read this incredible poem by @aporianautics.bsky.social
I've been rotating it in my mind all week.
This book is SO good; you might go mad reading just one more page, just one more page, until you get to the end and you find something ancient has taken up residence within you.
3 months of playing the wrong games 💛
Thank you everyone who's been reading, reviewing, checking it out, talking it up, bringing Carcosa into the bedroom, where everything surely goes perfectly fine 💅😈
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Game...
Thank you everyone who's been reading, reviewing, checking it out, talking it up, bringing Carcosa into the bedroom, where everything surely goes perfectly fine 💅😈
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Game...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This book is SO good; you might go mad reading just one more page, just one more page, until you get to the end and you find something ancient has taken up residence within you.
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My last poem released today is called "writing letters in our sleep" inspired by a recurring dream I have of meeting my father as a trans woman after so many years of him being in prison, and the dream letters we send to introduce ourselves
#queer #poetry
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#queer #poetry
twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My last poem released today is called "writing letters in our sleep" inspired by a recurring dream I have of meeting my father as a trans woman after so many years of him being in prison, and the dream letters we send to introduce ourselves
#queer #poetry
twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...
#queer #poetry
twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...
last potato harvest of the season
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
last potato harvest of the season
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Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
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“Alter shapes a defiant tale full of energy, sensuality, and drive, and leaves readers to be moved and shaken by the power of the story, which is intense and wonderful.”
Yes yes ok thank you this is what I wanted Magical Girl Antifa War Machine to do
#shortstories #amreading
Yes yes ok thank you this is what I wanted Magical Girl Antifa War Machine to do
#shortstories #amreading
“Feeding Spirits” by @emmikhor.bsky.social from @castofwonders.org, “The Ache of Hollow Places” by @avramargariti.bsky.social from @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social
Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod and Strange Horizons Special Fund Drive Issue 2025: Review by Charles Payseur
Cast of Wonders 6/28/25 Escape Pod 5/22/25, 7/10/25 Strange Horizons Special Fund Drive Issue 2025, 7/14/25 I last checked in with Cast of Wonders for their April originals, and since then they’ve …
locusmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Alter shapes a defiant tale full of energy, sensuality, and drive, and leaves readers to be moved and shaken by the power of the story, which is intense and wonderful.”
Yes yes ok thank you this is what I wanted Magical Girl Antifa War Machine to do
#shortstories #amreading
Yes yes ok thank you this is what I wanted Magical Girl Antifa War Machine to do
#shortstories #amreading
this story infected me in the best way (don't inoculate yourself against this story; i want you to read it; let it seep into you, let it breach the blood-brain barrier)
"A sexier, kinkier story about infection, lust and MRNA does not exist!!"
smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...
smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this story infected me in the best way (don't inoculate yourself against this story; i want you to read it; let it seep into you, let it breach the blood-brain barrier)
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my guilty autumn pleasure is to visit the local orchard and inject helium into all the trees
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
my guilty autumn pleasure is to visit the local orchard and inject helium into all the trees
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This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients.
They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!
They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!
Let them know what you think.
Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900
cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:
Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900
cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients.
They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!
They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!
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If you're cis, please actually call them. I can't articulate how bad this news is.
Let them know what you think.
Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900
cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:
Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900
cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you're cis, please actually call them. I can't articulate how bad this news is.
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I've spent time with family, gone on a beautiful canal walk, and eaten delicious ramen already today - time to round it out with one of the most important transfemme shortform anthologies ever published 🩷
This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.
This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've spent time with family, gone on a beautiful canal walk, and eaten delicious ramen already today - time to round it out with one of the most important transfemme shortform anthologies ever published 🩷
This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.
This paperback is one of the coolest rare copies I've worked with.
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Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.
Rest in peace 🖤
Rest in peace 🖤
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.
Rest in peace 🖤
Rest in peace 🖤
I made a crumb-catching cutting board for cutting bread.
Made with cherry, hard maple, and poplar (all scrap wood left over from other projects)
Made with cherry, hard maple, and poplar (all scrap wood left over from other projects)
October 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I made a crumb-catching cutting board for cutting bread.
Made with cherry, hard maple, and poplar (all scrap wood left over from other projects)
Made with cherry, hard maple, and poplar (all scrap wood left over from other projects)
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Yesss! Rose Books uploaded the recording of Frack Me.
I’m really proud of this one. Not sure how to give a cw without giving it away, but you’ll know after hearing the first line whether you want to hear more.
on.soundcloud.com/3vHbB8uzAEl3...
I’m really proud of this one. Not sure how to give a cw without giving it away, but you’ll know after hearing the first line whether you want to hear more.
on.soundcloud.com/3vHbB8uzAEl3...
Esther Alter -
Reading series by Rose Books.
Call 1-844-300-ROSE.
soundcloud.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Yesss! Rose Books uploaded the recording of Frack Me.
I’m really proud of this one. Not sure how to give a cw without giving it away, but you’ll know after hearing the first line whether you want to hear more.
on.soundcloud.com/3vHbB8uzAEl3...
I’m really proud of this one. Not sure how to give a cw without giving it away, but you’ll know after hearing the first line whether you want to hear more.
on.soundcloud.com/3vHbB8uzAEl3...
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This is a Jewish comedy noir novella that has less than $1000 to go and less than a day!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
Hornytown Chutzpah
A comedic noir novella by the wonderful Andrew Hiller, and an audiobook in collaboration with his super sister, Alicia!
www.kickstarter.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a Jewish comedy noir novella that has less than $1000 to go and less than a day!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
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My backup is going to be The Transitive Properties of Cheese by @robotleblanc.bsky.social
Link to my unhinged thread about it here:
bsky.app/profile/gree...
Link to my unhinged thread about it here:
bsky.app/profile/gree...
The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
by @neonhemlock.bsky.social
BABES, IT'S A CHEESE HEIST.
IT'S NOT JUST TRANSGENDER IT'S TRANSHUMAN. WITH CLONE-FUCKING & EARTH VS. SPACE STATIONS & TRAUMA & CONSPIRACIES & LISTEN, LET'S TALK ABOUT CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE. 🧀
by @neonhemlock.bsky.social
BABES, IT'S A CHEESE HEIST.
IT'S NOT JUST TRANSGENDER IT'S TRANSHUMAN. WITH CLONE-FUCKING & EARTH VS. SPACE STATIONS & TRAUMA & CONSPIRACIES & LISTEN, LET'S TALK ABOUT CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE. 🧀
The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc — neon hemlock
Publication date: September 10, 2024. An 8” x 5” novella. A cheese cave. A sun. A million problems. Millions Wayland was cutting the curds when she learned someone had thrown her cheese cave int...
www.neonhemlock.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
My backup is going to be The Transitive Properties of Cheese by @robotleblanc.bsky.social
Link to my unhinged thread about it here:
bsky.app/profile/gree...
Link to my unhinged thread about it here:
bsky.app/profile/gree...
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We surpassed our 40% goal for today. We are ending with a Douglas Adams-like 42%
Thank you!
With five days left should we shoot for 60% Is $282 too ambitious? Too greedy?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
Thank you!
With five days left should we shoot for 60% Is $282 too ambitious? Too greedy?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
Update 4: Horny - but not like that? Or... · Hornytown Chutzpah
We make no claims not to be horny like that, nor are we judging, but - yeah, the book is about a town of demons, get it? Hornytown?Legal voice: The publisher, Atthis Arts, assures its readers that the
www.kickstarter.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We surpassed our 40% goal for today. We are ending with a Douglas Adams-like 42%
Thank you!
With five days left should we shoot for 60% Is $282 too ambitious? Too greedy?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
Thank you!
With five days left should we shoot for 60% Is $282 too ambitious? Too greedy?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Transfeminine Cyberpunk stories! #transbooks
translibrarian.com/books/embodi...
translibrarian.com/books/embodi...
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Transfeminine Cyberpunk stories! #transbooks
translibrarian.com/books/embodi...
translibrarian.com/books/embodi...
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I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.
The new issue is out! We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world.
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
www.lunastationquart...
#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines
September 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.
this book is fantastic, and contains some of the most fucked up time travel I've ever read
I was riveted from the very beginning of @domsdickey.bsky.social’s weird time-travel-cloning-murder-sisters novella REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS, just saying.
September 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
this book is fantastic, and contains some of the most fucked up time travel I've ever read
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let's goooooo, there are a bunch of bangers in this one! I loved the range especially, most of the cyberpunk I'd encountered before this made me feel trapped in a tiny claustrophobic microgenre, but this anth covers so much ground
Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social!
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
September 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
let's goooooo, there are a bunch of bangers in this one! I loved the range especially, most of the cyberpunk I'd encountered before this made me feel trapped in a tiny claustrophobic microgenre, but this anth covers so much ground
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this is how i found out an anthology i had a story in won an award! that's so cool :D @robotleblanc.bsky.social did SUCH an incredible job putting it together, the results speak for themselves.
Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social!
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
September 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
this is how i found out an anthology i had a story in won an award! that's so cool :D @robotleblanc.bsky.social did SUCH an incredible job putting it together, the results speak for themselves.
Reposted by Ann LeBlanc
Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social!
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social!
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨
Huge congratulations to Elly Bangs! Her story in EMBODIED EXEGESIS is a finalist for the WSFA small press award!
Holy smokes! This might be the first time I've ever been a finalist for something. Thanks again to @robotleblanc.bsky.social and @neonhemlock.bsky.social for publishing my short story, and to all its readers too!
2025 WSFA Small Press Award Finalists
Finalists for the 2025 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced: “All We Ever Had”, M.A. Akins (Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores 8/24)…
locusmag.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Huge congratulations to Elly Bangs! Her story in EMBODIED EXEGESIS is a finalist for the WSFA small press award!