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Ann LeBlanc
@robotleblanc.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Woodworker. www.annleblanc.com
Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit.
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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.
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It's me writing I SAW THE TV GLOW! Transfemme MC! Video games! Urban legends! SCP vibes!
@speculationpub.bsky.social 's Novella of Utter Spec #2, LOADING...THE MACHINE CHILD by @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social is running a kickstarter, Right Now. This Low-fi, weird fic, queer, trans novella has all kinds of bonuses and secret levels you can take part in

#kickstartercampaign #indiepublishing
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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There is so much good stuff in here!! May I particularly recommend:

Redundancies & Potentials
The Cosmic Color
The Transitive Properties of Cheese
All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From
anthologies Embodied Exegesis, Luminescent Machinations, & the We're Here annuals
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚

www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I got to do an endpaper for the Broken Binding edition of Ken Liu's All that We See or Seem. And I got to paint little robot dinos in it!! Thanks to Petrik Leo for the super fun project 😁
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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An excellent and cathartic story about fighting back against facism that balances fun tropes and a strong voice with dark subject matter - Magical Girl Antifa War Machine by @esther-alter.bsky.social

escapepod.org/2025/05/22/e...
Escape Pod 994: Magical Girl Antifa War Machine
XYLIA We were at the bottom of a hole, a new construction site that went deep into the bedrock. I was the first to touch the artifact, a thing that didn’t quite have shape or color. I grabbed it.
escapepod.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 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.
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 ...
voicemailpoems.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 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.
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...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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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
twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/writi...
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
last potato harvest of the season
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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
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
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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
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 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)
"A sexier, kinkier story about infection, lust and MRNA does not exist!!"

smokeandmold.net/issue-12-fal...
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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
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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!
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:
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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:
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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.
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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 🖤
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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)
October 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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...
Esther Alter -
Reading series by Rose Books. Call 1-844-300-ROSE.
soundcloud.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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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...
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
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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...
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. 🧀
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
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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...
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
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Transfeminine Cyberpunk stories! #transbooks

translibrarian.com/books/embodi...
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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
September 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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