Zabé Ellor
@zrellor.bsky.social
SFF author / lit agent / latest: NO BETTER THAN BEASTS / opinions mine
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Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.
This book is the only thing I’ve ever read that made my skin crawl (in a good way!) and also contains one of the best allegories for transness I’ve ever read. It’s surreal, unsettling, and evocative
THE END TYMES ARE SOON, BUT PREORDERS ARE NOW🖤☠️
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January 8, 2026 at 5:46 AM
This book is the only thing I’ve ever read that made my skin crawl (in a good way!) and also contains one of the best allegories for transness I’ve ever read. It’s surreal, unsettling, and evocative
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THE END TYMES ARE SOON, BUT PREORDERS ARE NOW🖤☠️
Secure your copy of @endwellian.bsky.social's Twin-Peaks-by-way-of-Appalachia experimental novel OLYOKE today!
FOR FANS OF:
Dollywood🔥
Plague-inspired fashion accessories💀
Dogs who speak in the voice of your dead mother🐾🪱
store.tenebrouspress.com
Secure your copy of @endwellian.bsky.social's Twin-Peaks-by-way-of-Appalachia experimental novel OLYOKE today!
FOR FANS OF:
Dollywood🔥
Plague-inspired fashion accessories💀
Dogs who speak in the voice of your dead mother🐾🪱
store.tenebrouspress.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 PM
THE END TYMES ARE SOON, BUT PREORDERS ARE NOW🖤☠️
Secure your copy of @endwellian.bsky.social's Twin-Peaks-by-way-of-Appalachia experimental novel OLYOKE today!
FOR FANS OF:
Dollywood🔥
Plague-inspired fashion accessories💀
Dogs who speak in the voice of your dead mother🐾🪱
store.tenebrouspress.com
Secure your copy of @endwellian.bsky.social's Twin-Peaks-by-way-of-Appalachia experimental novel OLYOKE today!
FOR FANS OF:
Dollywood🔥
Plague-inspired fashion accessories💀
Dogs who speak in the voice of your dead mother🐾🪱
store.tenebrouspress.com
As an agent, I absolutely do not use AI to do any of these things, and I recommend not working with any agent who would. You need a human to do this.
It's such a weird coincidence how every one of these takes always amounts to "you can use AI responsibly by using it to replace expertise I don't possess or labor I don't do :)"
December 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As an agent, I absolutely do not use AI to do any of these things, and I recommend not working with any agent who would. You need a human to do this.
Merry Christmas, and may you know the pleasure of imprisoning your enemies in a magical snowglobe through the power of dance
December 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Merry Christmas, and may you know the pleasure of imprisoning your enemies in a magical snowglobe through the power of dance
Anyways, if you want to help trans people, please give to a GoFundMe instead of buying MAY THE BEST MAN WIN. I make about a dollar per copy and I don’t really need it right now anyway. Help trans folks in direct need.
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Anyways, if you want to help trans people, please give to a GoFundMe instead of buying MAY THE BEST MAN WIN. I make about a dollar per copy and I don’t really need it right now anyway. Help trans folks in direct need.
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I think it’s an (understandable!) error to frame the way bigots talk about trans people as “invalidating” or as thinking we’re “not real”
They know we exist! The point is that they want to exterminate us, in whatever ways they can, because they’re seeking a world where that’s no longer the case
They know we exist! The point is that they want to exterminate us, in whatever ways they can, because they’re seeking a world where that’s no longer the case
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I think it’s an (understandable!) error to frame the way bigots talk about trans people as “invalidating” or as thinking we’re “not real”
They know we exist! The point is that they want to exterminate us, in whatever ways they can, because they’re seeking a world where that’s no longer the case
They know we exist! The point is that they want to exterminate us, in whatever ways they can, because they’re seeking a world where that’s no longer the case
Just saw the Nutcracker for the first time in ages and my god I cannot believe that in the year 2025 a professional ballet company *with Asian ballerinas in the cast* decided to put two white dancers in yellowface!
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Just saw the Nutcracker for the first time in ages and my god I cannot believe that in the year 2025 a professional ballet company *with Asian ballerinas in the cast* decided to put two white dancers in yellowface!
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@zrellor.bsky.social heyyyyy look who I just spied on a library endcap in the Canadian wilderness 💅💅💅
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@zrellor.bsky.social heyyyyy look who I just spied on a library endcap in the Canadian wilderness 💅💅💅
Every time a new James Cameron Avatar movie comes out I am reminded that one of my biggest #MSWL items is books by Indigenous authors about space exploration/exploitation
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Every time a new James Cameron Avatar movie comes out I am reminded that one of my biggest #MSWL items is books by Indigenous authors about space exploration/exploitation
Okay, so the Mystery Box technique (coined by J. J. Abrams, I believe) is one where you catch the interest of an audience by introducing a mystery that promises a compelling twist to come. The mystery hints at a larger, more high-stakes story beyond the one presented to the audience at face value.
This whole thing has given me a lot of thoughts on Mystery Box Storytelling and how it succeeds or fails…
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Okay, so the Mystery Box technique (coined by J. J. Abrams, I believe) is one where you catch the interest of an audience by introducing a mystery that promises a compelling twist to come. The mystery hints at a larger, more high-stakes story beyond the one presented to the audience at face value.
This is a very good episode about the depressing shortness of most authors’ careers. I might talk a bit more about how this feels if people are interested
good GOD it's been a long time 🫠
No promises on the quality of this episode! We're rusty as anything. Huge thanks to "Drake Scottford" for being our special guest this episode!
S2 e45 is live!
publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/s...
No promises on the quality of this episode! We're rusty as anything. Huge thanks to "Drake Scottford" for being our special guest this episode!
S2 e45 is live!
publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/s...
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is a very good episode about the depressing shortness of most authors’ careers. I might talk a bit more about how this feels if people are interested
I was at Cornell in 2014 and absolutely none of this fucking happened.
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I was at Cornell in 2014 and absolutely none of this fucking happened.
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hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something
our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card
our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card
October 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something
our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card
our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card
Paperbacks of BEASTS!
One day, I hope I’ll be able to speak more openly about my experiences publishing this book about queer teens in unaccepting communities, the ravages of capitalism, and the cycles of abuse and trauma. For now, I’ll say this is a good and important book that I’m very proud of.
One day, I hope I’ll be able to speak more openly about my experiences publishing this book about queer teens in unaccepting communities, the ravages of capitalism, and the cycles of abuse and trauma. For now, I’ll say this is a good and important book that I’m very proud of.
October 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Paperbacks of BEASTS!
One day, I hope I’ll be able to speak more openly about my experiences publishing this book about queer teens in unaccepting communities, the ravages of capitalism, and the cycles of abuse and trauma. For now, I’ll say this is a good and important book that I’m very proud of.
One day, I hope I’ll be able to speak more openly about my experiences publishing this book about queer teens in unaccepting communities, the ravages of capitalism, and the cycles of abuse and trauma. For now, I’ll say this is a good and important book that I’m very proud of.
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
It really does bother me that my most well-known book is in this style. It’s not something I would have written (at least, not in the same way) if it had not been for this pressure.
As a young writer in that era, I recall the pressure to publish DARK shit about your life as the price to recognition - ESPECIALLY if you were anything other than a straight white guy - was just overwhelming.
I never quite went there thank God, but I know so many who did. I feel awful for them.
I never quite went there thank God, but I know so many who did. I feel awful for them.
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It really does bother me that my most well-known book is in this style. It’s not something I would have written (at least, not in the same way) if it had not been for this pressure.
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
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ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Trans literature has value because trans authors are human beings telling stories in their unique ways. It is profoundly frustrating to see trans authors are only valued when we write about transphobia or when we write hopeful trans stories intended to serve as an antidote to transphobia
October 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trans literature has value because trans authors are human beings telling stories in their unique ways. It is profoundly frustrating to see trans authors are only valued when we write about transphobia or when we write hopeful trans stories intended to serve as an antidote to transphobia
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We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.