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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · 2d

A HUGE congratulations to @sapphomancer.bsky.social! METAL FROM HEAVEN has won the 2025 @lambdaliterary.org award for Best LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction!

METAL FROM HEAVEN is a bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy, perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and The Princess Bride!

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

He has a taste for voyeurism.

She has a thirst for revenge.

All 👀 on this cover reveal for Bram Stoker Award-winning & internationally bestselling author @monikakimauthor 's next horror novel, MOLKA.

Pre-order now at retailers everywhere!

Available April 28, 2026
Cover Artist: Samira Iravani

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · Aug 18

My novel TEN SLEEP sandwiched between THE DEADING and THE EXORCIST at @barnesandnoble.com in San Luis Obispo. Yessss! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · Aug 22

133.- The Memory Hunters, by @itsamia.bsky.social (pub by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social)

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · Aug 28

Is it really that you play dead? Or is it something more sinister?

This is your friendly reminder that THE DEADING is now out in paperback. Get it from all major retailers.

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

Video creator: @rwrkb.bsky.social Watch for more collabs!

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Anne Tibbets - Literary Agent @annetibbets.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy book birthday to @itsamia.bsky.social and THE MEMORY HUNTERS! 🎉🩸🗡️🍄 @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · Jul 29

It’s finally here! Thank you so much to @reactorsff.bsky.social for ushering into the world the cover for my gothic horror THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED! Welcome to Villa Sepulveda…hope you survive your stay.

11/25/25 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social. Preorder info ⬇️

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Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor

A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy Release Day to these New Books! @danielkraus.com @markusredmond.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @atriabooks.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @julietblackwell.bsky.social

Angel Down
One of Our Kind
The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey
Blood Slaves
Asylum Hotel
The Needfire
Grimdark
The Memory Hunters

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Great Pop Culture Debate @gpcd.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here is a Novel Idea from our panelists for your next good read! @disnerdbob.bsky.social recommends the new sci-fi epic "The Memory Hunters" by @itsamia.bsky.social . Out today July 29! #book #reading #newbooks #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hear my full review of THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social, available now from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube.

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Cocktail Recipe & Book Review: Blood Chalice (THE MEMORY HUNTERS by Mia Tsai)

YouTube video by Bar Cart Bookshelf

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

🍄Happy pub day to @itsamia.bsky.social 's THE MEMORY HUNTERS! 🍄

Now available at your fav bookstore!

Book cover for THE MEMORY HUNTERS. Tags read: Inception Meets Indian Jones, Mushrooms galore, Slow burn sapphic, science fantasy, dark-academia adjacent, hot lady bodyguards, perfect for museum girlies, secrets upon secrets.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Your friendly reminder that I have a new book out called TEN SLEEP! You can buy it here in every format imaginable: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ten-sleep-... Don't forget to follow me on @bookbubpartners.bsky.social Tagging @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

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Essa Hansen @essahansen.bsky.social · Jul 18

Just finished this sad and excellent horror novel! Rich with interiority, vividly painting such different yet connected lives and times

Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Apr 7

💫COVER REVEAL💫 THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social is sharp domestic horror about a haunted single mom and the women who came before her.

Erewhon is proud to work with McClelland & Stewart to bring this book to US readers, September 2025.

Cover by Jennifer Griffiths.

The book cover for THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN by Jen Sookfong Lee, coming September 2025. The cover is pink with neon green type and focuses on a creepy silhouette of an Asian woman looking over her shoulder with an unreadable expression.

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Nicholas Belardes @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social · Jul 21

Serving up a lecture on Aug. 2: "Blending Eco-anxieties and Multiple Genres into Our Work." This should be a fun one! Tagging: @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 23

12/12 Finally, @zalikarb.bsky.social is the author of River Mumma (@erewhonbooks.bsky.social) and Frying Plantain (@houseofanansi.bsky.social). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books‬‬‬‬‬

Book cover for Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta (House of Anansi), with images from Little Jamaica against yellow and red backgrounds. Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” In these twelve interconnected stories, we see Kara on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great-aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with ongoing battles of unyielding authority. Longlisted for the Giller Prize. https://houseofanansi.com/products/frying-plantain

Book cover for River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta (Erewhon Books, an imprint of Kensington Publishing), with a girl in blue walking through a dark landscape. Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store. Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb. Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all the legends her relatives told her, unlike her retail co-worker Heaven, who can reel off Jamaican folklore by heart. She doesn’t know if her childhood visions have returned, or why she feels a strange connection to her other co-worker Mars. But when the trio are chased down by malevolent spirits called duppies, they realize their tenuous bonds to each other may be their only lifelines. With the clock ticking, Alicia’s quest through the city broadens into a journey through time—to find herself and what the river carries. https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781645661368/river-mumma/

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · Jul 28

THE MEMORY HUNTERS: @erewhonbooks.bsky.social publishes Mia Tsai's first fantasy novel in The Consecrated series of anti-colonialist sapphic tales. #Booksky 🌈📚
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THE MEMORY HUNTERS, Tsai's first fantasy novel in The Consecrated series of anti-colonialist sapphic tales

THE MEMORY HUNTERS (The Consecrated #1) MIA TSAI Erewhon Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $23.80 ebook, available for pre-ord...

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

That's all they wrote, folks. It's been the honor of a lifetime. I'm so, so grateful, always <3

LOVE YOU FOREVER, EREWHON!!!

@mcflycahill90.bsky.social

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · Jul 17

Coming from @solarisbooks.bsky.social later this year, so lucky UK readers can get their hands on this beauty too ❤️

Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Nov 8

You love stories of resistance, anticapitalism & queerness?

You love stories of magic, courtship & fury?

You love stories of messy butch lesbians, anarchic communes, sex that'll make your toes curl & vengeance?

Meet METAL FROM HEAVEN, by @sapphomancer.bsky.social

bookshop.org/p/books/meta...

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Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social · Jul 17

@richardkadrey.bsky.social has some brilliant ideas that will take old fans and new readers in fantastic directions with these novels. I'm so excited to show SFF world what he has in store starting in 2027!

#AuntieEditor @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · Jul 17

So yeah, this is happening. A fantasy novel and my first SF novel in a million years. Thanks to Erehwon and my editor, Diana Pho.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 17

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social announces Karakuri Baby and The Curious Second Life of Jewel Graham, TWO new books from the iconic @richardkadrey.bsky.social, author of Sandman Slim!

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

::Sam Reich voice::

I, Marty, have been here the whole time! That's right, I've been manning socials for the last 6 years, and it's been an honor to be the voice of Erewhon.

Thx for reading our books, following us here & everywhere & supporting us!

This job really has been . . . a Game Changer 💜

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thus, the serpent begins to eat its own tail (tale?) as one chapter ends, and the other begins <3

Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

::Sam Reich voice::

I, Marty, have been here the whole time! That's right, I've been manning socials for the last 6 years, and it's been an honor to be the voice of Erewhon.

Thx for reading our books, following us here & everywhere & supporting us!

This job really has been . . . a Game Changer 💜

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jul 17

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social announces Karakuri Baby and The Curious Second Life of Jewel Graham, TWO new books from the iconic @richardkadrey.bsky.social, author of Sandman Slim!

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Erewhon Books Announces Two New Books From Author Richard Kadrey - Reactor

We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of two books by genre superstar Richard Kadrey: Karakuri Baby, and The Curious Second Life of Jewel Graham. Both are slated to publish in 2027 from Erewhon ...

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Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

::Sam Reich voice::

I, Marty, have been here the whole time! That's right, I've been manning socials for the last 6 years, and it's been an honor to be the voice of Erewhon.

Thx for reading our books, following us here & everywhere & supporting us!

This job really has been . . . a Game Changer 💜

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · Jul 16

book good though

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · Jul 16

in a very literal textual sense she *is* the means of production or at least the material substrate on which the operations of production are practiced so really it’s the means of production that are doing the

Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social · Nov 8

You love stories of resistance, anticapitalism & queerness?

You love stories of magic, courtship & fury?

You love stories of messy butch lesbians, anarchic communes, sex that'll make your toes curl & vengeance?

Meet METAL FROM HEAVEN, by @sapphomancer.bsky.social

bookshop.org/p/books/meta...

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