K.L. Schroeder
@klschroeder.bsky.social
Science fiction + horror writer.
PhD microbiologist.
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD out now from Psychopomp 💀
🔭🔬 🇨🇦 🇸🇪
they/them
PhD microbiologist.
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD out now from Psychopomp 💀
🔭🔬 🇨🇦 🇸🇪
they/them
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"Do not pollute the common well."
AI has done precisely that, polluted the information ecology we all live in and draw from. Think about what YouTube was like just 3 years ago. Think about what search was like 5 years ago.
AI pollution is forced down every throat.
mastodon.green/@Tarnport/11...
AI has done precisely that, polluted the information ecology we all live in and draw from. Think about what YouTube was like just 3 years ago. Think about what search was like 5 years ago.
AI pollution is forced down every throat.
mastodon.green/@Tarnport/11...
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Do not pollute the common well."
AI has done precisely that, polluted the information ecology we all live in and draw from. Think about what YouTube was like just 3 years ago. Think about what search was like 5 years ago.
AI pollution is forced down every throat.
mastodon.green/@Tarnport/11...
AI has done precisely that, polluted the information ecology we all live in and draw from. Think about what YouTube was like just 3 years ago. Think about what search was like 5 years ago.
AI pollution is forced down every throat.
mastodon.green/@Tarnport/11...
the light returns! they reported a few days ago theres been about a half hour of sunshine in stockholm the entire month of december and ive never been more excited to be tilting towards a star in my entire life.
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
the light returns! they reported a few days ago theres been about a half hour of sunshine in stockholm the entire month of december and ive never been more excited to be tilting towards a star in my entire life.
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we've had an amazing year of novellas here at skelly headquarters, and we love
love
LOVE
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
love
LOVE
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
we've had an amazing year of novellas here at skelly headquarters, and we love
love
LOVE
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
love
LOVE
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
get yourself, or someone you love, a little 🎁
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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Tried to keep my Top 2025 reads to 25, but a few extra snuck in...! Here's a wee thread of all of my favourite genre books that I read this year - horror & gothic, sci fi, eco fiction, fantasy, and blends of them all! 🧵👇✨📚
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Tried to keep my Top 2025 reads to 25, but a few extra snuck in...! Here's a wee thread of all of my favourite genre books that I read this year - horror & gothic, sci fi, eco fiction, fantasy, and blends of them all! 🧵👇✨📚
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this is a really great list, I'm so honoured that Distant Dead is amongst these fantastic reads 🖤
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
this is a really great list, I'm so honoured that Distant Dead is amongst these fantastic reads 🖤
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No One To Hold the Distant Dead, by @klschroeder.bsky.social (pub by @psychopomp.com), is a dark sci-fi novella that gives us a glimpse of hope. A reading that I recommend if you want to continue thinking after finishing the story.
Full thoughts:
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Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/no-o...
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In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
No One To Hold the Distant Dead, by @klschroeder.bsky.social (pub by @psychopomp.com), is a dark sci-fi novella that gives us a glimpse of hope. A reading that I recommend if you want to continue thinking after finishing the story.
Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/no-o...
💙📚
Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/no-o...
💙📚
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if you have a few coins hanging around, I know firsthand that these talented, ambitious, kind, and thoughtful publishing folks would put it to excellent use.
if you have a few coins hanging around, I know firsthand that these talented, ambitious, kind, and thoughtful publishing folks would put it to excellent use.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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if you have a few coins hanging around, I know firsthand that these talented, ambitious, kind, and thoughtful publishing folks would put it to excellent use.
if you have a few coins hanging around, I know firsthand that these talented, ambitious, kind, and thoughtful publishing folks would put it to excellent use.
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
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And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.
oh look at the 178th (!) book Jam read! thank you for reading, i hope you enjoyed the story 🖤🦎
178.- No One to Hold the Distant Dead, by @klschroeder.bsky.social (pub by @psychopomp.com)
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
oh look at the 178th (!) book Jam read! thank you for reading, i hope you enjoyed the story 🖤🦎
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it's hard for us to express how much we love this book
"lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social
"searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social
"a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social
YES
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
"lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social
"searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social
"a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social
YES
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
it's hard for us to express how much we love this book
"lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social
"searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social
"a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social
YES
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
"lovely and melancholy" @acwise.bsky.social
"searing, intensely evocative" @davegoodman.bsky.social
"a moving elegy" @ivygrimes.bsky.social
YES
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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If you love books like THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF by Octavia Cade, ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vandermeer, BLACKFISH CITY by Sam J. Miller, THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST by LeGuin, or if you simply trust that I have impeccable taste (🤷), then please check it out: psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you love books like THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF by Octavia Cade, ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vandermeer, BLACKFISH CITY by Sam J. Miller, THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST by LeGuin, or if you simply trust that I have impeccable taste (🤷), then please check it out: psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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IT'S ALIVE 💀🦎🦌🧠
It was a pleasure and a privilege to edit this book with
@klschroeder.bsky.social, one that I fell in love with straight from the submissions pile. A quiet, aching story that radiates a love of all life while looking death, personal and species-wide, right in the eyes.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to edit this book with
@klschroeder.bsky.social, one that I fell in love with straight from the submissions pile. A quiet, aching story that radiates a love of all life while looking death, personal and species-wide, right in the eyes.
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
IT'S ALIVE 💀🦎🦌🧠
It was a pleasure and a privilege to edit this book with
@klschroeder.bsky.social, one that I fell in love with straight from the submissions pile. A quiet, aching story that radiates a love of all life while looking death, personal and species-wide, right in the eyes.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to edit this book with
@klschroeder.bsky.social, one that I fell in love with straight from the submissions pile. A quiet, aching story that radiates a love of all life while looking death, personal and species-wide, right in the eyes.
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!!
download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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Happy book birthday to @klschroeder.bsky.social! No One to Hold the Distant Dead is a lovely novella that contemplates what it means to mourn an entire planet and how one finds hope when things seem hopeless.
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy book birthday to @klschroeder.bsky.social! No One to Hold the Distant Dead is a lovely novella that contemplates what it means to mourn an entire planet and how one finds hope when things seem hopeless.
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
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I absolutely loved this novella by @klschroeder.bsky.social - highly recommended. My full blurb:
"No One To Hold The Distant Dead is a searing, intensely evocative novella."
(cont'd in next post)
"No One To Hold The Distant Dead is a searing, intensely evocative novella."
(cont'd in next post)
"A lovely and melancholy exploration of loss, grief, and care for the dead." — @acwise.bsky.social
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I absolutely loved this novella by @klschroeder.bsky.social - highly recommended. My full blurb:
"No One To Hold The Distant Dead is a searing, intensely evocative novella."
(cont'd in next post)
"No One To Hold The Distant Dead is a searing, intensely evocative novella."
(cont'd in next post)
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"A lovely and melancholy exploration of loss, grief, and care for the dead." — @acwise.bsky.social
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
No One To Hold The Distant Dead | Psychopomp
As extinction takes species after species, Inga and the people of Nordenmark must find a way to survive, and a reason to live, in the spaces death leaves behind.
psychopomp.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"A lovely and melancholy exploration of loss, grief, and care for the dead." — @acwise.bsky.social
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
"a searing, intensely evocative novella." —@davegoodman.bsky.social
No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social
GRAB YOURS TODAY 🙌🖤
psychopomp.com/product/no-o...
aww 🖤 i think it was you who brought the extraordinary Nico!
we're so excited to share this story with you all, go grab a preorder to find out why 👀🖤🦎
we're so excited to share this story with you all, go grab a preorder to find out why 👀🖤🦎
Working with and taking to @klschroeder.bsky.social has been nothing short of extraordinary. This novella is about the love of life and the ecology of death and also GOTHS IN SPACE. So get hype, folks!
"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it."
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
aww 🖤 i think it was you who brought the extraordinary Nico!
we're so excited to share this story with you all, go grab a preorder to find out why 👀🖤🦎
we're so excited to share this story with you all, go grab a preorder to find out why 👀🖤🦎
Reposted by K.L. Schroeder
Echoes of Flesh - project is still alive
September 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Echoes of Flesh - project is still alive
Reposted by K.L. Schroeder
"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it."
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
No One to Hold the Distant Dead: A Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster.
psychopomp.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it."
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella
NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD
read on (YUM)
and preorder too!
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
Reposted by K.L. Schroeder
When I read this novella in submissions, I knew we had to have it. The story is dark and timely, focusing on damaged systems: bodies and planets, human and animal. We are more alike than not, every person a world being ravaged by changing climates: environmental, emotional.
our latest novella by @klschroeder.bsky.social is
- avail for preorder
- cover revealed
- f*cking exquisite
check out the cover
check out the author interview
pre order the book TODAY
it's really really good you can TOTALLY TRUST US ON THIS
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
- avail for preorder
- cover revealed
- f*cking exquisite
check out the cover
check out the author interview
pre order the book TODAY
it's really really good you can TOTALLY TRUST US ON THIS
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
No One to Hold the Distant Dead: A Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster.
psychopomp.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When I read this novella in submissions, I knew we had to have it. The story is dark and timely, focusing on damaged systems: bodies and planets, human and animal. We are more alike than not, every person a world being ravaged by changing climates: environmental, emotional.
its here!! would you also like to also fall in love with a lizard named Hecate? 🦎🖤 get thee to the preorder :)
our latest novella by @klschroeder.bsky.social is
- avail for preorder
- cover revealed
- f*cking exquisite
check out the cover
check out the author interview
pre order the book TODAY
it's really really good you can TOTALLY TRUST US ON THIS
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
- avail for preorder
- cover revealed
- f*cking exquisite
check out the cover
check out the author interview
pre order the book TODAY
it's really really good you can TOTALLY TRUST US ON THIS
psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...
No One to Hold the Distant Dead: A Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster.
psychopomp.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
its here!! would you also like to also fall in love with a lizard named Hecate? 🦎🖤 get thee to the preorder :)
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As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, ineffective charm that will help you meet a rather colossal friendly dog.
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, ineffective charm that will help you meet a rather colossal friendly dog.
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"into the dark"
Bei Interesse schreib mich gerne an🩵
#FarbkartenDoodle #Art #bsnm #kleineKunstklasse #Herz&Blut
Bei Interesse schreib mich gerne an🩵
#FarbkartenDoodle #Art #bsnm #kleineKunstklasse #Herz&Blut
October 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"into the dark"
Bei Interesse schreib mich gerne an🩵
#FarbkartenDoodle #Art #bsnm #kleineKunstklasse #Herz&Blut
Bei Interesse schreib mich gerne an🩵
#FarbkartenDoodle #Art #bsnm #kleineKunstklasse #Herz&Blut