Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
Professional Inquiries: elias.eells1@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
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Kentucky Authors
Authors and writers from the Bluegrass State!
Bar Cart Bookshelf Authors
Authors who have been featured on Bar Cart Bookshelf, a series where Elias Eells (author of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES) crafts custom cocktails and mocktails inspired by recent works of speculative fiction.
Queer Masculinity in SFFH
Authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror who either identify as queer men or who are particularly interested queer masculinity in their work.
@hanawrites.bsky.social
Author • Artist • Disability Advocate • Sindhi-Bengali writing queer SFF • she/sir • 🏳️🌈 #DECOLONIZE #BIPOC #ActuallyAutistic #hEDS♿
@kamielke.bsky.social
he/they | queer🏳️🌈 | Black lives matter | protect trans kids | Free Palestine | author | https://linktr.ee/KAMielke | banner art by Ursula Gray
@sarinadahlan.bsky.social
Author living in fascism FREESET (‘24) - Notable UC book PRESET (‘23) - Unplugged Book RESET (‘21) - OUABC Club & Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Book Sarinadahlan.com
@alolanfloatzel.bsky.social
life is a washing machine and i’m just the twink half stuck inside of it 📍toronto
@rainesford.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, author. Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue. Supporter of youth journalism. Kentuckian. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com or Signal rstauff.20 www.rainesfordstauffer.com
@maxyaak.bsky.social
28 // 📍Chicago // He/Him 🥸 // Transmasc Silly Goose, Drag Bag Boyfriend, Nice Jewish boy you can take home to mom 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@ourmankoto.bsky.social
SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦
@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback books.
@wenyilee.bsky.social
🇸🇬 writes sff // THE DARK WE KNOW (Gillian Flynn Books) // WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY (@torbooks 2025)
@nigelfaustino.bsky.social
Short fiction at Lightspeed. Bylines at Polygon, Into the Spine
@bookmarkobrien.bsky.social
Associate literary agent at Azantian Literary Agency, queer, cat dad, neuroscoundrel, tryhard, here to make friends, freelance editor and sensitivity reader, he/him, https://bookmarkobrien.com
@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
@lindenalewis.bsky.social
Publishers Weekly bestselling author 📚 Nonbinary queer writer (she/they) ⚔️ Rep’d by Hannah Bowman 💫 The First Sister trilogy out now! 🇺🇸➡️🇪🇸
@othersidespec.bsky.social
OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by queer writers and artists. Opening for submissions in January 2026! https://patreon.com/OthersideSpec · https://othersidespec.com
@mccaine.bsky.social
Bi femboy/twunk. I like owls, languages, Tolkien, and socialism. Tell no lies, claim no easy victories. Private SFW account
@salgo.bsky.social
SFF Author - Multimedia Artist / Rep'd by Sam Farkas www.salgowrites.com
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra. they/them | siad/iad ♿🏳️🌈 https://finnlongman.com
@funfactorpod.com
Reviewing what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired @tyschalter.com & @aidanis.fun to become professional journalists, authors, and critics. https://www.funfactorpod.com
@roannelau.bsky.social
Author of epic fantasy debut THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY out now! ・Buy now: http://tscm.carrd.co ・Newsletter: http://roannelau.substack.com/embed Agent: Keir Alekseii
@thebizarrcade.bsky.social
Dropping Obscure gaming history, Retro Trivia and Hot Takes! Join the Bizarrcade, your home for Culture, Hostory and Nerd S&*t. http://thelink.bio/TheBizarrcade
@thomasha.bsky.social
Writer || UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) Undertow || Nebula, Ignyte, Hugo, Locus, & Shirley Jackson Nominee || Best American SFF. Brave New Weird. Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror || Korean/Irish hapa. Father o' three. He/him. thomashawrites.com
@caspargeon.bsky.social
Author of extragalactic space opera THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, published July 2025 with Solaris. Represented by Ed Wilson https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-immeasurable-heaven/caspar-geon/9781837864737 https://geni.us/immeasurable
@mikebrooks668.bsky.social
That Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him. All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
@csecooney.bsky.social
World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
@basaltweaver.bsky.social
I do some Earth-science art. You may also know me as "Paleo Edits" on YT, where I've remixed paleo/nature documentaries. All my links: https://linktr.ee/carlaugustw
@edenroyce.bsky.social
Writer of Southern Gothic and other dark fiction for kids and adults. Walter Award Honoree. Shirley Jackson finalist. Nebula Award finalist. ROOT MAGIC. THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE. she/her https://linktr.ee/edenroyce
@jendiagammon.bsky.social
Nebula & BSFA Finalist Author. “Jen-DEE-a”. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. Producer/EIC: @starsandsabers.bsky.social Also J. Dianne Dotson. https://jendiagammon.com 📍Los Angeles
@davevriser.bsky.social
he/him. graduate student, writer, and transsexual horror. currently working at University of Pittsburgh's A&SC Horror Collection.
@lmanusos.bsky.social
She/Her | Indie Bookseller | 2 x Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Senior Contributor for Book Riot | Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
@yocholol.bsky.social
🧿 https://yocholol.com/ // https://ko-fi.com/yocholol 🧿 UPCOMING: FWA 2025, FURLANDIA 2025, FM 2025
@blairfell.bsky.social
Author of The Sign For Home (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) and Disco Witches of Fire Island (Alcove Press, May 2025) also an ASL interpreter and proudly queer and progressive Blairfell.com
@taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Independent scholar of fantasy, gender, sexuality, religion & theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall.
@casskhaw.bsky.social
Writes books. Works in games. Does pole. Lifts weights. Has cats. Not actually here. Find me on Instagram.
@scmillsbooks.bsky.social
Queer speculative fiction writer and jiujitsu purple belt. Winner of NYC Midnight, Writing Battle, and exactly one paid grappling match. Fiction published in Heartlines, Wyngraf, Crepuscular, Elegant Literature, and elsewhere. https://linktr.ee/sc
@mimulus.bsky.social
Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Words in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Crow & Cross Keys, HELL IS REAL, ALOCASIA, Trollbreath, Prismatica. Loves dinosaurs, wildflowers, photography, human rights. ACAB. mimulus.weebly.com
@bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Full-time palaeo-reconstruction artist. If it's dead & long gone, I'll bring it back to life. You will have seen my art in a book, a museum, or on TV somewhere . . . (No AI, no NFT)
@mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org
When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry. They/them or he/him.
@kenbebelle.bsky.social
Asian-inspired fantasy and sf. Co-author of The Phoenix Hoard and Seattle Slayers. PEARL CITY (Tor) coming July '25. More dragons, always. Magic: the Gathering. Day jobbing in prosthetics.
@devinmadson.bsky.social
Author. Drinker of tea. Writer of many sex scenes. Killer of plants. Pan/genderfluid 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (He/she/they) Rebecca Ide: THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VOWSMITH out April ‘25 Devin Madson: BETWEEN DRAGONS AND THEIR WRATH out now!
@adamcr.bsky.social
📍Chicago Sometimes “adorkable.” Fan of interrobangs, Oxford commas, and ampersands. he/they • 🏳️🌈 bi No LGB without the TQ+ 🏳️⚧️
@ricochetrita.bsky.social
Writer, bisexual, vocalist for sludge metal band Cursed Body. He/Him I like X-men comics. Eviscerate fascism everywhere. 🏴 “The Dreaming Dead”, a queer sword and sorcery novel, available at jaywayward.com
@blackstonepub.bsky.social
Over 30 years of publishing bestselling books and audiobooks by fantastic writers and narrators. https://linktr.ee/blackstonepublishing
@sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Games, interactive theatre, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching games at NYU & Fordham Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member My book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is now out (from Neon Hemlock Press)!
@sierrabranham.bsky.social
sff author, juggles knives, has goats LOVE GALAXY (DAW 🇺🇸 & Transworld 🇬🇧 2026) rep: Cameron McClure @ DMLA she/her 💜💙💖 www.sierrabranham.com