#Neon Hemlock

[unlovelyspace]

& This Is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda

[mspencerdraws]

Do you like to read? Are you in search of the darker side of genres like horror, fantasy, and sci-fi, but wish you could find work told from queer perspectives? Do you like to feel a chill creep up your spine before an alluring trepidation grips your heart tight and sinks to the pit of your stomach? (All from the safety of your couch, armchair, bathtub, bus seat, what have you). Please consider preordering The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread from Neon Hemlock. It's funding on IndieGoGo right now, and there are a NUMBER of really excellent rewards available (pins, patches, candles, BOOKS so many BOOKS) and some SUPER exciting stretch goals (more stories! a free pin for backers! Illustrations by me @mspencerdraws! A full novella! In the anthology!). The lineup of contributors to The Crawling Moon is amazing so far- look at this bunch:

(and if you're a writer, you could very well join them, since Neon Hemlock is open for submissions!) Editor dave ring is fantastic to work with, I can say from personal experience! The last anthology of this sort that Neon Hemlock produced, Unfettered Hexes, co-won the Shirley Jackson Award, was fully illustrated, and sold out its first print run! You can order your own copy of Unfettered Hexes from the second print run as part of the Crawling Moon campaign! Please please consider directly supporting this queer-run small press that's publishing incredible speculative queer work by queer creators!

[smhallow]

“That is the trick to a long marriage: you must make each other possible.”

Earlier this month Baffling Magazine published another one of my fairytale romances. Enjoy! 

[deehollowaywrites]

A few reviews...

...up at DIS/MEMBER this week! Thoughts on A Haunting In Venice, and a brief review of Skin Thief: Stories plus an interview with its author.

Happy spooky season!

[cmrosens]

Interview with Suzan Palumbo ~ Skin Thief coming Oct 2023

Check out the amazing work of Suzan Palumbo, interviewed on my podcast this month! #darkfiction #longread #bodyhorror #folklore

Bio Suzan Palumbo is a Nebula finalist, active member of the HWA, Co Administrator of the Ignyte Awards and a member of the Hugo nominated FIYAHCON team. She is also a former Associate Editor of  “Shimmer” magazine. Her debut dark fantasy/horror short story collection “Skin Thief: Stories” will be published by Neon Hemlock in Fall 2023. Her novella “Countess” will be published by ECW Press in…

[geeklyinc]

Small Press-o-Mania!

Small Press-o-Mania!

In our recent podcast I talked about how small Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror presses are really doing some amazing work. And then I totally blanked on the specific recommendations. So here they are, fifteen small presses for you to check out, complete with links and apologies to the publishers I really do love.   Neon …

[thegirlwiththelantern]

5 2023 Indie Releases I'm Excited to Read

It’s such a joy to find an indie publisher. I can usually trust that I’ll enjoy a book from, say, Tor, but their scope is so much wider. Not that there’s no variety here. Just that they tend to be more concise. These are only a handful and I would very much recommend looking at the websites for each publisher for more 2023 releases. Neverest by T.L. Bodine | 25 April [Neon Hemlock] One year ago,…

[400barrels]

Neon Hemlock press are crowdfunding for this anthology of queer horror tales and it is going to be GREAT, Twitter’s implosion is (a) very funny but also (b) makes it harder for indie creatives to sell stuff so uh see if you want to spend some money on this

[petrerpkr]

[mosswolf]

Stories about mechs and mechas bleed perfectly into stories about personhood, especially when those stories deal with queerness and transness. Queer peoples are rarely disused to having their personhood questioned or policed.

dave ring, luminescent machinations: queer tales of monumental invention

[words-on-pa-per]

Okay, so I'm not into short stories usually, but Baffling Magazine is going to ruin me. (aDvErtIsiNG)It's a digital magazine that posts an issue once a month with about four short stories in it. It's queer and goes across practically every abnormal genre there is: supernatural, fantasy, sci-fi. I'm absolutely in love. Also it's free. I love free shit.

Check it out. Please. I will implode if you do not.

[mspencerdraws]

I had a ton of fun illustrating the promo postcard for this year's lineup of queer novellas from Neon Hemlock https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davering/neon-hemlocks-2024-novella-series Help us reach some stretch goals before the campaign ends! (Pins! Interior Illustrations! Maybe more oracle cards 👀)

[saintmachina]

might spend Christmas break writing smutty wintry gothic short fiction we shall see 

[deehollowaywrites]

Somewhat incredibly, Unfettered Hexes won the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award for Anthology (co-won by the also-excellent Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most [Fictional] Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World). Very proud to be part of this book; congratulations to all the authors, the editor, and the amazing art and design team.

[vermilionzombie]

First Post!This is from roughly a month a go😅👩‍🎨 🎼(Based of the song 'Girlfriend' by Hemlocke Springs)

[seking-922]

Dr. Royce Hemlock in neon.

I approach things from a different angle. And I'll flame it up a little!