Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES is here!! Thank you so much to everyone who has loved this book so far and thank you to everyone who is discovering it. I am so grateful. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias...

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE PORCELAIN SISTERS by Daryl Gregory. A horror novella of sisterhood and sinister sorcières as two young women (one a haunted doll) face their origins and choose their fates. Our drink is La Fabricante, a Marseille marvel!

Tour announcement!! Join me in celebrating @caitlinstarling.com's Milkteeth at Bucket O' Blood this Thursday, then the paperback launch for The Woods All Black with @sapphomancer.bsky.social at City Lit Books and more stops in Cincinnati ➡️ Louisville (w/ @eliaseells.bsky.social) ➡️ Milwaukee 🖤👻

LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...

If @rustyquill.com ever wanted to do a Magnus Archives cocktail book, I'd be down to clown. Just sayin...

And an evening in conversation with me and @eliaseells.bsky.social at A Novel Romance in Louisville, KY on 11/8 at 5:30pm! This one is 18+ and a ticketed event, so details to register are here: beventi.co/tickets/o2dt...

One could argue that as the most widely read genre, romance is most deserving of care and attention, a refusal to concede to bland extruded text from the Average Intelligence machine. The potential to reach the greatest number of readers with your art, with your intellect, can be through romance.

Catch me at the Louisville Book Festival all day today! We’ve got books to buy, mocktails to try, and beautiful weather. Hope to see you here!

Beside the point, but the largest most popular cycling group ride in the world is in Iowa. RAGBRAI: where you get to spend a week riding your bike across the state with 20000 of your closest friends!

Nothing finer than the company of friends and colleagues! It was such a joy to make drinks for Alix Harrow and Elizabeth Kilcoyne's Louisville event last night celebrating the arrival of THE SLANTWISE HISTORIES and the paperback release of THE EVERLASTING.

yes! YES!! the cover is out!!! so BoQs is what happens when you shove three regency disaster bisexuals headfirst through a leverage episode then drop a game-of-thrones midseason catastrophe on their heads halfway thru the heist 🥀🗡️🏆 skellingtons! murder! genderfail! the creepiest cup in the world!!

This is gonna be siiiiiick

👑 COVER REVEAL 👑 Gideon the Ninth meets My Lady Jane in this darkly sumptuous historical fantasy debut of Tudor-inspired court intrigue, necromancy, and deadly ambition.

If @rustyquill.com ever wanted to do a Magnus Archives cocktail book, I'd be down to clown. Just sayin...

Can't wait for tomorrow!!

Elias Eells from Bar Cart Bookshelf just released an episode of Cocktail Recipe & Book Review on Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Nevèrÿon! His commentary, along with a delicious drink recipe, is available to watch on Youtube. #linkinbio 🥂 #bookreview #drinks #youtube

Porcelain Sisters is on my to-read list. Elias Eells brings a review and a themed mixed drink recipe for Daryl Gregory's new book.

I HOPE you've watched this week's Bar Cart Bookshelf. I'll fall to DESPAIR if you haven't.

📣COVER REVEAL: @kuboartt.bsky.social has created this striking work for the short story collection of Charles R. Saunders' queer warrior woman, DOSSOUYE - one of two of her books we'll be begin crowdfunding on Nov 5th, at 8am EST! Go here to lend her your spear! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

If you'd like to meet a scary snake lady as she terrorizes a *fastidious* gay wizard, now's your chance with the deal of the season!! www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/shatt...

Recommendations are always welcome!

A novella for whatever your spooky season mood happens to be! Gothics, haunted houses, demonic possession, dark fairy tales, grief, madness, and mayhem. There’s something about frights that just lend themselves to short reads. For me at least. See any faves?

A perfect autumn anthology!! UNEARTHED is a globetrotting collection of horrors with a gothic flare. With rot in the foundations, ancient secrets, and the lure of long-forgotten wisdom, this collection of 19 stories haunts Stonehenge, Pompeii, the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and ME! Great stuff!!

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE BOOK OF LOVE by @kellylink.bsky.social. A transformative epic brilliant with life, death, sex, love, and rock & roll, with palpable potent magic & dirt under its nails. Our drink, Lovesend, is heady, with a kiss of aromatic spice.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FATE'S BANE by C.L. Clark. A fantasy novella in a world of feuding clans and sinking swamps, this potent lesbian love story is a barbed and gutting sawblade. Powerful work! Our drink is the Fen, a peaty perfectly balanced treat.

That’s right! If you missed us chatting about THE WOODS ALL BLACK when it came out in hardcover, you can catch us for the paperback. Gay guy horror hours in Kentucky!

I find the performative enthusiasm of short form videos so disingenuous and exhausting. Negatively polarizing behavior.

I'm readyyyyyy

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WOODS ALL BLACK by @leemandelo.bsky.social. Angry queers in the backwoods of Kentucky, monsters, vengeance, a proud commitment to desire & erudition. Our drink, Spar Creek, is dark & biting.

That’s right! If you missed us chatting about THE WOODS ALL BLACK when it came out in hardcover, you can catch us for the paperback. Gay guy horror hours in Kentucky!

Prepare to be sick of me.

Just getting prepped to see @alixeharrow.bsky.social here in Louisville tomorrow! Can you guess what I have in the jars?

Reflecting today on how my core advice to other artists is always: read and engage and explore so, so widely outside the neighborhood of your specific practice/genre/personal community Breadth and depth of experience, feeling, life, and praxis... that's where the good shit is!!

How I’m tryna be

Call me old-fashioned, but I think your occult practices should be shared on a blog read by 30 people and not in a moodily lit 75-second video cast into the widening algorithmic gyre.

Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!

Just getting prepped to see @alixeharrow.bsky.social here in Louisville tomorrow! Can you guess what I have in the jars?

Two anthologies, both alike in dignity, in fair The Vibrary where we lay our scene… I’m reading more short fiction this season & what could be finer than this pair? No matter my mood, I have a treat with THE CRAWLING MOON & I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED. What short stories are you reading lately?

Back in January, I needed an author photo for COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES, so I took a few portraits around the house before ending up with a picture taken at one of my favorite barcades.This one was NOT the move for a fun bubbly cocktail book, but I think it’s nice for Halloween, hmm?

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about FROM THESE DARK ABODES by Lyndsie Manusos. A novella where skeletons dance each night in a strange haunted house as two women unravel the mysteries of their servitude to the dead, I was entranced. Our drink, Saint Edah’s, is supple.

The Last Binding Trilogy of Edwardian fantasy romances by @freyamarske.bsky.social began with A MARVELLOUS LIGHT, continuing with A RESTLESS TRUTH. Our series menu is gin-focused; the Penhallick House and HMS Lyric offer a refreshing brightness to any time of year. LINKS BELOW.