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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf

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Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 eliaseells.com Inquiries: elias.eells1@gmail.com linktr.ee/eliaseells

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 8h
I simply will not buy a book with your sticker on it, you married someone who worked for your father’s evil administration!!
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I know we don’t necessarily bear the sins of our fathers, but I am so deeeeply suspicious of Jenna Bush Hager. Like, c’mon man.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I love how they glow
Pink and golden flowers glowing in the evening light. Pink and golden flowers glowing in the evening light. Closer up.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Based.
A sticker at a rest area in western Missouri reads “John Brown Lives”
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Lancelot is so AMAB nonbinary to me
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Based.
A sticker at a rest area in western Missouri reads “John Brown Lives”
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Im bestie 🗡️
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I do feel there are occult things happening in St. Louis
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Lancelot is so AMAB nonbinary to me
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unfortunately it is bedtime when bestie is Mordredmaxxing
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If we were a proper industry, there would be a 14 book urban fantasy series where the Gateway Arch is a portal to a dozen dozen worlds.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These books have got that DAWG in ‘em. Awoooooo!! Happy #NationalDogDay! What are your favorite fictional canines??
[a stack of books featuring dogs, wolves, and werewolves, the goodest good boys (bottom to top): THE WOLF AND HIS KING by Finn Longman, BLACKTAIL by Scott Hawkins, NONA THE NINTH by Tamsyn Muir, NO GODS, NO MONSTERS by Cadwell Turnbull, FEED THEM SILENCE by Lee Mandelo, THE RED WINTER by Cameron Sullivan, THE DEVOURERS by Indra Das, LEARN TO HOWL by Jennifer R. Donohue, FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by Cassandra Khaw, BORED GAY WEREWOLF by Tony Santorellla]
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really really love a great short story collection and THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON by Ken Liu is a truly luminous addition to my library. Liu's third collection soars with heart, with bold speculation, with keen understanding. Rooted in the present moment, always looking toward the future. Glorious!
A hardcover of THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES by Ken Liu in golden dawn light on a crowded mantel.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I do feel there are occult things happening in St. Louis
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s a cry for help!! Just talk about people like they’re people!
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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Dragonbone Chair Deluxe Edition is out today 🌟 This edition of the first book of the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series includes sprayed edges, premium cover effects, 4-color endpapers featuring the original Michael Whelan art, and a new introduction from the author! buff.ly/IgQNVeB
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can’t tell someone when they say “my better half” that they sound like they’re in a cult, but they do.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This looks so siiiiiiick
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about HOUSE, BODY, BIRD by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. A haunted house novella in a dollhouse museum & a propulsive lesbian survival thriller, deliciously dreamlike & pounding with action. Weird, in the best way. Our drink is a Dollhouse.
HOUSE, BODY, BIRD by Bernie Jean Schiebeling alongside a reddish drink garnished with a cocktail cherry on a wooden table in front of a lilac shrub.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Hear my full review of THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. youtu.be/JdMzvs9ECho
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Cocktail Recipe & Book Review: Eviscerator (THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS by P. Djèlí Clark)
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD by Giovanni De Feo. A folkloric fantasy in a southern Italian city inhabited by Night Saints, forges, embodied idioms, & the Dreamarquise of Cats, this book inspired the Nocturnal, stirred & dark as night.
THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD by Giovanni De Feo on a glass table alongside a dark drink in a stemmed glass garnished with a cherry. The book and drink sit before a bounty of green-white hydrangeas.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Previously in my love for the work of Ken Liu:
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wax rhapsodic about THE ARCHIVE UNDYING here! youtu.be/abGavBr8bfw
A frosty glass with a pale green-white cocktail sits alongside an advance reader copy of THE ARCHIVE UNDYING. A bounty of bee balm and a blue sky lie in the background.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As ever, my call to writers and to readers is MOVE WITH INTENTION. Do things on purpose, choose things with care. Make sure it matters.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
also in a comedy of manners, the manners matter. it’s not just using the right fork or being polite; it’s also manner of dress. when you adapt something from a very specific social context, you can’t (always) just mess around with signifiers within that context
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES by @kyliu99.bsky.social is available now from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social. Sitting now alongside his first two collections in my library and soon in yours! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...
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The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
Ken Liu, author of the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories—his second short s...
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Particular favorites include "The Moon Carver" (you have come to me at a very animal stories time in my reading), "A Whisper of Blue" (a reread from five years ago with fresh eyes), and "Arc". It's also great to see "The Armies of Those I Love" in text, having previously been an audio exclusive.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really really love a great short story collection and THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON by Ken Liu is a truly luminous addition to my library. Liu's third collection soars with heart, with bold speculation, with keen understanding. Rooted in the present moment, always looking toward the future. Glorious!
A hardcover of THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES by Ken Liu in golden dawn light on a crowded mantel.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This looks so siiiiiiick
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's still bubble gum even if it dyes your mouth black.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting the fantasy books you see as billed "For The Thinker" vs the actually thinky layered fantasy books.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini. A dreamlike vampire novel with a resonant emotional maturity, the queer fantasia was a fresh & exciting entry to one of my fave subgenres. Our drink is the perfectly pink Moonkin!
[Image desc: a copy of A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini before a rich red-purple drape. Beside the book is a stemmed glass with a pale pink drink. The scene is awash with prismatic rainbows.]
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Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look who's here! 🌀⏳ ARCs for IN VACUO are in and they are so satisfyingly chunky. @titanbooks.bsky.social has a form to fill if you wish one: bit.ly/TitanBooksARCs — or just reach out! This dark tale of mad science and witchcraft is out on February 23, 2027 and I can't wait for you to read it!
A hand holding a copy of IN VACUO in front of a bookcase. A hand holding a copy of IN VACUO at an angle, to show the chunkiness of it.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh hiiiiiii
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho. A frothy epistolary novella, this literary comedy of manners dazzles and delights in true effervescent style. Utterly charming! Our drink is an Artistic Education, a bright bubbly mocktail.
An advance reader copy THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO alongside a red drink in a coupe glass on a table top.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ahaha!! My contributor copy of SHATTER THE SUN has arrived. I'm so excited to share my story with all of you & to read the offerings of all the other contributors. Sharp blades, glamorous wizards, terrible monsters, tortured priests, & so much more await in this landmark new anthology of queer S&S!
A copy of SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring at golden hour. A prism flashes rainbows on the wall behind. The anthology sits alongside a stack of classic Sword & Sorcery tales (bottom to top): ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ by Michael Moorcock, THE COMING OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard, NEVERYÓNA by Samuel Delany, IN THE LAND OF TIME AND OTHER FANTASY TALES by Lord Dunsany, THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIES by Clark Ashton Smith, JIREL OF JOIRY by C.L. Moore
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about INNAMORATA by Ava Reid. A gothic fantasy of epic proportions, this novel plumbs the depths of human appetites: for love, for flesh, for vengeance, for understanding. Grand in scope and intimate, our drink is the Mistress of Teeth.
A hardcover of INNAMORATA by Ava Reid alongside a blush red drink in a lace engraved stemmed glass. Book and drink are nestled amid pruple basil and rich red zinnias.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NEW DRINK ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talkin about THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS by Kai Ashante Wilson. This is a science-fantasy sword & sorcery novella of profound poetry & ardent action, as a caravan crosses a deadly magical expanse. A landmark of queer fantasy. Our drink is Demoniac.
A paperback of THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS by Kai Ashante Wilson alongside a bruise-dark purple red drink in a low glass with a salted rom. White hydrangeas bloom in the background.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re gonna get some truly heinous fantasy novels inspired by this music video, but I hope we get at least one good one too.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That should be something you can find at Macy’s!
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Find someone who loves you the way gay guys love reference-based humor
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish I could find green suits in real life as readily as I see them on TV
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🎩🐸🍸
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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Starred Review for THE LOOM TREE, from Library Journal! First trade review for this book, my third novel. My very first Starred Review, so I will cherish it! e-ARCs on NetGalley/ Edelweiss Pre-orders appreciated! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818135... My Editor: @dianapho.bsky.social !
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Alvsdahl Spritz 1 oz apple brandy .5 oz amaro alta verde .5 oz grenadine 1 oz lychee soda 1 oz sparkling wine Add all ingredients to an old fashioned glass over ice, stir to combine. Cheers!
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