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Elijah Kinch Spector

@elijahkinchspector.com

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Novelist. Dandy. British Fantasy Award finalist. Bay Area counterculture kid, now New Yorker. he/him linktr.ee/elijahkinchspector

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 24/08/2026

Better late than never: my Worldcon schedule. Programming is all on Friday, but I'll be around throughout the con!

Elijah Kinch Spector at Worldcon

Writing Between Worlds: Diasporic Influence in SFF - Friday, 12:00 - 259 ACC North

Signing - Friday, 1:30pm - Kensington Table, Dealer's Room

Fashion and Frippery in Fantasy - Friday, 3:00pm - 259 ACC North

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 12/08/2025

Come say hi if you're at Worldcon! And/or ConCurrent!

Elijah Kinch Spector
Worldcon Schedule
Aug 13-17, 2025

Wed 12PM: Table Talk
Room 430

Thu: I'll be at ConCurrent!

Fri 10:30AM: Queering History
Room 423-424

Sat 6PM: Signing
Garden Lounge (3F)

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 15/07/2025

Oh my God, Lakeside had the best covers The Robin Hood one? Are you kidding me???

The cover of Lakeside's album Untouchables, which is a painting of the band as gangsters.

The cover of Lakeside's Fantastic Voyage, which is a painting of the band as pirates.

Lakeside's Shot of Love, which shows them as Robin Hood's Merry Men. (No one is clearly Robin Hood)

Lakeside's Party Patrol, where they're, like, on motorcycles and in a jeep, in uniforms of some kind. One of them is surfing. It might be copaganda?

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 12/07/2025

Just finished @elianeboey.bsky.social's excellent, and vividly described, Club Contango! (I didn't mean to coordinate my drink order and my hand fan with the cover, but I'll take it)

Club Contango by Eliane Boey on a table between a hand fan and a matcha latte, all in similar greens and golds. (Part of my hand is there too.)

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 13/05/2025

Next week I'll be discussing modern fantasy, older SFF, politics, writing, and probably more at @balticon.bsky.social. Come say hi!

Elijah Kinch Spector
Balticon Schedule
May 23-26

Sat 1PM: A Manifesto is not a Novel
Gibson 60

Sat 8:30PM: Modern Sensibilities in Current Fantasy
St. George 42

Sun 10AM: Reading
St. George 598

Sun 2:30PM: Assembling Your Cast
Pride of Baltimore II 119

Sun 5:30PM: Reframing Older Works Mount Washington 52

Sun 7PM: Signing
5th Floor Lobby 624

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 01/01/2025

In repose, but festive

Me in a disheveled tux sitting on the floor smiling

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 17/12/2024

Guess this is a good place to put @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social saying such thoughtful and complimentary things about my work that I do a legit double take

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 09/12/2024

Love this photo from last week's KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT launch of @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and me just CACKLING

Two authors seated at a bookstore event laughing uproariously.

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 02/12/2024

Read this bit last night, just before bed, and thought it seemed a little on the nose! From Stendhal's The Red and the Black (1830):

Photo of text from a book, saying: "M. Valenod had as good as said to the businessmen in town: Give me your two biggest fools; to the lawyers he'd said, pick out a pair of your dumbest; and to the medical men, name me your two biggest charlatans. When he had assembled the most shameless members of every trade, he said to them, let's get together and make a government."

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 26/11/2024

Did an interview with my oldest friend in the world! We talked about fantasy, politics, and the influence of a '90s JRPG on my books He also brought out the baby pictures...

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 26/11/2024

Now what the fuck am I gonna do with all of these?

A manicured hand holding a bunch of bookmarks featuring the cover to Kalyna the Cutthroat and the words "COMING SOON."

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 21/11/2024

I was honestly trying to get one where I looked approachable

The author in a cozy turtleneck leaning his head against his hand and looking out the window, in what seems deep thought. It's visibly overcast outside.

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 18/11/2024

KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT is out next week from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! It's a queer fantasy novel about con artistry, dark magic, and relying on mutual aid when systems fail us. Writing this book kinda wrecked me, but I'm extremely proud of it. Pre-order: bookshop.org/a/88223/9781...

The author smiling and holding a copy of KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT.

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 14/11/2024

As far as I know, Kropotkin's Mutual Aid popularized the term. This copy used to belong to an old school leftist—the father of one of my best friends. The first 70 pages are actually about mutual aid among animals!

A copy of Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid with an abstract, brutalist cover.

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Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com · 14/11/2024

Because @jayasax.bsky.social reminded me of them earlier today, here are KALYNA THE CUTTHROAT's uncomfortably relevant epigraphs!

"It is not love to my neighbour—whom I often do not know at all—which induces me to seize a pail of water and to rush towards his house when I see it on fire." - Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid

"It was my destiny to see the disjointing of a world." - Younghill Kang, East Goes West

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