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Josie Kallo

@josiewrites.bsky.social
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Librarian and author of THE SAINTS WE MAKE, forthcoming from Neon Hemlock. Currently situated in SE Michigan. 🏳️‍⚧️ She/her

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have it directly here too 🗡️ 🌞 🔥 www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-sa...
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The Saints We Make by Josie Kallo (pre-order) — neon hemlock
Publication date: October 27, 2026. An 8” x 5” novella. It is the empire. It is always the empire. Clarion is the sun, bright and hot. At her side is Respite, a wisp of cloud. Behind them, pale...
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's October, I just brought my new twins home from the NICU, and I've got a book coming out at the end of the month! Click the link to pre order The Saints We Make!
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The Saints We Make
It is the Empire. It is always the Empire.Clarion is the sun, bright and hot. At her side is Respite, a wisp of cloud. Behind them, pale like the morning's moon, is Saint Penance.The Saints and their ...
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pre-order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Saints We Make
It is the Empire. It is always the Empire.Clarion is the sun, bright and hot. At her side is Respite, a wisp of cloud. Behind them, pale like the morning's moon, is Saint Penance.The Saints and their ...
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
33 days until my debut novella is published! It's been a wild ride but I can't wait for people to read it!
The Saints We Make cover art surrounded by phrases describing the novella. Hero's Journey, Sapphic Knights Kicking Fascist Ass, Queer Yearning, Righteous Revolution Against Colonial Oppression, Flaming Swords, caretaking as Romance
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Katie smacks her lips at the prospect of consuming a gigantic meatball sub. She takes a gigantic bite out of it. While chewing, a man sidles up to her and says "sir.. or uh... Ma'am? They? I just wanna say you are so brave..." Katie, mouth full of marinara, winces at the man's attempted gesture of kindness.
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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 22/09/2026
everyone wants to tell artists what to do and i wish we could shift to telling audiences what to do sometimes. if you liked webcomics that were on tapas, follow somewhere else. learn to use RSS. don't let the seamlessness of apps turn your brain into soup. you can change your habits
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A woman says "hi, I'm here for the MagicL The Gathering tournament." The man running the sign-up booth says "of course. and ma'am I hope it's not too presumptious of me to say that your transition is going incredible." The woman says "uh... I'm cis actually." Another man says "hi... wow ma'am, your transition..." The first man interrupts hims by shouting "Tony! No!"
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...
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Neon Hemlock - Speculative Chapbook/Novelette
Neon Hemlock Press is open to submissions of speculative chapbook manuscripts from August 20 to October 15, 2026. We expect to publish at least one chapbook next year; if the stretch goal in our curre...
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lowry (they/them) @ferretly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
SHE'S HERE!
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wow, four hours to go and less than $700 from our second stretch goal! Maybe we’ll make it? 👀 (help us make more tiny books please)
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Showing it to Emily, who never followed the discourse surrounding the show, is so crazy btw. I’ll go ah! this is the one that made people call Pearl a rapist, this is the one that made people call Rebecca Sugar a pedophile! and it’ll be an episode titled “you should be nice to your friends”
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's difficult to express how obsessed I am with this art. Carly is an incredible artist and captured the vibe of the book so perfectly. Thank you once again for creating something so beautiful for this novella!!!
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🤩🥰😍⚔️🔥😍🤩
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Also THANK YOU @carlydraws.bsky.social for this gorgeous cover, you absolutely captured the vibe perfectly!!!
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Y'all I cannot express how excited I am about this book! I wrote it from a place centering queer love & queer resistance and I'm so proud of how it turned out, I can't wait for you to read it 🥰
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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Less than $500 until QUIET HOURS is funded. I know that you want to get fucked up by Queer Community horror sooner rather than later, so consider backing the kickstarter if you haven’t www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
IT ALSO MEANS that if someone were to back at the $2500 patron level, they would effectively be supporting TWO NOVELETTES and/or CHAPBOOKS and that would be wild.
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You can back the ongoing crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 07/08/2026
$1,200 to go!
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We have made our initial goal! Onward to stretch goals! (Also if you are a sick freak that likes video content, please click through to our first update where @pegasusunder.bsky.social has a rad video answering some questions about THESE HOLLOW BODIES)
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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Yesss @neonhemlock.bsky.social met its initial funding goal for the novella series! Another 2k and you’ll get my novella. You want to feel really uncomfortable about roommate dynamics, right? You want to process your pre 2024 election feelings, right? Well: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
✨Friends! Look at how close this is to funding! You can help get them there today!✨
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Into the Forest Folktales at DEFA Pleased to share some more of my art for this limited edition boxset, inspired by vintage fairytale books, as well as the gorgeous colours in these films. available here- eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/into-t... Stay tuned for more :-) #illustration #movies
a fairytale artwork on a rider on a horse, with spinning wheel and wolf, surrounded by a thorny border
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're literally in an era where the richest people scoff at ideas like integrity because their main goal is to make astronomical amounts of money. But then they are REWARDED WITH MONEY and don't realistically lose anything?? Like it just makes for some bonkers out of whack moral calculus
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
but CONVERSELY you can do absolutely terrible underhanded exploitative things and get oodles of money, and the idea that the things you did were bad is very distinctly undercut by all the wealth & luxury they accumulated for you
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Like if you do things that are good or kind or honest or whatever, but don't have a way to turn what you're doing into profit, then you just look like a chump. You don't get anything for being a good person in part because the only thing we can conceptualize as "getting" is material wealth
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
one of the biggest problems i see with our current society is that we've winnowed down our rewards/values system to the point that Money is the only actual reward/value we've got left. And that fucks people up!!
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
hell yes this slaps. Good work y'all
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Go back Neon Hemlock's Kickstarter so you can read my cool novella about sapphic paladins fighting an evil empire :)
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My mom used to make these all the time. I think she still has one of a fisherman from when I was like 12
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Emmeryn 🏳️‍⚧️ Medusa Terminus Out Now!! @gamemakerm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"I would struggle to make this without AI" Have you considered the struggling is the art
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Very little in this world makes me feel quite so pretentious as enjoying reading Finnegans Wake
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Infrarational Meanderthalltale
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A running list of my favorite words from Finnegans Wake: Scribicide Gravemure Hierarchitectititiptitoploftical
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
But the whole concept behind LLMs is that we are all just slop machines spewing out statistically likely information, and if we cram enough information into LLMs then they'll be just as smart as us. Which is insulting!!
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think it's because the way AI hype hucksters talk about LLMs cheapens the idea of intelligence, whereas AI in fiction is generally used to examine what intelligence means and what it would be like to encounter and interact with another intelligence
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
by which I mean it's interesting that cute, fun, smart, helpful, friendly, interesting, etc lil robot/ai buddies are very common in sci-fi, and something that I think is generally considered like aspirational. But LLMs are so fiercely NOT that, despite how much people pushing them want them to be
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
As a lifelong sci-fi lover, I think the dichotomy between how AI exists in sci-fi and the societal backlash to LLMs, especially by creatives, is fascinating (and justified)
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/07/2026
kind of a half-baked thought here but it's a shame criticism as a paid professional discipline has been sidelined by social media because it could point the way forward out of the internet madness-induced problem of writing that's crouched in what the author anticipates a comments section will say
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ICYMI! We are 1% away from being two-thirds funded, just a day after launching 😅 If you would like to see more novellas in the world, consider backing 💸 or boosting 🦋
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A rainbow stack for all seasons! Featuring all Neon Hemlock titles. Neon Hemlock is THEE premier queer SFFH indie press. Top notch fiction chosen with the very best eye! Everything they put out is a must read for me and something I highly recommend to you!!
[A stack of books (bottom to top): SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring, CALL AND RESPONSE by Cadwell Turnbull, A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent C. Lambert, THE MYSTERY OF THE BITTEN PEACH by Cecilia Tan, REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS by Dom Dickey, UNCOMMON CHARM by Emily Bergslien and Kat Weaver, THE SECRET SKIN by Wendy Wagner, NO SUCH THING AS DUTY by Lara Elena Donnelly, STONE AND STEEL by Eboni Dunbar]
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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I truly believe golf should be outlawed and every single golf course seized and converted into low income housing or homeless shelters.
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
ICYMI The Neon Hemlock Novella Series VOL. 7 Kickstarter is up! (Related: Dizzy is back in 2027) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
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Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you want to read Quiet Hours soon, then consider backing this Kickstarter. Quiet Hours is the stretch goal. (if the stretch goal isn't reached, it'll still be published, but later) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🌊 🔪 All was possible now. 🔪 🌊 THESE HOLLOW BODIES by @pegasusunder.bsky.social, coming November 10th 2026.
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What John said. When libraries buy books, the author makes a sale, and untold numbers of readers get access to that book. Plus libraries get more funding the more people use them.
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Josie Kallo @josiewrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This sort of censorship is harmful enough, but the fact that it specifically targets trans people is egregious. We can trust kids to choose what they read, and trust librarians to make informed decisions about what's available
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National Book Ban Bill Introduced in Senate Committee
The equivalent of House Bill 7661, Senate Bill 4925 seeks to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prohibit funding for school books and other resources said to contain “sexually...
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wanna support queer writers? Back the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 23/07/2026
jesus fucking christ almighty
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