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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 31/05/2026

😳 SOUR CHERRY won the Locus Award for First Novel!! 😳 Thank you so much @locusmag.bsky.social and congratulations to all finalists and winners! I wish I could have been there with you all. 🚀💫🌗🍒

An image of thr Locus Award trophy next to the red cover of Natalia Theodoridou's debut novel, SOUR CHERRY, against a dark background.

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 16/03/2026

Speaking of Sour Cherry, the UK Paperback is coming out on 9 April, and you can get your copy here: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 26/01/2026

📣 New novel announcement: ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 01/04/2025

It's publication day for Sour Cherry! I can't thank enough everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social who worked to make this book happen. And now here we are! I hope it finds its readers. 🍒 US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' - Karen Joy Fowler

"Questions monstrosity, masculinity, romance, and power... deeply affecting and unsettling." - Reactor

"Striking... ingeniously weaves tales within tales." - Locus

'A magnificent novel and, unbelievably, a debut -- you must read this as soon as you can' - Vajra Chandrasekera

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 22/03/2025

A little over a week left until Sour Cherry comes out @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social 😱🍒😱 You can get it wherever you buy books in the US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... & the UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal... Some excellent people have said really nice things about it 👇

Quote from POLYGON: A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 about SOUR CHERRY, a novel by Natalia Theodoridou: "Wholly original and really gorgeous."

Quote from CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS: A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 about SOUR CHERRY, a novel by Natalia Theodoridou: "A modern fable masterpiece."

Quote from FOREWORD REVIEWS about SOUR CHERRY, a novel by Natalia Theodoridou: "Simmers with dark enchantment and Gothic menace."

Quote from REACTOR about SOUR CHERRY, a novel by Natalia Theodoridou: "Questions monstrosity, masculinity, romance, and power... deeply affecting and unsettling."

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 13/03/2025

Nebula finalists have been announced, and I'm still pinching myself about the fact that I'm on this ballot twice! You can play Restore, Reflect, Retry 👻 here @choiceofgames.bsky.social: www.choiceofgames.com/restore-refl... and A Death in Hyperspace 🚀 here: infomancy.net/adih/

Screenshot of Nebula Award Finalists - Game Writing: 1000xResist; Restore, Reflect, Retry; A Death in Hyperspace; Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree; The Ghost and the Golem; Pacific Drive; Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut; Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 04/02/2025

If you've been thinking about preordering Sour Cherry, now is your chance to get it discounted through an indie bookstore. Preorders are the best way to support authors, so THANK YOU, and I hope you enjoy the book when it comes out @tinhouse.bsky.social in April! tertulia.com/book/sour-ch...

Preorder campaign for Sour Cherry: 25% Off with Code CHERRY through Feb 14. Tertulia, The New Co-op Bookstore for Avid Readers.

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 02/12/2024

And, finally, a dark fantasy novella, "An Elegy of Soil" (17,500 words), also out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Magazine: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/an-e... Thank you so much for reading!

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 02/12/2024

(We're doing eligibility graphics apparently!) I had several things out in 2024. Here are some of them! "Cursed Moon Queers" (2,500 words), a short story about queers partying (and being sad) on the moon, @uncannymagazine.bsky.social (also in audio): www.uncannymagazine.com/article/curs...

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 02/12/2024

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 20/11/2024

Thrilled to share the UK cover of SOUR CHERRY, coming April 2025. Karen Joy Fowler called it "An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment," and you can pre-order it here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/natal...

Cover image of Sour Cherry, a debut novel by Natalia Theodoridou. A red dripping cherry from which a face emerges, against a thorny blue background.

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 23/04/2024

Hello, I have news! My debut novel, SOUR CHERRY, is coming from Tin House (North America) and Wildfire (UK) in April 2025 🍒🎉🍒 Can't wait to share this one with everyone.

Publishers Marketplace announcement that reads: Natalia Theodoridou's SOUR CHERRY, pitched as reimagining the story of Bluebeard--one of the earliest and most mythologized serial killers--twisting it into a modern examination of toxic masculinity, a feminist sermon, and a folktale for the twenty-first-century, to Masie Cochran at Tin House Books, for publication in winter 2025, by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management (NA). Rights also to Areen Ali at Wildfire (UK), by Susan Armstrong at C&W. Translation: amalecha@trellisliterary.com

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 06/12/2023

If you're catching up on 2023 fiction, "Love at the Event Horizon" came out in the July/August issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social . It's ghosts in space, decomposing films, and queer love. It's also on the Nebula Reading List (thank you, kind reader). www.uncannymagazine.com/article/love...

The cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 53, showing a femme person dressed in red and holding a bow, riding a blue-haired masc-presenting centaur also holding a bow and arrow. The two figures are kissing.
The image includes a quote from "Love at the Event Horizon" by Natalia Theodoridou that reads: "I never thought I'd want to make a film about the Lost Countrymen and the ghosts that haunt their ship. It's been years since my brief time with them, but how could I forget them, the ghosts muttering to themselves about words long gone?"

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