Reposted by Roxane LlanqueStanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Who else is stoked for the Mary Oliver documentary arriving on PBS next week?! 281
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 11/08/2026TEA OR COFFEE, STARS, AND GRAVITY by @aanpress.bsky.social is out now, fusing classic scifi with the delicious coziness of Tea and Coffee - what's not to love? It features my story OOLONG ETERNAL + a list of special tea/coffee recs from all authors 🍵 Now available at aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... 182
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueAir and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A new "Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity" review, this time highlighting @crossingwinter.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social and Meg Candelaria (Buy a copy here - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...) 2124
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 04/05/2026For #StarWarsDay I got to write about the forgotten Mexican Revolutionary who inspired Princess Leia for Latina Media!🌟 #maythe4thbewithyou #starwars #MayThe4th latinamedia.co/star-wars-pr...latinamedia.coStar Wars Princess Leia is Based on this Mexican RevolutionaryMay the force be with you! Star Wars has always been ours, thanks to the Mexican revolutionary who inspired the creation of Princess Leia. 010
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueAir and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Announcing the author lineup, ToC, and world map (with blue pins for author cities) for "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" 2248
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Very happy to announce that my story "Oolong Eternal" will be appearing in "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" this summer, published by @aanpress.bsky.social ! I think this book is just what we need in these wild times :) If you like your scifi with a nice cuppa, this is for you ❤️🍵 1173
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 06/03/2026Almost every essay we publish is at least that long, often longer. People still enjoy deep reading & are looking for a good excuse to immerse themselves in something worthwhile—especially in a clickbait economy/world. Clickbait articles are cheetos & some of us still prefer a well-prepared meal 🤷♂️ 36216
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I had the great pleasure to cover the world premiere of NARCISO at the #Berlinale for Latina Media. A unique, important film and rare look into queer #latino history. And it just won the FIPRESCI Jury award! latinamedia.co/narciso/latinamedia.coBerlinale Stunner "Narciso" Delves Into Sex, Rock n’ Roll, and Politics"Narciso" is a timeless, quietly powerful film that meets the moment in tying the past with the present through the power of sound. 020
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 13/02/2026#MikhailShaidorov just won Olympic #iceskating gold to "The Diva Dance" from the Fifth Element, that made me so happy! I got to write about this incredible piece of music for @brightwalldarkroom.com if you'd like to know more :) #Olympics2026 www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/02/29/t...brightwalldarkroom.comThe Fifth Element (1997): An Aria for HumanityThe Fifth Element is a space opera deserving of the name, a deeply humanist work, and a cinematic poem to human paradox delivered through the power of music. 05411
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueCraig Brownlie @craigbrownlie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026This beautiful raging heart pendant by @roxanellanque.bsky.social , book, cover sticker, & signatures (@judithsonnet.bsky.social, @bitterkarella.bsky.social, @mathewlreyes.bsky.social, Roxane. me) in the @scaresthatcare.bsky.social AuthorCon VI auction-@texascthulhu.bsky.social's signature BHOS 032
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 15/01/2026An exciting new book is out with my essay on #AlexeiNavalny www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... 000
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 01/12/2025FIVE RAGING HEARTS is out today! If you're looking for some fun catharsis against the doom scroll, this is your book🔥 @judithsonnet.bsky.social @texascthulhu.bsky.social @mathewlreyes.bsky.social @craigbrownlie.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social roxanellanque.com/2025/11/30/m...roxanellanque.comMy first Novelette, Now Published in Five Raging HeartsExciting news: my first novelette has been published in the wonderful collection Five Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul by Koj Books. This book has also become somewhat of a reunion of artis… 031
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueCraig Brownlie @craigbrownlie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025This is happening! With @texascthulhu.bsky.social @judithsonnet.bsky.social @mathewlreyes.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social Intro by @bitterkarella.bsky.social Art by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Five-Raging-...amazon.comFive Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the SoulFive Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul [Brownlie, Craig, Sonnet, Judith, Young, Wile E] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Five Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul 052
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Dear friends, have a look at our book kickstarter about the 2024 passings of influential people that dramatically shaped our current reality. I contributed an essay about sharing a hospital with Alexei Navalny, may he rest in peace. www.kickstarter.com/projects/648...kickstarter.comHere Lies BuriedAn Anthology about Mourning Celebrities who Died in 2024 with Words and Images 010
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueMikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 20/08/2025"30 articles per month. If you did this, and only this, for a whole year, you would make $12,240 off of 360,000 words of published material." Jesus, man. danielcruse.substack.com/p/the-things...danielcruse.substack.comThe Things I Thought and Did Not Say While Writing For a Content-MillIn 1996, Jerry Maguire was laughed out of his office for publishing a company-wide memo encouraging his industry to take a more human approach. 517136
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueBroad Sound @broadsoundmag.com · 11/07/2025New today on the site: @roxanellanque.bsky.social on The Tarantino Ten and the curse of a self-imposed legacy broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/11/t...broadsoundmag.comThe Tarantino Ten and the Curse of a Self-Imposed Legacy (Roxane Llanque)Wikimedia Commons (Gage Skidmore) Director Quentin Tarantino seems to have put quite a weight on his shoulders through his long-held and self-imposed rule to make no more than ten films. He chose t… 151
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 01/06/2025If you look into the linguistic history of werewolves you will find the international chronicles of the outsider. It was a pleasure researching and writing this :) magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-proverbi...magazine.interstellarflightpress.comThe Proverbial ShifterA Linguistic History of Werewolves 010
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 30/05/2025This beautiful book contains my novelette A SHIFT OF LIGHTNING and look how absolutely gorgeous it turned out! 040
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Super stoked I got to write about the musical story telling and the defining Mexican influence on the Addams Family in WEDNESDAY - season 2 soon streaming on @netflix.com !🖤 latinamedia.co/wednesday-se...latinamedia.coHow the Music of "Wednesday" Sets Its Macabre and Mexican SpiritThe eerie score deserves more credit for making "Wednesday" a success – the music selections and mystery-tinged covers make the show pop. 040
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Someone just posted this into my Facebook writer group and I think we should make this a thing! 😂 #WritingCommunity 040
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I had the great pleasure to write about Wong Kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and the dogma of female perfection for @hifemme.bsky.social :) 051
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I finally have "Not Your Papi's Utopia" in my hands, a book I'm so proud to be part of! In our dystopian times I hope it can inspire some hope and challenge the power systems that want us to believe they are eternal. 130
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueCraig Brownlie @craigbrownlie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I have teamed up with some friends (@texascthulhu.bsky.social @judithsonnet.bsky.social @mathewlreyes.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social @midnightpals.bsky.social ) for Five Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul! Keep up-to-date by signing up for my newsletter, link below. 184
Reposted by Roxane Llanquebetsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Also this week @thesicktimes.bsky.social: People often ask me why/how I got into covering Long COVID, as someone who doesn't have as much a personal connection to the disease as other journalists in this space. This essay is my answer. thesicktimes.org/2025/03/25/l...thesicktimes.orgLong COVID data are being erased, again - The Sick TimesThe lack of comprehensive Long COVID case counts may be considered one of public health’s greatest failures. But as we enter the sixth year of this ongoing pandemic, U.S. institutions are sweeping thi... 37138
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Exhausted but so happy after the first block of our exhibition RAVEN about life with Long COVID. I contributed my poem THE DEMON ILL and two coresponding sculptures. I was touched by how many people came, how many wore masks to protect us, and most of all by my fellow artists and their brave work❤️ 171
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Goodreads is not well-known in Germany but now people have looked it up because of Luigi Mangione and I got two excited messages today that read: "You're on Goodreads! Like Luigi!" 😂 051
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...theconversation.comInfectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health todayBetween 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child. 10265130
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueMatthew David Goodwin @latinxfiles.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Do you know any graduate students or early career scholars who are interested in Latinx science fiction and would like a copy of The Latinx Files? If so, please let me know and I will send them an ebook copy. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-latinx-f... 143
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueBell Press @bellpressbooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Our next anthology, STASIS, is coming soon! Featuring #scifi short stories by these 13 contributors #indiepublishing 064
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 26/11/2024For everyone having a week as stressful as me, it works 😊 110
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueMemento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 05/11/2024the most gentle paragraph i have ever read might be of use today: 053
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Hey writer friends, if we could all follow each other back here? God knows what will happen to🐤and I would love to stay in touch❤️ This is me on Twitter if you want to make sure you followed me before: x.com/roxanellanque @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @psychopomp.bsky.social @maeisafraid.bsky.socialx.comx.com 152
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Consoling myself today with the fact that there are Americans who work hard to tell stories that both uphold reality and dare to dream. I had the honor to work with them on 2 books this year that I think are more important than ever. Thank you @latinxfiles.bsky.social and @aanpress.bsky.social 💙 062
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 07/03/2024"What if Orpheus decided to stay?" For @psychopomp.bsky.social I wrote about the connection of death and translation and the panmythical Katabasis legend applied to the Mexican-American border in "Signs Preceding the End of the World" by the wonderful @yuriherrera.bsky.social 021
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 01/03/2024"A space opera deserving of the name...a cinematic poem to human paradox delivered through the power of music." For @bwdr.bsky.social , I wrote about the humanist power of opera and the social significance of the “Mad Song” in Luc Besson’s THE FIFTH ELEMENT. 030
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueBright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 29/02/2024New today on the site! The 'Outer Space' issue continues, with @roxanellanque.bsky.social on THE FIFTH ELEMENT, "a space opera deserving of the name...a cinematic poem to human paradox delivered through the power of music." (art by Moses Lee)brightwalldarkroom.comThe Fifth Element (1997): An Aria for HumanityThe Fifth Element is a space opera deserving of the name, a deeply humanist work, and a cinematic poem to human paradox delivered through the power of music. 083
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueA Coup of Owls Press @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 20/01/2024We're thrilled to share the final line-up for Other Worlds! With pre-orders from April, Other Worlds will feature horror western, folklore, fantasy, speculative, horror, contemporary fiction, and sci-fi exploring Other Worlds. www.patreon.com/posts/other-... 042
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 16/01/2024So stoked to be part of WE ARE ALL THIEVES OF SOMEBODY’S FUTURE and this amazing lineup with my story "Flames on the Road to Lascaux" 🔥 The book tackles the timely question of what humanity will do when resources run out, contributing to the vital conversation of Sustainability🌱 031
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 13/12/2023My story “A Song of Trident Stars“ is out in DEMONS & DEATH DROPS now! A tale of disability, revenge, and the transcendental power of music. To read it and other fab queer tales by authors like @maeisafraid.bsky.social buy this wonderful anthology by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social🔥🏳️🌈🥳 rb.gy/x6k9xd 043
Roxane Llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social · 04/12/2023Teaser for my story “A Song of Trident Stars”, coming soon in the anthology DEMONS & DEATH DROPS 🔥 What if Davy Jones' music-loving Kraken decided to produce his very own and unhinged “A Star is Born” with a vengeful Mexican pianist? Stay tuned for this superb stage of wonders! #queerhorror 032
Reposted by Roxane LlanqueLittle Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2023DEMONS & DEATH DROPS: An Anthology of Queer Performance Horror is coming this month from Little Ghosts Books! After losing an arm in an accident, a gifted musician gains an unlikely ally in A Song of Trident Stars @roxanellanque Don’t miss this and other beautiful music 🐙 🎶 031