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Mar 25, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Judith Tarr |Lee Mandelo |Jo Lindsay Walton
The Reactor newsletter is the best way to catch up on the world of science fiction, fantasy, pop culture, and more!
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Lee Mandelo
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Lee Mandelo’s The Woods All Black—a novel equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s Appalachia—out from Tordotcom Publishing on March 19. Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Lee Mandelo
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After serving in World War I, then spending some time reviving himself in Paris, nurse Leslie Bruin returns to the United States and joins the Frontier Nursing Service to continue helping others. Assigned to remote Spar Creek in Appalachia, he expects to administer vaccinations and help with health concerns.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Lee Mandelo
For the penultimate post of our ten-year retrospective, I thought I’d recommend something fresh… which also happens to (sorta-retrospectively!) cover a genre I don’t often tackle: Scream, Queen!, the horror film podcast. With the finale for season two coming up, this podcast has cemented itself as a hands-down favorite for me, because I too was a weird kid who cut their teeth on horror VHS tapes smuggled out of the Blockbuster or binged at friends’ houses.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Lee Mandelo |Clockpunk Studios
When my gay Southern Gothic novel Summer Sons came out way back in 2021, I entertained myself by collecting phrases folks used to describe its particular ambiance. The vibes, if you will.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
reckon.news | Madelyn Gee |Lee Mandelo
A weekly newsletter for the chronically online and easily entertained. Honey dishes us savvy analysis on culture, entertainment and power to make you the group chat MVP. Subscribe today! On Tiktok, the hashtag #scarystories gained popularity during the month of October. Videos under the hashtag had 55 million views over the last seven days, with 19 billion views since it started. However, telling a horror story is bigger than just social media shares.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
uncannymagazine.com | Lee Mandelo |Clockpunk Studios
Content Note: This piece contains frank discussion of sexuality and sexual assault, please exercise care in readingKieran leaned his elbow on the red press for entrance doorbell a third time, backpack dangling from the crest of his shoulder. Bringing his laptop to work gave him bad nerves, but with assignments coming due, he’d run short of options. A gas station iced coffee and boxed pizza slice occupied his hands.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
tor.com | Lee Mandelo
We find ourselves now at the third and final installment of Queering SFF’s Big Gay Pride Month Recommendation List(s), following four weird and sexy books for summer and five queer Thai television series. While the June demonstrations and celebrations might be winding down, our fights for progress carry on here, there, and everywhere across the globe throughout the year.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
tor.com | Lee Mandelo
Welcome back for the second installment of Queering SFF’s Big Gay Pride Month Recommendation List(s), for getting our vibes right via arts and entertainment. Last week I gathered four weird and sexy books for summer reading, and this week we’re talking television—specifically, because it’s been giving me life over the last eighteen months, the vibrant LGBTQ+ media scene coming out of Thailand. If you’re newly dipping your toes into transnational queer media, consider this a starter package.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
leemandelo.com | Lee Mandelo
Updates2023 UpdatesThree big updates going into 2023! The first, I'm now represented by Kate McKean of Morhaim Literary. The second, Uncanny Magazine will soon be publishing a novelette from yours-truly entitled “Anything with a Void at the Center.” It’s the one I've been describing as the “haunted porn theater (or, what are boyfriends anyway)” story!!The third, it's exactly two months until the release of 'Feed Them Silence,' my near-future queer sf novella from Tordotcom.
