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They / them. Writer, reader, and sometimes tinkerer.

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• September 2026

  Dispatch No. 5 · October 2026

  Dispatched 30 September 2026  ·  New releases for October It's October, and the calendar has done its seasonal duty: horror by the armful and a paranormal roma

• August 2026

  Dispatch No. 4 · September 2026

  Dispatched 31 August 2026  ·  47 new releases for September September has sent the genre back to school. Forty-seven releases, five of them set in or around a term

• August 2026

  There's a lesbian side character

  I set out to build a comprehensive database of queer speculative fiction and wound up building an extremely powerful search. The code will be finished by the end of summer, as promised. The catalogue will not be. Built and worth opening are two different milestones.

• July 2026

  Dispatch No. 3 · August 2026

  Dispatched 31 July 2026  ·  50 new releases for August August, and publishing has apparently agreed that the eleventh is the only day anyone needs. Fifty releases,

• June 2026

  Dispatch No. 2 · July 2026

  Dispatched 30 June 2026  ·  36 new releases for July July, and the rainbow bunting is already down. The publishers who rediscovered the word "queer" four

• May 2026

  Dispatch No. 1 · June 2026

  Dispatched 31 May 2026  ·  54 new releases for June It is June, so the marketing departments have briefly remembered the word "queer." Good of them. This