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 catalogue will still be here in July.

Fifty-four releases this month, which is roughly what Pride does to a publishing calendar. The season runs heavily to gothic horror and, for reasons no one has bothered to explain, pirates. Emma Osborne's Grief Eater arrives on the 1st with a Suzan Palumbo blurb, which is the sort of thing that rearranges a reading pile. Cynthia Gómez's Muñeca brings the historical gothic. And though it sits at the edge of speculative rather than squarely inside it, Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human — a memoir reading disability and identity through the lens of SF and storytelling — is worth making room for. You have been warned, on at least three counts.

(First dispatch, so: this lands on the last day of every month with the following month's queer speculative fiction and the representation detail nobody else prints. That's the entire newsletter, no further announcements. It's researched and written by one person, by hand, so "the last day of every month" is an intention rather than a guarantee. Some months, life intervenes. The books will keep.)