It’s the time of year for some spicy summer reads. Can’t pick a book? We gotcha. Check out this list of beach reads. Still can’t decide? Rachel Corsini narrows the list to the 5 most swoon-worthy romances here.
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Sushi and Sea Lions with homemade sushi
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
Dany and Vin Vin share several meals in Sushi and Sea Lions, from accidentally undercooked chicken parmigiana to diner chicken wings to the titular sushi. While under pressure to do a chicken parmigiana, I left that surprise for the book. This is the perfect snack to keep in the fridge and pull out and enjoy with this great read. Enjoy.
Make worse choices with Zilla Novikov
Strap up friends and strangers. It’s time to make bad choices … together
I wrote a novella called Query where I mash up publishing under late-stage capitalism with climate change activism and trauma-dumping on strangers. It’s also a queer love story and it’s been called “pants-wettingly funny.” Rysz published the regular version with a SFW cover but he also sold a book box with a special edition cover which I literally have to censor if people are at work, link here if you’re not at work or you work in a very chill workplace.
We sold out of the first run of Query book boxes, which a) was fully incredible and b) what the heck guys, do you want to make a grown woman cry from happiness? Because I’ll do it.
So Rysz and I bought another round of mostly different, equally deranged swag to put in print run two for another round of Query book boxes.
Rysz was like, “wow people like book boxes huh” so he’s put on a sale so you can get any or all of the books from his press in the SAME BOX. I have read every book he’s published and I love all of them, but hot DAMN Corrupted Vessels has a good cover so I plan on getting that one myself.
You also have the option of getting ALL THE BOOKS Rysz publishes AT THE SAME TIME. Open your heart and your bookshelves. Let something in. I can’t promise this is a good choice, but it’s a choice. Ask yourself, what could go wrong? Then do it anyway.
Classic Scones with Babel
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
After moving from Canton to London, Robin discovers the culinary delight of Mrs Pipers’ Scones (or Bannocks as she prefers to call them).
Obviously, one of the major plot points in the book is whether or not you like sultanas in your scones. While Robin’s benefactor, Professor Lovell, is a big fan of the sultana scone, Robin prefers them plain. Seeing that my wife agrees with Robin, plain scones is what I have made. But feel free to add a handful of sultanas if you are that way inclined.
Pre-order Beyond Human: Tales of the New Us
It’s here! The pre-order for Beyond Human: Tales of the New Us is live! Read 22 stories of the human, the alien, and the artificial—including Rachel A. Rosen’s story, “solidAIrity,” as well as stories by Rohan O’Duill, Anna Otto, Emma Berglund, and many more. Not to mention original art by Night Beats artist-in-residence Marten Norr!
They may soon live among us: cyborgs, genetically-enhanced humans, interspecies hybrids, androids, artificial intelligences, aliens in disguise. These 22 stories explore what might come next. Get your copy here.
Vegan Nanaimo bars paired with Query
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill! This month, hijacked by Rachel A. Rosen.
Nanaimo bars are a classic Canadian dessert, full of chocolate, coconut, and mint. In Zilla Novikov’s Query, they’re the perfect thing to bring along when you spring your love interest from jail after she’s been arrested at a protest. Typically, they’re made with eggs and dairy, but we’re all about saving the earth so I managed to find a great vegan recipe, which I adapted from Oh She Glows.
A Sad Bastard Movie
The Sad Bastard Cookbook coming soon to the big screen!
This summer…A Film For Sad Bastards! We are excited to announce the upcoming cinematic adaptation of The Sad Bastard Cookbook, featuring culinary genius and TV personality, Gordon Ramsey!
In this heartfelt and inspiring film, Ramsey makes idiot sandwiches of the mopey and brings hope to the dejected. With his signature fiery passion and masterful skills in the kitchen, Ramsey explores the power of food to heal the soul and lift the spirits.
Based on the acclaimed cookbook, this movie is a feast for the senses and a moving tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
Making a dog’s dinner of it paired with Wolf’s Hunger
Fiction To Sink Your Teeth Into, a feature from author and professional chef Rohan O’Duill!
What better way to impress the werewolf love interest in your life than with a dog’s dinner?
Not a lot of people know that tinned dog food is a cheap and plentiful source of protein and prepared in the right way makes a delicious dinner for everyone.
Weird and wonderful stories on sale
Whimsical and dolorous, ironic and absurd, this slippery assortment of stories and fragments masks existential dysphoria with deceptive simplicity and hangdog comedy—all the while asking you to read what is not there, what is also there, what is parabolic.
Whimsical and dolorous, ironic and absurd, this slippery assortment of stories and fragments masks existential dysphoria with deceptive simplicity and hangdog comedy—all the while asking you to read what is not there, what is also there, what is parabolic.
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