#yearofthemer

📚 Double pub day. Pull up. Two books dropping today and both of them belong in your hands.

✨ Year of the Mer by @ellethevillain

Yemi is a princess in exile. Her throne was stolen. Her family is gone. And the only one left who can help her get it all back is Ursla — the sea witch. This is a dark, bloody reimagining of The Little Mermaid that doesn't flinch. It goes deep into family legacy, war, grief, and what vengeance costs you. Rebecca Roanhorse called it the sapphic epic fantasy she needed. We're just saying.

✨ Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination by @audio.futurism

Before streaming. Before television. There was radio. And Black speculative writers were already building worlds in sound. carrington traces that overlooked history from the 1940s through today, including radio adaptations of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Beloved. This is the scholarship that fills in what the archive left out.