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Publishing radical queer specfic from London, UK. Founded: @trip.bsky.social, @robwillb.bsky.social, @chrismccartney.bsky.social. Harassed by: @lyamkk.bsky.social 🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024) 🧱Wrath Month (2026) https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd

What the fuck happened?
A screen cap of a Smithsonian Magazine online article describing how gen AI has ‘completed’ Keith Haring’s unfinished painting.
Cover art collage for: Of the Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley; Yoke of Stars by R. B. Lemberg; Worldburner by J. Warren; Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff; Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff; Running Dry by M. Christian; Finding Echoes by Foz Meadows; Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures by Ann LeBlanc; The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott; The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields; Office of the Lost by J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding; Was by Geoff Ryman; I Want That Twink Obliterated! by Trip Galey, Robert Berg and C.L. McCartney; Reclaimed by Seth Haddon; Wolf’s Path by Joyce Chng.
Rafiki from the Lion King holding up the final arrangement for the Wrath Month table of contacts
Bona Editors gathered around a table, discussing flash cards for stories in the next anthology, Wrath Month
Grindr profile of A (27) showing off his I Want That Twink Obliterated! t-shirt. Because we get everywhere.
Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now
Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now
Author announcement - Part 2 "Still Kicking" Ray DeChant "Attack of the 50-Foot Faggot" Elijah J. Mears "Weaugh Teaugh Peaugh" Michael Lee Richardson "The Maxhine-Breaker of Aba" Bella Chacha "Ask Medusa What Vengeance Costs" Janet Forbes "Honey Rigon and the Queer Brigade" RD Pires "Take the Shot" Corey Davies "I Hope This Hits You Like A Brick" David R. Slayton "The Rot Beneath" Stephen Jackson
Bene Gesserit saying “Our plans are measured in centuries”
Kickstarter screenshot showing we've made ÂŁ31,606 of our ÂŁ8,500 goal, have 666 backers, and 13 hours to go!
Our newly updated Stretch Goal graphic! Achieved: Team Bona gets paid, Deluxe Book Upgrades: Digital Spredges, Printed End Papers, and Printed Cloth Cover; Audiobook, Art Postcards, and Temporary Tattoo. Still to come: Book Ribbon & Sewn Binding for the Hardbacks and Bona Magazine: Year 1!
This book is a brick in my hand. Pride Month draws to a close. The world is on fire. Powerful parts of the UK seek to criminalise protest and eradicate trans people from public life. Industry sells out creatives to AI techbros. Once again, states seek to classify our words—our stories— as pornography. To express fear, disgust and anger at this descent is to be told to calm down. In such a world, queer art is defiance. Queer joy is defiance. Queer rage is defiance. Action is defiance. Traditional publishing will not protect our stories—not if doing so comes with a cost. Chain bookstores will not safeguard our words. They have shareholders to think of. Market shares to protect. Nervous PR elites, quietly shelving their pride campaigns until it’s not contentious.
Graphic showing all of our stretch goals that have been hit: Team Bona gets paid, Digital Spredges and Printed Endpapers for the Deluxe Hardback Editions of Wrath Month and IWTTO!, audiobook, art postcards, and temporary tattoo. Still to come: Printed Cloth Cover, and Black Ribbon & Sewn Binding for the Deluxe Hardbacks, and finally, Bona Magazine: Year 1!
Four queer techno-gods in control of the weather One man-made climate crisis Somebody is going to pay
Graphic showing that we've blasted through another stretch goal! Stretch goals achieved: Team Bona can be paid for the first time, digital spredges, audiobook, art postcards, and now, printed endpapers for the deluxe hardback. Still to come: temporary tattoo, printed cloth covers for the hardbacks, black ribbon and sewn binding for the hardback, and finally Bona Magazine Year 1!
After alien conquest The remnants of humanity mutate Can the rage of the oppressed save the earth?
Lady gaga smiling with two superimposed pistols facing the camera
Tiffany wakes to a woman she doesn't remember. Alia forms a resistance movement. But what about the woman who started it all?
A pink cake covered in rainbows that says GAY WRATH in icing.
Ilion Tower has been abandoned for almost a decade. In a well-run city it would have been converted into something productive, but this is Cleon, so it just sits and rots, all 150 floors of it. The ground floor is absolutely wrecked, filled with debris, broken concrete, discarded Nekta syringes—the ephemera of a decade below the notice of the city’s elites. But we’re not here for the amenities. I weave my way through the rubble, ignoring Galataeon’s complaints. He’s a synth; can they even get tetanus? The rear of the building seems to end with a large graffitied wall, but pushing on a loose panel gives access to the fire escape stairs. The first couple of floors are just as ravaged as the ground, but only the most dedicated looters were willing to climb higher than that. On the third floor, we find what I’m looking for.
Graphic showing the stretch goals we've now reached: Team Bona get paid, Digital Spredges, Audiobook, and now: Art Postcards! Still to come: Printed End Papers, Temporary Tattoo, Printed Cloth Cover, Book Ribbon and Sewn Binding, and finally Bona Magazine Year 1!
"Gay." - an (admittedly accurate) hater
"Wrath isn't something to aspire to. Neither is pride." - a sanctimonious arse
"A book for perverts" - Some prat on Facebook
FINALIST British Fantasy Awards 2025 Best Anthology And a picture of the deluxe hardback of "I Want That Twink Obliterated!", surrounded by tentacles.
A rainbow-coloured Unicorn with a skull face with a "Death to Fascism" ribbon above them.
A graphic showing that we've reached our audiobook stretch goal. The others to come: art postcards, printed end papers, temporary tattoo, printed cloth covers, book ribbon and sewn binding, and finally Bona Magazine - Year 1!
I open a spacetime rift to get back to the beach, but just as I’m stepping through, a barbed hook wraps itself around my waist and pulls me out of the party and into a dark alley between realities. The thing about fighting between realities is, it’s not just hard to punch or kick. It’s hard to exist. I can feel myself fading, even as I try to wrap tentacles I don’t have around the neck of an unseen attacker who both is and isn’t there.
Two frame cartoon. The top frame, labeled WRONG, shows a kinkster wearing a pup collar is typing at a laptop, saying that he's working from home. The bottom frame, labelled RIGHT, shows him at the laptop in full pup gear, including paws, now typing total gobbledygook. Good boy.
Low res script reading “everybody get more gay now !!!!”
A timeline/totaliser of stretch goals for Wrath Month. The goals include extra deluxe finishes to the books and culminate in a goal of funding the first year of a Bona Books literary magazine for one year
Stickers that read “this machine obliterates Twinks”
Jockstrap A black jockstrap with "HATE FUCK HATE FUCK" written in pink capitals around the waistband, with a Bona Books logo in the centre. The caption reads "Wrath Merch: Fuck//Hate Jockstrap"
Resistance Kit Pictures of a light up rave mask with a blue, white and pink design; a modded beret and a black balaclava with the WM sigil on it.
A concept image of a black Wrath Month T-shirt with the W M Wrath Month sigil and the slogan 'Pride Month is Over'
A distorted image of the text "Wrath Month, Bricks to Build Your Pledge - Concept Designs"
A deluxe hardback special edition of "I Want That Twink Obliterated!" showing both the front and back cover, including the big beautiful green butt of Daddyclops (looming star of the front cover). Art by Stephen Andrade.
I can’t breathe. This creature will stop at nothing. ‘Originator,’ he whispers tenderly, ‘your heart breaks when you spy me through your timid tube of glass. I feel it. We all do—’ ‘Enough of your whispering!’ I spit. ‘Don’t watch us pitifully through glass, from behind your cur- tains. Join us. You’ve never visited, and we crave it. Many of us are curious about having an older Tiger—’ ‘Keep your sick—’ ‘A seasoned, travelled Tiger, strong and resilient, who has survived so much, can comfort us before the Long Shadow.’
Our progress report showing the three stretch goals that have been reached and indicating that when we hit ÂŁ21.5K, there will be a Wrath Month audiobook.
A chart of our accomplishments so far: Base Goal of ÂŁ8.5: Crushed! First Stretch Goal of ÂŁ12.5k for more stories for Wrath Month: Stomped! And second Stretch Goal of ÂŁ15.5k to pay Team Bona: Wrecked! Next goal: ÂŁ18.5K for Digital Spredges, and the one following it: ÂŁ21.5K for a Wrath Month audiobook!
List of Bona Books stretch goals, the next of which is "Team Bona can eb paid for the very first time!"
Elphaba placing her hands on a pile of yellow bricks in the Wicked Pt 2 trailer.
Elphaba in full Wicked Witch mode, defiantly holding her broom and standing in front of a rainbow-coloured background in the Wicked Pt 2 trailer.
Polaroid-style photographs of Mads and Corey, looking as if they've been affixed to a brick wall.
Polaroid style pictures taped to a brick wall showing each of the authors, Joel Donato Ching Jacob, Gabrielle Emem Harry and Marianne Kirby. The image flickers, like a tv signal suffering interference.
Pink text on a black and white wall, reading: "Wrath Month - Author announcement (so far".
Team Bona holding up a sign that reads WRATH MONTH IS HERE on the left of the screen in our livestream.
Screencap of the TikTok cover still for our dalek video, with the viewership number circled: 261.4K
Punk-inspired pink, white and black visuals, with the words "Pride Month is over" and "In two days" stamped over the top. The song "Queer as in Fuck You" by Dog Park Dissidents plays in the background.
A "trope arrows" post, pointing at a mock-up of the cover of Wrath Month, showing a black book with a bright pink sigil. The "tropes" are: Bisexual fury, queer rage, demon hunters, vengeful lesbian witches, antifascist mutant vigilantes, transfem superheroes. A tag line at the bottom reads: Pride Month is OVER.
Graph showing the final tally of submissions to Wrath Month, which stands at 605.
Gotta pick a pocket or two from Oliver except the caption reads ‘you’ve got to ‘bliterate a twink or two’