Lesley Conner

@lesleyconner.bsky.social

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Editor in Chief at Apex Magazine. Coffee drinker. Book reader. She/Her

Godzilla's head. You can just make out planes and flares in the background.
TV showing Godzilla looming over a city.
Photo of TV screen showing Godzilla towering over buildings.
Anthrocon badge with the attendee name filled in as Apex's Lesley Conner. 😂
A black dog perched on the back of a couch staring out the window
My hand holding a copy of A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers. The cover art shows a woman holding a human heart.
A goldendoodle looking longing at a small bowl of blueberries being held in a hand.
Screenshot of my donor profile. Shows I'm a platelet donor and that I've donated 100 units, making up 12 gallons total blood products donated.
A hand holding a book titled House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson.
Cover for Apex Magazine issue 152. Cover artist is Trevor Henderson. Cover design by Justin Stewart.
Goldendoodle staring judgementally.
The 15 covers for all teh books in the book bundle.
Cover of The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons.
Bookcase in my living room. Way over stuffed with lots of pictures and knickknacks.
A hand with a book in it propped on the back of a curly dog.
Very shaggy golden doodle.
A golden doodle laying on his back on a couch.
Sad puppy looking at the camera
box and doll for the Monster High Alien collector doll.
Gooden doodle sleeping on the edge of a lapdesk with a laptop on it.
Goldendoodle napping on the corner of a lap desk.
A dog staring up at the camera. On the counter, there's a griddle with three quesadillas. And you can see a bag of cheese and tortillas on the right side.
Cover of Apex Magazine issue 151. Title "Hedge Grandmother"
A wooded field with ghosts and a cow. A spaceship is over the cow with a beam bringing the cow into the spaceship. A bubble says $4,110.
Apex Magazine Kickstarter 2026 graphic.
Pax sleeping under my lap desk while I work.
Judgemental black dog.
A sugar cookie stamped with an image of the Mothman.
Golden doggie snuggling with a blue sneaker and a flipflop.
Two dogs sitting behind a glass door.
Mirror selfie of me! I'm wearing a StokerCon 2023 T-shirt and have both elbows wrapped in red tape.
Crowd for the Joan Jett set
goldendoodle puppy looking like an absolute angel
A black and a golden dog laying on the back of the couch.
Cover of Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Cover for The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson.
Cover of Heavy by Kiese Laymon.
Cover of Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.
Cover of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher. Purple background with gold lettering. There is a small gingerbread man holding a sword.
Cover of Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson. Black background with pink text for the title. There's a blue outline of a wolf that looks like it's glitching.
Cover of The Day I Die by Anita Hannig. Title is in large black font with shadows of dandelions in the background.
Cover of Our Wives Under the Sea by Julie Armfield. A peach colored cover with the title and author's name in large black font. There are sand dunes at the bottom.
Black and white cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Art work in done in black ink. In the forefront there are two girls and a black cat facing the reader. Behind them loom a crowd of people.
Goldendoodle between me and my laptop
Hand holding a copy of Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. You can see a the head of a puppy poking out behind the book.
Two dogs sleeping on a couch.
Two goldendoodles - one golden, the other black - staring at the camera
Cover for Apex Magazine mini issue. Black and white field with a cow in it with a looming Apex alien head and space ships in the background.
Woman with a goldendoodle puppy in her lap.
A hand holding a paperback copy of The Children of Men by PD James.
A goldendoodle and a blue sneaker looking out a window.
Woman with long dark hair and red glasses. She's standing in front of a book case.
Dropkick Murphy's banner with a giant tiger head and wings
Goldendoodle puppy in an orange harness.