Nicholas Perez

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Blanco Cuban Writer of SFF. To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation and The Vanisher on Chain Letter Substack, both are OUT NOW! ¡Palestina Libre! No AI. Unagented. Seeking representation.

Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen and The Dream Thieves graphic novel by Maggie Stiefvater and Sas Milledge. Plastic, Prism, Void depicts a drawing of someone's eyebrows and eyes crying; the top is purple but ombres to yellow near the bottom. The Dream Thieves depicts Ronan Lynch, a teenage boy with a buzzed haircut and wearing a leather jacket, flinching in some loves with raven wings around him.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee, Old Moon Quarterly Volume 9, and Old Moon Quarterly Volume 10.
Cover to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. A teenage Lipan Apache girl with short black hair and dressed in a long, brown coat stands in the middle of a stampede of ghost dogs. Red petals are scattered around.
BookShop page for Dark Dance by Tanith Lee. Paperback price $21.99 and available for pre-order. Releases August 4, 2026. The book cover features a woman with long black hair in a long black dress holding her arms up. Behind her is smoke and a Gothic house on a hill to the left. Around the borders of the book is purple goo.
A screenshot of a post that says: "When you have the blood of Akasha in you." Beneath is an image of Sam Reid's face imposed over the white Egyptian meme pharaoh's face. Behind him is some pyramids. Sam Reid plays Lestat in the television version of Interview with a Vampire.
Cover to The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew. Purple and white asphodel flowers against a black background. Skills appear on some of the petals.
Scoopable cookie separated into different sections, topped with semi-sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and biscoff cookies. It is nestled in some parchment paper in a springform pan on a cookie tray.
First row at top: dollops of biscoff Second row in middle: dollops of Nutella Third row at bottom: dollops of pistachio
A bag of bread on a bookshelf at Walmart.
A picture of author Tanith Lee with a hand holding a gun photoshoped over.
My hand holding a copy of The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene by Mavis Haut. A black and white picture of Tanith Lee is beneath the title.
Cover to The Earth is Flat short story collection by Tanith Lee. Two men, with their backs to us, ride a carpet over the Earth to the moon. Metal birds fly ahead of them.
A sugar cookie cheesecake with sour cream frosting on to of some parchment paper on a stove.
Cover to Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe. A man wearing a black mask and hooded cloak stands on a weirdly shaped pedestal holding his sword pointed downward.
Cover to Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane. A woman dressed in armor lifts her head and fire burns through her hair and eyes. Behind her are Greek ruins beneath the sun.
My hand holding Space is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee. The cover is stars in space.
A cake with chocolate icing made to look like Patrick's house in SpongeBob Squarepants. On the top there is a weather vane made of chocolate painted with edible gold. At the bottom white chocolate buttons with small dabs of chocolate are the eyes peaking out beneath Patrick's house. Patrick himself is made of fondant and is carrying an ice cream cone and bag of groceries and yelling.
A post from Facebook. John Kaiine is saying, "Tanith left us eleven years ago today. Here are some of her thoughts. Please raise a glass. x" The quote he posted says this: When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything, I'm writing about. I can see it, hear its sounds, feel its heat or rain. The characters become better known to me than the closest family or friends. This makes the writing-down part very simple most of the time. I only need to write down what's there in front of me. That said, it won't be a surprise if I add that the imagined worlds quickly become entangled with the so-called reality of this one. Since I write almost every day, and I think (and dream) constantly about my work, it occurs to me that I must spend more time in all these places than here."
Cover to Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald A teenage boy dressed in a rodeo cowboy's outfit pets a T-Rex-like dinosaur wearing a saddle and harness. They stand in arid grassland beneath a bright blue sky with trailers in the background.
Cover to The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso. Broken images of the Virgin Mary and a yellow dog are scattered across a black background.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed and Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell.
Movie post for Weapons. Children run down a road with their arms out to their sides underneath a dark sky with houses on both sides of them.
Cover to The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. Some tree branches stretch across a white background. A crown is slung around one branch and a green beetle crawls across another.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: Corpse Priest by Carson Winter, Beneath the Silent Heavens by Brian Christopher Moore, and Seven Legendary Monsters by Clara Elena Garcia.
Movie poster for The Faculty. The faces of teenagers look at the view with their school behind them. The banner over the school says Class of 1999.
Post for the movie Together. Dave Franco and Alison Brie hover close to each other, eyes closed, for a kiss. Their bottom lips are connected.
Cover of Three Romances: Love Stories from Camelot Retold by Winifred Rosen. From top to bottom: Sir Gawain encounters Dame Raganall in her hag form, Geraint and Enild speak to each other on horseback while men watch from the trees, and the fae Niniane floats naked holding a flower crown toward Merlin sitting beneath a tree.
Cover to the The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha. A young woman with long, black hair in a white dress stand with her back to us, touching the top and sides of her head. Around her are a human heart, plants, a guitar with a worm climbing up it, and a record player disk.
J. H. Markert signing my copy of Dig in a Barnes and Noble. He's surrounded by other copies of his books.
Books on a carpeted floor, left to right: The Children of Lyr by Evangeline Walton, Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, Spear by Nicola Griffith, Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness by Tanith lee, and Guardians: Forbidden Mountain by Brandon Mull.
Cover to Law and Chaos artbook by Weny Pini. Elric, cloaked in black, stands in a snowy landscape, leaning on his sword Stormbringer.
Left to right: Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Left to Right, top to bottom: Muzan Kibutsuji from Demon Slayer, Grim from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Two Face from Batman the Animated series, Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Hedwig from Hedwig and the Angry Itch, The Immortal from Invincible, Raven Queen from Ever After High, Esdeath from Akame Ga Kill, and Stella from Winx Club
Left to Right: Muzan Kibutsuji from Demon Slayer, Grim from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Two Face from Batman the Animated series, and Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Excerpt of the chapter The Golden City in Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. "Everybody is happy in the golden city, for a long, long time. Everybody is sad. We have time to be everything in that unspeakable place, before that end at the end of time itself when sacrifice will be called for one last time, when all the worlds collapse into each others' arms, when we hill hold ourselves so tight, timeless and alive--our last breath in our lungs, our hands held in the dark, our lips kept warm in the cold--when we find out what lies beyond worlds and time, what crimes are left to commit, what thrones remain to be overthrown. But we're not there yet. In the golden city, the long, blessed future stretches out ahead. Most of our worlds were yet to come. It was fine. It was life. We don't have to talk about it."
Cover to City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin. The author's name is in red above the title in blue. Beneath the title is a picture of a yellow cat's eye above a futuristic city with clouds. Up close, two shirtless individuals look at the city from a shore.
Three books on carpeted floor. Left to right: Stainless by Todd Grimson, Sarafina by Philip Fracassi, and Innamorata by Aava Reid.
Cover to Delirium's Mistress by Tanith Lee. A woman raises her arms, holding up a transparent veil over her head. Two other arms cover her breasts and shield her eyes. A long, red dress covers her from the stomach down.
Lot of fucking in this place, he thought. This place is old.
Scene from Delirium's Mistress by Tanith Lee "No, Sovaz, Sovaz, for surely then I will be there before you, and our journey ended." But her eyes held all the oceans and the seas and the rivers, her hands or the hands of the earth stole beneath him and found a fire there, a serpent that dwelled there under the spine, a dragon waking. "When you reach the gates," she said, or her eyes or her rushing body said it, "cry out. And I will come to you at once." At this the dragon woke. The whole forest burst up in a swarm of lights and he with it so that in the strength and vehemence of that arching bow she too was lifted as if on a wave's high crest. And he did indeed cry out aloud to her, and hearing him she came to him at once as she had told him, her head thrown back, her throat curved like the crescent moon. And her cries, wild as those of a bird that flies a whirlwind, and three in number, split the ceiling of rain and leaves, and (continues in next image's alt text)
Cover to Infinity Kings by Adam Silvera. On the left, a Latino boy with a fade haircut snarls holding his veiny hand up with a blue phoenix in it. On the right, a Latino boy with curly hair stares pensively holding up his hand with a golden phoenix in it. Behind them is a magic circle with a scythe at the bottom and two angels charging at each other.
In the foreground, Salome, dressed in an elegant robe and crown, pensively sniffs a flower beside a pillar. A broken chain hangs from the pillar beside her. In the background to the left, John the Baptist with a halo kneels with his hands in prayer before an execution dressed in red raising a sword.
A comment from Substack by Chris on February 15. It says "Sick" and is liked by Chain Letter.
Motivational poster of the teddy bear Ted from the TV series version TED. Ted stands with his paws folded over one another, looking at the viewer. Beneath his image in big words is ASPIRE. Beneath that in smaller letters is TO BE AVERAGE.
An alternate cover to the Princess Bride by William Goldman. A nude woman kneels down in from of various monsters and beasts, her right hand touching the thick necklace around her shoulders. Her long, brunette hair flows behind her and a bird with outstretched wings perches atop her cap.
The cover to Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth. On a red background, flowers ringed the cover of the book with a yellow jacket below the middle.
A slice of Oreo and Nutella cookie pie on a plate.
Pointless Hub sitting in a grey chair, his hands covering his face.
My hand holding the English translation of Lacelot Parts III and IV of the Lancelot-Grail Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles. The cover image is a medieval manuscript image of a man in blue sitting and writing before a man in red on a chai beneath a church arch. A flag sticks up above with an owl next to it.
Movie post for Alien Romulus. A young woman with a buzzed haircut has a facehugger on her face and she is gripping its tail.
Cover to Godkiller by Hannah Kaner A deer looks up, one leg raised, next to a log with twisting branches. Behind him is a full moon and behind the moon are tree leaves.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: The Hades Calculus, a woman with gold eyes and scars on her face looks toward the viewer, her black hair is tied in a bun; Memory of Olympus, a blonde woman with scars on her face smiles, holding white threads, her yellow shirt is open revealing her hooters.
Cover to To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation. The the right, the statue of a woman is cover in vegetation and flowers. Behind her, more flowers and vegetation cover a statue and a metal platform. People walk across the platform beneath a glass skylight strewn with vines.
Terrence Howard pressing his fingers to his lips, looking pensive.
My hand holding a copy of The Orphic Hymns with translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow. The cover is from an ocher and black-colored Grecian vase. A man plays a lyre while another man watches, leaning on his spear.
Cover to The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden. A tall robot stands beside a little Black girl in a white dress. The robot has its left hand on her shoulder and from its chest a small arm extends an umbrella over the girl.
Books on a carpeted floor. Left to right: The Aeneid by Virgil, House of Dusk by Deva Fagan, and The Book of Blood & Roses by Annie Summerlee.
Cover to Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith. A woman dressed in a red robe and skirt and golden breast cups raises her arms and looks at a ship in an orb on a golden table.