Nebulous, writes

speculative fiction author, certified blerd, fanfic sommelier, and staunch defender of comic sans. i write short stories with vibes for plot & SFFH novels featuring everything but the kitchen sink.

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, a painting by Frederic William Burton

Books

3D hardcover of Black As Diamond. The cover depicts a jagged dark blue gem sprouting from the bottom right with a twisted tree and tower embedded in it, and two white birds in the top left. Golden text for the title and white text for the author's name.
Black As Diamond

March 3, 2026

Bindery Books & Ezeekat Press

Cover of Black As Diamond. The cover depicts a jagged dark blue gem sprouting from the bottom right with a twisted tree and tower embedded in it, and two white birds in the top left. Golden text for the title, white text for the author's name.

Illustration: Christian Chang
Design: Charlotte Strick

A cursed warrior. A reckless healer. A chance to save the world—or destroy it.

Like the rest of the winged eresh keyel, warrior Asaru has spent his life fighting a long-dead enemy. When his brother’s squadron disappears from a border keep, Asaru travels into the human realm to investigate, only to become ensnared by a fatal—and unbreakable—curse that could wipe out his people.When he inadvertently commits a terrible crime, Asaru is thrown into the path of Wren, a former healer-in-training playing with dangerous magic. Bound to one another by a spell gone wrong, and on the run from freelance killers, they set out to find the Chronicler, who could bring them answers, redemption, and the cure to Asaru’s curse. But the secrets they uncover about the past have the power to break the world into pieces, ending human civilization and settling its remnants into something entirely new.

Available to pre order now:

Explicit gore, death, graphic violence, fight scenes, loss of limb, mutilation, descriptions of corpses, blood, bloodletting, nosebleeds, atypical depression, suicidal ideation, depictions of religion and religious practices, implied sexual content, sex work (mentioned), non-consensual kiss, non-consensual drug use, ethnic discrimination, near drowning, indentured servitude (mentioned), body horror, emesis, excessive alcohol consumption, poison, scars from poison, owls (the skull of an owl-like creature is described)

Please assume everyone is queer unless otherwise stated or implied.

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Artwork

Short Fiction

Forthcoming

  • "Belletristic Lover." Baffling.

  • "Itsy Bitsy." Kaleidotrope.

  • "Divinity, Abloom." Tales and Feathers.

  • "Tapetum Lucidum." Augur.

"Family Will Eat You Alive." Consumed anthology.

"Teeth Sharper Than Moonlight." Blood, Sweat, & Queers anthology.

The damsel fled from the beast under the full moon's sentinel eye.

"Allomorphosis." White Wall Review Issue 54.

“Take off your skin and let me crawl inside you,” Bell, the alien, said as it unzipped its skin-tight body con dress.

"When The World Will End..." Saros Issue 3.

The technology that remains will be more flesh than metal.

[Set in the Khrysoverse]

Get in touch!

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um [at] nebulouswrites [dot] comFor publishing inquiries, contact Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary

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Flights of Foundry: mini game jam host & panelist
(Fantasy from the Tropics)
September 26-28, 2025

WriteHive Con: panelist
(Troubling Tropes)
July 12, 2025

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