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kelmenton.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky!! I’d better introduce myself!
🦊 I’m Kel!
🏳️‍⚧️ they/them
🍓 I’m a writer and facilitator
🌻 My debut YA novel #AFixofLight is out on 6 Feb!
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
Delighted to see #AFixofLight on this list!!! Thank you!!
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
HAPPY BIRTHDAY #AFixofLight 🦊🥰✨❤️🌈🍓🌻🧝🏻💞🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🥳🩷
February 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
octocon.bsky.social
Last year's #Octocon guest gave a really insightful interview with @booksireland.bsky.social. Recommend giving it a read!

#AFixOfLight #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #IrishFolklore #IrishLit #Fantasy
kelmenton.bsky.social kel menton @kelmenton.bsky.social · May 29
I had a WONDERFUL time chatting with @rurooie.bsky.social for BooksIreland! 🫶🏻✨
#AFixofLight 🦊
booksireland.bsky.social Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · May 29
Ruth Ennis talks to Kel Menton about vulnerability, mental health, and celebrating the small wins 📕

@rurooie.bsky.social @kelmenton.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie
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May 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
I had a WONDERFUL time chatting with @rurooie.bsky.social for BooksIreland! 🫶🏻✨
#AFixofLight 🦊
May 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
kelmenton.bsky.social
I’m a fiend no bookshop is safe from my Sharpie #afixoflight
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
Join @kelmenton.bsky.social at @wcorklitfest.bsky.social this summer for an event around their extraordinary YA debut #AFixOfLight! Book your FREE ticket: www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
kelmenton.bsky.social
Omg!!! Thank you!!! I can’t believe #AFixOfLight is coming out in the States TOMORROW 🦊✨🫶🏻🌻
raenbowpunk.bsky.social 🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · May 5
This Must-Have Monday I have 17 books for you - with excerpts from nearly all of them! Incl

🌿👽plant-girl aliens from @seananmcguire.bsky.social
✨magic moxie in the Outersphere with @albyceewilliams.bsky.social
🦊resurrection forests and uncontrollable magic by @kelmenton.bsky.social
Must-Have Monday #235 - Every Book a Doorway
Vietnamese queens, plant-aliens, and disco witches!
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May 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
We had a magical evening in Cork launching the debut YA novel A Fix of Light by Kel Menton 💜🦊

Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate with us and a huge thanks to Dubray Books for being wonderful hosts💫

Congratulations Kel!

#AFixOfLight is OUT NOW!
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
What a brilliant question. Here’s my best attempt: Love ; Hope ; Magic ; Perseverance ❤️🦊✨🌈 #ukteenchat #afixoflight
February 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
Thank you!! Hopefully I was able to capture them in #afixoflight !!! #ukteenchat
February 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
thank you for the very cool review!! #AFixofLight is officially cat endorsed!!!!!!
erinliterary.bsky.social Erin Literary Cool Cat 🐈📚 @erinliterary.bsky.social · Feb 23
A FIX OF LIGHT by Kel Menton @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Is the HOT Read & Review. Uncompromising yet truly Beautiful YA romantic fantasy fiction about young love, life, and the sometimes cruel path to discovering the real you, within & without. erinthecatprincess.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-fi...
Set against a blue night sky, stars twinkle. Pax and Hanan, our protagonists, stand on each side facing each other. The book title falls between them, the word 'LIGHT' brighter and illuminating the boys' faces in a pale dusky pink. A golden thread weaves a path through the title and links each boy's heart. Between them and at the bottom of the cover are the dark shapes of semi-lit row of houses. A red fox with a white tipped tail and white chest and neck runs from right to left.
February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
#AFixofLight is out this day next week!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦊🍓🌻🥰💞👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🧝 #booksky
January 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
"An ethereal and mysterious debut." Thank you Kirkus Reviews for reviewing #AFixOfLight by @kelmenton.bsky.social! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @pubspotlight.bsky.social
A FIX OF LIGHT | Kirkus Reviews
Two Irish teens juggle feelings and the supernatural.
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February 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
Oh I 100% agree with you, being by the sea unlocks something in my writer brain!! It’s no wonder #afixoflight is set in an Irish seaside village… #ukteenchat
February 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
Cork-based/Cork adjacent friends! Join us on Thursday for the launch of #AFixOfLight by @kelmenton.bsky.social at Dubray Books, Patrick St, Cork! All welcome, no tickets or RSVP required. We hope to see you there! #BookLaunch
February 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
kelmenton.bsky.social
“He kept his eyes fixed on his shoe until the last possible moment, focused on re-tying his laces like it took his full concentration. When he finally lifted his gaze, Pax’s green eyes were there, waiting for him.”
I commissioned this gorgeous piece from @manekkii.bsky.social!!!
#afixoflight
April 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
Thank you @rte.ie for hosting @kelmenton.bsky.social's piece on #AFixOfLight (out now!).
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Coming back to the light - Kel Menton on their debut novel
A Fix Of Light, the debut YA book from author Kel Menton, is a trans love story with a dark magical twist.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
kelmenton.bsky.social
For sure! It taught me how to research properly & filled my head with thousands-years-old metaphors & narratives & archetypes. Reading works in translation, doing my own translations…all of it influenced my style & work ethic! #ukteenchat #afixoflight
February 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
littleislandbooks.bsky.social
It's been so exciting watching final copies of #AFixOfLight by @kelmenton.bsky.social land with reviewers these past few days! This powerful YA novel seamlessly blends queer romance & fantasy. Fair warning: you might want to clear your schedule for this one!
www.littleisland.ie/products/a-f...
February 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
My debut is #AFixofLight & one of the mmcs is trans!! 🏳️‍⚧️🦊 #tdov

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Fix of Light, A
Be Careful. The dark is listening. A powerful and moving YA novel that seamlessly blends queer romance and fantasy Content note: contains references to suicide and self-harm, homophobic and transphobi...
www.littleisland.ie
March 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
I consumed the National Folklore Archive’s podcast Bluiríní Béaloideas & some books on Irish wolves & also how do Irish place names come to be??? Some of that was research for my own interest, but ended up in the book… 😅😅😅 #ukteenchat #afixoflight
February 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
There’s a Trans Rights Readathon?!? Which is CLASS & I am going to shamelessly mention A Fix of Light to be a potential read for it!!! #TRR #AFixofLight 🦊🏳️‍⚧️
March 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
Ah, yes…Project H&H…I am challenging myself with a bigger cast of characters, more action & more complicated plot…think V.E. Schwab’s ‘Vicious’...I am very excited about it. I will say no more. 🐺🐇🔥 #ukteenchat #afixoflight
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
kelmenton.bsky.social
#afixoflight is about two boys, Hanan 🏳️‍🌈 and Pax 🏳️‍⚧️, who are trying to figure out where Hanan’s mysterious powers have come from, and fall hopelessly in love in the process!! #afol is about love – learning how to love yourself, as well as another person 🦊❤️ #ukteenchat
February 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM