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amalelmohtar.com
What I would've said: Metal from Heaven is a delirious shout, furious & grief-stricken & staggeringly beautiful. Clarke's voice is inimitable, shines hot & sharp in this historically-inflected fantasy about labour, anarchy, & highwaywomen. If you loved The Scapegracers, you'll love this even more.
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · Dec 6
My top 10 SFF of the year are up at @nytimes.com today, with one notable lacuna because I only managed to read it after I filed, so take it from me that METAL FROM HEAVEN absolutely belongs on this list & would have been if I had my shit more together, demonstrating why lists should be taken w/salt
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2024 (Gift Article)
The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:16 PM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
I made my scapegracers art into little doublesided card prints! with my own printer I am unstoppable and can make anything
My hand holding a postcard size print in front of four others. They are each of one of the main characters from the scapegracers, with witchy neon line backgrounds.
November 23, 2024 at 4:55 AM
dianapho.bsky.social
Spotted in the wild at McNally Jackson's outpost in LGA! @clpolk.bsky.social 's The Midnight Bargain @sapphomancer.bsky.social 's The Scapegracers and Ariel Kaplan's The Pomegranate Gate!! #ErewhonBooks
Scapegracers at an angle from the bookshelf The Midnight Bargain at an angle from the bookshelf The Pomegranate Gate at an angle from the bookshelf
September 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM
dianapho.bsky.social
#TDOV reads @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

The Scapegracers trilogy by @sapphomancer.bsky.social

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March 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
erewhonbooks.bsky.social
Have you seen this @amalelmohtar.com? Laya has also done some pretty incredible Scapegracers artwork!!
layahimalaya.bsky.social Laya 🌿🍄 overload F10! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Dec 12
—I walked through the dark to the edge of the cliff, the big basalt-column fingers that held us up from the hungry crashing water. I sat down.

Illustration of a scene near the end of METAL FROM HEAVEN by @sapphomancer.bsky.social.

#art #metalfromheaven
illustration in a flat pencilly style in dark jewel tones, of two tiny people sitting atop a cliff with swirls of pink light behind them. The cliff is purple basalt columns, carved to look like fingers, with a mint green and pink wave splashing at the bottom. Behind them is a rough mansion and leafy trees and the swirls of light go up to two moons, arranged almost like an hourglass. There is a border on either side, with a reflected pattern of a pearly glowing orb at the bottom with swirls that go up into purple vines, with blue citrus fruit and some small pink stars. The art has a slight 3d chromatic aberration effect.
December 12, 2024 at 8:26 PM
sarakas.bsky.social
Happy last day of #Pride! Here is my final rainbow stack! 🌈📚

This one’s chock full of favs (& only a few tbrs lol)

The Scapegracers trilogy, TSCTW, ADOFN, & The Magic of the Lost trilogy by @clclarkwrites.com are all solidly fixed as favs for me. Keep reading gay shit, y’all! #booksky #queerlit
A stack of books, spines facing outward, in a spectrum of colors with silver & purple at the top moving down through blue, green, yellow, orange, and red at the bottom. From top to bottom the books are: The Scapegracers trilogy by H.A. Clarke (The Scapegracers, The Scratch Daughters, and The Feast Makers); The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez; The Faithless by C.L. Clark; Herculine by Grace Byron; Notes From An Island by Tove Jansson; The Unbroken by C.L. Clark; Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis; The Sovereign by C.L. Clark; A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon.
June 30, 2026 at 3:23 PM
erewhonbooks.bsky.social
THE FEAST MAKERS is a finalist for the 2025 Lodestar Award! In the Scapegracers trilogy, a coven of vibrant queer teen witches forge their way against witch hunters and the specter of systemic oppression--THE FEAST MAKERS brings the series home spectacularly. Congrats @sapphomancer.bsky.social !! 🎉🦢
dianapho.bsky.social Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social · Apr 6
I'm also proud to have my author @sapphomancer.bsky.social and their novel THE FEAST MAKERS nominated for the Lodestar Award as well; this was the first book I edited at Erewhon, and a true honor to work with August Clarke to bring the Scapegracers trilogy to a close. 3/
Seattle WorldCon Logo, with Hugo Award logo, and a cover photo of The Feast Makers. Copy reads: "Congrats! Finalist for the Lodestar Award!"
April 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
THE SCAPEGRACERS 🖤🔮📕

I've been working on these character cards for like a year! scapegracers trilogy love of my life #art
thigh-up character portrait with a card design background. Sideways is a butch white teen with a shaved head and a spiky leather jacket with various patches, holding a thick composition book in their bruised hands with black swirls around it coming from their sleeves. There’s a neon red rim light. The background design is red lines on black, with an open book with eye doodles surrounded by snakes and stars and other witchy symbols. Card design made of purple lines on black, with a dripping open book with eye doodles surrounded by snakes and stars and other witchy symbols. Below it reads THE SCAPEGRACERS in angular text.
October 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
dianapho.bsky.social
Ready to dive into 3 new books with august clarke for more radical awesomeness and many gay crimes! 📚 🚀🌠🌟🍽️🌈

Thanks Tor.com for the boost!

https://www.tor.com/2023/08/08/book-announcement-three-new-adult-titles-from-august-clarke-from-erewhon-books/

#AuntieEditor
Announcing Three New Adult Titles From august clarke, Author of The Scapegracers
Erewhon Books will publish three new adult books from august clarke, author of The Scapegracers trilogy. The first of these is slated for Fall 2024 and is entitled Metal From Heaven. For fans of Ar…
www.tor.com
August 8, 2023 at 4:34 PM
reactorsff.bsky.social
Reactor loves Blackpink - oh, and I guess, books with black and pink covers too. Here's some recommendations for your Friday! 🖤💓
The Dead Cait Tail Assassins; The Scapegracers; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; The Starving Saints; Ordinary Monsters; Lady Macbeth Bunny; Black Sheep; Rakesfall; The Night Guest; The Midnight Shift; Severance
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
didichanoch.northsky.social
I think every teen and every adult needs to read the Scapegracers trilogy by H.A. Clarke (now writing under the name august clarke).
September 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
*cracks knuckles*
YA SFF/H
Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis
Brewed with Love - Shelly Page
Scapegracers - HA Clarke
Sleep Like Death - Kalynn Bayron
Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy
1/
February 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
naomikritzer.bsky.social
"The Feast Makers" by HA Clarke. That one's the third book in the series, though -- someone picking up the books should start with "The Scapegracers."
September 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
cxorlando.bsky.social
7) the scapegracers series by august clarke, to read furiously before metal from heaven comes out
October 9, 2024 at 2:16 PM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
get them & my other scapegracers art here! layaroseart.storenvy.com/products/367...

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layahimalaya.bsky.social Laya 🌿🍄 overload F10! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Oct 19
THE SCAPEGRACERS 🖤🔮📕

I've been working on these character cards for like a year! scapegracers trilogy love of my life #art
thigh-up character portrait with a card design background. Sideways is a butch white teen with a shaved head and a spiky leather jacket with various patches, holding a thick composition book in their bruised hands with black swirls around it coming from their sleeves. There’s a neon red rim light. The background design is red lines on black, with an open book with eye doodles surrounded by snakes and stars and other witchy symbols. Card design made of purple lines on black, with a dripping open book with eye doodles surrounded by snakes and stars and other witchy symbols. Below it reads THE SCAPEGRACERS in angular text.
November 23, 2024 at 4:57 AM
mcflycahill90.bsky.social
I wanted to shout out @amalelmohtar.com. Amal reviewed our early books for the NYTBR; w/o her fierce love of THE SCAPEGRACERS & THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN, our early years look VERY different. I'll always be so immensely grateful for her early and continued support and love of Erewhon books and authors <3
mcflycahill90.bsky.social Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · Jul 17
After 50+ amazing books & brilliant authors, and 6 wonderful years of fulfilling, joyful work, it is bittersweet to say but my time at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social is coming to an end today. Nothing but love and pride, and Erewhon's future is bright!

More words soon. But for now & always: gratitude 💜
The logo of Erewhon Books, on a blue, purple, white, and pink background.
July 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
melissacaruso.bsky.social
Trans authors are writing some of the best SFF out there! For trans day of visibility, I grabbed a semi-random assortment of books by trans and nonbinary authors off my shelves. All of these I've either read & loved, my kids have read & loved, or are high on my TBR pile!
A stack of books including Fate's Bane by C. L. Clark, Emberclaw by L. R. Lam, Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto, Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, Scapegracers by H. A. Clarke, Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender, Behind the Throne by K. B. Wagers, We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson, Between Dragons and Their Wrath by Devin Madson, A Strange & Stubborn Endurance by Fox Meadows, Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders. Face out next to the stack is The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide.
March 31, 2026 at 10:33 PM
dianapho.bsky.social
The covens convene for a trial.
The witchfinders gather for revenge.
Life after high school awaits.
Happy pub day to The Feast Makers! The stunning conclusion to @sapphomancer.bsky.social's #Scapegracers #AuntieEditor
#ErewhonBooks
The shiny covers for the Scapegracers trilogy, all set against a glittery black background.
March 26, 2024 at 2:15 PM
remotecore.bsky.social
Funny month. Still reading Styx House. Back to Black Hammer graphic novels. Finally got H. A. Clarke's Feast Makers and gone back to reread Scapegracers & Scratch Daughters first.
June 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
layahimalaya.bsky.social
another new magic book: scapegracers edition!

#art
digital art of a purple spellbook, with a silver blobby pattern on the front, and witchy symbols on the side. the pages are red, and there's a red bookmark. there's black inky swirls around it. it's titled 'scratch spells'.
June 3, 2026 at 6:02 AM
aquila1nz.bsky.social
-Navigational Entanglements is my 2nd fav de Bodard book for its spectrumy protagonists making connections against clan rules.
-Metal From Heaven is full on dykey industrial socialist punk fantasy, I don't love Marney as much as Sideways in Scapegracers, but I was delighted to read it! 2/2
January 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
cscreamingbeard.bsky.social
Halcyon Years by Alistair Reynolds, Yuri Gagarin is a PI on a colony ship investigating a murder

Scapegracers by H. A. Clarke, Baby queer in a small town discovers magic
February 26, 2026 at 5:59 AM
ladzwriting.bsky.social
Finished THE SCAPEGRACERS trilogy by @sapphomancer.bsky.social last night with THE FEAST MAKERS and holy shit, this trilogy is so cool and loves women so much and has such a compassionate approach to resolving conflict

lesbianism saves lives, it turns out
December 17, 2024 at 9:39 PM
ladzwriting.bsky.social
the best part about it is it gave us THE SCAPEGRACERS by HA Clarke
August 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
ladzwriting.bsky.social
One of my favorite pitches ever is for HA Clarke's The Scapegracers which I had seen as "lesbian witches who are gay" because while more happens in the book than just that, it's also very much that

And that's the vibe I would like to chase
ladzwriting.bsky.social Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 8d
I'm puzzling this myself right now, but I think it's a combination of snippet, premise, "peer review" (eg another writer/artist I like likes this thing)

But also an absurdly poor summarization that is also somehow completely accurate, like I'll be testing a few with OUR CRIMSON CAGE soonish
September 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM