Fawn’s Blood is Hal’s next YA novel, coming September 16, 2025 from 7 Stories Press. It follows Fawn, a trans runaway looking for her best friend Silver, and Rachel, a teen slayer recently bitten by a vampire. Preorder Fawn’s Blood here
Read my interview with Sophie Drukman-Feldstein at Uncharted Mag Here!
EVENTS:
September 15, 7PM: Launch of Fawn’s Blood at Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn NY
September 17, 7PM, Starr Barr: A Night of Trans Vampire/Monster Stories, Brooklyn NY
September 22, 6:30 PM, All She Wrote Books with Fin Leary, Somerville MA
September 25, 6PM: Browser’s Bookshop, Olympia, WA
September 26, 7PM: Third Place Books, Seattle, WA
UK EVENTS!
October 19, 7PM: The Common Press, London, UK (Talking Vampires and Transness WITH LEO FOX AND KY LAWRENCE!)
October 21: Queer Vampire Night at The Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh, Scotland
October 23: Category Is Books, Glasgow, Scotland!
”Vampire stories are always gay but rarely are they so trans. Schrieve’s tale of teen rebellion, friendship, and bloodsucking is ripe with hope for a better world—a world in which networks of mutual aid relationships support outsider communities, and people give and receive trust, pleasure, and magic outside of heterosexuality and government control. Buffy fans, this book will knock your socks off!” —Maia Kobabe, ALA Alex Award-winning author and illustrator of Gender Queer: A Memoir
“Some writers give us a couple of characters, but Hal Schrieve gives us a whole community. Hir characters breathe; they seethe; they’re driven by rage and longing; and they’re indelible. Fawn’s Blood is unafraid of complexity and mess, and unafraid of love too. This is the queer vampire novel we deserve.” —Isaac Fellman, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Dead Collections and The Breath of the Sun
“Horror is always a metaphor, and in Fawn’s Blood that metaphor has teeth. Funny, hopeful, sad, and engrossing, Hal Schrieve has given us a bloodstained window to a better future.”
– —Kyle Lukoff National Book Award finalist, author of A World Worth Saving
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