Fawn's Blood

​”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“Fawn’s Blood is so much more than a vampire story. It’s a story of community resilience and resistance that effortlessly weaves queer history, trans identity, and modern political extremism into an urban fantasy setting. Reading this book feels like a form of activism, and I am all the better for it.” —Courtney Ulrich Smith, Underbrush Books, Rogers, Arkansas

HAL SCHRIEVE is a children’s librarian in Manhattan and the best part of hir job is facilitating comics and creative writing workshops with young people. Ze is the author of the YA novels How to Get Over the End of the World and Out of Salem, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Hal’s comics are featured in We’re Still Here, an all-trans comics anthology, and the zine Very Online. Hir comic Vivian’s Ghost was on the shortlist for Comics Beat’s 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award for Best Webcomic. Originally from Olympia, WA, Hal now lives in New York.

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