This weekend, I joined forces with 65 fellow authors to put together a Sapphic Speculative Fiction Event for you!
You can:
Win books in a giveaway Download free ebooks Get books at a special discount
Check out the books for day 1 on my website:
https://jae-fiction.com/sapphic-speculative-fiction-event/
A little #TransDayOfVisibility celebration:
Enough people want to read my cozy corgi mysteries with a trans masc protagonist… that there’s a wait at my local library system!
#TransRightsReadathon #7 My favorite so far, The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman.
One of the best sports romances I've ever read; the passion for baseball is as vital as the romantic passion. Gene, a young trans man, has trained himself to be happy that he made it into the minors and not to dream of more. But when he starts to fall for a new colleague, he begins to wonder if it's okay to let himself want. Enjoyable quirky prose and good disability rep too.
#TransRightsReadathon #6 A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability. (genderqueer author.)
A cartoon guide wonderfully illustrated with diverse bodies and many types of disabilities. Primarily focuses on physical issues, but the advice applies generally.
Corby and Loo
[Inspired by the Fifth Element]
Pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXCRQYFB/
2 sample chapters! https://www.wattpad.com/story/389923965-5-elements
#bookstodon @bookstodon #bookstagram #GayBooks #GayRomance #MMRomance #QueerBooks #LGBTBooks #GayFiction
#GayBookstagram #QueerReads #LGBTQBooks #GayLit #GayAuthor #QueerBook #GayLove #LGBTReads
#MMBooks #GayNovel #QueerRomance
#GaySciFi #QueerSciFi
#TransRightsReadathon #4 Us by Sara Soler. (English translation.) Romantic me, I love true stories about couples who stay together after one of them transitions. A super cute graphica memoir, which has fun with the comic format. The author/artist is cis, but her girlfriend also contributes her point of view. Would make a great starter book for someone trying to understand a loved one's trans identity.
Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni. Comic strip collection about a twenty-something friend group trying to live their best queer lives despite politics, brokeness, terrible decision making, and imposter syndrome.
I like the style of several short , punchy strips that are part of a longer story. The art is, probably deliberately, kind of messy.
It hurts that the political content is still/again relevant, but this is mostly a joy to read.
#TransRightsReadathon Book 2, The Bachelor's Valet by Arden Powell. (No trans characters, but I think the author is NB.)
Basically a Wooster/Jeeves romance, which despite my love for fictional "himbos" I would never have expected to like! But it's cute and fluffy, with a very charming touch of magic. Part of a series set in an alternate reality 1920s England, but stands alone.
Voting for the Queen Romance Club April selection (SF theme)
More about the bookclub here:
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104
Choices:
Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell — m/m, telepathy/mind control
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/ocean-s-echo-2
In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard — f/f, xuya universe (sentient spaceships in a Viet-inspired galactic empire, ongoing world but stand-alone story)
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/in-the-shadow-of-the-ship
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone — f/f, time travel
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-2
Mars House by Natasha Pulley — m/nb, Mars colony
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/the-mars-house-1
#QueerRomanceClub @queerromanceclub #QueerReads #bookclub #books #LGBTQBooks @bookstodon #bookstodon
Read MODEL HOME by Rivers Solomon if you love quintessential queer black literature, haunted houses, fractured families, sprawling suburbs, loving cups of tea, gut-punching prose, late night sanctuary diners, Jenny Holzer's Abuse of Power, Mothers, dissociating, running away & the unexplainable.
@bookstodon #book #books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookrecs #bookrec #bookrecommendations #bookrecommendation #readersofmastodon #readersonmastodon #2025reads #ireadbooks #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
Loose Kanin launches today! This is book 2 of my friend's Glass Kanin series, and it is an amazing, funny, heart wrenching ride!
(From the author): If you like LitRPG and wish it was more queer, or if you don't like LitRPG but are willing to read a weird, gay book about a man made out of glass, Books 1 & 2 (Glass Kanin and Loose Kanin) are on sale this week!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DS54BR7T
Any good recs for the #TransRightsReadathon ? I like romance, memoir, graphic novels, YA, fantasy. Preferably nothing too angsty right now. 
I have KU until the end of the month.
Also, any favorite places to donate for the readathon?
Ch. 12 of "I Was Broken Before I Got Here" is up, and there's a bit of trouble on the horizon.
#QueerRomanceClub @queerromanceclub
I’m looking for suggestions for the March vote of the QRC. The theme is historicals. I have a few on my list, but some are probably more historical than, ah, romantical 
and obviously a central queer (in any shape or form) relationship is required.
Indies/lesser known authors encouraged but the books need to be widely available (no Amazon-only books, library accessible).
#Romance @romancelandia #RomanceReads #Historicals #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQRomance
Just pre-ordered a copy of "Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Libraries". It looks like an interesting and relevant read.
https://litwinbooks.com/books/censorship-is-a-drag/ #censorship #academiclibrarian #lgbtqbooks #professionaldevelopment
Aphrodite decided to expand her power and build new temples, and now This Is How Immortals Die is available on Kobo (including Kobo Plus), Google Play Store, Amazon, and itch.io!
Books2Read Link: https://books2read.com/u/mgnY1X
Itch Link (you can also find some of my game jam projects here 
): https://nic-barelli.itch.io/this-is-how-immortals-die
Cool sale going on now! I only know some of the authors in passing but this is a great idea.
Some books recommend for now by the Queer Liberation Library: https://libbyapp.com/library/queerliblib/curated-1617569/page-1
Kid got Heartstooper for Yule and of course I had to read it. It's a YA #GraphicNovel that tells the story of how two teenage boys meet at school, become friends, and more.
So cute I cried 
. 4 
, now I just need to wait until kid has read the second part so I can continue, too.
