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Fall 2024 is an exciting time! Use this post to keep in the loop!
New Book Release
Epilogues Audiobook Kickstarter
Secret Project
Live AppearanceÂ
Everything you need is below the cut!
Coal Gets In Your Veins releases October 1st! Perfect if you like vampires, kissing, queer characters in a rural setting, generational trauma, and loners to friends to lovers. Use my linktree to read the first chapters, preorder, and add to Goodreads!Â
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Epilogues for Lost Gods is getting an audiobook! Narrator Emily Mount is returning to voice Sigyn and the crew and weâre getting started with a Kickstarter! Back us on Kickstarter to walk away with books, keychains, custom narration, and more!Â
Thereâs something very pretty and very spooky in the works! I canât tell you what it is yet, but I can tell you itâs a one-off project thatâs coming this fall and features some EXCELLENT work. Iâm so excited to share it with you! Hereâs your vague hint
On October 4th, Iâll be appearing in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Booktoberfest via the library, along with my writing partner @leslieiswriting ! Iâll have more details as things get closer, but if youâre in town that day, Iâd love to meet you! Feel free to bring books to be signed!Â
Speaking of, @leslieiswriting's vampire pirate murder fest of a book comes out October 4th! If you think a bloodthirsty pirate captain whoâs hell-bent on revenge and wants to smooch the trans lady hostage is your jam, find free chapters and more here!Â
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As always, thank you so much for your interest in my work and for being with me on this journey! I hope youâll find this fall just as exciting as I do. I wouldnât be here doing these amazing things without the support of my readers and colleagues, and Iâm very grateful.Â
i'm not the first person to note this, but imane khelif, in addition to winning a gold in boxing, has also managed the superhuman feat of getting jk rowling to shut the fuck up. i think the ioc should give her another medal.
"I'm from Topeka, Kansas. That means the Westboro Baptist Church is from my hometown - but you know what else is from my hometown? The folks who bought a house across from that church and painted it rainbow flag colors. Then they bought the one next to it and painted it like the trans flag.
If you ever feel discouraged by the hate that exists in the world, or like the place you're from won't accept you, remember that queer folks are everywhere, even if you can't always see us. We might be right across the street. And sure, there are some terrible people in my hometown - but there's also the people who stood up to them. I have never been so proud of Topeka, Kansas as standing in front of that rainbow house.
Don't give up on rural or seemingly conservative places that seem unaccepting on the surface - we're here too. If you need to leave those places for your safety, don't feel bad about it, but don't assume that all of us who are from here are homophobic, transphobic, etc. There are queer people and allies everywhere."
â Anonymous, Pride 2024: Who We Are đ(survey)
something genuinely insane about going somewhere and getting to feel âi had some of the worst years of my life hereâ and âi was loved here, onceâ simultaneously.
In totally unrelated news I wrote a book about generational trauma in an ex-coal mining town based on the place I grew up and featuring the fictionalized real horror stories of people I know
My personal theory about why queer people have a reputation for being weird and loud is that once you figure out that being yourself even in the most mundane and semi-normative way will piss people off you may as well throw off every trace of normative behavior and sensibility you donât want because if youâre going to be hated anyways you might as well have fun with it
If the most simple things like loving how you want, presenting how you want, having control over how you want your body to look, is frowned upon, well you might as well wear glitter. You might as well cross dress. You might as well shave all your hair off. Damned by the mainstream already. Might as well be free while you do it.
I think thereâs a lot of cishet people who would act and dress more outrageous if it was normal to do that. But being comfortable often resides on being normal and theyâre already mostly normal so they might as well stay comfortable.
Iâve met cishet men who told me theyâd wear feminine clothing and cishet women who told me theyâd shave their hair off if they felt safe doing so. A lot of people donât feel safe doing so. A lot of queer people donât feel safe already. So. We might as well. But cishet people have more to lose by being weird I suppose.
"Being queer may cause all my cishet friends and family to abandon me to the wind, may as well do it while dressing like a librarian elf who writes queer books and has jewel tone hair"
Queer Audiobooks for $5 or Less in the Libro.fm Sale
Libro.fmâs got a Romance-heavy sale on now, and we definitely encourage you take advantage, ideally with these affiliate links!
10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall, narrated by Will Watt (contemp m/m, $2.99)
Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert, narrated by (dark m/m/f/f romance, $2.99)
The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels, narrated by Kim Bretton and Emma Fenney (contemp f/f, $2.99)
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hmm yeah not surprised in the slightest (please note: this is not the fault of the editors. they're overworked and underpaid. it's the fault of the heads of tradpub deciding to maximize quantity over quality, time and time again.)
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