It's author interview time! 🎊 We're chatting w/ Leon Egan (who you may know as the creator of the fabulous @tellnotalespod 👀) about his new opposites-attract YA romcom Listen Closely 🏳️⚧️🎧✨
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We’ve missed you so much! It’s high time we cosied up with a good (gay) book again, so peek under the cut if you want the schedule for our queer book club podcast over the next few months!
First up, we’ve got a special episode celebrating the third anniversary of The Hidden Bookcase, alongside our fabulous editor Kit Lovick 🎂🥳🎊
Expect a bookish quiz with Kit as our quizmaster, and a bookish hear me out cake from your cohosts 👀🍑💦
Then, we’ll kick off Disability Pride Month with the return of the always incredible IndiaReadsALot who is back to discuss the final book in Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods trilogy, Faithbreaker, which definitely set our minds (and hearts) aflame! 🔥🫀🌊
Then we’ve got an author interview with the lovely Leon Egan about their upcoming YA novel Listen Closely, following two audiodrama-loving, neurodivergent, trans teens with opposing personalities stuck together for work experience at their local radio station! 👀🎙️💕
Last but certainly not least, to close out Disability Pride Month, we’re chatting with @dnbryn about writing disability in romance. You might know Bryn as author of the delightful Guides for Vampires or No-Man’s Lander books 🧛♥️🧜
Then, for August, we’re bringing back a fan favourite theme, drumroll please… 🥁 That’s right, it’s Moist Month… 2! And what better book to begin with than @ariaste’s piratical fantasy-comedy Running Close to the Wind? ⚓️💦🐍 iykyk
To finish out Moist Month, we’ll have the amazing Alex Abrahams joining us to chat horror fantasy mermaids in Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (AKA Seanan McGuire) 🩸🌊🫧
You might know Alex from @tranthologies, @room56pod, or as Ollie on @theatticmonologues!
We can’t wait to welcome you all back through the bookcase! 💜💛 If you’d like to buy one of these books, support indie bookshops and the show, you can purchase through our Bookshop.Org storefronts 📚💕
The Hidden Bookcase is running another book swap to celebrate the summer ☀️🦜📙
If you’d like to send a preloved book and receive one in return, you can participate by joining our Discord server and filling out the form in the #announcements channel before May 24th.
Trans Rights Readathon is underway! I was travelling yesterday so I wasn’t able to update, but I’m two books down and Shon Faye’s Love in Exile is shaping up to be my third ♥️🌺
Morgan and I are raising money for Not A Phase! If you’d like to help, please visit or share our JustGiving page- we’ve also included some ways to fight for trans rights if you don’t have money to spare!
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