Lyssa Chiavari

YA scifi author 🚀 | aro-ace 💜♠️ | #faithfullyLGBT ✝️🏳️‍🌈 | she/her
 📚: THE IAMOS TRILOGY (Snowy Wings Publishing), JUST LIKE THE FIRST TIME (Indie Dreams), CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X (Kraken Collective Books)

[thesylverlining]

So, I wrote a song, which I'd really love for you to hear. <3

This is so special to me, because I wrote it celebrating the 10-year anniversary of THE IAMOS TRILOGY, an incredible asexual-led time-traveling-on-Mars SFF book series by Lyssa Chiavari, which/whomst I love so much!

Y'all, this was the first book I ever read to have an asexual main character, which was especially meaningful bc mine (also ace SFF) would come out just a couple months later. As a new author I was terrified, and this series legit gave me courage and hope that I could do this, that there was a place for a-spec writers and characters and stories.

So I had to do something to help Lyssa have the best 10-year celebration ever. <3 And that meant writing songs...

FOUR OF THEM, in fact! It'll be an entire EP, very soon!

The entire thing will be on bandcamp, but grabbing the special editions will get you all songs much faster/as they're ready for release.

So! Thank you so much if you read this, even more if you listened/watched the video, and ultimate thanks if you pick up the IAMOS TRILOGY. I'm so glad you're here, and just so freaking full of love for the indie book community. <3 I hope this brings you some of the joy I had in making it.

Ro

[thesylverlining]

Happy Pride 2024! Have some Weird Queer books, games, and sounds!

Hey y'all, I'm RoAnna Sylver, and I write really queer books and interactive fiction about superheroes and vampires and space wolves and refusing to die - and EVERYTHING of mine is 50% off right now, individually or in a big beautiful bundle!

That's 7 books, 2 games, and my Indie Ink Award finalist audiobook CHAMELEON MOON!

Every single one of my books are also 99 cents on Amazon - And more importantly, every other book vendor I can reach!

Thank you so much for reading, whether my books or just this post. Thank you for still being here. I'm glad you are.

And to all of you:

Happy (defiant, quiet, introspective, angry, mourning, joyful) Pride!

[byjillianmaria]

SO excited to have Curiouser And... involved in the Kraken & Friends sale!

From January 17 to 22, browse through queer indie SFF books for your next read, complete with a short quiz to find out which queer character you are!

krakenfriends.claudiearseneault.com

[lyssachiavari]

One month from today, One World, the last book in my debut series, The Iamos Trilogy, will be published by Snowy Wings Publishing.

This has been a series that's meant a lot to me emotionally. It's also the first YA series that was ever published to feature a canon, on-page demisexual protagonist (Isaak), and it was one of the first to feature an asexual protagonist (Nadin). Bringing their story full circle has been an incredible experience and I can't wait for everyone to read it!

(And I'm so excited that my publisher managed to schedule the release of the last book to take place during Ace Week!)

Here's what one of the first early readers, RoAnna Sylver, author of Chameleon Moon, had to say about it.

[makaylajade-author]

Being a writer is really just having this one scene in your head that you want to write and then crying about the 50 thousand other words you have to write to get to that scene

[kjscottwrites]

I wanna help get LGBTQ indie writers paid this month so let's start a thread! If you've got a piece of writing (be it a novel, a collection, a book of poetry, a short story, erotica, whatever!) for sale online or in bookstores that u would love for more people to read, HERES YOUR SIGN to reblog this with links to your work <3

[kjscottwrites]

HAPPY PRIDE it's time to get this post making rounds again! Shamelessly self promo yourselves babes <3

[armageddinouttahere-deactivated]

My gothic fantasy book releases 16 June but pre-orders are open now!!

Features a bisexual female lead and one of her love interests is also a bisexual. They're both terrible, problematic rep and constantly horny if that's of any interest ;)

Grab it at Amazon or The Great British Bookshop (the latter offers me better royalties)

[brynwrites]

I just released the second book in my weird queer fantasy series that’s got gay romance and murder and monsters (both the scary kind and the cuddly kind).

[lyssachiavari]

I've got a couple books on sale for $0.99 this month:

• Fourth World: YA time travel scifi, Atlantis on Mars, features #OwnVoices asexual rep (main/POV character) and demisexual rep (main/POV character). Secondary characters throughout the series also include lesbian, aromantic, and non-binary rep. Last book in series releases this October, during Ace Week!

• Cheerleaders from Planet X: NA alien invasion scifi romance, lightweight superhero adventure that leans into the silliness. Lesbian main characters and romance. Also available as an audiobook!

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

Due to that post I made re: why it's hard for aros/aces to imagine a future for themselves because society tells you a romantic partner will always take priority, a lot of people (aros/aces and allos alike) are sharing stories about how they have been discarded by their close friends and it's breaking my heart. But allos and aspecs coming in and sharing how they have the same amount of love for their partners and their best friends/siblings is healing it.

Still, there are people in the tags saying that aros/aces can "never offer their partners the kind of intimacy they need" and so they shouldn't be "surprised" when they feel closer to partners than their friends. You guys are missing the point.

The point is that we should NOT be ranking our relationships. People aren't there to be ranked on a scale of "This person is my number one and this person comes after that." The point is that you need multiple people in your life. One person cannot - and should not - be responsible for giving you everything you need. Different people will give you different things that you need in life and you should value all of them.

The idea that a romantic partner will give you every single thing you need in life is a toxic idea in itself and puts undue pressure on said partner and the relationship as a whole. A best friend won't give you everything either. You NEED multiple people in your life and they will all give you a part of what you need, but there is no one perfect person out there who perfectly gives you exactly what you want. We need multiple people and they should all be valued by you. Love is not limited.

[homunculus-argument]

Being overstimulated is such a weird thing to explain to people. Like "hey sorry, I'm not mad at you and this is nobody's fault and I'm not blaming anyone for it happening, I am aware this is a part of regular everyday life but I am mentally crumbling because There Have Been Things Happening nonstop for 5 hours straight back to back with no breaks, and I really need to sit down in complete silence for like 15-25 minutes, after which I will be completely fine and can proceed as normal. But if I'm not allowed to have that, I will resort to violence."

[lyssachiavari]

maggotsandcream:

That feeling when you realize most of the other kids weren't also just lying about totally having crushes in elementary and middle school.

Was thinking about this post today as I remembered the gay guy I was friends with in high school and how we kind of hung around and pretended to be straight together, neither of us coming out until way later, but then once both of us were out, looking at each other with the eyes of total understanding

[lgbtqreads]

Do you have recs for wlw road trip books?

Sure! Try Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker and Hairpin Curves by Elia Winters.

[lyssachiavari]

The Thousand Mile Love Story by Natalie Vivien is another good one

[barbie-pride-flags]

Ace pride flag color picked from Barbie Fashionista #93!

[abalonetea]

just saw someone reviewing the erin hunter books like, ‘they should publish the whole series at once, i don’t want to wait a whole year to read it’. like babe i hate to break it to you but,,,, go touch some grass and think about your relationship with consumerism okay, because it’s gotten really weird on you

[faelanvance]

I’ve heard these kinds of sentiments in regards to novels, as well as readers outright refusing to read fantasy series debuts because “they fear committing to something unfinished” (like refusing to read an incomplete fanfic on AO3…) in case the author dies, or isn’t able/doesn’t complete the work. The GRRM effect, if you will.

Regardless of how people feel towards the authors personally, I will continue to bleat, til the day I die, artists do not owe an audience anything. They are not in debt to you. They don’t owe their works to their readers, no exceptions, there is no “earned/lost trust” or “unspoken contracts.” Capitalism has got people treating artists and entertainers as though they should hop on their bicycles like a chained bear, the moment the audience cracks its whip.

[brynwrites]

There’s also this fun aspect of capitalism where your favorite (usually marginalized) author doesn’t get another book contract or have the rest of the series picked up or have the money to keep investing their time in that project because you refused to buy the thing until it was finished.

Not only do creators not owe their audience anything, but those who really truly want to give these things to their audience are directly prevented from doing so by this exact mentality!

Edit: Because people seem to think this is meant to shame those who just don’t want to read unfinished things, no it’s not. You do you. Just don’t complain to the small hardworking diverse creators about how there’s no media with the rep you want in it if you won’t give those creators your money until they’ve committed years of free labor to you.

[lyssachiavari]

I don't think I ever wanted any of my posts to go viral, but I definitely didn't want it to be a repost of a Pillowfort post that I only reposted here so I could make a comment on it to my friends who aren't on Pillowfort

[webcomicname]

[lyssachiavari]

Every day until now: open Tumblr, 1-2 notifications, maybe a few more when I've posted Animal Crossing stuff

Today: 99+ notifications

OH GOD OH NO WHAT DID I DO

[thedankmemes]

[ojibwa]

the crushing guilt of being unproductive vs the exhaustion of being burned out. fight.

[ursavorpalis]

#aaaaand its listless dissociation with the steel chair!!!

*stamps this as peer-reviewed*