#karajorgensen

[queerbookmasterlist]

As many of you know, I've been working on creating a masterlist of LGBTQIA+ books where you can filter by genre, representation, relationship, target age group, and more.

❤️ Several of the books on this list are self-published or do not get a lot of recognition, so I thought, what better way to share than use a random number generator to grab 3 books at a time and share them with all of you!

💛 For right now I am focusing on the first in a series or books that can be read as standalones. I also try to skip over any that might be blatantly harmful.

💚 So what do you think? Think you will be adding any of these books to your TBR?

📖 The Unintentional Time Traveler: ?/5⭐(Unread) 📖 Kinship and Kindness: ?/5⭐(Unread) 📖 Higher: ?/5⭐ (Unread)

💜 DISCLAIMER: I have not read all of these books so I cannot attest to their quality or the issues that may arise in them. I have tried to note which I have or have not read. It is also highly recommended that readers check trigger warnings to decide if a book is right for them.

[kodoukat]

Fanart of Oliver and Felipe, from the Reanimator series by Kara Jorgensen

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[mgoinggreen]

Now reading: The Earl and the Artificer which is book #3 of the Ingenious Mechanical Devices series by my friend, Kara Jorgensen. 

This is an excellent, imaginative series and I’m loving the third book so far! If you like steampunk, fantasy, historical fantasy, LGBTQ lit, and/or fun and interesting characters, you’ll enjoy her books. Get started with book #1, The Earl of Brass.

@karajorgensen

[readvitality]

Spooky Shirt + Subscription Winners!

And the winners are.... *drumroll please*

Subscription winners:

Kara, Kate, and Ellis! 

You will receive an email shortly with download links to the October issue, as well as receiving future issues of Vitality in season 2.

And the Spooky Shirt winner is...

Marisha! :D

You’ll be getting an email shortly asking about your t-shirt preferences.

Thank you all for participating! 

[authorkarajorgensen]

Self-publishing Date is Growing Nearer

To give a little background, my story The Earl of Brass was conceptualized during my freshman and sophomore years of college, but I never got around to writing more than a chapter or two and ended up bouncing between several other stories. In my senior year, I had to work on a scholars project that was supposed to have academic merit.  Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that a steampunk novel could have academic merit, but my professor convinced me to do it and prove that science fiction could have merit in an academic setting. 

Over the course of a semester and a half, I wrote nineteen chapters of The Earl of Brass, but I wasn't satisfied with how it turned out by the deadline.  I went back and revised it, adding chapters into the middle of the novel while working on the end of it.  Finally, by September or October 2013, it was completed.  Of course, a writer's work is never done.  Since then, it has been edited about six times, but today it is in the final proof-reading stage.  The whole story has been formatted and is ready for self-publishing.

This journey has been amazing yet overwhelming.  Before The Earl of Brass, I had never finished writing a novel.  I had dabbled with writing and loved doing it but never did I have to plan a whole piece or stay focused on working on it for any length of time.  Now, the book should be online by the end of June.  I cannot wait.  Hopefully I will also be at the Steampunk World's Fair next May in New Jersey.

~Kara~

[authorkarajorgensen]

Hi, everyone. I am currently working on a novel that will be up for publishing at the end of the summer. If you would like to take a look at it and tell me what you think, I would be eternally grateful! Enjoy =)

Here is the blurb: A once promising archeologist and adventurer, Eilian Sorrell is now grounded after the loss of his arm in a devastating dirigible crash over the countryside and is facing a bleak future in London as the prodigal eldest son of an earl. With the care of his dutiful butler, Eilian recovers but seeks to regain what he has lost by enlisting the Fenice Brother’s Prosthesis Company to create a new arm for him. Rather than meeting a brother, the spirited Hadley Fenice arrives with an interesting proposition for the adventurer. She creates an arm of brass and leather that can flex and move as a real arm could, but what Hadley receives in return is the chance to be free from the restrictions of Victorian life. Under the guise of the foppish artist, Henry Fox, she is free to explore alongside Lord Sorrell as they work at an archaeological excavation in the Negev Desert. But what lies under the sand is more precious than potshards or bones. The subterranean dwelling Billawrati have lived for centuries in peace without the burdens of money or imperialism. As the archaeologists venture deeper, they are confronted by a society where the path of life is not governed by gain but by passion. They question how their lives and the lives of those close to them could be if the world would allow them to embrace who they really are. When imperialistic invaders come to Billawra in search of a new colony to pillage, Eilian and Hadley are forced to commit unspeakable acts to protect their fleeting glimpse of freedom.