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The World’s First Queer Children’s Bookstore is having a sale!
In the week leading up to Pride Month, bone up on your queer history, or just find some stories to comfort/inspire/astound/enlighten you.
The entire inventory is 15% off this week (May 24-31) when you use the code PrePride at checkout!
Visit invisiblestringsbooks.com to browse our collection
If you have decided not to fund a terf by buying or playing the antisemitic video game, and now you need something to do with that $60, consider donating to the world's first queer children's bookstore, Invisible Strings Bookshop, or joining their patreon
Here's a little bit about the shop from their website:
I got a queer YA fantasy book deal!!
Wanna read a lesbian faerie tale featuring (naturally) forbidden teen lesbian love, genderqueer rabbits, dragons that grow on trees, and -- of course -- a load of magic?? Written by... me??
Well, NineStar Press is publishing my novel, Lunav, on April 2nd, 2018!
Wanna read more?
Check out my official author tumblr here!!!
Wanna be the first to get updates and exclusive peaks?
Cruise through my author website!
Follow my official author tumblr (jpolish-writes-queer-ya-fantasy.tumblr.com) (and please reblog the announcement post here!)
Sign up for my newsletter (promise not to spam you!)
Friend me on goodreads!
Important note:
When you’re on/talking about my author tumblr and author website, please please please call me Jenn. When you’re on here, please continue to call me J or Cap or what have you. I want to keep this fandom blog fandom-centric, and while of course there will be overlap -- I am one person, after all! -- I very much want to keep everything as separate as I can.
That said, please feel free to toss environmentally-friendly confetti off rooftops while proclaiming that ‘QueerCap got a book deal, look at their author website, Lunav is happening!!!’ (And feel free to boost the crap out of hashtag lunav !!!!)
This book is so important to me, and I am humbled and honored at the idea of being able to finally share it with people -- so feel free to help me do that! Thank you so much for being a part of my journey, yall: I look forward to continuing to share it with you!!!!
(And with that, I think our blog party found its theme???)
Welcome to Lunav! Meet Sadie and her friends!
If you're reading this, you probably already know that Lunav is the name of my debut novel, set to be published by NineStar Press in April 2018.
What you might not know is what, indeed, Lunav is; who lives there; and why their stories are important.
Lunav is a land, geographically and politically divided into five major regions; the Grove, the Samp, the Flowing, Izla, and the Highlands. More on those in another post.
For now: who's our tour guide through it all?
Well, a spy, of course.
That's where Sadie comes in.
My wonderful fiancée once said that when she gets older, Sadie's going to be charming and suave as all get out; but right now, she's such a helplessly awkward little lesbian.
So true. So true.
Except I guarantee that Sadie would argue that she has a great deal of game, at the current moment.
Her friends would laugh hysterically at that assertion.
Lerian -- her centaur best friend, with red hair and auburn skin with reddish fur -- would laugh so hard she'd snort while choking out some sort of snide remark about Sadie's newly born sibling Aon having more game than she does.
Zaylam -- Sadie's hatchling dragon, with magenta, hickory-bark patterned wings, a furry mauve underbelly, and huge crystalline eyes -- would roll through the air in such a fluidly chaotic pattern that she'd annoy all the older dragons. She wouldn't care, though (she'd probably laugh even harder at their indignation), because she'd be singing for sunups to come about how Sadie thinks she's smoother than the Flowing's silt beaches.
Only Jorbam and Osley would have some mercy on poor, bewildered, spluttering lesbian Sadie.
Jorbam -- Sadie's hatchling tree, roots all coiled together, rope-like, to form her trunk until they cascade out into a mushroom-style canopy littered with spiney leaves -- would rumble her amusement for all to feel, but she'd relent and let Sadie taste her sap to reassure her hatchling faerie that her friends are only teasing, that she's quite a charming young faerie and will only grow more so with age.
Osley -- her closest rabbit friend, genderqueer and grey and white and jittery all over, frequently flattening querself to the ground when que gets startled, which is often -- would thump out a soft defense of Sadie, reminding Zaylam and Lerian that those girls at the human Inn were always all over Sadie, weren't they?
At which point, Sadie -- very close-cropped curly hair; open-throated tunic, with a translucent faye-glass axe in the belt of her loose pants; generally smooth, deep brown skin ashy at her elbows, knees, and ankles; grand, midnight-colored, star-speckled wings helping her hover smugly -- would cross her (well-muscled) arms over her chest with a massive, satisfied grin, nodding with finality.
"See? Girls can't resist me," she'd tell her chortling friends.
And she'd promptly do something like trip over her own wings.
Happy Pride Month!
Throughout June, Invisible Strings will be highlighting books that teach us about the history of our community and the history of Pride.
Today's book: Making Gay History by Eric Marcus
"Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding." -- Kirkus Reviews
A completely revised and updated edition of the classic volume of oral history interviews with high-profile leaders and little-known participants in the gay rights movement that cumulatively provides a powerful documentary look at the struggle for gay rights in America.
The rich tapestry that emerges from Making Gay History includes the inspiring voices of teenagers and grandparents, journalists and housewives, from the little-known Dr. Evelyn Hooker and Morty Manford to former vice president Al Gore, Ellen DeGeneres, and Abigail Van Buren. Together, these many stories bear witness to a time of astonishing change, as queer people have struggled against prejudice and fought for equal rights under the law.
Here's the link to buy it from the "for grownups" section of the world's first queer children's bookstore (that's us!)
Happy International Asexuality Day!
At Invisible Strings Bookshop, our goal is to connect people with stories about people both like and unlike themselves; here are some stories asexual people can see ourselves in, and that might just help those who don't fall on the ace spectrum to empathize and understand.
From our family to yours, we hope your day is aces!
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day!
You COULD buy a high-vis reflective vest for every lesbian you know, or you could just share lesbian books so that kids everywhere can see stories about people both like and unlike themselves in their daily lives
.As the world's first queer children's bookstore, we can really only help you with one of those, but we also happen to think it's the more fun option anyway.
Here’s a link to shop for these books at the world’s first queer children’s bookstore (that’s us)! https://shop.aer.io/invisible_strings_bookshop