Sep 21, 2025
I’m guessing it’s too late but in case it’s not I would like to say Lakelore is my favorite queer book and I would like to throw its hat in the ring
it is too late to enter the tournament but i'll throw this ask out for people to see
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I’m guessing it’s too late but in case it’s not I would like to say Lakelore is my favorite queer book and I would like to throw its hat in the ring
it is too late to enter the tournament but i'll throw this ask out for people to see
Have you read Youngblood? LGBTQIA+ vamp novel. Just wanna know
i have not but as soon as i read the words "lgbtqia+ vamp novel" i switched tabs to search for it so you've certainly landed on a genre i'm interested in
Listen. Jedao IS the ultimate blorbo and it is because Yoon Ha Lee himself is so deranged about the guy it left him no choice but to write a magnum opus
Like, every tumblr post you have ever seen about someone putting their OC in the microwave or on the taffy puller or doodling him on a little napkin then methodically shredding it, that’s what yoon ha lee was doing to jedao for big chunks of a decade, and it shows, and it’s beautiful
Hi! I’m not sure if this is okay to do, so if it isn’t please please ignore! I’m trying to promote my new queer vampire fantasy novel, & am looking for places to spread the news! If this isn’t cool with you, please ignore!!
It’s called Game of Survival and it’s available books2read .com/gos
i've got no problem with it! we've had other authors interact here and half the idea is to spread awareness of books others might not have heard of
and judging by the last tournament this crew certainly loves queer vampires
I cannot stress how much joy it brings me to see Tarot Sequence stuff on here, even if we won't make it past the first round. Hell yes to this perfect little queer af series - I hope it gets a few more people interested!
there's so much passion from everyone who's into that one! both in the tags and in the submissions themselves i was getting like paragraphs in the optional infodump box about some of the characters from tarot sequence it for sure seems interesting
Look I was too late to submit them but shout out to Ellen Kushner for writing Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners and Richard St Vier and Alec.
It's THE fantasy of manners and also have openly gay and fleshed out main characters... in 1987, which is quite long before most of the books here were published.
Also sword fights and court intrigues. You have to love that.
Honorary mentioned to Katherine Talbert from The Privilege of the Sword (2006) in the same series. She's Alec's teenage niece and quite fantastic. The book even won a Locus award.
I haven't read the last book, The Fall of the Kings, of the series (fair warning, expect a big time jump and no Richard and Alec), that Ellen Kushner wrote with her wife, Delia Sherman, but I'm looking forward to it.
Do you know what's best ? You can read these books as standalones.
who doesn't love a good sword fight?
You don't have to reply to this but I HIGHLY recommend the magician's guild series, I completely forgot it existed but it was one of my faves
oh i basically consider this tournament a roundabout way of people doing lgbt+ book recommendations for each other lmao so whenever i see a book i don't know i am 👀
I just want everyone to know that Debbie and Alice from CdF would have 100% been canon but Darren Shan's publishers went "nope". So they don't fit the criteria but I think they deserve a shout out.
Consider them shouted!