The Unemployed Librarian

Michael Rogowski, MLIS, HBA,

[thebestoftumbling]

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[maderr]

Less Than Three Press

Ninestar Press

Harmony Ink

Dreamspinner Press

DSP Publications

Loose ID

Pride Publishing

Riptide Publishing

MLR Press

JMS Books

Blind Eye Books

Interlude Press

And there are many many more

[affablyevil]

I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can produce a list of scifi/fantasy/fiction books with queer female main characters.

Please…?

[maderr]

I’ll do this as soon as I’m at my computer, since doing it on my phone is impossible

[maderr]

Alright, I may be too little, too late, but here is my contribution at any rate. I hope some of them suit ^^

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

Of Fire & Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger

Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher 

The Best of Both Worlds by Victoria Zagar

All Things Rise by Missouri Vahn

Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz

A Question of Counsel by Archer Kay Leah

Breakfire’s Glass by A.M. Valenza

The Broken Forest by Megan Derr

Clariel by Garth Nix

Ash by Malinda Lo

Waiting for You by Megan Derr

Crystal Cage by Victoria Zagar

Glove of Satin, Glove of Bone by Rachel White

Hair to the Throne by Meredith Katz

Skyborn by Helena Maeve

The Galloway Road by Catherine Adams

The Scars of Jocasta Lacroix by Jack Harvey

Treason by Althea Claire Duffy

Walking on Knives by Maya Chhabra

Winterbourne’s Daughter by Stephanie Rabig

Addict by Matt Doyle

Shaper by Christine Danse

Nightshade by Brooke Radley

The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

Okay, hopefully that’s a good start <3

[floramei]

the OP of the screenshotted tweet is on tumblr, and an author too, having put out Chameleon Moon and related stories. 

[shiraglassman]

I’m really relieved that both RoAnna and Heather’s books are linked on this post because if their tweets were going to be circulating around Tumblr with no way to indicate that Heather’s written a three-book (so far) fantasy series about magical lesbians and bi women in early 19th century Central Europe and RoAnna writes hopeful superhero dystopians that feature the only f/f/f triad MC’s I can think of in any book, that would have been hecking unfair.

@affablyevil, I hope that helps, but if you want more books, here’s a list I made a while ago of ten SFF f/f’s where they don’t die, and I am continually reading more and recommending more. (Have you heard of Flowers of Luna? College f/f set at fashion design college on the moon.)

[biandlesbianliterature]

[image description: a tweet from RoAnna Sylver (@RoAnna Syvler) reading “This June, please rememeber that there are more LGBT books than the ones you see everywhere put out by the Big 5, ad indies are amazing/worthy.” The next reblog is a tweet from Heather Rose Jones (@heatherrosejones) reading: “Making a list of queer SFF for Pride Month? Remember to look outside the mainstream presses. Don’t shut queer publishers out of queer lit.”]

Here’s a bunch of Goodreads lists that might help! 

Speculative Fiction (SFF and Horror):

Fantasy & Sci-Fi Featuring Lesbian Characters

Bi WOC SFF

Lesbian and Bisexual Women (etc) Sci Fi / Lesbian Sci-Fi

Lesbian Fantasy

Lesbian & Bi Women Medieval Fantasy

Lesbian and Bi Women Dystopians

F/F Paranormal and Urban Fantasy

Lesbian & Bi Women Fairy Books (Stories about fairies)

Lesbian Steampunk Books

Lesbian Horror

Lesbian Zombie Books

Lesbian Ghost Stories

Lesbian Werewolf Books

Lesbian Vampire Books

Queer Mermaid Books

Lesbian & Bi Women YA SFF2016 f/f SFF (sci-fi & fantasy) with HEA/HFN

And some more lists, including a whole history of LGBT SFF!

Lesbians In Space: A Reader’s Guide to Lesbian Science Fiction

LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy 2000-2010 (Part 1)

LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy 2000-2010 (Part 2)

LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy Before 1970

LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1970s

LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1980s

LGBTQ Protagonists in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Also worth checking out is Queership!

[fudemushi]

I HIGHLY recommend Fleshers by Alison Croggon and Daniel Keene! The main character is wlw and in a relationship with a woc! Its super cool sci-fi fantasy and all the girls kick so much ass in different ways

[theperksofbeingaperk]

“…last year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as “a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of our society”.

…It turns out that the Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display. As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the museum’s excellent smartphone app….

The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization, children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium

Read more

[a-wild-haggis]

#adults are fucking idiots#me included but i mean proper adults#like old adults

[thepaperlibrarian]

The 21 Most Overrated Books Ever (and 21 Books to Read Instead)

GQ asked its favorite new authors to dunk on the classics.

[lemonschweetzdeleting-deactivat]

This made me so happy. Never give up and follow your dreams.

[did-you-know]

Scientist Adam J Calhoun removed words from famous novels to analyze their punctuation styles, then converted the data into heat maps. Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are red, commas and quotation marks are green, and semicolons and colons are blue. 

Source

[starmancyrus]

When I was a kid the Captain Underpants books were banned at my school, but there was one kid who owned every and every time a new one came out he’d have it right away and he became like the Captain Underpants dealer of our school. He’d carry them in a book bag with him at lunch and casually pass them off to other kids and honestly it was the greatest thing to ever happen at my school. He never got caught either.

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

Not All Heroes Wear Capes.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “she has naturally red hair”

screen adaptation:

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “she has naturally curly hair”

screen adaptation:

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “red hair, freckles”

screen adaptation:

[spite-cadet]

Book: “she was black”

Movie adaptation:

[toraks]

Underrated Books - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

[unemployed-librarian]

Favourite book right here

[roryomolly]

[peteneems]

[chroniclebooks]

WE ARE ALL JUDY

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[americanlibraryassoc]

ALA offers support for Clovis-Carver Public Library in wake of shooting

American Library Association (ALA) President James (Jim) Neal released the following member statement regarding a mass shooting at the Clovis-Carver Public Library in New Mexico.

“We are shocked and saddened by the shooting at the Clovis-Carver Public Library in New Mexico,” said Neal. “We mourn those who were killed, and we offer our thoughts and prayers for the wounded, the families of the victims, library staff, and the community. ALA offers its full support to Clovis-Carver Public Library, the New Mexico Library Association, and the New Mexico State Library as they deal with this senseless violence.

"Unfortunately, we must all be prepared for violence in public places. While ALA encourages its members to work closely with local law enforcement and officials to prepare and train for violence prevention and response,  The ALA also provides resources to assist with this issue.”

Full press release and resources can be found here.

Read the American Libraries story on the mass shooting here.

[thecollectibles]

“Scary Potter” series by Dylan Pierpont

[tonal-gleeson]

This is a library, a place of refuge.

[gobstacked]

New book display. #teenlibrarian #librariesofinstagram #mockingspongebob #spongebob #yalit (at Kanawha County Public Library)

[grrover]

no one talks about how rick riordan literally scammed disney 

[grrover]

dead ass pjo was that seemingly “normal” kids fantasy series with a seemingly white straight kid saving the world and it’s a fucking success. percy jackson? iconic! ppl fucking love percy and his character and then hoo comes out? everyone is pumped bc everyone is in love with that world. the first book? two main bad ass poc characters. the second book? two more bad ass poc characters! the fourth book and there’s literally a gay character and it’s not like disney could say no. hoo ends and then there’s magnus chase and ppl are fucking pumped bc that’s annabeth chase’s cousin and in the first book there’s a muslim girl and by the second book there’s a transgender and genderfluid character. trials of apollo? a main gay couple in a happy relationship and a fucking bi character. could disney say no? no. literal 10 year olds are reading books with heaps of representation all published by disney. rick riordan played the game. you step in thinking ur just gonna get white cishets and you walk out surrounded by different cultures and rainbows.

tldr; rick started out with the basic pasty white and straight series which got hella successful and used his success to pusblish more books and allow only one (1) cishet and only one (1) white

[grrover]

i doubt he planned it but deadass it would be so funny if that’s what happened

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

I saw him speak on /writing in the UK right before (or early in on when) his series hit it big. Planned. Definitely planned. 

[runwithskizzers]

Thousand percent planned. Also Percy? Has a learning disability. RR’s son inspired him to write bc he is ADHD and dyslexic. This was all planned. He is all about inclusivity and representation.

[hurricane-eggbeater]

He just recently turned down an invitation to be recognized by the Texas state legislature because of of their new bathroom bill.

[thewellofastarael]

He also makes his books incredibly funny, which is rather rare for YA and makes them more accessible to kids who don’t really like to read. In addition to having loads of POV character who have trouble reading themselves.

For those who’ve been living under a YA rock, this is Rick Riordan:

(this was the gay character in the second series)

(and the trans character in a later series)