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Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, from A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @fahye
Alan looked at his hand engulfed in Jack’s. He said, coming to the realisation along the way, like a sentence that only revealed itself word by word as he wrote it down: “You’re still the kind of arse who’ll pick two fights before breakfast, but you’ve been desperate for someone else to look after, haven’t you?”
#a power unbound#the last binding#freya marske#jack alston#lord hawthorn#ft. bonus elsie and bonus alan#lastbindingedit#through SHEER FORCE OF WILL I’ve brought gifsets to the book fandom!#I would like to buy a fruit basket for whoever sat him at the base of a tree#and handed him a newspaper about important votes in the Lords#lit edit#booklr#bookedit#lgbt reads#my edits#sff books#fantasy fiction#fantasy books
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🏳️🌈 🎉
While you can be sure that everything I write will always be queer, here's a handy little breakdown of the identities featured in my books.
Readers are not entitled to any private information about authors, and that includes identity, but as someone who's out in all areas of their life and enjoys talking about themself (ehem), I'm personally always happy to answer any questions you have in relation to my queerness or what it means to me to see my identities featured in the stories I write and read! 🥰
#writeblr#my writing#queer books#pride reads#pride month#queer fantasy#lgbt books#lgbt reads#queer romance
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There is nothing better than a cheese tour through time and space except. . .
It's cover reveal day for @ellebeaumontbooks & I's first co-author project Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back time!
BLURB:
Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.
All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.
Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.
What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.
A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles.
Publication day: July 31, 2024
Genre: Adult Sci-fi Fantasy Romcom
Tropes: Friends to Lovers, time travel, retelling, and they were roommates, deal with the devil
Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/bmturnbacktime
Pre-order a Copy w/ a signed bookplate: https://forms.gle/qtTcP2Tgh6Vfbw3u8
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193907562-benvolio-and-mercutio-turn-back-time
Cover Artist Credit: @oblivionsdream
Tag for: @jokeringcutio
#indie books#indie author#indie writer#lgbt writers#lgbt author#lgbt books#lgbtqia books#lgbt reads#queer booklr#queer writers#benvolio & mercutio turn back time#mercutio and benvolio deserved better#mercutio x benvolio#benvolio montague#shakespeare retelling#queer shakespeare#sci-fi fantasy romcom
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Cover Reveal…
The cover of my new book Long Live Evil is to be revealed January 26! As for the insides…
‘Expect a rogue’s gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a charmingly homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation…
SHE LOVES A FICTIONAL VILLAIN. HE’S ABOUT TO MEET HIS MATCH.
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favourite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. In this fantasy world, she discovers she’s not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor’s tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they’re doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor’s fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.’
It’s a multiple-POV love letter to epic fantasy, and evil being a point of view, and part of the story tradition of escaping through art. And it’s the book of my heart. I can’t wait for people to read it!
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Tessa: Can you explain to me why you have three identical copies of "One Last Stop"?
Imogen: One's signed, one's my reading copy, and one's for emergencies.
#FUCKING HIGHKEY RELATABLE#imogen obviously#becky albertalli#bisexual#wlw#sapphic#one last stop#ols#casey mcquiston#lgbt reads#queer lit
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BE GAY DO CRIME
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NEW CHAPTER EVERY WEDNESDAY
👩❤️💋👩 Butch/femme
💰 Steal from the rich
👾 Latina hacker main character
🌹 Asian lesbian love interest
🌶️ spicy love scenes
When her former boss is acquitted of the crime she gave up everything to expose, a reclusive hacker organizes a heist to get revenge. But when a sexy but reckless ex-yakuza joins the crew, the hacker’s plans begin to unravel.
"Portrait of a Thief" meets "Delilah Green Doesn’t Care" in this snappy sapphic heist full of colorful criminals ripping off a megalomaniacal tech CEO in the South American port city of Valparaíso.
#wlw#sapphic#lesfic#lesbian fiction#wlw romance#romance novel#contemporary romance#romance novels#novel#lesbian romance#sapphic romance#sapphic books#lgbt reads#lgbt literature#lgbt books#suspense#thriller#crime#ff romance
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Coming July 31, 2024 the retelling you didn't know you needed!
Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.
All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.
Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.
What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.
A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles.
(add it to your Goodreads TBR!)
#mercutio x benvolio#elle beaumont#william shakespere#retelling#time travel#scifi#steampunk#fantasy books#queer books#lgbt reads#lou wilham
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Feel free to make suggestions. I may make another poll if there are enough candidates.
More polls.
#polls#sapphic reads#queer reads#lgbt reads#sapphic leads#teixcalaan#a memory called empire#a desolation called peace#arkady martine#the stars are legion#kameron hurley#this is how you lose the time war#amal el mohtar#max gladstone#the priory of the orange tree#samantha shannon#ninefox gambit#yoon ha lee#the privilege of the sword#ellen kushner#down among the sticks and bones#wayward children#seanan mcguire#the long way to a small angry planet#the wayfarers#becky chambers#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#the locked tomb#tamsyn muir
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voting is open for the Queer Indie Awards, and The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher is nominated for several categories!
best overall fantasy
best overall urban fantasy
best cover
best lead character (Edna)
best supporting character (Kiernan)
best villain (Redway)
best romantic relationship (Benjamin/Kiernan)
best friendship (Benjamin, Edna, & Clem)
best debut
like I'm really sitting here like 🥹 like!! that is! so many categories omg?? 🥹
anyway if you've read Remarkable Retirement and liked it, I'd love if you voted for it in the Queer Indie Awards! voting is via the Google form on the QIA website and open through this Friday, January 26.
click here to go directly to the form
click here to go to the QIA website
#the remarkable retirement of edna fisher#book awards#queer books#lgbt reads#debut author#indie publishing#indie books
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Robin Blyth and Edwin Courcey from A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske @fahye
“I’m wondering what sort of blind idiot I was, not to find you attractive when we first met,” said Robin.
Colour touched Edwin’s cheeks. The smile that tugged at his mouth was the same one he’d worn when Robin had admitted to being fascinated with his hands: faintly incredulous, but mostly pleased. It wasn’t an expression of regret. It did make Robin want to drag him back to the bed, pin him down, and murmur praise into his skin until it inked itself there like the opposite of a curse.
“Ah,” said Edwin. “Whereas I am neither blind nor an idiot.”
#a marvellous light#the last binding#lastbindingedit#freya marske#robin blyth#edwin courcey#lit edit#booklr#bookedit#lgbt reads#/sprinkles in some Leyendecker and some Singer Sargent sketches for Robin as a treat#kudos to the two random men in turn-of-the-century photographs. your jawlines understood the assignment!#I'll be making ones for a restless truth and maud/violet next now that I've deVOURED IT#but gotta get Them Boys finished and posted first#I Love Them Both So Much#my edits#sff books#fantasy fiction#fantasy books
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Y'all, I've been sitting on this for TEN MONTHS and now I finally get to talk about it!!!
I have a new QUEER YA HORROR graphic novel coming in 2026! Creepy ghosts, deep queer friendships, gender euphoria and trans self-realization... oh, and a haunted high school musical! It's exactly the type of horror story with heart that I always wanted to tell but didn't think I'd ever be "allowed" to..... and now I finally can!
(Different name 'cause it's YA, but yep, that's me!)
Pretty sure my agent and editor aren't on tumblr, but I still have to shout them out because they are AMAZING. Jen Azantian believed in this story from the start, and her feedback made me cry (in a good way). And Alex Aceves immediately understood the heart of the story, and her feedback has just been incredible. She knows exactly how to bring out the best in a story like this.
I can't wait to share it with all of you!
#book announcement#ya horror#ya graphic novel#graphic novel#queer horror#lgbt reads#bookblr#book deals
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It’s title reveal time….
If you love:
Time Travel ✓
A satisfying end ✓
Deals with a devil ✓
Doctor Who but make it Shakespearean, Queer and add Cher ✓
You’re going to want to keep an eye out for more news on @ellebeaumontbooks and @lou.wilham’s Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time!
#indie author#indie books#indie writer#lgbt writers#lgbt author#lgbt books#lgbtqia books#lgbt reads#queer booklr#queer writers#queer fantasy#queer fiction#queer books#lgbt fantasy#lgbt fiction#shakespeare retelling#benvolio & mercutio turn back time#mercutio x benvolio#benvolio montague#mercutio#shakespeare retold
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SAPPHICS / WLW
Rebecca Thorne has made Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea free to get on Amazon ebook until the end of the month.
It’s cosy, cute, gay as heck and low angst. For fans of legends and lattes & d&d. Sharing this as it’s great for anyone who often can’t afford or struggles to safely access physical books in ban areas.
The author is also awesome, and speaks a lot about queer access to literature. Can’t recommend Thorne enough.
*edit, this is now no longer available *
#WLW books#sapphic books#WLW reads#sapphic reads#lgbt books#lgbt reads#lgbtq books#lgbtq reads#cozy fantasy#legends and lattes#WLW#sapphic
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sorry if you have already answered this, but are we getting any queer rep in Long Live Evil? 💕 i am super excited to see what you've cooked up for us either way!
I came back after I'd gone off on one, seeing the post had struck a chord and being thankful but fearful of my inbox. Let me say with delighted surprise that all the asks are very kind.
Thank you for this one, sweet anon. I am so excited and so nervous about my best beloved, Long Live Evil, and about coming back with a new book of my own after so long, when I believed for a long time it was hopeless.
I'm really grateful to find readers waiting for me. But I know readers are naturally more invested in characters they know: I extremely appreciate you taking an interest in the future.
So, short answer: YEAH you are!
Long answer: Long Live Evil wouldn't exist without its queer narratives.
C.S. Pacat and I were talking in our virtual Brookline Booksmith event recently about our favourite Disney villains. C.S. Pacat picked Maleficent, a fine choice. I picked Snow White's Evil Queen. We agreed we loved most of them.
Here's the relevant excerpt I was quoting in my last post from Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House, saying 'I think a lot about queer villains, the problem and pleasure and audacity of them.' Well... me too.
I think many of us have experienced feeling made wrong in some way - for not wanting what society said we should or being what we were expected to be - and that one step along that journey of discovery is going 'Okay, if it's wicked, I'll just BE wicked.' And that's part of why those characters appeal - because they seem free, and free of pain.
But modern storytelling isn't confined to coding, and audiences can now feel free to expect, not the certainty, but the possibility characters who aren't introduced as such still might actually turn out to be LGBT+. The essays I've read about Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Sherlock, Ted Lasso, Fox 9-1-1... I think the latest argued Jaime Lannister was bisexual. (Pretty persuasive.)
I remember reading the Raven Cycle going 'oh? OH.' I remember being at a writing retreat in 2013 and running through the halls screaming about Nico diAngelo. Ten years later we got a Nico diAngelo book co-written by Rick Riordan and the amazing Mark Oshiro. I watched Red, White and Royal Blue with a friend and she said 'honestly I hope the guys get together, but...' and I (having read the book) silenced myself with a herculean effort and watched her hopes come true. I didn't know about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and almost dropped the book in a swimming pool. But I've also read and watched many things thinking, just maybe... oh, no. Still that hope existing is meaningful, the thought that if the story had gone differently, if this revelation had happened, if this realisation had happened, if, if, if...
Long Live Evil is a story about the story going differently and asking yourself questions about your own nature, and the escape to fiction of those who really need escape. The book is based on that 'if,' and the 'if' itself is joyous, and brings me back to the idea of gleefully transgressing the narrative that much villain love is based on.
It's also an ensemble story with a rogue's gallery of characters and multiple PoVs. (I was much inspired by the Six of Crows ensemble.) So it isn't about any one character's romance, and by the book's nature there exist many possibilities. A critique partner read and said 'I didn't know you were going THERE' and I responded 'Should I?'
I've never been one to confirm where stories are going, and I won't do so now. I'm not talking about any one character or telling you a direction.
I'm just saying yes to rep. It's baked in.
#long live evil#supernatural#teen wolf#fox 911#lgbt reads#six of crows#evil queen#maleficent#red white and royal blue#the raven cycle#in the dream house#cs pacat#percy jackson
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“Alan had never needed to lean on anyone. It was intolerable that he now kept turning out the pockets of his soul and finding caught in their seams the desire to let someone take his weight. The desire to be held, even kissed.”
--A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
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Read my serial sapphic heist romance, GIRL WITH NO NAME, on Substack if you like:
👩❤️💋👩Butch/femme
💰Steal from the rich
👾Latina hacker FMC
🌹Asian butch-fatale love interest
🌶️spicy love scenes
Or DM me if you'd like to be a beta reader!
#lesfic#ff romance#lesbian#lesbian fiction#lgbt reads#sapphic#sapphic romance#wlw#wlw romance#contemporary romance#crime#queer#queer reads#queer fiction#queer books#queer lit
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