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There's a huge pressure for queer authors to out themselves & use their identity to market their book.
So many calls for books/events ask for ownvoices books, but what they're really asking for is books by openly out authors.
Please ask for books with queer MCs instead!🙏🌈❤️
Ownvoices was meant to be about uplifting marginalized voices, but this isn't what we're doing anymore: we're prying into authors' personal lives just to make sure we're reading/featuring a book with 'good rep'. This needs to stop, it's so harmful.
This can't be the standard.
Since when did we start caring about rep in fictional books more than the real people behind those books?
If we want to uplift marginalized voices, those voices shouldn't have to owe us anything in exchange, not their history, not their identity.
Authors shouldn't have to out themselves for us to read their books, let's make this a safe space for everyone.❤️🌈
#lgbtq#fiction#novel#queer books#lgbtq books#ownvoices#writing#writeblr#writerscommunity#writers#books and reading#books#booklr#bookstagram
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SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT IS OUT!
“A quietly fantastical wonderland of creatures, queerness, and possibility.” — Max Franciscovich @goose-books, author of Night Shift
The debut collection returns in a special fifth anniversary edition, repackaged with three new short stories, a new cover, and additional bonus content!
A vampire is forced into a compromising situation; a father fears his child's growing plant collection; the undead go to high school; a butcher contemplates whether or not she can be loved. In a captivating debut, yves. opens the door to our world, slightly askew—where the crows work for witches and telephone booths serve as secret channels for prophecy; where a diverse cast of monsters and humans alike are forced to contend with what the world believes is right.
Thank you to everyone who made my weird uncategorizable "Lemony Snicket meets Carmen Maria Machado" speculative fiction an instant bestseller! If you’ve ever felt like a monster, this book is for you.
PRESS: KZSC interview | Santa Cruz Sentinel interview
EXCERPTED SHORT STORIES
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Thank you so much for reading this post about my book. I hope you will share it, and this image of my beautiful black cat, Andy, widely. To queer weird fiction and indie pub! To you, Dear Reader, with love.
#something's not right#snr2#important writing updates#txt#fantasy books#queer fantasy#queer writing#lgbtq books#lgbt books#bookblr#writeblr#writers on tumblr#lgbt fantasy#indie author#bisexual books#queer books#trans books#ownvoices#diverse fantasy#gay fantasy#my writing#kindle books#books#speculative fiction#LGBT books#indie books#Thank you so much to everyone reading this. You've no idea how grateful I am.#Shortened for Blaze 2! If you're wondering.
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Anon works in a thrift shop. They are the curator of donated books. A number of these books are either written by or feature non-white people. What began as a collection for holidays (e.g. Lunar New Year, MLK Jr. Day) grew into a stack of any book featuring a non-white person (e.g. a novel about a Chicano living in the inner-city, bilingual baby books, a short story about an indigenous girl surviving a hurricane, a collection of African myths).
In anon's store the shelves are organized by size and genre, but they have one shelf in the center (albeit below eye-level) designated to be the Feature. They are trying to decide whether to put all the non-white books together on the feature shelf for those who may be looking for books about non-white people, or to stick to sorting everything unilaterally by size and genre.
We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#books#thrift store#libraries#poc books#ownvoices#polls about interests#polls about the world#submitted nov 2
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So I heard you like free transmasc psychological thrillers with unkillable bastards surviving hell and finding HEA
In 1997, New York City, a petty criminal named Alex Voss is about to die via bullet shot right between the eyes by his criminal employer: Boris. But was he really a petty criminal, or something even stranger? As all roads lead to death, he recounts his tragic life one last time; murder, sex, drugs, rock and roll, losing his mind and failing at being a true hero. There’s no escape from his tragic ending. At least, that’s how it’s meant to play out.
As events fail to line up, is Alex’s mind breaking the fourth wall, has he finally succumbed to madness, or did a deus ex machina from the future save him from himself? It might just be all three, actually.
Hi Tumblr bookworms. I've been sitting on INDIGO VOSS for over a year and I think it's finally time.
If you'd like to champion indie trans literature, please signup for the ARC of INDIGO VOSS. Score an eBook, read, and give me your honest thoughts. Please note there are CWs on the landing page. This is a complex novel about hope against all odds and learning to transcend your damage. Good luck. 💜
Read INDIGO VOSS, Free
#free books#books to read#booklr#psychological thriller#books and reading#advanced reader copy#read#netgalley#book recommendations#trans men#crime drama#book#writeblr#ownvoices#writing#new books#indie author
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I've been working on this project with Sha for almost a year now and it seems unbelievable that we're about to launch so soon!!
I realized that I tend not to share a lot about my inner workings, as I'm so used to communicating via art, but there's so much I want to talk about in regard to the conception and process of TO11.
When I was a child, I had always been into mythology, fairytales and folklore from all places, especially Greek and Norse mythology as those were always popularized and easily accessible. Growing up in SEA, I was always told tales from Malaysia and the countries surrounding us, but as I grew older, I started to wonder why South East Asian folklore wasn't as popular as Greek or Norse myths even though we also had stories that were equally as interesting and captivating.
This led me down a rabbit hole of learning about the history of S.E.A and how due to war and colonization, so much of our cultural history has started to disappear since most of our stories are passed down orally. This motivated me to start working on the development of Tales and Oracle of Eleven with my friend Sha Roose, who I asked to be a writer for the anthology.
Collecting stories from different countries was quite a challenging task, especially since many of these stories were passed down through oral tradition and have been scarred by the painful effects of colonization. In some countries, we see local stories, once woven into the fabric of their communities, systematically erased and slowly forgotten. Despite facing resource limitations, Sha approached the research and writing with great care, making sure to select stories that were not widely known and focused on ones featuring diverse protagonists, intriguing outcomes, and meaningful analogies.
I'm so happy to be able to invite 11 artists from these 11 countries as well to participate in this project. Besides making art for us, the artists also graciously allowed us to interview them and to get their lived experience of being SEA be it if they are still living there or living overseas as Diasporas. I've learnt so much from them, like did you know Timor Lorosa'e ( commonly known as Timor-Leste ) just gained their independence in 2002?
Anyways, this project has taken about 2+ years to make, and even now I'm still working on the art. ( 64% completed ) Sha and I have truly poured our hearts into this project and If you're still here, thank you for reading this all the way, I really appreciate it.
We're about 11 days away from the launch on Kickstarter, and if you can, please follow us there and share the project! Also, a quick reminder that we will be doing extremely limited quantities of early bird bundles so hit the notify me button on Kickstarter to be the first to know when we launch on the 11th of July, 11:11am EST!
Follow us here
#indie oracle deck#ownvoices#south east asian mythology#folklore#mythology#anthology#south east asian folklore#kickstarter project#not me tearing up writing about this project because i love it so much#i just want to tell our stories like they're so cool and interesting!!#south east asian stories#reblogs appreaciated
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My lacemaker orc short story "To Clear The Air" is going up for pre-order on Orktober 31, with absolutely stunning cover art by @demi-pixellated!
Find out more on my Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/73911274?pr=true
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Hello and welcome to asexual awareness week. Let me introduce Quentin, the demisexual psychokinetic earl who is simultaneously a soft cinnamon roll and also an absolute beast.
If you like The Tarot Sequence, White Trash Warlock, Widdershins, or Soulbound, why not give Inheritance a try? Start with Jack of Thorns.
HEY YOU do you like fantasy books that are PRETTY HECKIN' GAY? Do you like it when CHAOTIC DISASTERS have BARELY-CONTROLLED SUPERPOWERS and EVEN LESS CONTROLLED PERSONAL LIVES? Do you have a yearning for HORRIBLE TRAUMA interwoven with KINDNESS AND COMPASSION?
CWs include: On-page intimacy, addiction, drug use, overdose, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, incest, gaslighting, bullying, coercive control, kidnapping, domestic abuse, bigotry, torture, post-traumatic stress, therapy, violence, peril, and death.
-- AK
#ace awareness week#demisexual fiction#demisexual books#asexual awareness week#ak faulkner#inheritance#urban fantasy#queer fiction#queer books#lgbt fiction#lgbt books#mlm books#ownvoices#yes I'm demisexual
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it's like, yes, i do read a lot of books that are inherently about social and political issues. books that respond to the questions that identity politics raise. didactic books that make a point about #diversity and #representation. this is important. but i don't want that to be mistaken for the idea that "all books have to be moral or didactic". i believe novels are primarily meant to, as ottessa moshfegh puts it, "expand consciousness" and teach us as individuals about the best and worst of ourselves. critical readings of novels will of course consider the social and political context and ramifications of a work and its ultimate reception by readers. but to limit a work to only its potential real life implications is in itself a sign of a lack of media literacy. it's not some "superior critical reading skills" bro. some novels are simply meant to reveal, not to teach or to respond, and that's not in the least a critical shortcoming.
#media literacy#reading comprehension#literary criticism#own voices#ownvoices#literary critique#books and literature#books#book blog#ya books#literature#ottessa moshfegh#problematic fiction#media#english literature#critical reading#aestheticism#l'art pour l'art
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Godless Punks is available on Amazon! If you like fantasy, demons, criminals, heists, and LGBT rep, my new book has it all. Link in my description!
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JOMP BPC - April 25th - Everyone Should Read This
everyone should read disabled books by disabled authors 💖
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April pick: The Trans Space Octopus Congregation
We liked our February pick Power to Yield so much we've picked another short story collection by Bogi Takács for April: The Trans Space Octopus Congregation.
When we’re meeting
As usual, we meet on the last Friday of the month. We will be meeting to discuss the book on Fri April 26, at:
- 12:30-14:00 Pacific (Vancouver, San Francisco, etc)
- 15:30-17:00 Eastern (Toronto, New York, etc)
- 21:30-23:00 Central European (Berlin, Paris, etc)
for more time zones see here
To join the discord: https://discord.gg/U8ZucKwGPK
Also see: our code of conduct
How much of the book do you need to read?
You don’t need to finish it participate! You are welcome to skim and/or skip chapters as desired. A list of content warnings is available at the front of the book.
Current & future book picks
If this isn’t in the cards for you, our pick for May is Icarus by K. Ancrum!
We're also meeting on Fri April 5th at the usual time (15:30 Eastern) for a social hour devoted to arts & crafts! We'll be talking knitting, crocheting, and other crafts.
#intersex book club#book picks#intersex books#intersex fiction#ownvoices#own voices#intersex literature#actually intersex#intersex#trans fiction#trans books#queer scifi
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As a trans creator who's been harassed for several months now for writing romance books with trans MCs, I've noticed some things that really show how hypocritical and superfluous the harassment I receive daily over certain characters are. It's kind of interesting.
Usually what people come at me for is writing these three:
My book series The Prince's Dearest Guards where Hal, a trans Prince who has only socially transitioned and is more sub-leaning, romances his two personal guards. Because it's erotic-romance, the marketing tends to highlight spicy scenes.
I get harassed as supposedly the trans rep is 'bad and fetischizing' especially because 'Hal is a sub' and 'the marketing highlights their sex life so much'. Sometimes other trans men will pick apart his design down to the size of his eyelashes and 'call me out' on it, too.
I get told Hal looks too feminine or 'stereotypical' as he's 'white, blond w/ blue eyes', people find issue with his appearance A LOT. So... we could assume if I wrote another book with a similar character and similar marketing, I would get harassed for it, too, right?
Wrong.
Meet Alex, the MC in my other book series Warrior Of Hearts about a rich & famous trans man who has only socially transitioned and is more top-leaning.
Because there is a lot of spice in this book too, the marketing tends to highlight that as well.
Yet the reactions to him are so different.
When I post about the book featuring Alex I'm immediately praised for the 'amazing trans rep' and 'having a trans man topping in a story!'
No one ever picks apart his design even when it's quite similar to Hal's, nor do they ever mention any discomfort toward the 'spicier marketing'.
TL;DR: This is all a little silly, even more so once broken down.
And if you happen to also be a trans creator getting harassed over how you designed your OCs, don't worry too much about it, because as you can see here, it really doesn't mean much. Take care. ❤
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As queer people, we need to focus our fight outward towards bigots, not inward towards each other.
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TODAY'S THE DAAAAAAAY!!!
From today all the way through until January 1st you can grab the ebook of RECKLESS TRUTH on Smashwords FOR FREE. ABSOLUTELY FREE. NOT A PENNY. ZILCH. NADA.
If you've been thinking about getting yourself a copy but unsure about it, or you wanted to get a copy for someone else, now's the time!
GET YOUR FREE COPY HERE
About Reckless Truth
When they were children, their brother was stolen and their mother killed. Elyan and Lydia Moore have dedicated their lives to finding out what really happened that night, and where their brother was taken – but the truth will throw them into chaos they could never predict.
Genre | Contemporary Science-Fantasy, LGBTQ+
POV | Third Person Limited
Target Audience | New Adult
Themes | Grief, trauma, found family, self-discovery, death, love, identity, anger and kindness
Warnings | Violence, abuse, brainwashing, sexual themes
#writers on tumblr#ownvoices#contemporary fantasy#science fantasy#urban fantasy#lgbtqia+#lgbtq#lgbtqia+ representation#mental health#amazon kdp#truth saga#the truth saga#reckless truth#;reckless#;truth#writeblr#new adult#new author#quantum leap
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Our campaign is ending soon and we're announcing some MAJOR UPDATES!!
Sha and I really wanted to make this book and deck a special one for you, and we hope that you enjoy the upgrades.
This is what you'll get once we reach our goal:
✨ Tales of the 11 will now be a Hard Cover book!!
✨Oracle of 11 will be upgraded to a 2-piece rigid box with 350gsm card stock.
✨ Altar cloth will now be double-sided.
We've also added 2 more tiers, so be sure to check that out for an upgrade:
✨ Book + Bookmark bundle Oracle + Cloth bundle
✨We've also altered our stretch goals to fit our current campaign!
We're almost at our goal and we still have some stretch goals we would like to hit! If you haven't already be sure to pledge now before our campaign ends!!
You can support us here:
#indieoracledeck#TO11#talesandoracleof11#ownvoices#anthology#Kickstarter#oracledeck#mythology#southeastasianartist#southeastasianwriter#limitededition#folklore#seaculture#southeastasianmythology#southeastasianstories
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