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zoestormwriting · 3 months
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Book release announcement!
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[Image description: The cover of the book THE ENCHANTED FOREST AND OTHER STORIES: FIVE TALES OF GENDER MAGIC by Zoe Storm. The cover depicts a person seen from behind walking on a forest path. The person has brown hair, is wearing a beige beanie and an orange jacket, and has a blue backpack on their shoulder; the forest is dark and foreboding. The title of the book is written in white capital letters on the top part of the cover, and the author's name, also in white capital letters, is at the bottom. End ID.]
And we're live! Thanks for your patience, guys and gals and non-binary pals!
My new book, The Enchanted Forest and Other Stories: Five Tales of Gender Magic is available for purchase as a paperback from Amazon!
It's a collection of five short (and not so short) stories, about people finding themselves thanks to the intervention of something magical; whether that's the Fae, vampires, mermaids, or something else, it depends on the story :)
You can purchase the book right here! (And hopefully it will be delivered in time for Christmas.)
Unfortunately Amazon is the only viable paperback marketplace I have available; I know many people don't like it. Sorry.
But if you prefer your reading to be in the electronic flavour, this book can still be preordered from itch or from other marketplaces, with a release date set on the 24th of December, one week from now.
Also! This book is available in Italian, too, and here's the relevant links: Amazon paperback, itch ebook, other markeptlaces.
I'm really happy to bring this book to y'all, and I hope you'll enjoy reading it!
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the-modern-typewriter · 5 months
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Hi!
My best friend's short story collection just came out!! (It's here on Goodreads).
Ancient British myths reimagined According to stories, we share our world with a menagerie of mysterious creatures. What happens when those creatures appear in the modern world? Do fairies still like traditional offerings of herbs and spices? Do unicorns still live in forests? Do sea serpents still yearn to eat innocent maidens? This collection of stories brings myths from across the UK to a modern world with offices, cities and fast food restaurants. The consequences are often comedic, sometimes horrific and always surprising.
I haven't written my proper goodreads review for it yet (it's on the agenda) but as a huge queer fairytale fan I loved it!
The style is just delightfully cosy and funny compared to anything I could ever come up with. I also really like that at the end she talks about all of the original versions of the myths, so if you're interested in local folklore from the UK it's also great for that.
Give it a go if you fancy reading about Jack Frost falling in love with the Green Man, goblins running amok in the office printer, ghost dogs and more!
You can talk to her on Twitter or whatever it's called @ficcaholic.
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words-and-coffee · 5 months
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I remember thinking: There will never come a time when I will not be thinking of this. And I was right. And I was wrong
Amy Hempel, Sing to It
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poetdreaming · 9 months
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Reading these short stories was like binge watching The Twilight Zone - loved it
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godzilla-reads · 2 months
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The next story from The Faery Reel is… The Night Market by Holly Black!
Holly Black is one of my favorite writers and I can’t wait to see what she has included in this short story collection 🤩
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Does anyone else have a book wishlist that's just a single book? Like you know how to get the rest so they're not really *wishes* so much as just eventual things?
Like it might be available but insanely expensive, or the edition you want is missing, or it's a lost media moment you're certain is real.
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queermediamonday · 1 month
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Happy Queer Media Monday!
Today: Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold by K.A. Cook
I must admit that I haven’t really read much aromantic fiction, but I will always remember this short story collection very fondly.
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(Two covers for the same book, the first is the old one I remember and is on Goodreads, the second the new one I found on Patreon)
Bones of Green and Hearts of Gold is a short story collection by writer K.A. Cook, @aroworlds here on Tumblr. It contains twenty short stories centring aromantic but not asexual characters in both fantasy and contemporary fiction. Because it is a short story collection, it allows for a variety of protagonists and a variety of experiences with being on the aromantic spectrum. Often, two or three stories revolve around the same character, allowing for glimpses in their lives at various points.
I have reblogged the original post here, with my review at the time. The link to a PDF in the original browser doesn’t work any more, but the Patreon link still stands, and you can get this book for free from there even now. And as I said above, @aroworlds is One Of Us, with a blog focussing on aromantic activism.
Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!
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oldtvandcomics · 7 months
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Not a queer rec, but you know how we keep talking about needing more stories about an optimistic future?
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This book is about to come out tomorrow (time stamp: 6/9/3023). It's a collection of short stories about a future where things are slowly getting better. It is the third part in a series.
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Like any short story collection, these are not perfect, some stories are always going to be better than others, but they ARE absolutely lovely. And they are independent projects, so you'd be supporting small creators. Also, the people behind them are the same as behind the organization Queer SciFi, so while not every story has queer themes, they are still all very inclusive.
I'm going to tag @hopepunk-humanity, in case they feel like they can use this information for something. Or maybe they have other optimistic scifi that they can add?
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checkoutmybookshelf · 6 months
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You Tag Me Before I Tag You, and You're In. No Questions Asked.
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Before we get into Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex, we need to take a small detour into one of the few Fowl Short stories. Before we continue to Artemis's saga, we need to spend a little time with the Root brothers. The Artemis Fowl Files is technically two short stories and a bunch of miscellaneous worldbuilding and activites--it's a kids book, you guys--but we're going to just focus on one of the stories. Let's talk "LEPrecon."
As always, SPOILERS ABOUND below the break, so if you're not caught up on the whole Artemis Fowl series and the short stories, catch up first, then read this.
Content Warning: Arachnaphobes might want to skip this post and this book, because there are scary AF spiders, and I will be talking about them.
We're all very familiar with--and love despite his grumplestiltskin nature and low-key sexism--LEP Commander Julius Root. We're also very familiar with Captain Holly Short, first female elf to make the Reconaissance Squad, or LEPrecon. What we are less familiar with are a) How Holly got herself on recon, and b) Commander Root's dickhead older brother. This short work gives us the story of Holly's recon initiation and introduces us to criminal mastermind wanna-be Captain Turnball Root.
Y'all know that I love Opal Koboi. Well, Turnball makes me sad. Not because he's not a good villain--he is--but because his entire cat-and-mouse game with Julius is sad and it gives Julius the big sad. The TLDR on Turnball is that he was using his position as an LEP Captain to run a smuggling ring and Julius caught him with his finger on the button of a massive explosion that would have wiped out half of Haven. Julius couldn't shoot his own brother, so Turnball escaped and the two have been cat-and-mousing for 500 years.
So when Turnball shows up on the Tern Islands to fuck up Holly's initiation and strip Julius of his magic--and thereby his life, because the LEP does not employ magic-less fairies--the heartbreaking thing is not so much Turnball himself as Turnball's effect of Julius. Julius goes from the most possibly exhausted "not this shit again" to "god I wish I could just hug it out with my brother and make everything ok" to "you threatened my officers, look in my eyes and tell me I won't pull this trigger." And yet, none of that prevents Julius from instantly going for the coffee grounds when his big brother swallows a tunnel blue spider.
SIDEBAR: Holy shit Colfer, did you HAVE to stick a carnivorous spider with claws sharp enough to cut air that is small enough to TIP DOWN SOMEONE'S THROAT in the path of an utter psychopath like Turnball goddamn Root??? I was not ike...thrilled with spiders before I read this short story, and the fact that tunnel blue spiders are Turnball's favorite way of torturing and murdering other elves was NOT COMFORTING.
So yeah, Julius didn't hesitate to use the coffee grounds to stop the tunnel blue spider's heart and save his brother's life. This relationship is hard for both brothers, and the tragic thing is that not only do they both know its hard but they also can't seem to break the pattern.
Now, what does this have to do with Holly? Well, it's her initiation into recon that Turnball completely fucks up to get to Julius. The rules for the initiation are that the rookie and a senior officer (Holly and Julius, respectively, in this case) go hunting for each other. The rookie has zero resources and the senior officer has a full arsenal. Typically, these initiations are recorded and reviewed, and candidates may or may not be promoted to recon based on the review. There is, however, a loophole: If the rookie tags (with a paintball gun) the senior officer before getting tagged themself, then they skip the review process and are in, no questions asked.
Despite fully managing to pull both Julius Root's and Trouble Kelp's bacon out of the fire and successfully facilitating the arrest of Turnball and his two accomplices, Holly is basically told that she isn't trustworthy enough to be in recon. She did have to disobey a set of direct orders and demonlish a human house to rescue her people, but JULIUS, COME ON. And yet, we know that Holly is a member of recon. So what gives?
In the ballsy-est move I think I have ever seen, when she is asked if there is anything she can do to prove that she's trustworthy, she shoots Julius in the chest with her painball gun three times.
*stands up. Applauds.*
Hell yes, Holly.
So overall, I'm not generally a big short story girl; I tend to prefer longofrm storytelling, or at least a novella. That said, I thoroughly did love this short story. I thought it was a nice addition to Holly and Root's relationship, and I think it does a wonderful job of setting up Turnball for his role in The Atlantis Complex.
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the---hermit · 10 months
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The Lottery and other stories by Shirley Jackson
I savoured this short story collection in small bites during the last month and I am finally done with it. I had already read a few stories included in the edition that my friend kindly got me at Shakespeare & co. There were ups and downs in this book for me personally. Overall I would say that I was reminded of how Shirley Jackson is able to instill a very specific kind of anxiety, which is insane. It's always that feeling that you have no control over mundane things, that people around you are somewhat plotting against you, that somehow everyone knows something you don't. On paper it sounds like something that should trigger me way more than it actually does when I am reading her stuff, which just tells you how good of a writer she is. I will not talk about all the stories, I would inevitably end up spoiling them which is not the goal her so here's a little list in no particular order of the ones I liked the most: The Lottery, The Witch, Nightmare, Journey With a Lady, The Order Of Charlotte's Going, The Very Stange House Next Door. The other stories in the collection didn't do much for me, but I understand it's pretty personal. What I can overall say about this author is that her writing is impeccable. She has a very distinct style that you can see from page one of anything you might pick up by her. I never read anything quite like hers and I am really intrigued to read more since I have only read two of her most famous novels.
I read this for the horror prompt in the 2023 genre bingo.
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zoestormwriting · 4 months
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Cover reveal and release details!
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[Image description: The cover of the book THE ENCHANTED FOREST AND OTHER STORIES: FIVE TALES OF GENDER MAGIC by Zoe Storm. The cover depicts a person seen from behind walking on a forest path. The person has brown hair, is wearing a beige beanie and an orange jacket, and has a blue backpack on their shoulder; the forest is dark and foreboding. The title of the book is written in white capital letters on the top part of the cover, and the author's name, also in white capital letters, is at the bottom. End ID.]
Presenting: the cover of my new book, The Enchanted Forest and Other Stories: Five Tales of Gender Magic!
Look at it! It's super good!
The book is also super good, I promise! (Though I may be biased, since I'm the author and all, lol.) And, what would you know, the ebook version of my latest offering can be preordered NOW from various websites!
You can pick the online store of your choosing by following this here link. And, if you prefer your online store to be of the itch.io flavour, I've got you covered: you can find the book right here.
The e-book version of this book will be released on all storefronts on December 24th, 2023, just in time for Christmas!
But wait, there's more! There's also a paperback version coming from Amazon, which cannot unfortunately be pre-ordered but which will be released on December 17th! Watch this space, I will post here when it's released.
But wait, there's more! For the first time ever, one of my books will be released in a language other than English, in this case Italian! The release dates for the e-book and the paperback will be the same, and the e-book can be pre-ordered from these links: itch.io, and other storefronts.
I've given it my all to bring this book to y'all, and I hope you like it! ❤️
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omercifulheaves · 1 year
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Mimi’s Tales of Terror  Art by Junji Ito
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gwen-tolios · 6 months
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My second fantasy anthology is coming out next week!
You can snag a copy from Amazon today if you want. There are 22 stories in this collection, most are fantasy but there are a few other genres (I'm really fond of the SF horror one about humans adopting an alien species). Some of the stories you might have already seen around Tumblr (like Siren Screech) but jazzed up a bit, others are brand new!
Give her a few months, and you'll find her in library systems too.
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poetdreaming · 9 months
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These stories were so so good!
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