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Lost in the Pages

Between Two Tomes

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genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#The Truth of the Aleke #and #A People's Future of the United States

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Sorry it’s early but you really can’t use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me there’s an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol

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My debut novel with @oftachancer is more available in paperback and will be available as an ebook and on Kindle Unlimited on March 20th! Check out the link here!

Thanks to @lethendralis-paints for the gorgeous cover art! They were amazing to work with as always!

In addition, you can sign up for my giveaway here to enter to win a signed copy of the novel or an art print!

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🌈 What’s COMING OUT (pun intended) this February? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

Note: Some dates may have changed. We haven’t read all of these books, so please check reviews for more details on queer identities represented and check StoryGraph for content warnings!

1st

The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 

We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson (Author’s IG confirms release date as Feb 1)

Tristan by Jesse Roman

Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx

2nd

Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis

Heart2Heart: A Contemporary Charity Anthology edited by Annabeth Albert

6th

Outsider by Jade du Preez

Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson

Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts

V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso

A Vicious Game (The Halfing Saga #3) by Melissa Blair

The Cursed Rose (The Bone Spindle #3) by Leslie Vedder

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Republished for US, originally out in Aus only)

Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda

Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas

The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton.

Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops

Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith

Crushed Ice (Hockey Ever After #4) by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James

No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub.

Somacultural Liberation: An Indigenous, Two-Spirit Somatic Guide to Integrating Cultural Experiences Toward Freedom by Dr. Roger Kuhn

Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Clarion Call (Ravensong #2)  by Cayla Fay

King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm and Jamie Green

Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 

Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender

7th

Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell

Stormbringer by Erinn Harper

Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter

9th

Awakenings (The Chronicles of Nerezia #1) by Claudie Arseneault

12th

A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley

13th

Blood Rage (The S.P.E.A.R. Mission Files #3) by Ileandra Young

What Feasts At Night (Sworn Soldier #2) by T. Kingfisher

When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (Mossa & Pleiti #2) by Malka Ann Older

You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden

Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante

Ghost Town by R.E. Ward 

The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko

Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma

Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin

How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

*This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill. *NOTE: this cover is not shown due to the ongoing St. Martin’s Press publicity boycott (not a buy boycott, though! Please support queer authors)

Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose

The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 

Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin

The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene

An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson.

Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee

The Terrible by Tessa Crowley

Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell

Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence

14th

Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview

15th

The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor

16th

Bloom by N.R. Walker

Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams

Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love and Community edited by Whitney Strub

Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III

19th

Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Homeout ther by Alex Alberto

20th

We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller.

Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr

Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates

We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards

Surfer Girl by Alex Winters

Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton

Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong

Disciples of Chaos (Seven Faceless Saints #2) by M.K. Lobb

The Star We Sail BY by Glenn Quigley

To Cage a God by Elizabeth May

Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 

For the Stolen Fates (In the City of Time #2) by Gwendolyn Clare

These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo

Out There by Iris Eliot

At Her Service by Amy Spalding

The Diablo’s Curse (Spin off to The Wicked Bargain) by Gabe Cole Novoa22

Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

23rd

Prove It by Stephanie Holt

How to Marry a Lich by Lizzie Strong

27th

Redsight by Meredith Mooring

Daughter of the Bone Forest by Jasmine Skye

Born of Scourge by S. Jean

Green Dot by Madeleine Gray 

Mewing by Chloe Spencer

The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack

28th

Impulse Buy (A Bachelorette Number Twelve Short story sequel) by Jae

29th

A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver

Goddess of the Sea (Lesbians, Pirates & Dragons #2) by Britney Jackson

Live for you, Die With You (Heaven #1) by Kalob Dàniel

ID: A post of eight slides. Background is made up of a 6-stripe rainbow for each slide. Slide one has a white square which reads “94 queer books coming out in February!”. The 94 is in matching rainbow stripes and January is in purple. Text between the number and month are all caps black font. Subsequent slides feature a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a grey rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. End ID.

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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HEY YOU!

Yeah, you! Are you trans? Do you like reading books? Or watching movies?

Do you like media about trans men/transmasculine characters but don't know where to find it?

That's sooo crazy because I have this little spreadsheet I'm working on where I'm trying to document all media with protagonists/major characters who are FTM or transmasculine.

The spreadsheet currently has 200+ entries spread across the following categories:

Books

Manga

Memoirs and non-fiction

Movies

TV Shows

Graphic novels / Comics

Webcomics

Audio dramas

Books and movies are also sorted by:

Which character is trans (MC, love interest, antagonist, etc)

If the trans character is POC

The trans character's sexuality (Because I saw lots of transhet guys sad about only being able to find gay romances)

If the author/actor is also trans (if we know for sure)

It's free to use, and free to add to as well! Editing permissions are on, and I check on the spreadsheet every now and then to make sure everything is in order and to clean up.

If you know something that isn't on the list, please add it! You don't have to fill in every single column, but fill it to the best of your abilities.

If you don't want to use the big ass long link below, you can also use: bit.ly/FTM-protags

I made this because I want it to be a community resource. So even if you're not a trans guy or transmasculine person, please reblog!

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The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here

There’s an investigative report out on the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards, by Chris Barkley and Jason Sanford, and make no mistake about it, it is grim. The short version is that eligible people and works were kept off the Hugo ballot, not because the Chinese government or the Chinese principals of the Chengdu Worldcon overtly demanded it, but because American and Canadian Hugo…

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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Public Domain Day 2024

Once again its the day we all wait for, public domain day. the day some thing get ripped out of the clasps of the claws of corporations. This year is notable for many things becoming public domain but specifically a certain mouse in the united states. Here's an example of some of the things but note that this is only a sampling of what's become public domain

In Europe and other life of author + 70 years areas:

The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori

The polish Koziołek Matołek comics by Kornel Makuszyński

Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T.F Powys

In New Zealand and other life of author + 50 years areas:

J.R.R Tolkien's work, but only the ones published during his lifetime. Things published by his son Christopher are not public domain

Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins

The works of crime writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson (Anthony Gilbert)

In the US:

All things published in 1928

The big one of course, Steamboat Willie and the earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse. Disney still owns trademarks so be careful and theres some things like his gloves that didnt appear until later and im sure the Mouse's lawyers are watching like hawks

The House at Pooh Corner, first appearance of Tigger

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

Theres much more. Take a peek over at Project Gutenberg or The Internet Archive

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This is a friendly reminder to never, ever publish your book with a publishing company that charges you to publish with them. That is a vanity press, which makes money by preying on authors. They charge you for editing, formatting, cover art, and more. With most of these companies, you will never seen a cent of any royalties made from sale of your book. A legitimate publishing company only makes money when you make money, they will never charge you to publish with them. If a company approaches you and says "Hey, we'll publish your book, just pay us X amount of money," tell them to go fuck themself and block them.

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What it takes to forget

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