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transbookoftheday · 4 months

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OceanBound by Beau Van Dalen

A classic tale of boy-meets-girl. Except the boy, Francis, happens to be a lonely warlock bound to an island by a mysterious curse. And the girl, Angela, is a siren who tires of spending her endless days singing for sailors and eating humankind.

On a fateful night, Angela attempts to seduce Francis during one of her hunts, but suddenly realizes that she cannot, for the young warlock is deaf.

The siren is on the verge of giving up and leaving Francis be, when a tidal wave slams her to the ground and injures her badly. Instead of leaving her to die, Francis takes Angela in.

Although the two form an odd pair, they find themselves appreciating each other’s company more than they’d thought possible. However, as their friendship blossoms into romance, Angela has questions: Who is Francis, really? And why has he been cursed, when he appears to be nothing more than a lovely young man?

The siren wants answers—and she will get them, no matter what.

#oceanbound #beau van dalen #transmasc #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 3 months

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Wanted to give a quick shoutout to @beauvandalen over here. He's currently promoting the upcoming second book in The Prince's Dearest Guard series on his twitter/x here with a bunch of giveaways until its publication on February 14th. If you want to read more steamy trans romance with a trans man MC and two boyfriends I strongly suggest you check his work out ❤️

#i just won an arc of the upcoming book so i just want to use my reach here to get some more eyes on an indie ownvoices author ❤️#mod post #beau van dalen #the prince's dearest guards #the prince's loving guards #trans man #own voices #romance #fantasy #the prince's dreamy gods

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passive-t-u-m-b-l-r-user · 1 year

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Hey! You! Do you like stories about Queer Romances? Trans badass MCs? Robots? Trauma???

Go check out Beau Van Dalen's Books!

@beauvandalen

They're having a rough time of it and any book you purchase, or any amount of money you give to their patreon helps immensely.

I've been reading Android Affection and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

Ian is such a compelling character, and the slums on the outskirts of Exia feel very alive, if not sad and terrifying in all the best ways.

The digital version of Android Affection is available on amazon or itch.io. There is a paperback version on amazon as well.

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 1 month

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in March 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger 🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton 💛 Monilinia - Free Mints 💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre 💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari 💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught ❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom 🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden 💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai 💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall 💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind 🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler ❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan 🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain 💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook 💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle 💙 The Tower - Flora Carr 💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward ❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans 🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams 💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste 💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin 🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura

❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence 🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon 💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo 💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera 💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones 💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley ❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name 🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum 💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang 💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole 💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson 🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root

❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler 🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey 💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright 💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae 💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters 💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights ❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares 🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari 💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel 💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere 💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale 🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret

❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul 🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes 💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee 💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox 💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz 💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole ❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson 🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood 💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson 💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow 💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis 🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera

❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey 🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy 💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein 💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor 💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner 💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich ❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews 🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers 💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane 💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve 💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas 🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley

❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell 🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield 💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams 💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya 💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford 💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore ❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland 🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge 💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li 💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay 🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo 💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland 💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash 💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel 💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis ❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale 🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung 💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado 💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen 💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long 🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green

❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey 🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales 💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins 💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone 💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest ❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley 🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers 💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke 💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton 💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt

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beauvandalen · 7 months

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I see your eyes in the darkness, sometimes– crazy, and wild, and afraid–

– Dimming (poem), Beau Van Dalen

#poem #poetry #writeblr #writers of tumblr #quote #quotes #fiction #book quote

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elaine-white-author · 14 days

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#SocialSunday: Take A Chance: Beau Van Dalen

On Take A Chance posts, I’ll be showcasing authors I love to read, but who I don’t have contact with, for things such as interviews and teasers. I will be sharing their bio, some of the works I loved best, and a showcase of up to 5 books, if they have a larger back catalogue, as well as their social media links. ~ Beau Van Dalen Beau Van Dalen is a best-selling author of adult speculative…

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#author #books #inspiration #interview #list #questions #writing

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mikahorror · 27 days

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1 version of the cover i made for my newest wip.

here are some of the tv shows/movies or docu/tainment i've been watching that's helping me stay inspired or has a (slightly) similar concept:

Alien Worlds

Hope Frozen: A Quest To Live Twice (because of the concept of passing on consciousness, not necessarily cryogenics)

Our Father (more because of the idea of being a commodity not assault on this scale)

Gods of the Deep - listen this is not a great Cthulhu movie, but i think they may have used some practical effects as well as cgi so that earns it some points

Martyrs (2008) - this will absolutely ruin your appetite/day if you've never heard anything about it & i haven't decided on the gore level for this wip so just trust me when i say it shows a cult and the extremes people will inflict on others while searching for the "truth". i don't think this really deserves its "most disturbing horror movie"....hype i guess but its still uncomfortable to watch.

Keep Sweet Pray and Obey - a docuseries about the LDS church

books - my reading has been for fun instead of finding books that are more like my story. mostly so i don't unintentionally start writing like the authors, but still have themes of growing comfortable with or creating identity & queer religious horror. some of these are also dark romance or high fantasy with...optional plot.......

Our Satyr Prince by Dylan Drakes

The Prince's Dearest Guards by Beau Van Dalen

Calyx & In The Garden of Echo by H.S Wolfe - i read TGoE because i've been too afraid since i read peaceful in the dark & kept seeing it in my recommendations lol so i read Calyx to see if i was just being a baby and no. no i was right lol

on my tbr:

Exodus 20:3 by Freydis Moon

The Fall That Saved US by Tamara Jerée

Reforged by Seth Haddon & i'd preorder the sequel if i could

i need more books to be on Itch.io, googlebooks or any other site that accepts paypal instead of just amazon🙃

music is an old track arranged in the desktop version of music maker jam

gaming ambience/pomodoro playlist

#camp nanowrimo #religious horror #sci fantasy #ambience #elder scrols online #TBBU wip

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cjaralore · 30 days

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#QueerPrompts March 29: Share another author's cover 📙

I chose the cover for the just released 🏳️‍🌈queer fantasy⚔️ anthology✨A Chronicle of Monsters✨ by Rita A. Rubin, Nicole Tota, Taylor Hubbard, Talli L. Morgan, Dewi Hargreaves, Amanda Ferreira, Mawce Hanlin, Aimee Donnellan, Beau Van Dalen, Halli Starling.

My review:

#writing community #queerprompts #queer reader #book review

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readingonthehorizon · 4 months

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The Prince's Dearest Guards - Beau Van Dalen The Prince's Dearest Guards #1

As a trans man, this was a lovely short story. Already preordered the next book!

#book review #jan24

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nico-is-typing · 4 months

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every single book i've read in 2023

(and my ratings for them)

The Pachinko Parlour, by Elisa Shua Dusapin ★★✰✰✰

With a Vengeance, by Freydís Moon ★★★★★

Exodus 20:3, by Freydís Moon ★★★★✰

Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley ★★★★★

A Fae's Two Alphas, by Jem Zero ★★★★✰ [ARC]

Three Kings, by Freydís Moon ★★★★✰

Heart, Haunt, Havoc, by Freydís Moon ★★★★★

A Novel Arrangement, by Arden Powell ★★★★✰ [ARC]

Cutting Your Teeth, by Caylan MacRae ★★★★★ [ARC]

Last Violent Call, by Chloe Gong ★★★★★

The Fox and the Dryad, by Kellen Graves ★★★★✫

The Wicked Bargain, by Gabe Cole Novoa ★★★★★ [Audiobook]

Tell Me How It Ends, by Quinton Li ★★★★✫ [ARC]

Rapture, by Saint Harlowe ★★★★★

A Flame in the Night, by Morgan Dante ★★★✰✰ [ARC]

In the Hands of an Angry G-d, by Claude Hamesh ★★★★✰

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, by Amélie Wen Zhao ★★★★★ [Audiobook]

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Vol. 2), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★✰

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Vol. 3), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★✰

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Vol. 4), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★★

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Vol. 5), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★★

The Luis Ortega's Survival Club, by Sonora Reyes ★★★✰✰ [ARC]

Wild Things, by Laura Kay DNF 35% [ARC]

Ravage, by Saint Harlowe ★★★★★

The Mourning Dove and His Snow Sparrow, by Eve Healy ★★★✰✰

By Your Side, Margherita Scialla ★★✰✰✰ [ARC]

Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love, by Rita A. Rubin ★★★★✰ [ARC]

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir ★★★★★ [Audiobook]

Junker Seven, by Olive J. Kelley ★★★★★ [ARC]

They Hate Each Other, by Amanda Woody ★★★★★ [Audiobook]

A Little Bit Country, by Brian D. Kennedy DNF 60% [Audiobook]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna ★★★★★ [Audiobook]

The Prince's Dearest Guards, by Beau Van Dalen ★★★★✰ [ARC]

The Misfit Mage and His Dashing Devil, by MN Bennet ★★★★★ [ARC]

How Not to Date a Dragon, by Lana Kole ★★★★☆

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, by Andrew Joseph White ★★★★★ [ARC]

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett ★★★★★ [audiobook]

The Untaming of the Aragus, by Lysander Arden ★★★★★ [ARC]

Beauty's Beasts, by Alex Hanson ★★★★☆ [ARC]

Mortal Follies, by Alexis Hall ★★★★☆ [Audiobook]

King of Hell, by Morgan Dante ★★★★☆ [ARC]

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club, by Page Powars ★★★★☆ [Audiobook]

Heaven Official's Blessing (Vol. 5), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★★

Heaven Official's Blessing (Vol. 6), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★☆☆

Heaven Official's Blessing (Vol. 7), by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ★★★★★

#books #bookblr #book blog

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fictionaldeity · 4 months

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nobody asked, so im answering and nobody can stop me!

1. How many books did you read this year? 33 books. I wanted to finish another one before the end of the year, but I doubt I will.

3. What were your top five books of the year? I read some really fun ones! It's hard to chose just 5 TT_TT

I'm going to say...

1- Total Creative Control — Sally Malcolm, Joanna Chambers (The dry humor is tailor made for me, specifically)

2- Uniquely Us — A.M. Arthur (Dell Greenwood is an angel)

3- Every Word You Never Said — Jordon Greene (This is the third in a series and I haven't read the first 2 lol)

4- They Hate Each Other — Amanda Woody (enemies to lovers helloooo)

5- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams — Matthew Walker (I learned so much from it and it's so interesting! It changed how I view sleep completely)

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year? Yes! Jordon Greene and Beau Van Dalen

5. What genre did you read the most of? Contemporary Romance

9. Did you get into any new genres? Not exactly, but I continued to prove to myself that I love nonfiction but can only consume it in audiobooks. (Whereas I generally can't consume fiction in audiobook so that works out okay)

10. What was your favorite new release of the year? "They Hate Each Other" by Amanda Woody. So good!!

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read? "The Charm Offensive" by Alison Cochrun

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? Not exactly, but I didn't expect to love "Every Word You Never Said" by Jordon Greene as much as I did.

22. What’s the longest book you read? According to storygraph, that'd be "The Myth of Normal" by Gabor Maté. Which has 562 pages. Funnily, I listened to that one, not literally read

25. What reading goals do you have for next year? If I can read another 30 books next year I'll be happy

#g answers #personal #books #feel free to ask any of the other questions tho #these are just the ones i liked most

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transbookoftheday · 4 months

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Hiraeth by Beau Van Dalen

Lir was human, until he drowned.

Destined to take back the freedom of a merfolk clan called the Halloran, reborn in the depths of the ocean as a half-man, half-Halloran entity, Lir is meant to be a savior. Yet, Lir only wants to be human again, because his people are at war with what he has become.

When the Halloran Queen learns of Lir’s existence, she tracks him down and a race against time begins. If she catches Lir, he will become a slave used against his own kind.

As Lir sets out to find a remedy for his newfound powers, Lir’s mentor, Tobias—the man Lir secretly loves—is determined to aid Lir despite the risks. He could get arrested. They could both die. Lir is thankful for Tobias’s presence, but as the days go on, magic whispers to him that there is no cure. He will never be human again. And to stay alive, Lir must devour what is the most precious to him—Tobias's heart.

#hiraeth #beau van dalen #transmasc #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 5 months

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Some trans authors & queer presses black friday sales are going on this weekend! If you want to get some cool trans books for cheap heres a few things I found.

Beau Van Dalen, an ownvoices trans man romance fantasy author, is having a 69% (nice) sale on his itch here

Cursed Morsel Press, Publisher of short horror and Weird fiction, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer, is having a sale on paperbacks & ebooks on their website here

NineStar Press, an LGBTQA publisher, is having a 50% sale on their website for all books here

Si Clarke is having a sale on The Left Hand of Dog, sci fi with a transfem nonbinary protagonist, on her website here

#already got some beau van dalen books & bought some from ninestars press #gonna have a 👀👀👀 at cursed morsel press now #not a poll #mod post #feel free to add on if you know more trans book sales going on #left hand of dog for 1 $ i am begging you to buy it if you like funny sci fi

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passive-t-u-m-b-l-r-user · 1 year

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I finished Book 1 of Android Affection by @beauvandalen and I will say I am invested in this story.

There are certainly many things going on in the periphreal that intrigue me:

• How Exia's resistance force opperates

• What Ian is like as Rogue Zero / What people think about Rogue Zero

• What Ian is capable of in terms of Robotics

• What Gilbert has experienced before meeting Ian and how that affected his views on being an Android

But at the core of this book is the relationship between Ian and Gilbert and how they play off one another. I love their interchanges and I find my self smiling whenever they get the opportunity to talk. There is a real chemistry between them that is well written and fun when it isn't heartbreaking.

(Someone please repair Gilbert's sense of self worth!)

#Beau Van Dalen #Android Affection #Writing #bookblr #indie author #sci fi #Fiction #Cyberpunk #Gay #Trans #mlm #Enemies to lovers #Also Gilbert is fucking badass and I need more of it #Very much enjoyed reading this

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beauvandalen · 8 months

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👑🖤👑

Read my new steamy M/M/M fantasy romance THE PRINCE'S DEAREST GUARDS about a trans 🌈 Prince who longs for amorous adventures with his two 🔥 very hot 🔥 guards.

Free-To-Read on KU! 🤭💕💕🔥

#trans mc #lgbtq #gay story #gay romance #romantasy #gay books

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taetaejojo · 5 years

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Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me @im-here-for-the-content !

Favorite color: purple, green, black

Top 3 ships: Klance, Asheiji, Catradora

Lipstick or chapstick: chapstick! I really enjoy lipstick (typically darker, muted colors) but reapplying is a pain lol

Last song: Bad Guy by Billie Eilish

Last movie: Spiderman: Far From Home

Currently reading: Just started Warrior of Hearts by Beau Van Dalen on Tapas. ALSO patiently waiting on One Floor Up by @silenthillzone to update because they’ve got me in my feels.

Tag nine people: (I don’t think I even know nine people) @jessucakes @jess-jessitiz @silenthillzone @feral-anarchy

#tag game #whoops sorry friends #lol

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