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justabooklovingmetalhead · 1 month

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8 amazing trans books for trans day of visibility!

#transgender #trans #trans day of visibility #the spirit bares its teeth #a lady for a duke #the heartbreak bakery #cemetery boys #the passing playbook #baker thief #the sunbearer trials #magical boy #alexis hall #andrew joseph white #a.r. capetta #aiden thomas #isaac fitzsimmons #claudie arseneault #the kao

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transbookoftheday · 11 months

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💚 Trans Aro Books To Read For Aromantic Visibility Day 💚

("Godly Heathens" isn't out yet, but you can preorder it or request an ARC on NetGalley.)

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lgbtqreads · 7 months

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault

Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for author and AroAce Database creator Claudie Arseneault’s upcoming fantasy, Awakenings, which is now up on Kickstarter! (Link below cover.) Here’s a little more on the story: Innkeep, hunter, blacksmith, nurse—Horace has apprenticed for every clan in the domed city of Trenaze, and they’ve all rejected em. Too hare-brained. Too talkative. Too…

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#Awakenings #Claudie Arseneault #Eva I.#Fantasy #Kickstarter #neopronouns

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 4 months

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Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

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Adèle has only one goal: catch the purple-haired thief who broke into her home and stole her exocore, thus proving herself to her new police team. Little does she know, her thief is also the local baker. Claire owns the Croissant-toi, but while her days are filled with pastries and customers, her nights are dedicated to stealing exocores. These new red gems are heralded as the energy of the future, but she knows the truth. When her twin disappears, Claire redoubles in her efforts to investigate. She keeps running into Adèle, however, and whether or not she can save her sister might depend on their conflicted, unstable, but deepening relationship.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but I've seen Claudie Arsenault's fantasy books around for a while and they sound interesting!

#baker thief #claudie arseneault #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #genderfluid #fantasy

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bookspotlight · 9 months

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New Issue of Indie Bites!

This issue features the following short fiction:

- The Exsparrowment of Evander Hale by Adie Hart

- Here Be Salt and Dragons by Lila Gwynn

- Dead Road Rules by Josie Jaffrey

- The Two Henrys and the Tailor by Gemma Church

- Count Tiberius the Third by Claudie Arseneault

- Persephone's Daughters by Charlotte L Oakeby

- A Midsummer Night's Demon by Alice James

- Rules for Seafaring Souls by Rebecca Crunden

- The Last New Bloods by Laura Jayne McLoughlin

Read for FREE here.

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qbdatabase · 1 year

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Common Bonds is an anthology of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters. At the heart of this collection are the bonds that impact our lives from beginning to end: platonic relationships.

Within this anthology, a cursed seamstress finds comfort in the presence of a witch, teams of demon hunters work with their rival to save one of their own, a peculiar scholar gets attached to those he was meant to study, and queerplatonic shopkeepers guide their pupil as they explore their relationship needs and desires.

Through nineteen stories and poems, Common Bonds explores the ways platonic relationships enrich our lives.

#Common Bonds #claudie arseneault #adult books #anthology #short stories #aromantic awareness week #aro week #aromantic #queer platonic relationships #found family #daily book #fiction #lgbt fiction #lgbtqia #bookblr

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda J. Pierson?

SIGN ME UP!

#godzilla reads #wings of renewal #wings of renewal: a solarpunk dragon anthology #a solarpunk dragon anthology #claudie arseneault #Brenda j Pierson #dragon books #book dragon #bookwyrm #dragon anthology #reading #booklr #bookworm

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stardustandrockets · 3 months

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What do you look for in a special edition book?

I'm not too picky if it's a favorite book, but alternate covers, pretty end pages, and pretty edges (plain or a design) are my main asks. Here is a stack of pretty edges from @rainbowcrate! They've really been knocking these books out of the park!

These aren't all the special editions I have from them, just my absolute favorite edges. (Though they're all pretty and worth showcasing, tbh.)

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idmnbc · 1 year

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ok I've just ordered "Common Bonds" and the "How To Be A" books and I can't be more excited aaasadjhasdkjhkdasaaaAAAaaAA I will have to wait until May to have them in my hands but I don't care sahjasdjdsa its gonna be incredible

#common bonds #how to be a normal person #how to be a movie star #tj klune #aromantic #asexual #aroace #my aroace journey #claudie arseneault

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bookstagramofmine · 1 year

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BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour ~ City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault

BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour ~ City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault @BBNYA_Official @Foliosociety @The_WriteReads #BBNYA2022 #BBNYA #BookTour #Bookish #BookBlog

BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour This is my first year on the BBNYA Panel and I’m so excited to also be part of the Semi-Finalist Spotlight Tour! Even though you’ve probably seen all our posts on joining the Panel, you haven’t seen much else! That’s because we don’t want to tell anyone which books we’re reading and how we liked them! We do that to keep things fair because it’s interesting to…

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#BBNYA #BBNYA 2022 #book blog #book tour #city of strife #Claudie arseneault #epic fantasy #fiction #indie author #lgbtqa +#semi-finalist spotlight tour #the kraken collective

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aroclan · 2 years

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I read Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault.

Does this story have an aromantic character?

Yes, a lead character, who stays aromantic, and uses the exact word. Other characters understand this word.

Was it a good read?

It was awesome. I've been borrowing these from the library, but this one is worth buying for my ebook reader. (I'll never read it again; it's just to support the author.)

Anything else?

SO MUCH! But first and foremost, author Claudie Arseneault is a founding member of the Kraken Collective! I want to read so many books now.

Please, if you can at all afford it, support the authors: buy the books, and don't return them.

Back to the story...

There is an introductory section dedicated to trigger warnings. I didn't need any of them personally, but it's nice to feel cared about, you know? It's the exact opposite of some other books I've read, that jump deep into dark places without warning.

There are minor characters that use neopronouns. For the character using ol/ols, everyone in-story knew already, so it wasn't introduced. It broke my flow, but not much more than that. But that's also great writing! The story is unfolding naturally, and it's just incredibly well-done. There's a solid amount of foreshadowing and letting the reader imagine things going all wrong… just before they go all wrong.

Chapter titles are in French. I decided to stay off the Translate button, so I "missed" some more precise translations, but it also gives the book a lot of flavor.

I would like to give a special shout-out to the oft-forgotten French Canadians!

Spoiler Zone!

This is the spoiler zone; this is under the Read More. If tumblr didn't show that to you, for some mysterious reason, and you don't want spoilers, you have to quit reading here.

First, a relatively minor spoiler, since it becomes obvious early in the book. The aromantic character is allosexual. In fact, we learn of her allosexuality first. Aromanticism was a big deal, but she's reached a point where she's comfortable with it.

The other main character is demisexual. Just as much as she is surprised to be forming a bond with and attraction to the aro, the aro is really confused about what she wants.

A relationship forms, but it's explicitly not romantic, and they have a good talk about boundaries and needs. I'm only slightly disappointed we don't get to see it develop(ed) further, even as an epilogue.

#baker thief #claudie arseneault #kraken collective #an aro reviews some books #aro #queue

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transbookoftheday · 1 month

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Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault

Innkeep, hunter, blacksmith, nurse—Horace has apprenticed for every clan in the domed city of Trenaze, and they've all rejected em. Too hare-brained. Too talkative. Too slow. Ever the optimist, e has joined Trenaze's guards to be mentored. Horace has high hopes to earn eir place during eir trial at the Great Market. That is, until the glowing shards haunting the world break through the city's protective dome, fused together in a single, monstrous amalgam of Fragments.

Armed with a sword, a shield, and far too little training, Horace doubts eir ability to defend the market-goers. But eir last stand is interrupted by a mysterious elven figure who can dissipate the Fragments with a single, strange sentence: your story is my story.

From the moment it is uttered, Horace knows the sentences holds true for em, too—and when the elf collapses in the middle of the market, e carries them to safety, to recover away from the panicked crowd and inevitable questions from eir fellow guards. It could cost em eir apprenticeship—eir last chance to find eir place in eir home city—but Horace cannot resist the pull of this mystery elf and the call of a new friend.

Aliyah has but one desire: to leave Trenaze's safe boundaries and find the forest that haunts their dreams. After an afternoon of board games in their quiet, sharp-witted company, Horace is ready to follow, confronting Fragments and other dangers of the road to understand what happened that day, hear Aliyah's laugh again and finally feel like e belongs.

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Awakenings is the first of a series of nine fantasy novellas with a platonic found family at its heart. It marries the quiet moments of cozy fantasy and the fun adventures of D&D-style sidequesting.

#awakenings #the chronicles of nerezia #claudie arseneault #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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lgbtqreads · 1 year

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Fave Five: Queer Solarpunk

Viral Airwaves by Claudie Arseneault A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore

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#A Psalm for the Wild-Built #Becky Chambers #Claudie Arseneault #Foxhunt #Ruthanna Emrys #Sci-Fi #Solarpunk #Viral Airwaves

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gregorsamsapost-trans-formation · 1 year

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Some very late bedtime reading 😴

#personal #books #isandor #claudie arseneault #city of deceit

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betterbooksandthings · 7 months

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"The best asexual and aromantic fantasy books are packed full of magic, monsters, and mayhem. In a genre where we can imagine anything from unicorns to unique political systems to new approaches to gender and sexuality, these books take on the assignment and expand further than we thought possible."

#10 OF THE BEST ASEXUAL AND AROMANTIC FANTASY BOOKS #ace books #aro books #CHOSEN. AGAIN. BY J. EMERY #THE CIRCUS INFINITE BY KHAN WONG #TELL ME HOW IT ENDS BY QUINTON LI #SOCIALLY ORCWARD BY LISA HENRY AND SARAH HONEY #THE BRUISING OF QILWA BY NASEEM JAMNIA #IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS BY TJ KLUNE #CITY OF STRIFE BY CLAUDIE ARSENEAULT #HUMAN ENOUGH BY E.S. YU #EVERY HEART A DOORWAY BY SEANAN MCGUIRE #BISCLAVRET BY K.L. NOONE

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poppletonink · 3 months

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Asexual Books

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Sounds Fake But Okay by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca

Is Love The Answer? by Uta Isaki

City Of Strife by Claudie Arseneault

This Doesn't Mean Anything by Sarah Whaler

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning Of Sex by Angela Chen

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Vanilla by Billy Merrell

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood

Being Ace: An Anthology Of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Various Authors

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Rick by Alex Gino

Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt

Love, Ace & Monsters: An Ace Anthology by Various Authors

Summer Of Salt by Katrina Leno

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