#lesbian novel

[digangi]

do you wish there were more books about morally complicated ex-wives fighting a mysterious legal conspiracy while falling back in love?

☼ would you like to see more lesbian or wlw protagonists with really messy lives?

☼ do you want more queer literature in the mystery/thriller genre?

☼ are you a fan of second-chance romances between women?

My award-winning 2022 novel Last Chance Chicago follows recovering addict and former lawyer Sam DiCiccio as her ex-wife Amy Igarashi makes her way back into Sam's life after being framed for insider trading. Sam wants Amy back. Amy — a hedge fund VP — wants to figure out which of her coworkers is trying to put her in federal prison, before they manage to get away with it. Naturally, Sam volunteers to help.

I recommend it, but I'm biased, don't take it from me:

☼ Last Chance Chicago is available as a paperback and an ebook almost anywhere books are sold, including my publisher, Bywater Books.

☼ It's also now available as an audiobook voiced wonderfully by Nicky Endres, who you may have seen face off with Amanda Seyfried's Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout and who praised the book as exciting, hilarious and authentic (thank you Nicky!) ❤️ 🧡 💛

#bookblr #wlw books #lesbian book #sapphic books #lesbian novel #queer literature

[lesbiandomesticity]

time for another ebook sale, I think 😊

grab the Threads series for $0.99/each on Kindle this week!

#not writing #author note #lesbian author #lesbian novel #lesbian fiction #lesfic #lgbt author #kindle sale #ebook sale

[womensarts-blog]

Medallion (1937) by Gluck, self-portrait by the gender non-conforming painter, with lover Nesta Obermer, later used as cover art for the famous lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' by British author Radclyffe Hall.

#lgbt art #gluck #self portrait #gender nonconforming painter #nesta obermer #lesbian novel #the well of loneliness #radclyffe hall #1937

[christas-museum]

The Child Manuela: Mädchen in Uniform book (new translation)

CHAPTER 5: XIII

For more parts (updates are irregular, up to several times a week), click #The Child Manuela translation

READ (external link)

#Mädchen in Uniform #Madchen in Uniform #Christa Winsloe #The Child Manuela #LGBTQ #Das Mädchen Manuela #lesbian #lesbians #lesbian novel #The Child Manuela translation #Christa's museum

[russiansappho]

My dear followers, I am one happy lesbian right now... I am crying... Thank you so much for your support and for making my novel an Amazon bestseller.

#I love you #my followers are the best #let’s go lesbians!! #i have no words left #praying to sappho #the dawn of eternal winter #veronika sizova #sapphic #lesbian writer #sapphic author #lesbian author #wlw #lesbian #love #russiansappho #lesbian novel #lesbian literature #lesbian romance #bestseller

[ninido]

lesbian books you don’t see on booktok/bookgram

its MY DAY

here are just a list of pretty kitsch pretty gay lesbian novel that you will not see on booktok sadly or bookgram

LEE WINTER

Lee Winter is one of my favorite lesbian novel author. She doesn’t concentrate the story around the love story but more around the story itself which gives a lot to critic many stakes. Mostly Ice Queen, Age-Gap, Slow Burn, Enemies-to-lovers

The Brutal Truth

If you want a Devil wears Prada kind of vibe gay, with a ice queen and a critic of men in power into corporation here it is. 

The Red files

Again, a ice queen, but playfull. LOVE THIS BOOK for the thriller kind of. Makes a critic of technologies, IA and government.

Breaking Character

Breaking Character is a Hollywood star ice queen (YES AGAIN) trope. Love the tension, not my fav famous-lesbian-novel but it is GOOD.

G. Benson

Great writing, Who’d Have Thought is always one of my favorite lesbian novel that I read more than I can count and the new book Purposefully Accidental is kiss chief. Mostly Enemies-to-lovers, Slow Burn, Fun vibe, Medical.

Purposefully Accidental

This is probably my fav famous people lesbian novel with two person meeting each other 25 years later after one gay panicked and shoved the other into the dirt. Old grudge, funny, enemies-to-lover kind of. 

Who’d Have Thought

This one is just a really funny situation with a fake-dating but really not the typical kind of. I love it.

Clare Ashton

Will mostly develop beautiful friends-to-lover story, always a great feeling, feels like fall reading her story. 

The Goodmans

This one being a best-friends to lovers and a REALLY GENIUS two stories in one and GAY ASF

Poppy Jenkins

My favorite go back in your home town kind of a bit homophobic but whatever and see the crush of your life that you touched hands during the summer and gay died inside.

Milena Mckay

A recent author doing incredible books. She wrote before fanfiction and you can feel the fanfic vibe strongly wish I LOVE.

The Headmistress

A school story with a strong backstory, world built. Its not a fantasy book but it can feels like one. Probably my favorite book from 2022 !!

A Whisper of Solace

Emotionally still not ready to re-read this story but jesus this is ANGST ASF. It is really well played because she puts the Ice Queen as the character perspective you read through which never happens in a book from the beginning to the end.

Ask, tell

I would never have thought myself to like this story but I guess it was worth it ? I really loved the trilogy cause yes, there is two more books after this one. A medical, army relationship, HOT

Those Who Wait

Enjoy much much of this book, friends to lovers and if you read this one, read also the next one !!

#books review #lesbian novel #happy international lesbian day #lesbian day #lesbian #books #gay books #queer books #lesbian books #wlw

[pantiehose]

PLEASE REBLOG

i am looking for the title of two books i read when i was young!

1) a coming of age novel about a young black lesbian i think she was from the south. i distinctly remember she ate pussy for the first time and said it tasted like gumbo

2) a short paperback childrens picture book with a black or “brown” queen/empress who had dozens of shoes/slippers and a young poor girl who i think served her or something? and in the end she shared all of her shoes with the girl bc of how kind or talented she was or something. the cover was extremely colorful and had the queen stepping over a big pile of her shoes with the girl in the corner

both of these were probably written in the 90s to early 2000s

#bookblr #ya novels #booklr #books #childrens books #ya novel #lesbian books #queer books #queer romance #lesbian novel #sapphic novel #sapphic books #black lesbian #black novels #lgbtq novel

[tinqwei]

been reading henna wars!!

ive never gotten so heated at a bunch of fictional characters before

like flavia and chyna culturally appropriating henna for a business project

when nishat told flavia that she's appropriating her culture, flavia was like "it's a type of art! it can't be a part of a culture!!" when nishat gets offended by her stupid ignorant comment, flavia acts more offended💀😭😭

i genuinely wanna fight chyna, racist white girl who is racist who is an ass to nishat and priti and makes fun of and mocks indian culture and is now starting a henna business r u mfing kidding me.

jess and chaewon like omfg jess is another racist white girl apologist and she is one herself and chaewon literally does nothing and doesn't defend nishat when jess is in the wrong instead she stands by jess and would probably be on her side

#henna wars #wlw novel #wlw #sapphic novel #lesbian novel #sorry for the rant #sorry for the ramble #adiba jaigirdar #adiba jaigirdar is amazing at making characters extremely unlikeable #im literally getting heated over a bunch of fictional ppl what am i doing 😭 #if they were real ppl i would throw hands with them #i love this book #lgbtq novel #lgbt novel

[gigireece16]

she knows

had the urge to indulge in shameless self-advertising for my debut novel and figured this was a good place to do it. but if you read the heading of this post, you can figure out the title of my book.

unfortunately due to my idleness & time slipping away from under me, she knows isn’t published yet. i’m on the second draft and halfway done with it. i’ll be attaching a synopsis & if it’s not that well written, i apologize. i will also be adding a scene from she knows as well.

and yes, sylvie & florence are lesbians!!! if read this far and still interested, i’m also attaching a few other links that i made for she knows

#sapphic #wlw post #creative writing #lesbianism #writing #author #writer #writing community #lesbian novel #she knows #killing eve #nbc hannibal #female writers #writer things #author things #sapphic writing #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtq writing #story writing #literature #lesbian literature #teen writer #writers on tumblr #Spotify

[mayomalice]

afterlove

{i chose this gif because ashana & poppy are very marceline & bubblegum coded}

9.5/10

this book ripped my heart out of me & tore it to shreds. i knew it was coming, & yet somehow i was surprised when it did indeed do just that.

afterlove is a beautiful love story laced with pain, which was to be expected by the synopsis. yet somehow i was still surprised when they died, leaving me sobbing for 45 minutes straight.

Ashana is exactly what i wanted from a main character, and her family dynamics were so refreshing. especially seeing as it’s so rare to see POC sapphic characters getting representation at all. her black cat energy to Poppy’s golden retriever melted my heart on several occasions.

the intro portion of the book had me hooked, admittedly though it did fall off just a tad in the following chapters but i still thoroughly enjoyed my reading experience. the ending however, destroyed me.

**spoilers ahead**

when Poppy died, it wasn’t how i expected at all. i thought it would’ve been due to freezing in the cold water or something but i was lulled into a false sense of comfort when she told Ashana that they’d only swim for a few minutes. she then faked me out by going under the water before returning to the surface again completely fine. she does this twice.

however on the second time when she had went rigid that is when she had died. due to an annuerism. finding that out after believing she was fine until that boat showed up in the water hurt me on levels i didnt think were possible.

while i’m happy the book didn’t have a happy ending, because i just don’t think it would be as moving of a story if it did, im still heartbroken that we don’t get to see more of these characters. we didn’t get to find out if they were ever reunited.

that being said can’t exactly class the ending as completely sad, as it leaves off on a bit of a hopeful note. however, once again, i did indeed bawl my eyes out for 45 minutes. as someone who’s never cried over a book before, like REALLY cried, what a lovely first book to cry to.

#afterlove #book review #afterlove book review #spoilers #lesbian book #lesbian novel #sapphic book #sapphic novel #bookblr #i love women #i want what they have #favorite

[lesbiandomesticity]

Woven is a story about Lesbian love, connection, and the meaning we weave in our own lives. Though the Kickstarter campaign has come to a close, our GoFundMe is still active! I am still trying to raise about $200 more to cover all my costs (for a total of $1000).

I can’t do this without you guys! So if you have anything to spare, or can help out by spreading the word, I would appreciate it more than you know! Even $1 gets me closer to my goal. If you rather donate through Paypal, CashApp, or Venmo, you can DM me as well 😊

Support indie authors and help get the best version of this story out into the world. 💜

#not writing #author note #lesbian author #original #lesbian novel #lgbt author #authors on tumblr #lesbian fiction #lgbt novel #lesbian writer #lesbian authors #lgbt authors #lesfic #woven

[philiprappaport]

#rubyfruit jungle #rita mae brown #lesbian novel #queerbooks #queer books #queer history #lgbt history

[christas-museum]

The Child Manuela: Mädchen in Uniform book (new translation)

CHAPTER 5: XIV

For more parts (updates are irregular, up to several times a week), click #The Child Manuela translation

READ (external link)

#Mädchen in Uniform #Madchen in Uniform #Christa Winsloe #The Child Manuela #LGBTQ #Das Mädchen Manuela #lesbian #lesbians #lesbian novel #The Child Manuela translation #Christa's museum

[ninido]

not gonna write my thesis, i’m gonna write a freaking lesbian novel 

#lesbian novel #bye bye master #txt

[nxchtmxhr]

Girls of Paper and Fire - A quick book review!

Things I liked about this book:

• It takes place in an atypical setting; most YA fantasy books I’ve come across played in the US or in UK. This one takes place in a world inspired by Malaysian culture and it’s refreshening and lovely.

• It was pretty easy to get familiar with the world. The terms and all that. Some books offer an overwhelming amount of information but I got a nice overview of the world of Girls of Paper and Fire.

• The writing style was easy to read (which I appreciate as a non native speaker) but it was not too simplistic. I think the author uses beautiful metaphors.

• Kenzo. He’s such a cool character.

• I loved Wren’s initial demeanor. She was so mysterious and intriguing - and I loved her backstory, too.

• Multiple characters had backstories or secrets that I just didn’t expect at all.

• Physical affection between characters, including opposite-sex or same-sex where one has same-sex attraction, that has no sexual undertones but is purely platonic. I don’t think most books show enough of that.

• The plot was not predictable at all. I expected things to go into an entirely different direction. This book surprised me over and over again.

• I think the pacing was really good. I read some complaints about it but I thought it build up really nicely.

• The society. The way they kept telling themselves that being a concubine for a king is an honor. It reflects real world dictatorship brainwashing.

Things I didn’t like: (Subtle Spoiler alert)

• The way Miss Blue was written. Sorry, but she’s just such a stereotypical character. I really liked the part where more of her backstory was revealed and she became sympathetic, but I think they messed her up. Why make a character sympathetic to later write them like this?

• The protagonist was a bit boring at times. A little too typical YA protagonist.

• I’m not quite sure what to think of the word in Lei’s birth pendant. I was a bit disappointed to read that. Yeah it was unexpected, but kinda boring, in my opinion.

Overall Rating: 4/5 Stars

#book review #bookblr #girls of paper and fire #natasha ngan #lesbian novel #ya novel #fantasy novel #lesbian fantasy novel

[jolee]

Smith College Girls for i-D magazine 2009

#class of 09 #nichole #emily #class of 09 fanart #nichole x emily #lesbian #wlw #lesbian art #visual novel #toxic yuri #nicole #nicole x emily #class of 09 the re up #emicole