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Sapphic sports romance!!!!
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Release day is almost here for Recipe for Confidence!
🍰aspiring graphic designers
🍰secrets from family and friends
🍰bakeries
🍰New Jersey setting
🍰Setback Cakes, unique cakes that celebrate setbacks
🍰aromantic and asexual rep
🍰autistic rep
Preorder ebook $1.99 on Amazon or Kobo
Preorder paperback $9.99 on Barnes and Noble
The ebook version of Recipe for Confidence releases on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble on May 17 as planned. The paperback on Barnes and Noble will still release that day as well.
Paperback version of Recipe for Confidence on Amazon will be delayed to May 19.
Please feel free to Share in Stories or via Messages with whoever you think would love this book, or tag them in the comments!
(Image: book cover for Recipe for Confidence in center of light pink background. Surrounding it are pieces of black text reading bakery, family drama, cakes celebrating setbacks, aroace rep, autistic rep, and aspiring graphic designer. There are graphics of the aromantic flag, asexual flag, rainbow infinity symbol, a cupcake with a cherry on top, and a laptop that is open).
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Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Full titles under the cut!
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Sapphic Book Recs by/about People of Color, Part 1
These are some of the books I've read/are on my tbr. A mix of YA and Adult, across various genres.
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- Dulhaniyaa - Talia Bhatt
- Monstrous - Jessica Lewis
- This is how you lose the time war - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
- Souls Aligned - Najee Jamerson
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus
- Once Ghosted, Twice Shy - Alyssa Cole
- The Final Strife - Saara El-Arifi
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- The Fall that Saved Us - Tamara Jerée
- Rosewater - Liv Little
- A Báhn Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen
- The Taking - Celeste Castro
- Outdrawn- Deanna Grey
- The Sun and the Void - Gabriela Romero Lacruz
- The Map That Led to You - Ella McLeod
- The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez
- Escaping Mr. Rochester - L.L. McKinney
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- A Guide to the Dark - Meriam Metoui
- And Don't Look Back - Rebecca Barrow
- The Weight of the Stars - K. Ancrum
- The Name-Bearer - Natalia Hernandez
- Thirsty - Jas Hammonds
- So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole
- Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
- The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School - Sonora Reyes
Great list! I also recommend:
- The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai
- If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So
- Flip the Script by Lyla Lee
- Burning Roses by SL Huang (novella)
- Brooms written by Jasmine Walls and illustrated by Teo DuVall (graphic novel)
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Over on Bluesky, horror writer Mark Allan Gunnells posted: Reading books with diverse characters as a child didn't make me queer. However, those books did teach me there is nothing shameful about being who I am. And therein lies the problem a lot of conservatives have. They want their queer children to grow up feeling ashamed. My reply: I grew up in a very fundamentalist church and culture. Reading a book in which gay people were presented as normal was a lifesaver for me. At age 12, for the very first time in my life, I realized maybe I wasn't going to hell. For me that book was The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.
Oh, The Man Who Folded Himself was an experience. ^^
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The Hearts of Broadway series is complete. It’s a bittersweet moment to say goodbye to all of these characters, but I hope I gave them all beautiful endings.
If you like showtunes and romance and musicals and falling in love, this series is for you. All five books are out now in paperback, audio, hardcover, and ebooks!
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Review: No Good Deed (Maverick Insurance Mysteries Book 1) by M. J. May
Rating: 4.5🌈 I found the Maverick Insurance Mysteries because of the author’s amazing Perfect Pixies fantasy series. Now I’m working through her catalog and so happy. No Good Deed is the first in a contemporary mystery thriller romance series. May has so many interesting characters and a great concept to this series, one that’s guaranteed to keep the reader engaged and intrigued by the weird…
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Flyboy by Kasey LeBlanc
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets The Night Circus in this standout debut YA novel, about a boy who visits a magic-filled circus in his dreams in order to escape reality, where his trans identity remains a secret. An ideal next read for fans of Cemetery Boys.
After an incident at his school leaves closeted trans teenager Asher Sullivan needing stitches, his mother betrays him in the worst possible way—she sends him to Catholic school for his senior year. Now he has to contend with hideous plaid skirts, cranky nuns, and #bathroomJesus.
Nighttime brings an escape for Asher when he dreams of the Midnight Circus—the one place where he is seen for the boy he truly is. Too bad it exists only in his sleep. At least, that’s what he believes until the day his annoyingly attractive trapeze rival, Apollo, walks out of his dreams and into his classroom. On the heels of this realization that the magical circus might be real, Asher also learns that his time there is limited.
In his desperation to hang on to the one place he feels at home, Asher sets both worlds on a collision course that could destroy all the relationships he cares about most. Now he must decide how far he’ll go to preserve the magical circus, even if it means facing his biggest challenge yet—coming out.
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New Releases - Tuesday, May 14, 2024
We missed one title last week, so we wanted to make sure to highlight it this week.
Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy X.R. He Sourcebooks Fire
Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects. And each one has a reason for wanting her dead.
Ella Moore was the most popular girl in school…and also the most hated. When she’s murdered at her own party, there are too many suspects to count--and too many people who think she deserved it. The police’s prime suspect is the new girl, Dawn Foster. She was the last to hand Ella a drink on the night Ella died. Plus, all of Ella’s friends with a motive for wanting her dead are more than willing to implicate Dawn.
But Dawn refuses to go down without a fight. She’s determined to clear her name. As she delves deeper into the past, she discovers that Ella and her friends had enemies, and someone is out for revenge. She must uncover the truth before the police arrest the wrong suspect and before the next person dies.
Now on to the many books for this week:
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Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!! Here are some AAPI book 📚 recs!! :3
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The sunshine court, Nora Sakavic
Summary:
My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.
It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.
Captain Jeremy Knox is facing his final year with the USC Trojans and fifth straight year falling short of the championships trophy he desperately craves. Taking in the nation’s best defenseman is a no-brainer, even if that man is a Raven. But Jean is no monster, just a man with no hope or desire for a future, and when Evermore's collapse starts dragging Jean's hideous secrets to light, Jeremy is forced to contend with the cost of victory.
Review:
She's done it again, folks. I've said in my review of the AFTG books that Nora has an amazing talent of creating characters and developing them in a way that's completely captivating for the reader and this book was just the perfect example of how amazing talented she is at this.
Jean is one of the most interesting characters I've read in a long time, his entire life has been full of abuse and as he says it he has endured it all, and as she kept revealing all these things that happened to him my heart kept breaking for him but I was also rooting for him more and more.
Jeremy's sunshine personality seems to fit perfectly into Jean's life and it seem to be what he needs - though she's given us crumbs to Jeremy's not so perfect life and I cannot wait to learn more about him!. Laila's and Cat's no nonsense and loud personalities were so refreshing and I think just what Jeans needs, some tough love in the good way.
The addition of the Trojans was very good, I like how different from the foxes they are, but they're still interesting characters. Plus getting to see Kevin and Neil's from a different perspective was so good, I loved the little part they played in this book!
If you're a fan of the original trilogy i think you're gonna love this addition, and if this is the book you decide to start with, you might be very confused but I think it gives enough context for a first time reader! Just know I'm currently fighting the urge to sit back down and re read the entire series all over again.
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In The Roses of Pieria
- dark fantasy romance
- a woman takes a well-paying but suspicious sounding job as an archivist working for a mysterious estate owner, and finds herself translating numerous never-before-seen artifacts from her specialty field on an ancient civilisation
- as she begins to translate romantic letters between two ancient figures and unravel more about them, her frustration over the knowledge being kept secret and confusion over what the letters reveal grows
- but between that and her developing feelings for her employer’s assistant, she finds out that getting to close to these secrets is dangerous
- lesbians, vampires, fey
X-Men '97 S01E10
The finale had:
- so much Cherik! <3
- not enough Morpherine, but damn, Morph loves Logan so fucking much! <3
I can't wait for Season 2!
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Hey, gang! I'm excited to announce I've got a new short story traditionally published in Bona Books' new anthology, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
"Hazard Pay" is a pulp fantasy yarn about a transmasc gentleman thief who must take an ever-so-difficult job and climb a lich's tower. It's a little bit He-Man, a little bit Nimona, and a big bit Queer As Fuck.
It's coming out Summer 2024- I can't give an exact date, but if you want to keep tabs on the news, subscribe to my mailing list. Alternatively, if you want to make sure you've got a copy, you can simply...
*~jazz hands~*
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1888. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going on. But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons Mori won't--or can't--share, he is frightened. Then he vanishes. Meanwhile, something strange is happening in a frozen labor camp in Northern Japan. Takiko Pepperharrow, an old friend of Mori's, must investigate. As the weather turns bizarrely electrical and ghosts haunt the country from Tokyo to Aokigahara forest, Thaniel grows convinced that it all has something to do with Mori's disappearance--and that Mori may be in serious danger.
"Grace is not a thing you performed, but a weight you carried".
Natasha Pulley's The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is the stunning conclusion to the duology that began with The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. The journey of Thaniel and Mori, together with their adoptive daughter, reaches new highs and lows as we learn more about Mori, his morality and the lengths he's willing to go to to protect who he loves.
Mori is such an intriguing character because in another book, he could easily be a villain (in fact, some characters think he is). But we see him through Thaniel's loving eyes, we see his vulnerabilities and strengths, and we can't help but be completely enamored with him, with his quiet strength and his resolve. His are the lines that make us dissolve into a sobbing mess, his the trials and tribulations, in the pursuit of something he eventually can't even remember.
Thaniel gets a much needed depth too, and it's fascinating to see how he navigates his relationship with Mori, with the orphan Six, and with the new character Pepperharrow, a tragic and compelling figure. All the new characters felt alive and believable, with complex motivations of their own, and I was delighted to even find some old faces from the first book.
This sequel was so much better, both in composition and pacing. The prose was of course lovely already in the first book, but the author has such graceful writing, like a warm hug even in the direst circumstances. I loved that we got some more information about how Mori's clairvoyance works, and the ether, and glimpses of this alternate history. I especially loved the change in setting, with the author taking us to Japan and demonstrating a deft hand in painting the country through the eyes of a stranger. I enjoyed her choices in terms of dialogue and her note about it at the end.
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is a masterful conclusion to a lovely duology.
✨ 5 stars
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[You can find more of my reviews about queer speculative fiction on my blog MISTY WORLD]