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I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're looking for stories and non-fiction that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a speculative fiction or alternate history element; and an Arthurian tale or re-visited Arthurian element.

Stand-alone artworks, or offers to illustrate a story, are also welcome!

Please check out the Submissions page of my website:
https://juliebozza.com/call-for-submissions-for-my-queer.../

Call for Submissions for "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales" edited by Julie Bozza

Patience and Sarah, a classic lesbian historical romance. It's based on a true story: https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/wilson-brundage/account

The first person narrative voices are so distinct and alive, I feel like I'm there.

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HEADS UP, FANTASY FANS! The End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle is live with 64 amazing books for $45, including my own book, This Is How Immortals Die!! 🤯

(The image says it starts tomorrow, but nope, we're LIVE!)

https://itch.io/b/3409/end-of-year-indie-fantasy-mega-bundle

Promotional banner for the End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle, showing an Asian-styled character standing atop a cliff and a dragon flying before them. It says, "64 books. $45. December 1st to 15th." (It's live today, though!) Save
A graphic with the cover for This Is How Immortals Die by Nicole Hidalgo at the centre and some key aspects related to the book: - A drunk, reclusive Priestess of Aphrodite - Love kills! - A princess fascinated by blood - Lesbians with swords (and pistols!) - Grim & Gory - Heart Magic - Aphrodite's Apocalypse - Kobo Plus

🏳️‍🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club suggestions for December vote 📖 🏳️‍🌈

December’s theme is winter/holiday vibes. So looking for suggestions on queer romance books with cosy winter feel, long lazy summer beach feel (for southern hemisphere), or just straight-up Christmas-themed.

It can be tenuous :) as long as it’s Romance with a capital-R - the book wouldn’t happen without the relationship, and there’s a Happy Ever After.

I’ll run the vote during the week.

For more about the club:
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104

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I'm excited to let you know that my sapphic romance Something in the Wine is now available in Kindle Unlimited & in Kobo Plus for the first time!

If you’re craving a cozy fall read with a fake relationship, slow burn, lots of humor & banter, and a dog named Cabernet, this one’s for you.

https://relinks.me/B0FTFL53H1

Something in the Wine by Jae is now in Kindle Unlimited. Depicted is the book, standing on a weathered wood table, surrounded by autumn leaves. The cover itself shows rows of vines, a sunset, and fall leaves.

In the 6th volume of the Sifillis Stories our friends Soda & Chunks are transmogrified into wazzfish and have an adventure deep in the Wormspotz Ocean with their new friends, Kween Miturasia & Supreme Kween Euphegenia Ureen. This tail, er, tale is currently ongoing, read it for free at : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/107631/sifillis-vi-soda-and-the-wazzfish-kweendom
art by josh way

The Trans People Take on the World bundle has already reached 76% of its goal! Thank you to everyone who contributed, and let's not stop now—you still have 8 days left to acquire this amazing set of 32 books by 32 trans authors, including my own book, Garden of Rotten Roses! 💜🔥

A screenshot of the Trans People Take on the World bundle, showing it has already reached 76% of its goal of $2,000.00.
Promotional poster for the Trans People Take on the World Bundle. 32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson. What Lies Within, Issy Waldon. Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton. Non-Player Character, Veo Corva. A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson. Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance. A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle. My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek. Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider. The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar. The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud. The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra. The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross. Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell. Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood. Echo Sight, Cian Verath. The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross. Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver. Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide. Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan. Manipulators War, Elise Carlson. Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans. Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null. All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire. 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com. First Rose, Jake Vanguard. A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger. Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates. Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo. Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis. Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault. Illusory, M.X. Misfits.

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I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…).

The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer romance fans can drop their recommendations in the comments:

- maybe the first romance you ever read that wasn’t just straight m/f (even if it was m/f with a bisexual character etc)
- nostalgic reads which might not hold up today but which you still have a soft spot for
- a classic of the genre which you think is the gold standard (I don’t know, like LoTR is for fantasy)
- even just books that are a few years old now that you think did not get the attention they deserved when they were released.

…

Today begins Trans People Take on the World, a bundle featuring 32 books by 32 trans authors in various genres, including fantasy, sci-fi, and horror!

And Garden of Rotten Roses is part of the bundle! While technically the second book in World Without Love, you can read it as a kind of appetiser for the world and stories you'll find in the other books!

https://itch.io/b/3352/trans-people-take-on-the-world.

32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson. What Lies Within, Issy Waldon. Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton. Non-Player Character, Veo Corva. A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson. Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance. A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle. My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek. Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider. The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar. The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud. The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra. The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross. Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell. Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood. Echo Sight, Cian Verath. The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross. Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver. Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide. Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan. Manipulators War, Elise Carlson. Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans. Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null. All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire. 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com. First Rose, Jake Vanguard. A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger. Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates. Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo. Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis. Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault. Illusory, M.X. Misfits.

Magical Realism. Shamanism. Post-apocalyptic survival. Coming of age. Found Family. All of that and more in a short adventure in future Oregon after the great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes have ravaged the west.

Meet Rodney, a seven year old boy who can see the spirits of the dead. Meet Justin, a mostly-absent father who still wishes the best for his son. Meet AJ, the bridge between them and commander of the militia forces sent to liberate the community of Sutherlin from their evil overlords.

https://mybook.to/1stKnightShmnKindle