Guest Post by Sarah Waites: On the Queer SFF Database

A few years ago, I started talking about queer science fiction and fantasy on social media and had an idea. People like pictures and visuals can be a great way of both conveying information and of getting people to share a post. So why not use that to hype queer books? (Side note –you can …

Interview with Alex Gino

I loved Alex Gino's middle grade book Rick, which comes out April 21! I am thrilled to share this interview with them where we discuss this wonderful book, which gave me so many feels. A Bit About Alex Alex Gino is the author of middle grade novels You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P! and the Stonewall …

Guest Post: Not Everyone, Just Someone. by ‘Nathan Burgoine

When I sat down to work on Faux Ho Ho, I’ll admit one of my biggest motivations was to break some of the “rules” I was seeing come up for discussion again in the romance world. One of these “rules” was to keep politics out of your romance. I’m often nonplussed by that one: any …

Winter 2019-2020 Books I’m Anticipating

Here are some books I'm excited about that are coming out December 2019-February 2020. Disclosure: All links to Amazon will be affiliate ones. If you buy through those links, I will make a small amount of money on that sale (which I plan to use to buy books to review), but it will not add any …

Best Reads August-October 2019

This post gives a list of my favorite books I read in August, September, and October 2019. (I usually do a separate post for each month but wasn't able to this time. I'm glad to have finally gotten this post up!) This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary romance, but also includes paranormal romance, …

Exciting Giveaway (and Excerpt)!

I'm thrilled that Katrina Jackson has asked me to host a giveaway as a way to celebrate some of her books coming out in paperback! She is generously offering a set of two signed paperbacks, the first two books in her The Spies Who Loved Her series, Pink Slip, and Private Eye. This giveaway is …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 9: Book Rainbow

For my book rainbow I wanted to travel back in time to the original 8 stripe flag and add back the pink stripe (for sex) and include the turquoise stripe (for art/magic) as well as the indigo one. In addition, I wanted to include a brown stripe and a black stripe, like the new Philadelphia …

Review of Not Your Backup

Not Your Backup by CB Lee. Interlude Press. 2019. Content Warnings for review: discusses internalized aro spec and ace spec antagonism Note: I'm reviewing this in conjunction with Purple day for #PrideLibrary19. This book was part of my #PrideLibrary19 TBR and I'm reviewing it on Purple day because it has a gorgeous purple cover! Here is …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 8: Purple Books

I am doing two things for today, which focuses on purple covers. The first is sharing some books from my TBR list. I also plan on posting a review today, of a queer book with a purple cover, Not Your Backup. (That will happen later on...) All the books on this list are queer and/or …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 7: Blue Books

I thought I'd share some books from my TBR list for day 7, which focuses on blue covers. All the books on this list are queer and/or trans and/or non-binary; I tried to have a bit of a cross-section, identity-wise and genre-wise. Note: I am using affiliate links to Amazon. If you buy through those links, I …