Review: Not Today Satan by T.B. Markinson and Miranda MacLeod One gossip column photo. One meddling family. One fake relationship that got way out of hand. With no job, no apartment, and no money in the bank, unemployed chef Harley Plotkin didn't think her life could get any worse. Until she…

Release Blitz from GRR Tours: Under His Rule by Davidson King. Read an Excerpt here. Under his rule, nobody is safe Prince Julian Davaros is heir to the throne of the Lamdera Islands. He’s gorgeous, rich, famous… and just happens to be a serial killer. His family and bodyguard know his murderous…

#StackingtheShelves #Bookmail This week I got some great books that I can’t wait to read. VIA the MAIL Liquid by Mariam Rahmani The Marriage Plot meets The Idiot in this brilliant debut, which tells the story of a young Muslim scholar stuck in the mire of adjunct professorship in Los Angeles who…

ARC Review: Tic-errific Me by Alicia Meyers. Illustrated by Cait Brennan. A child with Tourette syndrome shares her joys, struggles, and self-confidence Tic-errific Me: A book about Tourette syndrome In Tic-errific Me, a young girl explains what it’s like to live with Tourette’s. Her verbal and…

Review: The Frog Ward’s Journey by Laura Greenwood and Ariana Jade A journey across the sea will change everything. As the granddaughter of the captain, Ines loves nothing more than visiting new places alongside her trusty frog familiar. And with a mission to collect tea witches for Purple Oak…

ARC Review: Her Sharp Embrace by Kate Koenig In the glittering city of New Soleil, beauty masks danger at every turn. The Nightshades, a crew of magical outlaws, are no different. Their glamorous facades conceal the terror they strike into the hearts of the rich and powerful as they steal from the…

IndiGo Marketing & Design presents Tales of the Quiet Kitty by Camille Anthony. Read an Excerpt here. These futuristic sci-fi tales are anything but quiet. Board the Quiet Kitty Waveship and travel with Brant Sel, a Sh'Bahkyr Tygyr and his crew: Bevel-leveB, a Medusoid Jenari with a sentient cock,…

Review: The Face of My Killer by Jordan Victoria A breakup followed by a blackout. Bailey wakes up to find that Theo has moved to Scotland without him, when the plan had always been to leave together. He tries to remember the night before, but there’s just darkness. Twelve years later, they find…

#TBT with the Review of Cool For the Summer by Dahlia Adler Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer is a story of self-discovery and new love. It’s about the things we want and the things we need. And it’s about the people who will let us be who we are.

Wednesday Quickies with books written by Wade Hart and Tom Caval. It’s all about pining today with stories from Wade Hart and Tom Caval. Romancing the Ice by Wade Hart Two dudes. A sleeping bag. An island full of penguins. I've waited years for the amazing opportunity to study Adélie penguin…

🎉Congratulations on the New Release of The Anniversary by Alex Finlay.🎉 Every year he comes for them . . . On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other. Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day…

I Can’t Wait for…Unpredictable Magic by Faith Hunter Witches Angelina and Evan Everhart-Trueblood take a case that spirals out of control until the whole city is at risk in this exciting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter. Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan…

GRR Tours presents Brighter Than The Sun by Kit Erikson. Read an Exclusive Author Q&A here. Blake is used to showing off his body. Baring his soul? That's another story. By day, Blake’s a mild-mannered bartender. By night, he’s porn legend Dirk Slocum, heating up the runway as an exotic dancer at…

Indigo Marketing & Design presents Standard Tuning by Andi Tozier. Read an Excerpt here. It’s 1988 and solo act Bill Kason is invited to take part in a supergroup. Three generations of talent band together over three long weekends to record an album; talking shop, tweaking tunes, and touring their…

Indigo Marketing & Design presents Claimed by Ashlynn Monroe. Read an Excerpt here. Lexa never really knew what it meant to live until she was condemned to die. Framed for a crime she’d never even contemplated, Lexa Mercer’s doing thirty days or death on the Intergalactic Broadcasting Channel’s…

ARC Review: Knitting Needles by Ezra Wren Two men walk into a gender clinic...and the rest...is history. Oscar Peters has never given much thought to what his forever might look like. When Oscar meets Aaron at the gender clinic on the morning of their top surgeries, it feels like a stroke of fate,…

Snakeskin Press presents the Cover Reveal for Prometheus, a Queer Futuristic Horror Anthology. THE YEAR IS 2099. A dark web dweller, a curious space explorer in a library, a forbidden queer couple seeking new horizons… Prometheus stole fire and gave it to humanity. To this day, we carry it in our…

Sunday Quotables This Mental Health Awareness Month please remember you are not alone. “I don’t know you, but I recognize you. You’re hurt. You’re messed up. You’re not normal. Just like me and Quin. Pain sees pain. Messed up ain’t so bad. You just can’t keep doing it alone. We need each other to…

Spending Mother’s Day with We Love Our Queer Children by Katie Fouks To all of the mothers out there, we are grateful for you. For those who are our angels now, we miss you. Penny and her friends Ashley and Sumi have a tradition of getting together for brunch on Mother's Day. This year, though,…

Review: Dreaming of Hel by Laura Greenwood Hel isn't the kind of goddess to just fall in love...except that now she might want to. As a necromancer and underworld goddess, Hel knows more about death than love, but when she meets a witch with her head in the clouds, she discovers it might not be as…

#FantasyFriday with Sailing the Golden Chersonese by Joyce Chng Adventure, magic and more… Neo has been raised to be their father’s son, to succeed him as the captain of the pirate vessel Sri Matahari and to sail the seas of the Golden Chersonese raiding and having adventures. They thought this…

First Line Friday This line sets the story up perfectly. “Lysander saw his death in the distance, waiting for him like a dull-eyed lizard with sharp grey teeth. He had a week left.” Lindsey, Illeana. (2026) The Black Parade. Synopsis As billions die from an apocalyptic cloud of polluted dust,…

Review: Chameleon by Pip Landers-Letts Chameleon is a story about vulnerability, slow‑burn desire, and the courage it takes to let someone in — one brave step at a time. Dr Catherine Truscote has spent her life ordering other people’s chaos while keeping her own under wraps. But when a scandal…

#TBT with the Review of French Kissing Episode One by Harper Bliss Public Relations Partners find their personal lives interfering with their professional ones.

Haven Alexander is the whole co-captain of Cross Country and Track, excelling in her classes, volunteering at church, loving and supporting her neurodiverse older brother, Paul, and being—according to her friend (and sort-of crush) Alice—a babe. Review: Everybody's Haven by Bebe Duncan #Gifted

I Can’t Wait for…Free Girls by Kristen McCallum A heartfelt coming-of-age debut about a girl starting over while keeping secret she's spent the last year in juvenile detention. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Leah Johnson. Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Cooper is back after twelve months at Guiding…

Review: Under His Rule by Davidson King Under his rule, nobody is safe Prince Julian Davaros is heir to the throne of the Lamdera Islands. He’s gorgeous, rich, famous… and just happens to be a serial killer. His family and bodyguard know his murderous proclivities, but to everyone else, he’s…

Tuesday Tropes: Teen Angst Popsugar 2026 #19 - A Book About Teen Angst

Toppling Stacks Tours presents Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. For fans of FIVE FEET APART, this emotional and romantic YA offers an unflinching look at not only the realities of heart failure, but at memory, grief, guilt, and what it means to live—in spite of another, because of another, for…

#NewRelease Indigo Marketing & Design presents Precog’s Perception by Emily Carrington. Read an Excerpt here. Captive. Claimed. Protected by the devil himself. When the world doesn’t catch fire, Amaruq doubts his precognition. Can Nootaikok’s love heal him? A stillborn pup, precognition…

Kicking off Mental Health Awareness Month with a way to help cope. This character chose to do this by journaling. #sundayquotes #quotes #sundaythoughts #mxphoebesviewpoint

ARC Review: High-Class Homos Volume 2 by Momozerii Princess Sapphia and Prince August are back with some more high-class shenanigans! Join these two royals and the rest of the gang as they search for love, unravel secrets, and find themselves in more absurd situations in High-Class Homos: Book 2.…

First Line Friday The mystery is on with this opening. “Bloody clothes. Green sap. A man and a favor. Our lord lost his way in the forest, and now our manor is under siege.” Grabo, Markelle. (2026) The Redwood Bargain. Loc. 94 Blurb From the award-winning author of Call Forth a Fox comes a new…

Celebrating AAPI month with some books and more! In the month of May we take time to reflect and celebrate the important role that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) have played in our shared history.1 Fiction NA Fiction YA Fiction YA Fiction Children's LGBT Fiction…

Gay Book Promotions presents Save the Date by Sophia Soames. Read an Excerpt here. "Have you ever been in love?" Peter Felton If there was a meme for being a total cliché? That would be me. It wouldn’t even need a description, just a pathetic snapshot of me in my threadbare pyjamas standing at my…

#TBT with the Review of Racing Hearts by Dena Blake A mechanic burned by her past and an undercover cop determined to find her suspect.

#TBR Thursday: Books I want to Read in May Here are some of the books I want to read next month. More Information: When Dr. Grumpy Met Her Sunshine by Amy Blythe The latest story by Harlequin Medical Romance author Amy Blythe, a small town, grumpy/sunshine, workplace romance! She’s head over heels…

Indigo Marketing & Design presents The Black Parade by Ilana Lindsey. Read an Excerpt and my Review here. Everyone is dying from the Dust. It’s primary target: any non-white, queer, or disabled person. The cure: A Jewish man unwillingly injected with the serum. Now he has a choice: save the world…

🎉Congratulations on the New Release of The Fix-Up Feud by Chandra Blumberg🎉 First rule of renovating: Don’t kiss your contractor…  Only, Maddie Briar already broke that rule. Last night, she didn’t know Jake Winn was her contractor. He was just the handsome local she’d shared a drink with and a…

It’s Denim Day!!! There is nothing like how a butt looks in a good pair of jeans and then you put it on the cover of a book and I'm picking it up without even reading the blurb. Or take the promo pic...I did not need to look any further for a great way to promo denim. There's just something sexy…

I Can’t Wait for…13 Little Love Stories by Elise Bryant; Jennifer Dugan; J. Elle; Jessica Goodman; Sloan Harlow; Crystal Maldonado; Krystal Marquis; Katharine McGee; Julie Murphy; Lynn Painter; Laura Sebastian; Sara Shepard; Jesse Q. Sutanto. From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling…

Indigo Marketing & Design presents Wild Ride by Will Okati. Read an Excerpt here. Time traveler, highwayman, beast, and storyteller -- it's going to be a wild ride. Wild Ride -- Strange dreams tell Nikos he's meant to be more than a Secret Keeper, tracking the predatory Nightlings. Alexei, a time…

Will you go to Prom with me? Prom season is upon us and here are some books to get you in the mood. M/F Rom F/F Romance F/F Romance M/M Romance More Resources YA Prom Books Homecoming & Prom Ripped Bodice Summer Bingo 2019: Prom in Romance Credits: Promo Photo of woman in blue dress walking on…

Toppling Stacks Tours presents The Redwood Bargain by Markelle Grabo From the award-winning author of Call Forth a Fox comes a new gothic fairytale about a girl who makes a bargain with the dangerous lord of the woods. For fans of Downton Abbey and the Brothers Grimm. Indentured kitchen maid…

#ThrillerThursday#ThrillerThursdaywith an ARC Review of The Girl Upstairs by Jessica R. Patch #ThrillerThursday with an ARC Review of The Girl Upstairs by Jessica R. Patch She bought this house to save her marriage. Unearthing its secrets might just claim her life. Gwen McDaniel’s life is broken. But she knows…

Gay Book Promotions presents Wine Quest by Dann Hazel. Read an Excerpt here. Pour the wine. Take the risk. Fall in love. A wounded electrician. A vineyard owner guarding his heart. One unforgettable romance set in Virginia wine country. After tragedy forces him to start over, George relocates to…

Toppling Stacks Tours presents May the Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky. Read my Review here. Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights, this gothic horror novel is about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves. There’s nowhere Catie East…

Review of Whistle-by-the-Sea: the Tale of the Shrinking Isles by KJ Kenney Something is living beneath Whistle-by-the-Sea. And it's been waiting for the children to find it. Life in Whistle-by-the-Sea is calm, predictable, and just about perfect. The children share food, tell stories, and have…

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day! Hopefully the books listed below feature only Lesbians MCs. (If there is one that doesn't, please drop a note in the comments.) F/F Romance YA Fantasy YA SciFi Romance NA Fantasy Mystery/Fiction YA Mystery Romance YA Fiction F/F Over 40 Cozy Mystery F/F Fantasy…

Spicy Saturday Night with Treasure by Chance written by Brenda Murphy. Read an Excerpt and my Review here. Protect their hearts or take a chance? Fire investigator and legendary stud about town Mel Michaels is not looking for love. Raising her niece, Nicole, after her sister's death is her…