My novel Thornfruit, the first of a queer fantasy trilogy about discovering that your mom is maybe doing kind of a lot of murders, and (in books 2-3) that you are in love with 2 people, is on sale for 99¢. Memory magic, secret letters, sea monsters, bisexual pining & 280+ SFFH ebooks indiebook.sale

I'm taking part in this weekend's massive Indie Narratess sale - so from today through Monday, you can snap up a copy of my novella A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence for just $1.99/£1.49! Grab it here: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And find the full sale here: indiebook.sale #romancelandia

The Narratess Indie Sale starts today! For the next three days, 280+ books will be on sale, available for $1.99 or less. Even if you're on a budget or book buying ban, you can still grab the free ebooks (those don't count for your buying ban, because you're spending money!) indiebook.sale

For anyone who missed this news yesterday... Redo your preorder here: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

This is so courageous but it's appalling that she has to do this instead of just getting to enjoy her successful sporting career.

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

In just FOUR DAYS, @nionwomen.bsky.social gained 1,000 signatures to take them to 96,000. Guess what’s next? 97,000!! If you haven’t signed this, and are appalled by the now open hatred and lawfare towards trans women and girls, please go to notinourname.org.uk Then tell your friends and family.

Castor Semenya: "I have carried this weight. So have other women of colour who deserved better from sport. Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backwards. Women’s sport does not need this. It needs to be abuse-free... This is just exclusion with a new name."

DAMN RIGHT! Please PLEASE go watch this delightful and romantic and hilarious show (Netflix in the US)!

Google Docs this is NOT the romantic atmosphere I'm trying to create for this rooftop first kiss.

It's purple babey

Behold, the shiny cover for the shiny new UK edition of Raven & Reindeer!

The Dating Countdown by @trinielf.bsky.social was a delight! Really warm, fun, sexy F/F romance set in Trinidad & Tobago - Maxine and Remi were rivals as teens and when they meet again as adults sparks fly, but Maxine's freshly divorced and has never dated a woman before. Lots of fun and feelings!

"I have never seen such a coordinated and cruel withdrawal of care." 🏳️‍⚧️ The NHS decision to pause gender-affirming hormones for 16 & 17-year-olds is not evidence-based. International medical experts agree.

Read @MullenderRob's essay on the remarkable experiments — turning sound into image — undertaken by Welsh singer Margaret Watts-Hughes in the late 19th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #internationalwomensday #iwd2023 #happywomensday2023

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Ooohhhh this looks fantastic!

I was so absorbed by The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu, by @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social - beautiful contemporary fantasy about a midwife who develops magical powers as she enters perimenopause. It's got lots to say about community, identity, complicated family relationships and being true to yourself!

Aaahhhh happy birthday to these wonderful books! One of my favourite ever stories about storytelling.

So if you (like me) are incredibly sad / mad / furious about Kansas stripping trans people of rights with no notice, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Aahhhhhhh this sounds amazing, I'm so excited!

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

I had SUCH a good time reading @kehealey.bsky.social's Magician First Class. Parks and Rec vibes at a supernatural community centre, great characters, tons of heart, plus my personal catnip, a badass competent middle-aged woman to adore. Can't wait for more in this series!

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A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Some Body Like Me by @ldlapinski.bsky.social was SUCH a good read, I'm still chewing over it weeks later. It's queer, it's complicated, it's about history and memory and bodies, what it means to be a person, what love is. Terrific apocalyptic sci-fi with characters I absolutely loved.

Well this sounds amazing!

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

I just read this and it's DELICIOUS! - enemies-to-lovers with terrific chemistry - they both wear masks - hers is frivolity, his is stoicism - but they learn to see each other past them - emotional arcs are as gripping as the plot, which is to say VERY 😭😍 - fight fascism with friendship and glitter

someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years! *as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c

Have you grabbed your copy of the Romantasy Rebels anthology yet? It includes 26 fantasy romance novellas starring women fighting back, including my own A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience - and it's raising money for PEN America! Snap it up: geni.us/romantasyreb... #romancelandia

A thing I did not discover until today but somehow makes perfect sense: in the 60s local papers would report their own local record charts, by the same method as the national ones: ring up the shops (sometimes, shop) and ask what's selling well.

Ahhhhhh I am SO excited to hear we're getting this, I adored Dreadnought and Sovereign!

Ooh, I need to get my hands on this book for my "being a nerd about Lady Charlotte Guest" collection!

Whaaaaat, did Iolo Morganwg really get me again?! FFS dude.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is consulting on what topics should be included in the 2031 Census. @transactualuk.bsky.social have produced this really helpful guidance, and are encouraging both organisations & individuals to respond. Deadline 4 Feb 2026. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oh my gossshhhhh look at them! I love this book so much.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Gang, have yall read Cosmoknights? 👀⚔️ Because Hannah Templer is an incredible artist 🔥 and I heard y’all like big ladies and space mecha fights 😙

#AllIsBrightAdvent As alluded to in today’s chapter, Welsh children must scream-sing this song as loudly as possible in order to summon Father Christmas: youtu.be/Y-HN-3ckAls?... And a huge thank you to everyone who’s been reading and following along all month, I appreciate you all so much! 🎄✨💞

#AllIsBrightAdvent Part of what inspired this book was a Pride Month display I saw a couple of years ago on a visit to my teenage mooching spot, the Waterstones (formerly Ottakars) in Llandudno. Teen me could never have imagined seeing queer books front and centre like that.

In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.

The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers. Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.

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For anyone in the US (and maybe Canada as well? Please let me know if so!), Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for 7 days, starting today: www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch... www.kobo.com/us/en/search... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the... Enjoy! :) #romancelandia

POV: You just read a book on the history of Liverpool.

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

#AllIsBrightAdvent Mali’s tattoo was partly inspired by the beautiful ink otters that Jackie Morris paints - like these ones here: www.sevenfables.co.uk/product-page...