Thank you to our strong community for all you do. You are seen and heard. An important announcement from the #QIAwards team:

WINNERS have been announced on IG & TWT/X. Website updates will be live later this week. Thank you for everyone’s participation this year!

☀️ ! ANNOUNCEMENT ! ☀️ Due to the global social media strike in support of Palestine, voting has been extended through February 2nd to allow everyone to participate !

VOTE NOW! Jan 22-26th only! See website for poll.

💥UPDATE!💥 Voting times have CHANGED! With the huge growth of the #QIAwards this year, our team needs a little more time to get everything ready. See you JAN 22-26th for VOTING! 🤩🌈

❌And we're finished! ❌ Submissions for the #QIAwards are now CLOSED! Coming in at a mind-boggling 419 submissions, we're going to have our work cut out for us when preparing for Voting, opening JAN 15th!

Submissions are open for the 2023 Queer Indie Awards (@qiawards.bsky.social)! I would love it if you'd consider nominating Poison at Penshaw Hall for any/all of the listed categories 😊 For more info on how to nominate your favourite queer indie books of 2023, head to qiawards.wordpress.com 🌈📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Book of CoL is about an asexual genderfluid shapeshifting detective and I myself am panromantic asexual so I'm pretty sure it qualifies if you'd like to submit it for the Queer Indie Awards tapas.io/series/Book-... #queer #webnovel #LGBTQIA+ #asexual #ace #QIAwards

I'm eligible with CITY OF EXILE this year! It's good for General Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Best Sequel, and IMO deserves some Best Supporting, Best Villain, and Best Friendship/Platonic Rship. But please, definitely get your favourite books in the right categories, give them some love!

My dark, romantic Oz urban fantasy STRAW SOUL (pub this year by indie house @gpub.bsky.social) features a subtly transmasc Scarecrow, genderqueer Queen Ozma Tip, gay & ace characters, Norwegian folklore, evil still lurking in Oz, & issues of identity, acceptance, & found family by this queer author!

Queer Indie Awards are open! If anyone would like to nominate The Messages We Send Each Other for Best romantic relationship Best YA Best friends Or any other categories it fits in, I would forever be your friend 🥺

My 2023 releases Like I Needed, Like I Pretended, Like I Wanted, Pole Position, and Drama Queen are all eligible to be nominated if you'd like to submit them 💕

Submissions open today for this year's Queer Indie Awards (@qiawards.bsky.social) and I'd love if you'd toss a nomination to TRUTHSEEKER in the listed categories! Check out qiawards.wordpress.com for more info on how to nominate your fave indie books of 2023 ✨

Do you love a queer indie book? Submit it for the Queer Indie Awards!

Award Season is still upon us! If you enjoyed A Corruption of Souls, please consider nominating it for any of these categories for @qiawards.bsky.social qiawards.wordpress.com/submissions-...

It's time! As I said I wanna see more nominations for best Web Serial/novel this year. So, if you don't know who to nominate, below are some of my picks: The Blade/Dancer by @artemymandus.bsky.social Book of CoL by @neilak20.bsky.social The Magician and The Bard by @earlronove.bsky.social (1/2)

Martis the Brazen qualifies for: Best Overall Fantasy, Best Epic Fantasy, Best Romance, Best Novella A Love So Dark qualifies for: Best Romance, Best Sequel, Best Lead Character (Campbell) and Best Supporting Character (Sofia) 👀

Runes of Fall is elegibile for Best Urban Fantasy, Best Fantasy Romance, Best Adventure, and obviously 😉 all the meta categories: Best Cover, Best Lead Character, Best Supporting Character, Best Villain, Best Romantic Relationship, Best Friendship, Best Worldbuilding, and Best Sequel!

I'd be grateful if you nominated Stargun Messenger for the @qiawards.bsky.social this year. The book is eligible for: Best Overall Space Opera Sci-Fi Best Cover Best Lead Character (Astra Idari) Best Supporting Character (CR-UX) Best Worldbuilding Thank you! qiawards.wordpress.com/submissions-...

looking forward to voting time in January 😌 for now, nominate your favorite queer indie books!

I would be delighted if anyone nominates All Tomorrow's Photos or All Yesterday's Papers for any QIA categories 🫶✨

It's time!!! I had two books that came out this year, please consider nominating Forgotten Lyric and Blood in the Water for the Queer Indie Awards!

🌈🎉 IT'S TIME! 🎉🌈 Submissions for the #QIAwards 2023 season are OPEN from Dec 1st-31st! See our website for the submission form, guidelines, and category specifications. 🥳

Happening THIS FRIDAY!! For the entire month of December #QIAwards submissions will be open. Please see our website and/or submissions form for all details and requirements. Here we go again! 🥳🎉🌈

Thanks to everyone for their feedback! It seems our feed wasn’t updating as accurately as we’d anticipated, and we hope to have snagged everyone’s missed posts now. Fingers crossed for more efficient & user friendly updates to bsky in the future! Again, if we still missed you pls let us know! 🌈📚🫶🏼

A bookish enby heir striving in their perfect father's shadow A pacifist keen to preserve his late father's legacy A feisty Aussie history nerd out of her depth & out of her world Monsters sent by an enemy of unclear intent Magic, mystery & adventure YA Fantasy: elisecarlson.com/books/ 🌈💙📚📣 QIApit

When a storm strikes his tiny island home, burly gay fisherman Robin Shipp's life is turned upside-down and he is sent on a journey that will change his life forever. And maybe, just maybe, the lives of everyone else, as well. #QIAPIT QIAPIT

Book 1: The Moth and Moon (The storm strikes!) Book 2: The Lion Lies Waiting (Political intrigue and family drama!) Book 3: We Cry the Sea (Pirates!) mybook.to/mothandmoont... QIAPIT #QIAPIT

TRUEFLAME features your new favourite bi disaster fighting the patriarchy with dragons. zero romance, just queer mom rage manifesting as literal fire. come for the dragons, stay for the pissed off queer woman literally burning it all down. SO MUCH FIRE. QIAPIT

FIREBORN is for everyone who watched HTTYD and thought it needed more astrid. and make it GAY. this one's got the lesbian teen blacksmith you didn't know you needed in your life. plus SO MUCH FIRE MAGIC! QIAPIT

FIREBOUND is out next month! this is the epic team up featuring all 3 MCs and your fave side characters from the previous books. it's about queer joy and overcoming grief. AND there's a hilarious baby dragon QIAPIT

As Lord Deminas' new chambermaid, Meya quickly learns all her predecessors have disappeared & the lord enjoys the taste of blood. Together with her lover Nina, she must find a way to avoid being the next one to vanish. 🔞 Slow-burn erotic gothic horror 💞 Polyam ~Own voices QIAPIT #NA #A ✍️🔥🖤📚😱🌈📚💙📢📚

I was hesitant to share this, as it’s an early WIP, but … THE BRIDE OF HELL Twin Peaks + Silent Hill + an enthusiastic community theater production of The Crucible An epistolary novel. Two people follow a missing friend back to her hometown and find old fears, trauma and folk legends. 🌈📚😱 #QIAPIT

#QIAPIT The future of the world is in the hands of a playboy whose image drives people insane, and humanity's fate depends on him facing his family's eldritch god progenitor. Except Wes would rather let the world burn than go through a break-up, and now *both* his partners "need space". (We're fkd)

Transformation, rebellion, and no shortage of queer characters. A perfect sci-fi book for QIAPIT readers - and better still, it's on special this month!

#QIApitch War and rebellion.

I missed #QIApit but I pubbed a YA/NA paranormal romance about angels and demons that riffs on Twilight, emo music, and the 2010s. Check it out? www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Ch...

Shadow Mirage: Epic fantasy, episodic + longer arcs Lastak is 15, a mage, and on the run from her past under a fake name. It will catch up to her, but she's determined to not go down unknown and without a fight. She is taken in by a bunch of misfits, and hijinks ensue. #QIApit #F

Ravens flight: Fantasy setting, spy thriller. Multiple factions with their own agendas. 1000 year war on uneasy hiatus. Antagonists whose objectives are unclear. 3 MCs with different goals. Loads of worldbuilding. (1st book 140k, others will only get bigger) #QIApit #F maybe #YA

Hello QIAPIT! King Issaery's Quest is a D&D-inspired fantasy romp over multiple continents in a queer-normative world as a bard, an exile, and an unconventional kingdom's two princes (gender neutral) journey out to find the next King (also gender neutral). Will one of them claim the crown?

ICE UPON A PIER is a 24k-long fantasy lesbianoir presented as a memoir told in past & present, with tricks and treats like: 🖤 Be crime, do gay interviews ❄️ Tracksuit mafia 🖤 Sapphic tragedy ❄️ Ice magic 🖤 Poison magic ❄️ Queer rage QIAPit #QIAPit #A #NOV #UF

AquaShame's true name and its artist will be revealed on October 24th, 2023 🫀 Secondary world fantasy 🦟 Inspired by 20th Century Russia 🫀 A secret vampire 🦟 Treason 🫀 War brewing 🦟 "oh no, it's the consequences of my actions" 🫀 High heat QIAPit #QIAPit #A #DF #HR

Sapphic dark romantasy A witch raised to slay beasts, Basia believes she’d always fight alone until she meets Hanka, a cast out bard with no allies Together, they’ll rage against an eternal darkness, though the light has been sealed away - for good reason #QIAPit #A #DF #R

THAT'S A WRAP ON QIAPIT ! Thank you to everyone who joined in. We're so grateful for this community of talented folks. 🌈 🚨If we missed your post pls comment so we can share it! DON'T FORGET: QIAwards 2023 season is coming up QUICK, so start making those nomination lists! Stay tuned!

My #WIP, the Talitha Harbor Series A distant planet, a eco-centric society, and people who think they know better than the rest. It starts with Mist, raised by their kidnapper to live outside of society. Queer Rep Non-binary MC Dark and complex #QIAPIT #queerAdultSFF

I've got one more for ya, QIAPIT this time around, for Desecrate! What if Marcion was right about catholicism? What if there were two Gods that created the Earth and everything on it? And what if the second God, the God of the Material, was imprisoned by their own creation?