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Cheyne & Sarah are querying 📜🖊️

@goodrenwrites.bsky.social

Two authors, queerying a YA CliFi! 🏳️‍🌈 You can also find us with the same username on insta, where we post more art, and tumblr, where we post memes.

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Lucy Mason@lucymason217.bsky.social · 2w ago

WOUND UP LGBTQIA+ Romance Ownvoices neurodivergent, ace, and genderqueer rep 50k words When a high strung asexual yarn shop owner gets a zoning violation, he must team up with his frustrating, flirty trans rival to pull off the annual yarn crawl and prove his shop’s value. #Q #A #R #questpit

Reyniki@reyniki.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the midst of searching for a way to revive his crush, Luka, Elio is ambushed by a wild familiar... who happens to be Luka. Now they must turn Luka back to a real human, for a familiar that mimics a human shape is a monster to be killed on sight. #BluePit #Writers #F #R #LGBT #Q

A reference sheet of Elio Gaelri featuring a flat coloured fullbody, two headshots, one halfbody, and a chibi. He is a redhead human with a black vest, trousers, boots, and bracers, white sleeves, and a leather belt that has a sketchbook case, pen sheath (on his left), and a roll of rope (on his right). He has light freckles and three beauty marks (two under his eye on the right, one beside his lip on his left). On his chest is a wooden emblem of a paintbrush with two kelps winding around it, and a red ribbon dangling on the bottom. The first headshot depicts him laughing, the second depicts him smirking, and the halfbody depicts him thinking as he looks at his open sketchbook (currently blank). The chibi depicts him sitting in a chair, squiggle lines suggesting he's shaking or wobbling, as he smiles tiredly. He says, "I-I can still draw. Just need to wake up... haha..." in a speechbubble. A second halfbody is added in this version with him aiming with a sparkrifle. The ammo is a roll of kelp art with one repeated symbol for a Pierce spell on small sections. When it is cast, the weapon "digests" it in blue light, leaving a blackened paper.A drawn reference of Luka Kazvikov, a human familiar. He looks fully human on the left, wearing a frilly white shirt with brown cuffs, brown pants, two sashes (yellow under red), and brown boots. To his right are two headshots and a halfbody depiction of him. The first headshot has his head tilted as his face splits down the middle, the top of it glowing blue. He asks "Are you sure?" The second headshot shows his entire head open to a sort of eight pointed star, insides blue and lined with white stone-carved teeth on the bottom points. His brown hair is revealed to be a fluffy tentacle that reaches through the throat. Six string tendrils emerge from six points of the unfolded face as he hisses. The halfbody shows his face had closed up again (though his face still displays a split line down the middle). He covers his mouth in shock, blushing, as he says "S-sorry! Was that too much?" At the bottom shows quick doodles of where else his body splits up, which is in the middle of his face, chest, limbs, and fingers. Beside that, an arrow points to him opening up on all parts of those points into a starfish-like shape, many tendrils emerging out of the rim of his form. Finally, on the right shows his full transformation into a human-sized jellyfish, all blue except for his eye spots and a bit of human skin color on the hood, and brown hair colour on the middle stinger tip. Two extra headshots above it display his human head in a side view, featuring him with human and shark teeth (both options are valid!)A digital painting of Elio, a human man with curly hair tired up in a ponytail. He lies his head on his table, cushioned by his arm, looking sorrowfully at a sketchbook. The sketchbook contains a partial drawing of a portrait that he'd scribbled over. The wall of his home in front of him has pictures of sketched human references pinned there. He is lit by a candle, covered by a magical dome decorated by mushroom shapes around the bottom.A digital drawing of Elio trying to draw a star shaped cookie on kelp paper with a pen, but Luka is leaning over his shoulder, his long blue stinger tendril licking the entire left side of Elio's face. The whites of Luka's eyes are blue and his eyes don't have pupils. Elio says, "Luka. I know you're hungry, but this isn't helping me draw faster." An information box points to Luka reading, "needs to eat human offered art or humans to stay human. When starving, a Familiar displays more animalistic behaviours."
Bethany@bethanyrobison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tangentially, A Snake Falls to Earth is a delightful book and if you haven't read it, pls consider giving it a try 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/a-sn...

A Snake Falls to Earth: Newbery Honor Award Winner

Newbery Honor Award Winner

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Darcie Little Badger@littlebadger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the first day of pride, just a reminder that a group of extremists tried to remove my Newbery-honor-winning book from a public library because A Snake Falls to Earth has an asexual character.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

Jessica Mary Best@jesserbest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My wonderful editor @jamteayang.bsky.social is right: You Pierce My Soul is out today, and y'know what, it does slap! You can order it (paperback or ebook) here: bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy book bday to @jesserbest.bsky.social and You Pierce My Soul! I so loved getting to edit this and in my very biased opinion, it absolutely slaps. If sapphic dystopian YA sounds like your cup of tea, check it out! 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

An orange tabby poses furiously next to an ARC of You Pierce My Soul.
Nicole Zelniker@nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of my fave ARCs publishes today, and it's all aromantic! To this day, I see aromanticism so little in media, and it meant so much to read all these stories on such a major facet of my identity, by people who are also aro. BEING ARO a vital contribution to queer cannon. Highly, highly recommend💚

Rosiee Thor@rosieethor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BEING ARO IS OUT NOW! 💚 So excited to share this collection with the world! 13 authors writing about the aromantic experience across genres, all celebrating what it means to be aromantic! This was such a labor of love, and we hope you love it too! Get a copy: rosieethor.com/being-aro

hardcover copy of Being Aro (The title is written in big black letters against a green gradient background. Interwoven with the letters is a person with green skin, short black hair, white clothes and platform boots. They kneeling on the ground and are aiming a bow and arrow to the upper right. They are wearing the aromantic flag around their neck and it is trailing out behind them like a cape.) in front of a rose bush with light pink blooms.
Lucy Mason@lucymason217.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did you know that I have a childhood best friends to lovers asexual new adult romance out with @ninestarpress.bsky.social? 👀 featuring an anxious, asexual librarian, a pun-loving himbo, a marriage of convenience for free tuition, and whoops! Real feelings. ninestarpress.com/product/ace-...

Ace of Hearts

Hesper Stalides and Felix Morlan have been best friends for as long as they can remember, bonding over their troubled home lives. When a horrible sports injury derails Felix’s promising career and …

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Lucy Mason@lucymason217.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ace of Hearts is a contemporary new adult asexual romance featuring an anxious ace librarian, her childhood best friend, and their marriage of convenience for the sake of free tuition that becomes very, very real. Mind the TWs!

A graphic promoting the novel Ace of Hearts, showing tropes labeled on paint smears. Tropes include friends to lovers, marriage of convenience, fake dating, black cat FMC and golden retriever MMC. Another paint smears says it’s available as an ebook or in print.