#Georgette Kaplan

[wizardsvslesbians]

Something of a change of pace this week, as we head to the quintessentially American town of Carfax, TX to indulge in some trashy vampire hunting.

[party-kathi]

"I'm going to try to psychically implant in her mind a desire to come over here and make the first move, while she tries to do the same to me. Brace yourself. Psychic combat on this level can be a hard thing to watch."

"Or you could just go over and talk to her."

"No, no, this is the lesbian way. Loser has to speak first. It's a time-honored tradition."

- Scissor Link by Georgette Kaplan

[qbdatabase]

Easy Nevada and the Pyramid’s Curse by Georgette Kaplan Easy Nevada is a fortune hunter with an eye on a pyramid buried for two thousand years--if she can get past the deadly traps that protect it. Candice Cushing is an archaeologist born in Sudan and raised in Britain, drawn toward the mysterious pyramid that she sees as a piece of her heritage ... View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

[sapphicbookclub]

Pride Flag Book Recs #4 🌈

Another pride month is upon us and as per tradition, I bring you more books to make your shelves more rainbow-er than ever!

If you missed the previous posts, find them here: #1, #2, #3.

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott, Cow Girl by Kirsty Eyre, Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson, Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers, The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard

Easy Nevada and the Pyramid's Curse by Georgette Kaplan, The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark, The Unbroken by C. L. Clark, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield

Scorpica by G. R. Macallister, Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey,  For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake, Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather, The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri, Laurel Everywhere by Erin Moynihan, The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores

Catch and Cradle by Katia Rose, Among Thieves by M. J. Kuhn, These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall, Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake, One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan, Afterlove by Tanya Byrne, The Shattered Lands by Brenna Nation

Happy Pride Month Reading!  ❤️💛🧡💚💙💜

[storiesofsvu]

To find good lesbian books easily with rlly good reviews : thelesbianreview !! i can’t recommend this website enough bro. such good recommendations and you can specifically find a book by trope, genre, specific characters, careers, etc.

For smutty/kinky books :

at her feet by rebekah weatherspoon (everyone whos into kink recommends this idk why but 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Nights of silk and sapphire is soooo good 😫 !!

anything by meghan o’brien (shes like a classic lesbian author)

kris bryant is a classic as well!

scissor link by georgette kaplan!!!

turbulance by E.j. noyes

j.j arias is a really popular author! she also has a bunch to pick from so)

melissa tereze is a super popular one but not my fav. all smutt no plot 😭!

behind the green curtain is a rllyyy popular one!

Donna jay is a good one. specifically - corporate lines, the temp, the secrets we keep.

everything she needs by cynthia dane

emily hayes (more novellas but pure kink and smutt)

have funn <3

Oooooo! Bless bestie! Thank you!!

[ylvapublishing]

Now available as Audiobook: Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

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What’s worse than falling in love with a straight girl? Falling in love with a straight girl who drinks blood. And not even in a goth way. This young adult queer romance sucks you in with vampires, paranormal drama, humor, and a quirky lesbian coming-out story.

High school senior Mindy Murphy, has been questioning her small town life forever and, more recently, her sexuality. Maybe it has something to do with her new friend, Lucia West. When they were kids they used to be besties, until Lucia grew a head taller and a cup size bigger. Now she’s captain of the cheer team, winner of the Boyfriend Olympics, and voted least likely to remember Mindy at their high school reunion.

In short, she’s possibly the worst person alive for Mindy to crush on. Especially after Lucia’s bitten by a vampire. Now the only way to keep her alive is to get her blood, and the only way to cure her is to slay the vampire that turned her.

Who knows, maybe after they get this vampire business settled, Lucia can explain to Mindy why she kissed her.

[gellavonhamster]

some dracula-inspired books that i’ve read

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 

A young adult take on the backstory of the Brides of Dracula - just two out of three, mind you. I was convinced that it was about all three of them as I started reading, remained convinced almost until the very end (because there were, in fact, three girls at the centre of the story, but I won’t spoil how and why), and was a bit disappointed with the ending as a result, even though it was rather my own fault than that of the book. It does not have much connection (apart from some foreshadowing) to Dracula until several last chapters, as it mostly deals with the lives of the girls (the future dark-haired Brides, who in this version are sisters) before they become vampires. Unfortunately, I have no idea how correct the portrayal of Romanian and Traveller cultures is in this novel, but I found the writing beautiful, and overall enjoyed the book.   

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson 

Another novel about the Brides of Dracula. This one a reimagining, not a prequel - although there's a mention of the "dreadful Victorians" Harkers, it is mostly not compliant with Stoker’s novel in terms of events, and besides, one of the “Brides” in this version is actually a young man. The story is told in the form of letters that the oldest of the Brides addresses to Dracula. In its essence, this book is about learning to recognize a toxic relationship - the kind in which one of the partners tries to limit all interactions of their partner(s) with other people and the outside world and generally completely bends them to their will, all while claiming that they’re only doing what’s best for everyone - and then finding strength and courage to get out of that relationship. Also, there’s passion, polyamory, purple prose (in the best of ways), and Sapphic Longing at the Opera™. Delicious.

Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

This is basically a huge “fuck you” to the Mina-the-reincarnated-wife-of-Dracula trope (we love to see it!): in a 21st century American small town, Dracula tries to get his hands on the reincarnated Mina, except the reincarnated Lucy is also there, the girls fall in love, and work together to defeat him. I’d say it feels more like Jennifer’s Body than Dracula, and the main characters, regardless of reincarnation, do not resemble Mina and Lucy from the original novel much (at best from the 1992 Coppola movie). The book is extremely funny (sometimes crudely so, but then high schoolers are crude), while also dealing rather seriously with the topic of internalized homophobia. There’s a lot of references to Dracula and even Carmilla: from the story being set in Carfax, Texas, and the girls going to a school called Millarca High to Dracula’s speech about his ancestors and past conquests in a hilarious context I won’t reveal because spoilers. It was a lot of fun to read, but also made me wish for a modern retelling in which the characters actually resemble their book counterparts, you know? (Yes, I know about Murray Mysteries, but I’m talking literary retellings specifically). Also, I’m going to be forever mad about Lucia's (reincarnated Lucy's) shitty cheating boyfriend being named after Quincey (Quentin Morse)... the disrespect... if you can't make lumina happen without turning the men of the Crew of Light into jerks, you're not trying hard enough.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

This one is different from the others, as it is inspired rather by the legend surrounding the real Vlad the Impaler than by Stoker's novel, though some aspects of the ending reminded me of the latter a lot (also, in my opinion, Professor Turgut Bora has Big Van Helsing Energy). There are two main plots: one is a story told by a father to his daughter, about his journey in the 1950s to find his mentor who mysteriously disappears after revealing that he has researched Vlad Dracula in the past and experienced strange events that made him believe Dracula is still alive, and another told from the point of view of that daughter in the 1970s, when her father, in turn, also disappears under strange circumstances, and now she has to find him. It’s first and foremost a book about scholars (even Dracula himself is a kind of a scholar in it) so if you enjoy academic settings but not the standard dark academia tropes, check this one out - no pretentious kids murdering each other, just a lot of actual research (and some vampires). I found it a bit dragged-out at times, but in general it’s really gripping and well-researched, and I loved it a lot.

(to be continued?..)

[frombellatoylva]

Easy Nevada and the Pyramid's Curse (Nevada-Cushing #1)

I would like to apologize for the lateness of this post. I am a little behind on my lesbian-ing when it comes to reading.

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review. Honestly, I wanted to read this mostly because of its title. I'm a big fan of the first two modern Mummy movies, and I like the Lara Croft and India Jones movies too. Not to mention, I definitely like the Janice and Mel episode from Xena. And so I was very excited to read this book. Then, unfortunately, it took me awhile to get into the flow of it. That said, once I did get into the story, yikes, that was a ride and a half. Up and down and back and forth, uppers and downers, and lefters and righters (that line cracked me up). It's the story of Easy Nevada, who is a treasure hunter who quips and has a past. And Candice (not Candy) Cushing. A Doctor (of Archeology or Anthropology I assume) who is working on a dig when she meets Easy and her whole life changes. It's also the first in what seems to be at least a duology if not a series (there's a blurb from the second book in the back of this one). I do look forward to seeing what happens next in Easy and Candice's lives, since this book most definitely ended on a cliffhanger.

[argyle-s]

Fandom:  Dracula (Original Novel) Pairing:  Mina Murray/Lucy Westenra Tags:  Romance, Horror, Action/Adventure, Coming Out, Smut, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Angst w/ a happy ending,  High School AU 8/10 Would Recommend.

Okay, I just finished this tonight, and seriously, I freaking LOVED this.  It’s not perfect, but here’s the thing.  I am insanely, ridiculously attached to the original Dracula novel.  Mina Murray Harker is one of my favorite literary characters of all time, and I have always hated Lucy’s fate in the original novel.  But because I am *so* deeply attached to the original, I have a hard time with pretty much any adaptation of that book.  This is pretty much the first time I’ve ever found one that I love.  This book is wonderful.  Please check it out.

[wizardsvslesbians]

just finished a book that absolutely fits full wizlez criteria: Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan. I'd be really interested to see what you guys think of it if it interests you - a large part of it almost reads like a book adaptation of Jennifer's Body ahah

Hello and thanks for the rec! This one's already been recommended but we'll bump it up the reading list.

[party-kathi]

The woman was infuriatingly business-like when it came to her correspondence on company time. She actually used her work E-Mail for work, the freak.

Scissor Link by Georgette Kaplan

[mfred]

I found this one via a Lesbrary review and boy am I glad I did!

Books read in 2017 (so far):

Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan

Mindy is minding her own nerdy, quiet, introverted business when super popular head cheerleader Lucia suddenly takes an interest in her. Their burgeoning friendship is tested when Mindy confesses to maybe not being quite so straight. The lines between friendship and romance start to blur. And then Lucia is turned into a vampire. Oh shizz! Now they have to battle the forces of evil while also trying to figure out what they mean to each other. 

Set in high school but not a Young Adult novel, this book is hard to categorize. It’s not totally a horror novel, but it is pretty scary and grotesque at times. It’s not a romance either, but the central theme is the relationship between Mindy and Lucia. It’s really amazingly great at portraying the aching pain and misery of crushes and first loves. And Kaplan deftly handles the uncertainty and fear of self-discovery and sexuality. And the dialogue is hilarious! And there are some hot sexy times! And I really loved it! 5 stars.

[astercrash]

“We’re trying to figure out why she’s so happy all of a sudden.” Keith snapped his fingers. “Easy. One of her TV show people turned out to be a lesbian.” “You really think I’m so shallow that a character from a TV show being gay could have a measurable impact on my personal happiness?” “She’s right,” Regan said. “Movie character.”

Georgette Kaplan calling me out again in Scissor Link, the book I won't shut up about until you all read it.

[homospockual]

please read scissor link

[ylvapublishing]

Now available as Audiobook: Scissor Link by Georgette Kaplan

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An age-gap, workplace, lesbian romantic comedy about chasing that impossible, dream crush.

Savin Aerospace employee Wendy Cedar has a massive crush on her hot older boss, Janet Lace, who’s just gone through a divorce.

Her secret love is all harmless enough until Janet finds an email listing every naughty thing Wendy wants to do to her, inspired by a sex dream Wendy has shared with her friend.

Now Wendy’s been called into the boss’s office. It might be a fantasy come true…if she doesn’t get fired first.

What starts off as a no-strings-attached, office fling could become something more. The women have to decide if a romance is for them or if they’re better off as boss and employee.