#Queer Books

[biandlesbianliterature]

200+ Sapphic Books Out in 2025

200+ Sapphic Books Out in 2025 (The Lesbrary)

On the Lesbrary, I shared a link to my spreadsheet of upcoming sapphic books out in 2025!

[rollerskatinglizard]

Binding A Page In Print!!!

It took a month to work out all the kinks (lol) but our steamy vampire romance novella Binding a Page is finally available for print on demand! (Meaning you won't find it on the shelf in a physical store: they only print a copy when you order it.) I know it's at Amazon and Barnes & Noble's site, and it should be at most other online retailers.

There's the front and back covers and first page of my author's proof copy, looking good!

Binding a Page: Chris is a small-town high school drop-out from West Virginia, still trying to find his feet in the deadly currents of vampire high society after being turned into one of their Rulers by accident. Gabe is a disgraced Page, stripped of his bond and left starving and alone in Chris's guest bed by a man who wishes neither of them well. An unlikely match, nonetheless Chris and Gabe find themselves drawn together against a world they're desperate to escape… and find in one another a chance for true freedom.

Content warnings: Mention of: domestic, emotional and sexual abuse, drug use, captivity, violence, non-consensual bondage.

“Bought it and read it all the way through in one go, I couldn't put it down—sweet, hot, and great worldbuilding!” —ValencePositive

“Highly enjoyable for fans of complicated vampire politics, emotionally-sensitive men who want to do the right thing, and sex that’s full of feelings.” —thinofsubstance

I'm extremely excited about getting a book into print, and I hope our readers are too. Go forth and order if you want to hold this book in your hands!

[exquisitecorps3]

"The Butch Manual" by Clark Henley

Sitting positions

[free-queer-books]

Reawakening by Chase McPherson

After unwittingly inserting himself in the middle of a sting operation, Hunter Reeves finds himself sworn in as the newest agent of The Order, an international detective and crime-fighting organization - and under the supervision, of all things, a vampire named Kai. Hunter has precious little time to adjust to his new life, complicated by the fact he and Kai are quickly falling for one another. But a series of fateful choices leads Kai to make a crucial decision that will affect their lives (and afterlives). Can Hunter cope with a rapidly changing world he finds himself pledged to protect?

Promotion length: Until April 18th, 2025

Markets available: Smashwords

Link to book: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1576429

[francesaledrose]

🖤 Happy Birthday Tori Spring 🖤

[noahhawthorneauthor]

I am crawling through life right now. Ace awareness week was back in October, but here are a bunch of ace books for International Asexuality Day!

Happy Ace Awareness Week!

Asexual means a person doesn't feel sexual feelings or attraction to others, but this is a spectrum and can vary widely from person to person. Note that attraction does not equal romance, and asexual is not the same as aromantic. Some people are sex repulsed, some are not. Some people are sex positive, some are not.

Demisexuality falls under the asexual umbrella, and means a person doesn't feel attraction until developing a strong connection with a person. Many of the characters I write are demisexual, but not all. Phantom and Rook, and Matsdotter and Adrastus, have a demisexual main.

There are many different shades of Ace, and many different types of stories you can read. What are you waiting for?

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 4

Book summaries below:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it were only the other way!'

Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.

Classics, gothic, philosophical novel, aestheticism, adult

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

Science fiction, time travel, multiverse, epistolary, adult

[papenathys]

Thank you to my friend @ripley-stark for sending me this very insightful essay about the rise of cozy SFF in late 2010s-2020s Western publishing. The author discusses the differences between cozy aesthetics in earlier examples of Anglophone genre fiction and the targeted marketing of books in present day-publishing, and also critically examines the implications of conflict-free stories that do not challenge, or worse, assimilate into existing oppressive structures. Who has the privilege to be comforted by such stories? Escapism for whom? "Cozy" fiction for whom?

[adibkhorram]

That's right folks! My next adult romance, IT HAD TO BE HIM, is coming your way September 2, 2025, and you can preorder now!! It's got another swanky illustration by Forouzan Safari!

About the book:

Ramin Yazdani's marriage proposal has just gone bottoms up: his ex dumped him in public for being boring. Bent on proving him wrong, Ramin books a spontaneous solo trip to Italy. When he runs into his high school crush while in a gelateria, however, his resolve to reinvent himself is put to the test.

Noah Bartlett’s in a rut. Since his divorce, he's become a bit of a homebody. So when his ex-wife insists he join her and their son on an Italian holiday, Noah reluctantly agrees. But his reticence turns to excitement when he sees his former classmate, who's aged just like a fine wine. As a teenager, Ramin fascinated him—and since Noah now knows that fascination was code for crush, all those feelings are quick to come rushing back.   Soon Ramin and Noah are tumbling headfirst into a relationship. Only Ramin fears Noah’s feelings won’t last without Ramin’s adventurous new persona—and Noah's not sure he can be the supportive partner Ramin deserves. With the days counting down to the end of their trip, can their love last without the magic of Italy?

[mikilavellan]

I enjoyed The Afterward by EK Johnston for that!

Also The Baker Thief by Claudie Arsenault (aromantic QPR fantasy mystery)

"if you want queer fantasy read legends and lattes!" you could not PAY me to read cozy fantasy i have given the genre a try and it is not for me

"if cozy fantasy doesn't do it for you try Gideon the ninth!" as much as I like irreverence I find this book TOO irreverent to the point of being annoying

"well fine what DO you even like?" I like epic fantasies that take themselves seriously and have multiple moving parts that all come together at the end to make you go holy shit!!!!!!

"so like The Stormlight Archive or A Song of Ice and Fire?" yes exactly! I mean I'm not reading asoif any time soon but kinda like that

"but aren't those all written by straight white men? I thought you were looking for queer fantasy" read Priory of the Orange Tree

[makingqueerhistory]

“Because queerness is not a vertical identity, so long as our society sees personal care as something that should mainly come from the nuclear family, there will always be queer people in need of care.” ― Hugh Ryan, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Affiliate link)

[elsasingular-3]

Who wants to replace the bee?

Telegram>@Elsasingular22

[topazadine]

Well hello there! Do you like WLW stories? Fantasy? Fairy tales, perhaps?

Do I have the opportunity for you!!

I currently have 45 review copies available of Saint Luridalr and the Peony Phoenix, a 10k sapphic fairy tale. And yes, it's written in the traditional style - with an added bonus of 13 original poems!

Click here to read the blurb and sign up!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Please reblog to spread the message!

[crowdrinkingcoffee]

please read this i am begging you you won’t regret it

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate.

Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don’t want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. There’s just one problem: Bastián and Lore haven’t spoken in seven years, and working together means trusting each other with the very things they’re trying to hide.

[free-queer-books]

Naratess Indie Sale - April 5th-7th

This biannual sale offers hundreds of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books at prices ranging from free to $2 USD.

This sale has excellent filters - you can search for free books filtered by specific type of representation:

Gay and/or Achillean

Lesbian and/or Sapphic

Bisexual/Biromantic

Pansexual/Panromantic

Trans

Nonbinary

Asexual

Aromantic

Queer/Questioning/Undefined

There are also a couple of books with intersex characters, but neither of them are free.