#SFF authors

[gwen-tolios]

Are you a queer SFF writer? You should attend Rainbow Space Magic!

Rainbow Space Magic is a free, virtual convention for queer SFF writers happening this weekend Sept 30-Oct 1.

🌟📔(Free Tickets)🌟📔

I will 100% admit to being a panelist (come see me on Writing Your True Self: Authentic and Diverse Identities on Sept 30 @ 12 central) but there are some other really cool ones.

How to market your work, researching vs experience sharing, building an online community, how to plan a series, and so much more!

As it's free, you have nothing to lose and everything to learn. Come for one panel or them all!

🪄📔(Free Tickets)🪄📔

[jeannereames]

A very important address from the incomparable Martha Wells.

[franklyn-newt]

hey there! I'm featured in Dudes Rock! An anthology about queer masculinities in speculative fiction that features, hunky demons, gender affirming werewolf bites, and a spaceship captain called Neptune <3

It's out on the January 10th 2025 and also features Chase Anderson, Johannes T. Evans, Oliver Fosten, Jonathan Freeman, Rick Hollon, Sam Inverts, S. C. Mills, Jay Kang Romanus, Aubrey Shaw, Simo Srinivas, Candy Tan, and Scott Vaughn!

preorder here!

[papenathys]

Remember when I wrote on my bookstagram that Walking Practice is a direct descendant of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor (shapeshifting, trans queer bodies, sexuality and the myriad of possibilities of intimacy and community when you have total agency over your body) and then the official translator of the novel aka Victoria Caudle herself DMed me on Instagram and said she loved my thoughts on the book because while working on the translation of Walking Practice, she actually used Paul Takes the Form as a reference material for tone and structure.

Anyway. Read both books!!!!

[alvoskia]

"WELL, ALLY—HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE A GOD?"

Pitched as QUEER ATLA MEETS PERCY JACKSON, Alvoskia: Call of the Infrans is a YA SFF debut following a group of reincarnated chosen ones. Raised together since childhood and trained to serve and protect the nation of Alvoskia, the Infrans are thick as thieves, but Infran of Life Ally Hatten can't quite seem to get her powers back, and time is running out, especially when the threat of war is brought to her doorstep. To stop the conflict before it begins, she'll have to rely on her vengeful twin sister and one-sided rival—people she both loves and loathes in equal measure.

Mixed with spades of Six of Crows, Call of the Infrans has an emphasis on:

Ragtag group of not squeaky clean, sometimes morally dubious protagonists

Entirely queer (i.e. nonbinary lesbian, trans, asexual characters) / BIPOC main cast

Unique and layered worldbuilding (religion, languages, etc) in a secondary world fantasy

Kaz/Inej's love child as a secondary main character

Friendship and found family

Shapeshifters

Past lives and parallels

It comes out March 3rd, 2026 and you can follow here at @alvoskia for updates in the meantime! I hope to see you there 🌟

[girl-and-her-cat]

Chapter One: Extended Contracts

The probe was dead.

I knew it the moment I lay eyes on the thing. And no, it wasn’t because of the layer of icy crust surrounding the shaft nor did it have anything to do with user error. I knew it the moment they told me what the issue was. The probe had been running non-stop for four months in a freezing cold vacuum. AKA; space. And they were using a standard run-of-the-mill type-13. No way could that handle a four month operating time with no breaks.

Dumbasses.

The two techs that had brought me out here were arguing through their helmets on the main channel; I could hear everything from the saliva smacking against their lips to their stuffed up noses they wouldn’t stop snorting through as if that would help them breathe any better.

Just use a goddamn tissue.

“What’s the application?” I asked again. I knew what it was, I just wanted them to stop barking at each other. The techs got nervous when I came up here. At first I thought it was because my job was to report back to HQ and let them know if the tech’s were doing their jobs; RJ told me it’s because I’m a woman.

One tech, the one that only had one front tooth and was clearly the follower of the other guy responded after snorting mucus down his throat. “Temp and pressure of the atmosphere surrounding the pipes. Gotta know how much they can handle before being blown to shit.”

He looked at his bro for approval and smirked at me after receiving a nod.

“Can you tell us what the problem is so we can get back down? Boss don’t like us being up here too long wasting oxygen.” Leader boy said this nonchalantly but I knew who his boss was and also knew that a guy had been fired last week for using more than the mediated level of oxygen for a site run like this one. Found out he had brought his girl up for some “sight seeing”.

Fucking idiot.

“It’s dead. You’ll need to get a new one. A Type- 15 to be exact if you want it to run longer than 4 months out here.”

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[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Compound Fracture

YA thriller set in rural West Virginia

follows an autistic trans boy who survives being almost killed by the Sheriff’s son after a party, and accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him when he tries to get back at him

and is pulled head-first back into the 100 year old feud between his & the sheriff’s families, that began when his great-great grandfather was executed after inciting a miner’s rebellion, the grandfather whose ghost has started to haunt him

community & family & socialist revolution

aro-questioning MC

arc from netgalley, out september 3

[remnantglow]

my biggest tumblr book crime is that i think annihilation by jeff vandermeer is just okay

[hasmoneanbulbasaur]

A photograph of the late, great Tanith Lee, taken by her husband John Kaiine back in the 20th century.

[marsadler]

SORRY I HAVE ONCE AGAIN BEEN INACTIVE (EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE INNIT)

I'm just popping on here to let y'all know that my work is going to be in some itchio bundles.

If you haven't heard of them, itchio bundles are deeply discounted collections of things, usually games since that's what the site is primarily used for, but a lot of indie authors are also going to itchio to escape Amazon because *gestures vaguely* yeah. If you haven't checked out itchio yet, I urge you to do so! There's so many hidden gems and some of the weirdest, fuckiest work you could imagine.

They often have themes! These two are for the Trans Rights Readathon. I'm hosting one that is specifically for Horror Romance and Horror Erotica! It runs from now until April 7th, and you can snag 41 books for $30, 69% off of what it would be normally!

I have 2 works in here, my short story duet UNHOLY FAVORS, and the re-release and expansion of my award winning novella Blood & Flowers.

The other one I'm in starts in a little more than a day, and is more general, including Sci-fi and Fantasy fiction from trans creators and creators writing trans characters.

You can snag 38 books for $40, from 30+ different authors, and runs from March 28th to March 31st. This one also has a goal, which will be fun to track!

I also have two books in here, The Apples of New Eden, a taboo sci-fi dystopia Christmas novel, and my novella EYETOOTH.

Be sure to check out the individual creators if you can't get the bundles! There's a lot more work on a lot of their itchio pages, and if you want updates from them, you can follow them!

Itchio is such a valuable resource for indie authors as bigger marketplaces crack down on content, and a wonderful place to find authors you might miss otherwise. There's also lots of cool games, comics, visual novels, and I've even seen some packs of illustrations you can use in your work there!

[clonerightsagenda]

Reading Snow Crash because I never have and I feel like I ought to and man. This book is kind of annoying

[inkcurlsandknives]

The next man to derisively refer to Romantasy as "fairy smut" is gonna have me tearing their throat out with my teeth. Just heard a dripping with condescension NPR bit on Romantasy being the most popular fiction genre. NPR is failing me as my calm car listening station 😔

What an exhausting way to live. Just let people like entertainment, be happy people are reading longform media, enjoy the fact that the fantasy target audience is growing and gaining new readers!

Traditional hero's journey fantasy and SFF in general has been a near impossible to break into oversaturated market with an audience that mostly started reading SFF under the age of 15. This has been the case for years, despite the massive popularity of SFF TV shows and movies, it just wasn't translating into people becoming SFF readers if they weren't already. That means by and large authors were not attracting new adult readers only readers who'd already been reading SFF. As literacy and reading rates among kids plummets that's CONCERNING

The move towards romantasy and cozy fantasy in books has opened up the market, and demand for new and diverse stories. We're getting readers who've never touched SFF before! That's excellent news!

[dalestromberg]

“I’ve Always Been Into Weird Fish”

Look at this MAP.

It’s for my forthcoming high fantasy novel MAEJ (out October from tRaum Books).

The incomparable Marten Norr drew it. I interviewed him about the process, and about how folks who hire him can get the most out of it.

Interview gift link. (You have to read the interview to find out about the weird fish.)

[franklyn-newt]

Hey bookish folks, Narratess is kindly hosting an Indie SFF sale this weekend 24-26th August!

Synthetic Sea, my trans cyberpunk mystery romance, will be included along with almost 400+ other SFF books of every flavour, with prices ranging from $0 - $1.99 so check it out if you want to fill up your ereader for the winter ahead <3

[papenathys]

Forgot to mention Rivers Solomon among good political sff writers..... Some of you "Babel is the most heartwrenching revolutionary educational political fantasy ever" girls would shit your pants and cry if you read Sorrowland, An Unkindness of Ghosts or The Deep. All of them are trans and sapphic btw.

[alvoskia]

hit me this week that there's like 422 days until ALVOSKIA: Call of the Infrans is out (my scheduled release date rn is march 3rd 2026) and thinking about marketing stuff and graphics/fanart. anything you'd guys wanna see? platforms i should definitely hit (instagram, official twitter or bluesky accounts, etc)?