#non-fiction author

[haveyoureadthispoll]

[luceafarul-de-dimineata]

"What will you do once I pass away?" The question came out of the blue, but such strange questions were par for the course at this point. Gamigin was nuzzling to your neck when you spoke, but he wasn't phased.

"I'll revive you. Death won't be permenent in Paradise Lost for as long as I'm around to stop it." You were running a hand through his blue hair, playing with a strand of it.

"But what if you don't revive me? If you can't revive me? What will you do then?" The dragon stopped kissing up your neck and shifted so he would be at eye level with you on the bed. He looked confused and hurt which almost made you ashamed that you asked the question.

"My staff can bring anyone back from the dead."

"Ok, but I age and demons don't what about that? What if I get so old I want to die to end my mysery."

Gamigin looked even more confused by your words. He didn't quite understand why humans aged so fast. He pouted in thought and stared at the ceiling. After a while, with a stern voice he asks "How long do humans usually live for?"

You try to remember your anthropology classes and what the avarage age of death was for your country, but you just can't put your finger on it. "I don't know, 70 or something like that." "70! Only 70 years!?!" He pushed you to the bed and pinned you to it with a shocked expression. His mind was working overtime trying to calculate just how long that timespan felt like.

Finally, he turns to you and holds your hands softly kissing them both. He stares determined in your eyes. "You are going to have the most exciting life ever. I promise you. What do you wish to do before you die?"

You've never seen him so stern, but the question was one that you've many times asked yourself yet never seemed to have an answer to. Gamigin's glare was starting to intimidate you so you gently slap his face.

"Don't look at me like that! You're making me nervous! I don't know what I want to do before I die. I just kind of want to see where life takes me."

Gamigin smiles like he usually does and pins you to the bed with a hug. His staff, which he kept in one hand at all times, jiggled lively as you both collapsed on the cottage bed.

"Well then, I want to cuddle with you and rewatch the 'How to Train Your Dragon' trilogy. And then we can play blackjack and whoever wins has to wash the dishes after dinner!" Gamigin proclaimed before kissing your cheek and nuzzling into it.

"Who tought you blackjack?" It was strange hearing your usually innocent boyfriend putting forth the idea of blackjack of all things.

"My brother Buer. He also thought me the dishes strategy as well. Jokes on him, I won." His giggle was contagious and you two ended up just cuddling and watching movies for the better half of the night.

If your relationship with Gamigin thought you anything, it was that you didn't have to live through bombastic experiences to enjoy life. You were having the time of your life just being close to him.

[heph]

do you think gale shadowheart and wyll would share smut recommendations with each other? based off that one party banter of wyll and shadowheart sharing lines from a smut novel they read

Yes! I have thoughts about this!

I think Astarion mostly reads non-fiction, books that inform him about the world around him, books about certain types of magic and bits of history. He reads a lot of it, but doesn't remember most of it. I think he reads mostly to forget his miserable existence back in Cazador's Palace.

Wyll and Shadowheart I think love their romance novels, spicy or otherwise. From fictitious Bawdry to fluff friends to lovers ^_^

My boy Gale stays flexy and likes both types! So he can have a book club w the romance girlies talking about the intricacies of the romantic novel of the week as well as a private one with Astarion to discuss stuff like history, where Astarion just listens to Gale info dump and occasionally asks questions or adds on tidbits to keep the conversation going

[idontcarecarebear]

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩A red flag in any book I read that makes me instantly put it down is when an author goes into detail describing the chest or sexualising the body shape of an underage female character. I hate it whether it goes into a heavy detail or does it offhandedly, I just have to stop reading it. Especially if the point of view is from a grown man who is supposed to be the protagonist I support while reading. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[queerxqueen]

Honestly I'm already a bit interested in your book despite knowing very little about it! I'm trying to be less on social media (also Tumblr is being annoying lately why is this website cursed) but I hope to be around once you get to talk more about your book<3

I'm also always curious about people's publishing path:)

Agh thank you so much anon!!!

Theoretically come May/June (?) I will have more concrete stuff to share such as a cover (!!!!!) and official pitch/blurb.

But for now what I can say is:

The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends is a gay vampire romcom about mental health and existential dread. Featuring:

🧛 the trials and tribulations of vampire puberty 🚩 moral + existential crises re: becoming a bloodsucking monster 👭 a secret clan of vampire girlbosses that are potentially murderous ✍️ journals + love letters + social media as narrative devices

Here are my children!!! The main character (Brennan, left) is a depressed bisexual disaster, freshly turned into a vampire and Doing His Best. The love interest (Cole, right) is a cinnamon roll stoner gay who is unfortunately obsessed with Twilight.

(Lovely art by @paladibun)

It's coming out in early 2025 from Macmillan/Wednesday Books. It's for fans of Casey McQuiston, Aiden Thomas, Rainbow Rowell, FT Lukens, and that vibe of humor and heart, quirky casts of characters, and spinning familiar tropes in new ways.

While you can't preorder yet, you can add it on Goodreads!

This is still primarily a fandom account, but once things get closer I will definitely share more information about actually getting to read this book I love so much!!!

[ceramicteapot]

i sit at my desk and shut my books closed as i physically cannot keep myself from crying anymore. the clock ticks away without a care in the world. with knots in my chest, it dawns on me- I'm alone.

i'm alone and the world won't wait for me and it won't be kind to me. people will always find a way to say something mean, be mean. the clock will always tick away. everyone will keep moving, even if i stand still in the same place for the rest of my life.

so i clutch my pen tighter. i scream into the empty room, empty house. the good part about being alone is the space you get. the good part is that you don't have to hide to not be seen.

i pick up my brush and untangle the mess my hair has become. it goes up in a bun after ages. so what if no one waits for me? what if they're all mean and I'm alone? i can keep moving too. i can keep being kind. i can be the figure i never had.

and maybe, just maybe, one day i'll meet someone like myself. or maybe someone better. and everything- every tear, every wound, every remark, every failure- it'll finally have a witness. it'll have acceptance other than the one i can give to myself.

i'll have someone who loves me better.

[whatihavebeenreading]

Book #16 this year, Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

It was recommended by John Green on YouTube and it is just slightly out of my usual reading comfort zone, so I wanted to give it a try.

I expected a scientific non-fiction book but was surprised by the emotional vulnerability and how honest the narration felt. I especially liked the bit about the author's wife, and her older sister. It must have been hard to look at her hero or at least a person that she is deeply fascinated by and hopes to learn from and to find out all their darkest sides.

And also, the cover is gorgeous. There are illustrations at the beginning of each chapter by Kate Samsworth that set the scene so well and that I couldn't stop looking at. They are so intricate and full of detail.

[jonmcbrine-author]

Get hooked by this new episode in my nonfiction Kindle Vella series! Villains Unveiled chronicles the history of fiction’s greatest evildoers - uncover the truth behind one of literature’s most famous pirates 🏴‍☠️

https://tinyurl.com/363vw8zs

[luxi-storyteller]

3 hours left for the pre-order!

[amandacanwrite]

Hello everybody it is my birthday today (12/12) and I would really love it if you would consider giving this post a reblog so that it can reach more people! (This would be a wonderful bday present.)

I have a newsletter called Letters from a Friend where I talk about my writing, my personal struggles, share failures and successes, and just generally try to make it feel that when you get an email in your inbox from me 2-4 times a month, it feels like getting an update from a beloved friend.

You can take a look or sign up here. In addition to being a place fore my novice personal writing, this is also the best way to get news about my upcoming novel, With Love, Juniper. It’s also where I plan to post about my twitch channel that I’m currently planning out to have guests on to talk about writing, editing, publishing and everything in between!

Tapping the Tag List every gently: @eldritchx @michael-thepoet @sm-writes-chaos @csdarkfantasy @carrotsinnovember @a-crystallen-author @steh-lar-uh-nuhs

[shelleyduvallsfaerietaletheatre]

Book log so far this year:

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan ☆☆☆☆

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter ☆☆☆☆☆

The Girl and The Ghost, Hanna Alkaf ☆☆ & a half

currently: St Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, Karen Russell (30%)

What have you all been reading??

[haveyoureadthispoll]

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

[goodluckclove]

Hey so like this is mainly for the younger members of my audience and/or anyone who want to buy physical copies of Blind Trust and future books of Songbird Elegies.

I am not pleased with the price of the Amazon version. Also some people have said they are in a situation where they can't buy an explicitly queer book at all. If I were to release the big boi version on Amazon, as well as an e-book, as well as cheaper serialized volumes of the whole series, two chapters at a time (so like 30-40k each) packaged in discreet chapbooks - would that be cool? It'd certainly have that DIY aesthetic I crave so hard.

Accessibility is important and I want to do everything I can to make sure anyone who wants a paperback experience of softcore ace romance gets it.

[atsadi-shenanigans]

You guys. Y’all. What you do not realize. Y’all remember that post about the worldbuilding rules of writing? And one of them rules was like “author’s secret hyperfocus”?

One of mine is CAVES. Are y’all interested in CAVES??? Cause I’m about to take y’all on this journey into my years of hobby hyperfocus over here. Underdark with a cave nerd, lads, let’s fucking GO.

(Those are pictures I took when I went through a lava tube.) FUCKIMN CAVES YEAH.

[noahhawthorneauthor]

In preparation for the Trans Rights Read A Thon going on over at Insta, Twitter and TikTok, I want to share some of the books I've read already that really impacted me.

Hell Followed With Us by AJ White taught me there's more than one way to be trans, and provided a wonderful outlet for this new feeling I was having called trans rage.

Prince of Sorrows by @skellygraves opened my eyes, and writing horizons with such a beautiful queer normative world that it made me question everything.

The Witch King by H.E Edgmon taught me to never accept less than what I deserve.

Cemetery Boys by @aidenschmaiden taught me how family and friends should treat you, and that they should learn if they don't know how.

The Sunbearer Trials taught me that standing as you are can make others stand up too. It also taught me that being trans isn't your whole identity, just part of who you are.

The Sex Wizard Series by Alethea Faust has such a diverse cast of queer characters, and it opened my eyes to how creative queer kinky seggs can be.

Odder Still by DN Bryn made me realize that we don't have to fight against the parts of ourselves we deem parasitic or bad.

A Taste Of Gold And Iron by Alexander Rowland was the first time I felt truly seen as a person with anxiety. (Rereading now via audio)

A Strange And Stubborn Endurance by @fozmeadows impacted me in several ways and for several personal reasons, but I will say this. I have borrowed this from my library. Bought the ebook. Bought the audio. And someday I'll own a print copy.

Kinship and Kindness by @authorkarajorgensen was another book that being trans was just part of the characters life, and it warmed my heart in all the right places.

The Wolf In The Whale. This. I have no words that can accurately describe the wonder that is this book. It is dark, real, visceral and full of emotion. It is one of those books that forever changes you.

(Check TW, most have them!)

[the-anxious-acrobat]

bookshop regular\book lover concept! 📚📖