#pride month books

[elizmanderson]

queerness in The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

book description

when you’re an old woman armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. no one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. after all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. and everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager—like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna’s destiny from under her nose.

still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. with a son long dead in the Knights’ service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him & ensure other mothers don’t suffer the same loss she did. but as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks & the sorcerer’s history, she questions if it’s really the sorcerer that needs stopping—or the Knights she’s trying to save.

find it here

okay let's talk about queerness in this book

did a thread on twitter in which I said "cishet" five hundred thousand times so will probably get banned lmao but anyway I wanted to share it here too

especially since it's late in Pride Month and I have yet to post anything anywhere about it BEING Pride Month and me being queer and my books being queer, bc I've been burnt out af. so what energy I've had has gone toward planning and writing

anyway

I say "queerness in" rather than "queer characters in" because I want to talk about queerness in the book more broadly, not least bc I'm a queer creator & this is a queer book, but I've had a lot of impostor syndrome about both those things.

I figured out I was queer later in life & am a woman-presenting person w/a male-presenting partner. I've questioned my gender & sexuality repeatedly & ID'd differently over time, which is why I like "queer." I don't have to re-explain myself a dozen times. I'm queer. that's that.

but having figured out my queerness later, and having a relationship that presents as cishet, it took a long time for me to overcome feelings of ~not being queer enough~ (and sometimes I still struggle with them).

similarly, my MC is an apparently* cishet woman, unlike the MCs of many books that appear on queer book lists at this time of year. just like I took a long time to start really engaging with my community bc I worried I wasn't ~queer enough,~ for a long time, I didn't call this a queer book bc I worried it wasn't ~queer enough~. if people asked if the book was queer, I'd reply with a laundry list of explicitly queer characters rather than saying yes

fuck that though lmao. this is a queer book. let me count the ways

1. found family

as found family is so important to many queer people - by connecting us to our community, by welcoming us when bio family casts us off - found family is central to REMARKABLE RETIREMENT. while there are queer romantic arcs, the found family is the most important relationship in the book.

2. queer labels

some characters get explicit labels. Benjamin is gay. Clem is ace. queer labels are important bc they give us the ability to describe our identities and experiences! however...

3. undefined queerness

while labels are important, queerness isn't about fitting into new boxes. it's about smashing the boxes apart.

even if characters don't have specific labels applied on-page, they're queer. they don't need to claim a specific label for that to be true.*

*caveat that some media avoids using labels to pander to queer audiences w/implied queerness without ~alienating~ cishets by stating "this character is Not Cishet"**

that's not what I mean

I mean e.g. in OFMD queerness is inherent even if WORDS like queer/ace/etc aren't used. OMitB is another example (specifically Mabel) and Good Omens is yet another.

**caveat to my caveat that some media is queer-coded & avoids queer labels rather than being explicitly queer because network execs or whoever won't allow explicit queerness.

this is not the fault of the creators. sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference.

but anyway.

in REMARKABLE RETIREMENT, several queer characters are queer without using specific labels.

in some cases this is bc it doesn't come up or isn't important to them to express in the moment. like Clem is bi, but she's not worried about being bi. she's worried about being ace, because she's still kind of questioning that about herself, and she's worried it might cause problems down the road if her crush is >:[ about her not wanting to have sex. so she uses the word "ace" to describe herself in this scene but not "bi," even though she's both.

in other cases it's bc they don't have the language. Kiernan's sense of attraction and desire is described in a way that seems graysexual or demisexual (or both), and Red's sense of desire is described in a way that seems ace-spec, but neither of them use those terms, because neither of them know those terms. despite the lack of terminology, many ace readers have identified multiple ace characters based on description or experience. the lack of a specific label doesn't make those characters less queer.

similarly, some characters have not yet had this realization about themselves. which leads us to...

4. questioning

okay, back to my first asterisk of the post.

Edna is by all appearances an old cishet woman.

for most of the story, that's how she seems. that's what SHE thinks, even. she's a cishet old grandma adopting every queer young person she can find.

BUT THEN

Clem explains aceness to her

and Edna has a brief crisis bc wait a minute this sounds like her??

ultimately, Edna has too much to worry about right now to spend time questioning whether, at the age of 83, she might be somewhere on the ace spectrum

so it doesn't come up again

but that moment of crisis is THERE, & that too is queer

5. queernormativity*

I write queernorm worlds, largely bc I viscerally hate coming out lmao

it doesn't mean everyone's a queer scholar

like Clem has to explain "ace" to Edna, bc Edna thinks blankly of a deck of cards & doesn't understand what that has to do with sex

but it DOES mean queer folks get to just be and do

*caveat that this is not remotely to imply that a story is less queer if its world ISN'T queernorm

it's just a way in which MY story is queer

6. all the queer characters

not gonna do a list (even though my original idea for Pride Month when I was young and optimistic and thought I'd have energy to do it way back when was a list of queer characters), but virtually every character in this book is queer in one way or another

on twitter this is where I ended because 6 seemed like a good number for Pride since June is the sixth month, but tumblr gets a bonus

7. the author is queer

happy pride, buy my queer book

#the remarkable retirement of edna fisher #e.m. anderson #e's writing #pride month #pride month books #queer book recs #book recs #fantasy books #indie author #2023 debuts #2023 books #queer is not a slur #adding that one simply bc I said 'queer' five hundred thousand times as well as cishet so just in case lol

[justfinishedreading]

My Wondering Warrior Existence by Nagata Kabi

Warning: Spoilers Trigger Warning: Mention of Sexual Abuse

When I saw the cover I freaked out: she (maybe ‘they’, the author’s not quite clear on this yet) couldn’t possibly be getting married, last I’d heard Nagata Kabi had written about recovering from alcoholism and had yet to have her first proper romantic relationship.

Turns out at the start of the manga Nagata had gone to a friend’s wedding and felt overwhelming joy at the general happiness of the event, leading her to want to experience the joy of a wedding, but without an actual marriage. Cue a specialist fake-wedding photo shoot, where you can hire a wedding dress and get your picture taken as a bride. Now for all of us more “clued in” we might think how silly, it is not a wedding dress or a party that creates that real feeling of happiness, the genuine feeling of love emitting from a couple and the pride their family feels. And yet how many of us are seduced by the glamour and dream-like nature of a wedding, ignoring relationship issues in favour of an opportunity to wear a wedding dress and have that ONE special day?

Perhaps a fake bride photo shoot isn’t silly at all, perhaps it’s genius, it’s genius for those that can separate their desire to wear a beautiful gown from those that have the main intention of legally cementing a relationship. Power to those that can see through the consumerist crap about romance and understand that what they are really finding attractive is the dress, the flowers, the engagement ring, the special day, and so on. Not the marriage, the everyday mundane relationship stuff.

Unfortunately, the author isn’t quite there in the understanding of all of the above, she starts off by believing that the photo shoot will bring similar happiness to that of a wedding with genuine love between the couple, friends and family, but it does not, then throughout the book she discovers that real love does exist, she thought it was all a collective illusion. A lot of confusion basically.

Now speaking from personal experience I have often wondered whether true romantic love really exists, and whether it can exist long-term, having no real examples of happy long relationships in my family, so like the author, who also comes from a family with unhappy couples, I can understand the questioning of the existence of real love. However while I’ve come to the conclusion that it can exist and long-term too, love simply takes many form throughout a couple’s life, Nagata Kabi on the other hand is still stuck on understanding that first stage of love, that intense attraction love. To her all the words of love songs, and love stories were assumed to be artificial.

There are other things I can identify with, like Nagata Kabi when I first set up an online dating profile in my early 20s, my profile was perhaps “too honest” in presenting my negative qualities, not to the extent that Nagata Kabi has gone to, but over the years I have seen a lot of profiles like that, of people who are insecure and feel the need to highlight everything that they feel is bad right at the start. It’s a sort of self-defence strategy; before you confront me with my failings, I’m going to list them all, and if you initial accept them then that’s resolved. Things aren’t like that, what we think as our worst failings are not necessarily what others are going to think are our worst faults. Nagata is taking a step forward in setting up an online dating profile, but taking two steps back by writing an overly negative profile of herself which she believes will discourage anyone from reaching out to her.

That’s point one. Point two is her surprise that people, lots of people did reply to her profile. Why? Because some people just want to get laid and don’t care if they like the other person or not. Because some people don’t really read the profiles and instead just send generic messages to everyone they come across. Because some people will read an insecure person’s profile and not take the issues seriously, imagining that the person is simply insecure, and with their help this insecure person will cheer right up. And lastly because some people do relate to what’s in the profile and genuinely think meeting up is worth a try.

The first third of the manga is relatable to me on a personal level. The second third is very sad to read, the author discusses being molested by a stranger as a child, and the attitudes of those around her that made her feel responsible for being a victim, in particular teachers using the assault year after year as a warning to other children, bringing it up in classrooms and assemblies. This is only described in about 5 pages but says a lot about it in a very straightforward way.

After that section there’s a lot of over-thinking about the nature of romantic relationships and the hurdles stopping the author from pursuing a relationship: lack of faith in people, trying to figure out what’s her type when she’s never really gone out with anyone, trying to figure out her gender, her sexual orientation and so on. While it’s good to think about these things, and this book will help a lot of like-minded people, thinking will only take you so far with certain things. For example 4 books after My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (published 2016, My Wandering Warrior Existence published 2020), the author is still not sure what her sexual orientation is, now of course everyone is figuring themselves out at different speeds, the author does not owe us an answer about her sexuality, but perhaps instead of more thinking it might be helpful for Nagata to meet different types of people, to interact with them, spend time with them, and through social experience help figure out what her type or types are.

I think a good, honest thing that the author has done is to dedicate a chapter to a letter a reader wrote to her, it explains attraction and love, and since these are concepts that the author herself is working to understand she’s decided to simply share what this reader wrote to her. A lot of what is explained of love and romantic relationships can seem like common sense to the majority of us, but I’m sure there are a lot of people, perhaps who are autistic, neurodivergent or lack experience, or are asexual or many other things that I don’t yet know about, that will really appreciate this book, the explanations, and identify with the author’s struggles.

The manga does end with a few points that even the most ‘with it’ person often fails to realize, such as you need to love yourself first before you’re able to love others, if you bully yourself you learn that behaviour and you may end up bullying other people, be it a partner or even children and friends.  

And then there’s the importance of children in a family, children bring joy to a family, as family members get older and grumpier, more disillusioned or tired with life, seeing children react with joy and wonder at all that is new to them can invigorate the mood of the family. As the author considers this and her guilt for not providing her parents with grandchildren I am grateful for her mother’s interjection: grandchildren don’t automatically fix everything. She gives an example of an acquaintance who doesn’t have a satisfying relationship with her grandson… and Nagata’s mother comments that a dog would be cuter than a grandchild. While that may seem shocking to some people, the thing to take away from that is that not every human is meant to be a parent, nor every parent makes a good grandparent.

The manga ends on a happy note, although to many it may seem like nothing much happened, and the revelations the author reached aren’t particularly special, and to me it did feel at the time like perhaps the book was written to stretch out the success of the previous books, but without much to say. It fares better on a second reading, for some of the reasons I’ve already discussed, it’s a good book and a comfort to those who find it difficult to understand love, relationships and attraction on a basic level, and it is a reminder to all of us that life is not lived out in the simple plot of a story, when an author writes something autobiographic we should not expect all issues to be neatly tied up, we should not expect for questions about the nature of love to automatically result in a marriage by the end of the book… or by the end of book 5.

Review by Book Hamster

#just finished reading #my wandering warrior existence #nagata kabi #my lesbian experience with loneliness #lgbtq manga #pride month #pride month books #manga #manga recommendation #reading blog

[ml-nolan]

If you haven't abducted your copy of Love, Lies, and Cryptids yet, it's ready to be beamed onto your Kindle or transported to your doorstep! Get it here.

Also! I've made a Spotify playlist that you can listen to while you read. Or you can try to guess the plot while you listen to it, although that seems way harder. 🤔🤔🤔

#love lies and cryptids #queer books #lgbt books #nonbinary romance #trans romance #pride month books #ace representation #Spotify

[risingshards]

Hi there! Are you looking to read something new during Pride Month?

Maybe you'd be interested in a free indie published web novel, one that's heavily yuri influenced, has a mix of slice of life, fluffy romance, comedy, fantasy adventure, some drama and angst, and more, a series that structurally is like a mix of a TV season and the arcs of an anime/manga/light novel?

If any of that sounds up your alley, I recommend my series, Rising Shards!

Rising Shards has a boatload of characters, but primarily focuses on Zeta Faleur, an anxious and energetic trans girl who's feeling lost after a really bad relationship with her first girlfriend ended. Suddenly, she grows fangs, and finds out she's a Cani (people who grow fangs and gain other bestial traits, have special powers, and the ability to enter a special dimension where they can battle monsters and go on adventures and such), and thusly has to go to a Cani school, the titular Rising Shards.

There Zeta makes lots of new friends, but the person she connects the most with is the kindhearted Oka Ohri, a girl raised on a harsh Cani training school/orphanage who's still adjusting to life outside of it. Zeta and Oka grow closer, but is Zeta ready to move on from her ex?

There are lots of other characters who all go on their own journeys. To name a few: The sporty and snarky Kalei, who starts to explore her sexuality after a girl makes her feel new things (spoiler alert: she's gay), Lillia, the bookish and strict rule follower who's usually crushing on someone but not used to being sought after when an idiot jock starts catching feelings for her, Aira, an odd and gentle girl who deals with wanting something more with her best friend, and the duo of Iris and Maia, besties who are both kinda dumb to notice how into each other they both are.

Another important duo to mention: Stella, Zeta's older sister and guardian, and Dr. Diast, Zeta's teacher. At the request of readers, the duo received their own spinoff series, Rising Shards: Evy & Stella, an 18+ series about the two.

Rising Shards is about healing, finding yourself, learning to be proud of yourself, finding joy in the people who care about you whether their friends, finding peace in gentle fluffy moments, enduring through painful times, laughing through wacky adventures, with the help of friends, family, lovers, a majority of which is through a very queer cast of characters.

Both the main series and the side series are ongoing, and are currently being updated on Tapas and Scribble Hub.

Links:

Rising Shards Tapas link: HERE

Rising Shards Scribble Hub link: HERE

Evy and Stella link: HERE

And of course, please support the artist I commissioned for the series, Flopicas!

If you read this far, thank you so much, and I hope you check out my series! Happy Pride!

—Chiral

#writeblr #rising shards #chiral writes #in years past i was kind of afraid to do self promo during pride because of a lot of self doubt internally #but this year it's GAY AF TIME READ ABOUT THE GAY GIRLS PLZ #pride month books #pride month reading #this is on my pinned but hi for any new readers :3 #happy pride 🌈 #lgbtqi+ web novel #oh wow this got long lol I hope it conveys my passion for these gay gorls #wlw fiction #yuri web novel #pride

[sandramiksaauthor]

All the queer books I read for my university QUEER WRITING class

#youtube #queer #queer books #queer literature #queer writing #queer classics #queer classical books #dorian gray #maurice #lgbtq #lgbtq books #lgbtqia #booktok #booktube #bisexual reader #reader #writer #pride month #happy pride 🌈 #pride month books #books #book recommendations #queer book recommendations #book community #writing community #queer writer #queer reader #queer thoughts #queer tears #queer life

[libertyreads]

Book Review #72 of 2023--

Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt. Rating: 3.75 stars.

Read from June 6th to 8th.

My local Barnes & Noble was having a ridiculous half off sale because that location is closing down to move to a different town. (I talked to the manager of the store about it and there were a ton of reasons for the move, but that’s not the point of this review.) And as I was browsing through every single shelf that still had books on it I stumbled upon this one. I loved the title for two reasons: 1) hey, I’m asexual and this is hilarious, 2) I will read about anyone pulling off a heist. Me, you, your mother. I don’t care who is heisting I just wanna see it happen. (Probably the reason my favorite show of the past few years has been Leverage.) Then I came to find out that this book is about an all asexual group of teens pulling off a heist in Las Vegas. Let’s fucking go.

I loved the Vegas-ness of it all. It really reminded me of the first couple seasons of the original CSI where you got to see the ins and outs of Las Vegas while not getting too star struck by the bright lights and big city of the strip. I loved following Jack and seeing him weave his way in and out of the showy side of Vegas and the behind the scenes. I also really enjoyed seeing how this group of asexuals who all met online while discussing fandom and “what is wrong with me” meeting in real life and seeing that the bonds of online friendship do still hold in real life. We also had teenagers actually acting like teenagers. Instead of the shitty thing that’s been happening in publishing lately which is to write an Adult novel and then age down all the characters so it gets categorized as a YA. These teens act like teens, make poorly thought out plans like teens, fight like teens, talk like teens. It was really refreshing to see that.

All of that being said though...that heist was kind of not great. I know the overarching plot requires the group to fail and try again. But the whole time I thought there was going to be some major twist in the plan or something that the reader couldn’t see but that the characters could pull off to make it work. Again, this all makes sense for the plot and for the fact that it’s about a bunch of teenage kids trying to pull a heist against a major casino owner on the Las Vegas strip. Like, it was never going to run smoothly. The twist that actually happened at the end of the novel wasn’t a surprise to me at all, but I didn’t mind it. I liked seeing how it would all play out. Overall, it was a super fun and easy read with some great asexual representation without making the book all about them being asexual.

#aces wild #aces wild: a heist #Amanda dewitt #book review #book reviews #books read in 2023 #2023 reading challenge #goodreads challenge #goodreads #booklr #bookblr #bookstagram #bookish #pride month #lgbt+ read #lgbtqia+ read #asexual read #pride read #pride month books #pride #asexuality #asexual #ace

[fantabee]

All the books I read in June! I tried to focus on books with queer rep because of pride month. Reviews/ratings below!

Getting the non pride books out of the way first... (not that they don't have any rep, it's just not the main focus)

Fourth Wing: 2/5. This was 100% a fomo pick. I knew it was unlikely for me to love it but I wanted to give it a good shot. I can see why someone would like it, but I have no idea why *so many* people love it. It blows my mind. It was really easy and quick to read but it just wasn't for me. I wanted to punch Dain every time that man showed up on page. The dragons were the best part.

The Book of the Most Precious Substance: 3.5/5. This was a Weird book but I kinda dug it. Though it's marketed as a horror/thriller, I wouldn't personally put it in those genres. It felt more like a vessel to explore a specific type of grief and resentment. The writing was really raw and I felt really compelled to finish it and find out what happened.

A Dreadful Splendor: 2.5/5. I would have never picked this book up if it wasn't my book club's pick. I liked the atmosphere and was highly intrigued at the beginning, but I really didn't dig the ending at all. Left me feeling really mid about the whole experience.

All the next books have main character queer rep (and all were written by LGBTQ+ authors!)

Hell Followed With Us: 3.5/5. This book felt like it was written for a very specific person (a teenager who is dragged to church every week and would answer the question of "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse?" with "join the zombies" unironically) and I am so glad for it. I think it's really important for queer teens to have a book that so viscerally reflects the dark, bloody thoughts they might be having in our current society.

Gideon the Ninth: 5/5. Gideon my beloved. The world! The lore! The characters! The depth of it all! I loved it! Harrow you poor, poor necromancer. I'll pick up your book soon.

Feed Them Silence: 4/4. Yes, this story is about someone neurologically linking with a wolf, but it's also about someone suffering the consequences of their own toxicity. I read this immediately after Fourth Wing and I really appreciated such competent writing. I would also want to divorce Sean.

Pageboy: 4/5. A really impactful memoir about the struggles of coming out in Hollywood. It's very much stream of consciousness which meant it was a little hard to follow at times, but I still got a lot out of it.

In the Lives of Puppets: 3.5/5. I liked the first part, but I got a little tired of it as it kept going. The quirkiness of the robots got annoying and I felt like there were a lot of sexual jokes made at an ace character's expense. Still an interesting concept with some nice moments. I haven't read anything else by Klune, so I'm not sure how it stacks up against his more popular works.

#self post #bookblr #monthly book review #book reviews #pride month books #queer reads

[sweatermuppet]

my stickers are for sale at Category is Books in Glasgow!! <3

#silas denver melvin #sweatermuppet #category is books #small business #lgbt #queer #trans artist #pride month #pride month 2023

[riordanverse-madness]

THE DAM JOKES ARE BACK Y'ALL

#the dam jokes #dw i will post something for pride month next #be patient #pjo fandom #percy jackson books #the sun and the star #solangelo book #solangelo #will x nico #nico di angelo #will solace #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #heroes of olympus #pjo hoo toa

[obsob]

happy and proud!!

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#mine #original #sm how managed 2 miss pride month....but its pride month every month in this house hold #ive read two bad YA books so far this month as a break from th 2nd farseer book but now.....i am back.........i am reading th 3rd one #its gna make my brain explode i can feel it #n then idk what i will read. maybe th hands of th emperor #could i read smth other than 800 page epic fantasy pls #the YA books werent too bad for YA but they hve that YA cringe 2 it. idk how u people read it constantly #if i hve 2 read th word 'heck' one more time #also theres always like. disney channel vibes. like i read gay YA romance n its so sanitised n vanilla. its so superficial #like i get this is for 16 year olds but were is the longing. the yearing. these guys are fanfic tropes stuck 2gether 2 glue. #also. what is with nearly every mlm romance / fantasy being YA not adult fiction. whats up w that #anyway hve a good evenin im gna do knitting!!!!!!!!!!!!

[queerism1969]

#lgbtq community #lesbian #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia #sapphic #lgbt pride #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #queer #pride #lgbt books #lgbtqa #pride month #queerness #queer art #queer eye #queer culture #queer representation #queer ns/fw #queer romance #queer history #queer stuff #lgbt

[hyprunivers]

My brain is melted and coming out of my ears. I am beyond overwhelmed. This is such an incredible thing. A thing that so many people have reached out and helped us with. Every tiny bit of help mattered. I just… woof. This is so much.

Guys. @queerliblib is funded. This is real. We’re gonna have a real, honest to gosh, library.

You all did it. You did it for us. 💜

Z.

P.S. A super, super special shout-out to @thebibliosphere who went SO far above and beyond to get the word out and mobilize people. Holy moly. Thank you, Joy. You are a wonder.

#QLL #QLL pride fundraiser #qll pride book bingo #queer #pride month #happy pride 🌈 #library #download ebooks #queer stuff

[ml-nolan]

Meet the main characters of Love, Lies, and Cryptids—Jasper Milton and Nico Juárez!

Nico is your resident enby grump, who just needs some cuddles and consideration. They've been an editor at Unified Theory Press for the last several years, and they do *not* like change. Unfortunately, they're about to run into a lot of it all at once.

Jasper is their new editorial assistant who loves tea, sweaters, and podcasts, and totally doesn't have any secrets. Why do you ask? No, no, he's not sweating, that's just...did you feel a little bit of rain?

Surprise, surprise! These goofballs are doomed to fall in love, and they don't even know it yet. Find out just how screwed they are by pre-ordering Love, Lies, and Cryptids at this link.

#Love Lies and Cryptids #Nico Juárez #Jasper Milton #Pride Month Books #Demisexual MC #Ace Representation #Fat representation #Nonbinary Romance #Nonbinary MC #Romantic Comedy #Contemporary Romance #LGBTQ+ Romance #LGBTQ Books #Queer Romance #Gay Romance

[risingshards]

Little story with this: due to my own self doubts and self discovering, I've been afraid since starting to post Rising Shards online to promote it during pride month. I basically went "Well am I queer enough to do this??? Have I been gay to the extent that I can promote the series during pride month???" Even if I wasn't queer I still could've obviously, but I think I needed some more self reflection time to understand my own queer connection to the series. So it's nice just a bit after submitting it to a Tapas LGBTQ+ event dealing to see it on the front page specifically for the gay. 🥰

#chiral writes #rising shards #pride month books #pride month reading #sorry if i post about features too much but this one is extra special to me :>

[osemanverse-comfort]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH !! 🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️

LGBTQ+ rights , always and forever

#heartstopper #pride month #pride #lgbt #alice oseman books #charlie spring #heartstopper comfort #nick and charlie #nick nelson #osemanverse #alice oseman #kit connor #heartstopper pride #elle argent #darcy olsson #happy pride 🌈 #trans pride #tara and darcy #elle and tao #love #love is love #love wins #osemanverse comfort #gay rights #gay #trans #bisexual #asexual #lesbian #lesbian rights

[insomniac-arrest]

A Sapphic fairytale novella of a wolf in the woods and red-tailed deer.

In a tidy well-built home on the outskirts of a village on the outskirts of the world lives a doe. Fatherless and alone, MaryAnne has no herd. She is marked by fate. Other Beast Folk hang Juniper above her door. Year by year she survives the winter . . . until a howling comes.

Wolves of the bone cities are not meant to hunt their northern neighbors. Yet, the Hinterlands are wild places where rules bend and magic eats. Wolves may howl there and prove their worth. Despite her companions warnings, Shier the wolf begins to stalk a tricky doe. And MaryAnne may have tricks yet. Traveling from one villager to the next, she attempts to find secrets not meant for prey: What do wolves fear?

A classic tale of the hunt, a forest and the untamed places of the world, and a romance masked in teeth.

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A fairytale of a wolf and a dear falling in love. A previous work that has been expanded, edited, and added to. I'm thrilled to share this whimsical Sapphic novella, please be sure to boost and leave reviews. I am a small-time author and don't spend any money on advertising so word of mouth is how I get my stories to the world.

I really appreciate it!

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#sapphic #fairytales #book sale #novella #wolves #little red riding hood #wlw books #happy pride month!!