I’m not one to take part in book bingos, because they stress me out to take part in. HOWEVER, I love doing book recs and what better time to do one than when there’s a year long book bingo? ESPECIALLY when it’s sapphic! This recommendation list is based on Jae’s Sapphic Book Bingo, which you can find here! One note: these links are affiliate links, which means I make a little bit of money back if you purchase through it! Here are my personal recs based on the prompts. I don’t have recommendations for every category, because clearly I have lots of reading to do! It’ll be great to see…
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2022 in Review
Joyful Things! NEW DAY JOB! I didn’t talk about this a lot outside of not really existing on social media in 2021, but my job absolutely sucked. Like -1000 out of 10, do not recommend. I finally was able to find a new job that has stuck! I’m now a newspaper designer and I get to work from home! It’s great being back in news in a much less stressful capacity now. It has made it a lot easier for me to make an attempt at recovering from the hardcore burnout I was dealing with. ART I did so. much. art this year and I am so thrilled with it all. I did art for Season of…
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8/16 – Low Angst Queer Recs
Here are some books I recommended in this tiktok! If you’ve got some you want to add, tell me about them!! All Amazon links are affiliate links. If I recced more than one book, I linked to an author page! Enjoy! Contemporary: Fearless – Shira Glassman Eli Wray’s books So Over The Holidays Series – Erin McLellan Welcome to Sea Port Series – Katrina Jackson Being Hospitable by Meka James Things Hoped For – Chencia C. Higgins The Blundering Billionaire, Lucky Charm – Chace Verity Take Me Home – Hudson Lin Learning Curves Series – Ceillie Simkiss (ME!) SFF: Help Wanted – J Emery Monster Till Midnight…
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7/15: Spicy Nonbinary Author Recs!
All of these books were recommended in this tiktok! Amazon links and bookshop links are affiliate links, which means I get a small percentage of the profits from each sale! Chelsea M. Cameron Chelsea M. Cameron is a New York Times/USA Today/Internationally Best Selling author from Maine who now lives and works in Boston. She’s a red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader, and world’s worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, tweeting, and playing fetch with her cat, Sassenach. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own…
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7/15: Nonbinary Non-Spicy Adult Author Recs
All of these books were recommended in this tiktok! Amazon links and bookshop links are affiliate links, which means I get a small percentage of the profits from each sale! S. L. Huang SL Huang is a Hugo-winning and Amazon-bestselling author who justifies an MIT degree by using it to write eccentric mathematical superhero fiction. Huang is the author of the Cas Russell novels from Tor Books, including Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point, as well as the new fantasy Burning Roses. In short fiction, Huang’s stories have appeared in Analog, F&SF, Nature, and more, including numerous best-of anthologies. Huang is also a Hollywood stunt performer and firearms expert, with credits including “Battlestar Galactica” and “Top Shot.” Find SL Huang…
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7/14: Nonbinary Kidlit Recommendations
All of these books were recommended in this tiktok! Amazon links and bookshop links are affiliate links, which means I get a small percentage of the profits from each sale! Kacen Callender Kacen Callender is a bestselling and award-winning author of multiple novels for children, teens, and adults, including the National Book Award-winning King and the Dragonflies and the bestselling novel Felix Ever After. Kacen enjoys playing RPG video games, practicing their art, and focusing on healing and growth in their free time. They currently reside in St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, where they were born and raised. Website | Buy on Amazon | Buy on Bookshop Rin Chupeco Rin…
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7/13/21: Nonbinary Poet Recommendations
Here’s a list of the books recommended in this tiktok. Links to Amazon and Bookshop are affiliate links, which means I earn a little bit of money for each thing you buy through them. Alan Peleaz Lopez (they/them) Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Aldrin Valdez (they/them) Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Amanda Lovelace (she/they) Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Danez Smith (they/them) Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha (they/them) Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Parker Lee Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop Paul Tran Buy on Amazon Buy on Bookshop RB Lemberg Buy on Amazon Buy on…
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Happy July, Friend! {There’s news inside!}
Writing News: Hi, friend! It’s been a little while since I sent one of these out, so thanks for sticking with me! Luckily, I have some actual news to share! I am making some big changes to the way I do things. By the end of July, none of my Ceillie Simkiss books will be in Kindle Unlimited. My Elisade books were already wide, but the Learning Curves series has a different future in store for it. These books are very near and dear to my heart. However, they are imperfect in many ways. If I were writing these now, they would be very different books. They would have a proper editor…
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Promos Galore!
This newsletter was originally sent on Tuesday, May 18. I’ll keep this short and sweet for all of you. Mostly, I just have promotions to, well, promote! BUT! I also start a new job next week! It’s a public relations & marketing job for a local doctor’s office that is closer to home with so much room for growth! This will be a huge change from my current job in so many ways that I really cannot express how happy I am to get started. However, with big changes, it also means that I might get a little bit quieter on social media while I settle in to my new routine. I’ll still…
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What’s Next?
HELLO FRIENDS! I hope that you have had a wonderful April. Mine was absolutely jam packed between work and Camp NaNoWriMo, but I had an excellent time being part of the hosting team for it. You can check out the cool images I made to go with my current WIP on Instagram. I don’t really have any more news, but I am taking part of a cool promo for audiobooks. Check it out! Here’s what Monica on Audible said about Hugs & Quiches: ~✯✯✯✯✯~ This is a fun foodie romance enhanced by a super talented narrator. It feels like you stepped through the TV screen on your favorite cooking challenge show and then…
