A lot of people these days ask me if I’m okay. They ask how I’m doing, if I’m coping, if I need anything. Some of them are asking because it’s expected. Many more are asking[…]
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The Author’s Guide to Author/Reviewer Interactions
Hello, dear author. So you’ve wandered into the wild, woolly world of book reviews. You have a book out, or many books out, or a book coming up, and reviewers are already talking about it.[…]
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On Sarah Lyons and Why I Ended My Relationship With Riptide Publishing
I know the dust hasn’t settled from…god…everything else in MM publishing, but I need to do this now. Both so my life can go back to normal after this last upheaval, and before I lose[…]
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4.5-Star Review: CAROLINE’S HEART, by Austin Chant
Title: CAROLINE’S HEART Author: Austin Chant Genre: Historical LGBTQIA Paranormal Romance, Horror-Ish Publisher: Pronoun Publication Date: October 25th, 2017 Rating: Links: Amazon | Amazon UK | B&N | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play | Goodreads It’s no secret[…]
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4.75-Star Review: TEAM PHISON, by Chace Verity
A fast, delightful romp through dating across the internet, across the miles, and across generational gaps that can do nothing to keep Phil and Tyson apart.
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5-Star Review: PETER DARLING, by Austin Chant
A grimly whimsical and yet delightfully uplifting reinvention of the ideas that made Peter Pan and Neverland into legends – with a legendary new take on love, identity, and belonging with Peter as a transgender man who finds himself redefining his relationship to Captain James Hook.
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5-Star Review: TREASURE, by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Quick and sweet, with a real, refreshing look at the dynamics of love between two Black women from very different life circumstances – a story of love across the tracks in which they find their paths surprisingly parallel, and their attraction surprisingly deep.
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DNF: COUNTERMIND by Adrian Randall
Kicked to the curb after 15% for a lot of harmful, inaccurate Asian representation rife with stereotypes and poor research. Read on for a complete breakdown of the problems I ran into in the first fifth of the book alone.
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3-Star Review: BEAR by Marian Engel
Proof that Canada must be growing the good goddamned hash up there, because goddamn. This book. I have two words for you. The first is bear.
The second is cunnilingus.
And this won literary awards.
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4-Star Review: MOONLIGHT by Ines Johnson (Moonkind #2)
POC shifters, an unexpected baby, domineering families, and an unconventional heroine and hero make for a smart, funny read in an intriguing world where magic and the supernatural live side by side with humanity as part of everyday life.
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