- 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. You like what some of them have to say. You don’t like what others have to say. That book is ...
- 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 that I love Austin Chant’s writing, and the smooth, effortless way he weaves a story with a powerful sense of character, atmosphere, and enchantment. His writing ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- My TBR
Updated periodically as I remember to generate a new GoodReads widget.
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Labyrinth Lost
by Zoraida Córdova
tagged:
to-read
The Blazing Star
by Imani Josey
tagged:
to-read
Noble Love
by Té Russ
tagged:
to-read
A Hundred Thousand Words
by Nyrae Dawn
tagged:
to-read
Treasure
by Rebekah Weatherspoon
tagged:
to-read
When Dimple Met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon
tagged:
to-read
Iron Cast
by Destiny Soria
tagged:
to-read
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
tagged:
to-read
The Star-Touched Queen
by Roshani Chokshi
tagged:
to-read
A Crown of Wishes
by Roshani Chokshi
tagged:
to-read
Death ...
- Author Fan Group Takeovers
I’m happy to help marginalized authors with boosts by doing author takeovers in the McCade’s Marauders fan group. If you’d like to host a takeover event and you think the group’s readers would be interested (they’re primarily M/F and M/M contemporary readers, with some genre interests but not the majority), contact me at blackmagic@blackmagicblues.com with ...