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All About: Dead Girl’s Ashes by Annathesa Nikola Darksbane

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Dead Girl’s Ashes by Annathesa Nikola Darksbane Released: Jun 07, 2025 Genre: Urban Fantasy Why this book and why now? So, I originally wrote this book back in 2017 and only recently re-released a reworked, re-edited version to make it the best I could with my (hopefully?) improved skills. So, peering all the way back […]

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All About: Catch the Wind by Katia Rose

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Catch the Wind by Katia Rose Released: May 28, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Romance Why this book and why now? Catch the Wind concludes my Balsam Inn series, which is set in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, where much of my family is from and where I spent a lot of my childhood. I knew I […]

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All About: Phoning Faust by Sophie Mutiara Nova

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Phoning Faust by Sophie Mutiara Nova Released: Jun 02, 2026 Genre: Horror Why this book and why now? I’m all about Queer retellings and I was really lonely growing up not reading any books about demisexual queer, mixed Indonesian American kids like myself who explore their relationship to a nonbinary gender. I love the idea […]

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All About: Black Hole Guns For Hire by Friday Strout

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Black Hole Guns For Hire by Friday Strout Released: June 2, 2026 Genre: Science Fiction Why this book and why now? I grew up reading fantasy/sci fi series and always wanted to write my own. I miss the era of the legacy Star Wars, Battletech, and other serial novels of the 1990s. Only I wanted […]

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All About: Bad at Love by Shannon O’Connor

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Bad at Love by Shannon O’Connor Released: June 01, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Romance Why this book and why now? I wanted to write a book that encompassed mental health struggles without “magically curing” them when the character falls in love. I wanted a sapphic book where they both struggle, they work on themselves, they go […]

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All About: The Colour-Coded Calendar by Rowan Bennet

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The Colour-Coded Calendar by Rowan Bennet Released: May 05, 2026 Genre: Erotica / Erotic Romance Why this book and why now? Having attempting (too many) big, high-concept stories, I found myself increasingly interested in the quieter question underneath all of them: how do people actually make unconventional relationships work day-to-day? Queer domesticity not as compromise, […]

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All About: YOU x ME by Ayla Vejdani

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YOU x ME by Ayla Vejdani Released: May 26, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Romance Why this book and why now? You x Me is a series of queer, BIPOC love stories. These modern entanglements are the kind of romances that make us lose sleep, love letters to the friendships we can’t live without, and a celebration […]

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All About: Carry Me Home by Anna Cove

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Carry Me Home by Anna Cove Released: May 14, 2026 Genre: Contemporary Romance Why this book and why now? I’ve been trying to write a friends-to-lovers book for years–I think I have at least 3 attempts on my hard drive! I love this trope. When I was deciding what story to tell about Kell, the […]

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All About: Touched by Light, Marked by Song by Mia B

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Touched by Light, Marked by Mia B Released: May 09, 2026 Genre: Fantasy Romance Why this book and why now? Touched by Light, Marked by Song was the book that arrived the moment my life cracked open. After seventeen years in oncology nursing, I hit a breaking point that forced me to finally ask who […]

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All About: The Physician’s Gambit by Marina Tempest

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The Physician’s Gambit by Marina Tempest Released: Apr 29, 2026 Genre: Historical Fiction Why this book and why now? I have a degree in historical linguistics, which means I am incapable of entering any historical period without immediately asking… what language were they speaking, and what did that language let them think? Istanbul in Ottoman […]

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