I’m listening to The Water Outlaws by SL Huang, and although I usually really like the narrator, Emily Woo Zeller, the voice she uses for Lu Da just makes me think of a cartoon character. This might be one of the rare times that I hop from audio to ebook (but maybe not, because I am already reading an ebook and I have limited brain. 2 audio + 1 written is my limit.) I am really enjoying the story, which is a gender bent retelling of a classic Chinese novel. #AmReading #bookstodon #QueerBooks

Have you met Edmund and Arden yet? Read their story in A Dance of Water and Air.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/a-dance-of-water-and-air.html

*heavy breathing*
Today is the 1 year anniversary of Masks of the Miscam! If you haven’t started the Noss Saga yet, this is a perfect time. Get them books at www.joaquinbaldwin.com

Looking for a novella-sized escape into my world of sapphic shape-shifters?

"Manhattan Moon" features:

A coyote-shifter doctor with a shifting handicap
A charming human nurse
Awkward flirting in the psych ER
A Greek grandma
A tiny dog named Goliath

Check out the book: https://jae-fiction.com/manhattan-moon/

ARC READERS WANTED!
If you're hungry for gay romance, loved "Crazy Rich Asians" or "Red, White & Royal Blue", here's a treat for you!

Get lost in Shanghai's outrageously opulent setting and join Hanjun and Li Ying as they fight for their happy ending in this spicy contemporary mm romantic comedy! Sign up as an ARC reader on Booksprout:

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/216395/he-is-my-bride

True Nature is novel 2 of my sapphic paranormal romance series.

Kelsey is an omega wolf used to following orders.
Rue is a human CEO who doesn’t take no for an answer.
Neither of them expected to fall for the enemy.

Check out the full blurb on my website:
https://jae-fiction.com/true-nature/

Sapphic book reader Niki donated 50 ebooks for an additional Pride Month giveaway for readers in Europe.

The winners can pick any book by the following authors:

Clare Ashton
Jae
Milena McKay
Rachel Lacey
Ruby Landers

Enter the giveaway here:
https://airtable.com/appr5l3oRiRCCv7XH/shrPzCd58s415U2Gn

I just finished Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland and it was such a good time. It was *by far* the horniest book I have ever read that contained zero actual sex. There were so many sex jokes. It was so joyfully and playfully queer. Julian was delightful, Avra was incredibly annoying (complimentary), Tev was emo and dramatic and I love them. The narrator was also great. If you like pirates, slapstick humour, and ridiculous shenanigans, I recommend. #AmReading #bookstodon #QueerBooks

I frequently see questions about queer rep in people's books. For my current series, listing cis-het characters would be a lot faster.

The Harmony of Falling Snow has precisely one character who is cannonically gender-selective. She's a lesbian. Everyone one else is pan, demi, or ace. Most are polyamorous. There are a lot of cis people, but there are also plenty of folks who are NB, agender, or would be trans if their culture assigned gender at birth.

https://andorabrokaw.com/the-harmony-of-falling-snow/

May I introduce you to Second Nature, the book that started the Shape-Shifter Series?

Sapphic romance
Enemies-to-lovers
Slow-burn
Liger-shifter falls for the human she's supposed to kill

https://jae-fiction.com/second-nature/

The cutest LGBTQ+ metadata / subject headings tool- Homosaurus!
https://homosaurus.org/

Nobody is going to find that book if you catalog it under "sexual minorities".

Can authors get appropriate metadata to go with their book? How/where? Can people crowd source metadata for books, and would it be "valid".
I'm just a stunted (in present job) library assistant. I loved metadata in college, I miss catalogs with subject headings, and I loathe poorly labeled
/ cataloged books.

If anyone's interested in books with aromantic main characters, this bundle of 23 books (at $15) or 36 books (at $20), is available for 1 more day & 9 hrs on Itchio.

There's #Fantasy, #SciFi, vampires, a few contemporary non-SFF books & a couple of enby leads too, as in my epic YA Fantasy Ruarnon Trilogy in the $20 bundle .
(Platonic friendships vs adversity are big in my trilogy too).

https://itch.io/b/3058/aro-books-for-pride

Day 7 of the IHS Great Pride Giveaway. Want a sapphic fantasy romance adventure inspired by RPGs and set in autumn? Tavern Tale is with 53 books!!! from I Heart SapphFic https://iheartsapphfic.com/2025/06/07/great-pride-giveaway-day-7/

Readers have until June 8 to enter today's giveaway. #QueerBooks #lgbtq #books #sapphic #giveaway

Remember that quote from Shifting Nature that I shared earlier this week? This is Faith's response to what Tala said.

Of course, she won't stick to that resolution either.

https://mybook.to/ShN13

Bin durch Zufall auf dieses Buch von @ivamoor die Tage gestoßen, was demnächst beim Verlag ohneohren erscheinen wird und die Infos die bisher bekannt sind haben mich abgeholt und dachte, vllt ist das noch für jemanden interessant? (:

Want to see something really geeky?

Here's my Sapphic Love Scene Word Count Graph!

My new novel "Shifting Nature" is the book with the single longest love scene at 6,395 words!

It's closely followed by "Backwards to Oregon" at 6,220 words.

"Just Physical" is the only book with three explicit love scene, which makes sense since it's a one-night-stand-to-forever romance.

All my books are £1 for Pride Month! Support a queer author's works inspired by fairytale, folklore, and mythology.

Blurbs and links to buy: https://vcaudley.neocities.org/books