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October 25, 2017
Round-up: Posts I’ve Made about Asexuality (in Fiction)
Due to a mix of being really busy and having some offline life family emergencies last week (things have been steadily improving, but it was still a massive scare), I’ve elected to largely sit out talking about (my) asexuality this Ace Awareness Week because I’m just… not in a state of mind to deal with […]
October 24, 2017
Book Talk: The Trouble with Grace
This book. This. Book. Okay, so The Trouble with Grace came onto my radar somewhere around mid-September as being a historical romance featuring an ace-spec (autochrissexual and/or gray ace, to be specific) character. This piqued… the attention of pretty much everyone I know because I can count the number of historical fiction books (never mind historical […]
October 21, 2017
Book Talk: City of Betrayal
City of Betrayal is the second book in Claudie Arseneault’s City of Spires trilogy. I don’t recommend reading it as a standalone book. The City of Spires books are basically one very long story chopped into three books and City of Betrayal will pick up pretty much where City of Strife left off. It’ll catch […]
October 20, 2017
Book Talk: Open Mic Night at the End of the World
Open Mic Night at the End of the World by Jessica Meyers is a post-apocalyptic novella that’s… unlike any post-apocalyptic fiction I’ve read. I think On the Edge of Gone comes closest in terms of feel and atmosphere and even then it’s actually nothing like that. Disclaimer: I know the author from Twitter and was […]
October 17, 2017
Book Talk: A Courtship of Dragons
A Courtship of Dragons was, once upon a time, intended to be a short romance novelette set between Becca Lusher’s Blazing Dawn and Storm Rising. It follows the courtship of Khennik’s two aides: Estenarven and Mastekh. Standard Frienship Bias disclaimer applies: Becca is a very good friend and I may be biased. It’s… the first […]
October 12, 2017
Book Talk: Not Even Close
Not Even Close by Lisa Oliver was brought to my attention… ages ago as being an m/m romance with a demisexual protagonist. Obviously that had my interest immediately. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend it to anyone. TW: amisia, homomisia, slutshaming, implications that abuse is part of a health relationship, sexual coercion I tried to […]
October 10, 2017
Book Talk: Fourth World
It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally gotten around to reading Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari. Fourth World has been on my radar for, gosh, I don’t know how long as featuring not one but TWO asexual spectrum protagonists in a YA scifi novel, and one of them is demisexual. Yeah, I don’t know […]
October 9, 2017
Freebie Weeks! And writerly updates! Oh my!
This is a supershort news update of sorts. Freebie Short Story Weeks From today (October 9th) to October 13th Changeling’s Time is available on Amazon for free. So if you’ve been wanting to try out more of my short works for free, now’s your chance! Next week October 16th to October 20th, To Sleep for a Season will get […]
October 2, 2017
September 2017 Round-up
Goals News Patreon Posts marked with an * are publicly available at this time. Video: AHOWW: The Making Of Pt. 1 Moar queer traffic lights! This is not a queer traffic light Of birthday parties and energy Video: AHOWW: The Making Of Pt. 2 Book Talk: Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari Fiction: The Fish Killers […]
October 1, 2017
Upcoming Plans October 2017
I Want to Read: 2 books with asexual characters I Want to Edit: 5,000 words of fiction Last month’s small goal worked really well, so I’m sticking with it this month. October should be a lot quieter unless I find a full-time dayjob (or a part-time one that pays decently), but September also turned out […]
