I Can’t Wait For…Devout ed by Quinton Li

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 

This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Devout edited by Quinton Li!

Devout: An Anthology of Angels by Quinton Li, Freydís Moon, Dorian Yosef Weber, Angela Sun, Ian Haramaki, Tyler Battaglia, Daniel Marie James, Morgan Dante, Cas Trudeau, Aurélio Loren, Rae Novotny, rafael nicolás, Emily Hoffman
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Sci Fi
Published on: 29th August 2023
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Featuring work by Freydís Moon, Dorian Yosef Weber, Angela Sun, Ian Haramaki, Tyler Battaglia, Daniel Marie James, Morgan Dante, Cas Trudeau, Aurélio Loren, Rae Novotny, Rafael Nicolás & Emily Hoffman.

A collection of stories, poetry, and art dedicated to the angelic.

Here you will find the strange, the creepy, the funky, slightly silly, pieces with feeling. An experience buried deep inside, it might be from another dimension. Something questionable that makes you wonder if your first impression of the world is accurate enough to trust.

Or maybe something human — too human.

How about a feeling between a feeling? Longing, yearning. Conflict between moral and love. World between worlds.

Above all — angelic.

Are we what angels make of us, or are angels what we make of them?

This anthology is for mature audiences due to themes and explicit content. Our genres include, but are not limited to: Contemporary Fantasy Romance, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Historical Fantasy Romance, Mythological, Gothic Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror Drama

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Here’s the thing: I am fascinated by angels. (Upon consideration, my Catholic childhood is probably not unrelated.) Considering all the research I’ve done over the years, I’m willing to declare myself an armchair angelologist, if you will. And I flatly adore stories that dig into or speculate about the nature of angels. I’ll read all sorts: angels entirely divorced from religion, angels that are adorable in their incomprehension of humanity, angels that are monstrous, angels from other planets, angels with doubts about their Creator, angels pure in their purpose, angels staging revolutions, angels full of love, angels that are incomprehensibly eldritch. And I follow the #BiblicallyAccurateAngels tag on every platform that lets me.

My point being, I would have been massively excited for Devout anyway.

But it also features a whole bunch of my favourite self-published authors, along with people I’ve heard those authors get excited about! Many if not all of whom are BIPOC or queer or both, which is relevant because a) marginalised authors deserve hype too, and b) authors who are not cishet + while are more likely to hit me with perspectives, ideas, and takes I haven’t seen before, which is always awesome!

So not only is the premise of this collection precisely up my street, I also know I’m in excellent hands!

(Which is usually my biggest concern with multi-author collections.)

It comes out at the end of this month, and I am all but vibrating with excitement!!!

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