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Okay, I have to start somewhere. If you write queer and/or trans genre fiction, will you please link me your work? The first step to creating the bookstore and community space I want is supporting the authors it's meant to represent. 💙📚

submitted 394 days ago • 44 comments

Going in to 2025, its important that you actually own the queer and trans literature you consume. That's why for ebooks you should always look for DRM-free storefronts like Itch, or an author/publisher's website, where you can buy a downloadable .epub you can read anywhere, and is yours forever

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

submitted 374 days ago • 686 comments

Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.

submitted 84 days ago • 9 comments

Small update and hello to the (300ish 🫠) new followers. Because of the much needed job that I just took, the prospective bookstore side of this account is going to have to pause for a bit. Maybe only for the holidays, we'll see. I will, however, forever and always be here championing trans authors.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.

submitted 112 days ago • 70 comments

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

submitted 111 days ago • 335 comments

No.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

If you're looking for a queer book about killing tyrants to show up at your house in 2025, we will take your angry $25 and make it angrier. (We can also turn an angry $2500 into a ton of angry writing, including a zine of angry gay art.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

My focus here is genre fiction (SFF/horror/romance) from trans authors, but I will repost and celebrate all trans authors wherever they are publishing. This book looks stunning, and I can't wait to read it.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like there may have been some kind of "share these queer/trans bookish accounts in solidarity" post. Hi, sorry you found me in this moment. Eventually, there will be something substantial here, but at the moment we're just trying to keep our heads above water.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

This. This. This.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Since I'm seeing "your local businesses need you more than ever!" posts. Hahahaha no. Your local people need you more than ever. Please stop conflating the two. Support specific local businesses if they are actually doing tangible things for the community, but stop assigning virtue to "local."

submitted 114 days ago • 9 comments

My wife asked me yesterday, what gives me hope in the system and I had to tell her that I don't have hope in the system. What I have hope in is people because people survive. They live in joy and defiance of the systems that would break them. Things are bleak, but people still matter.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Over the next 7 days, we’re offering free ebooks of some of our more relevant — perhaps even inspiring — works of radical literature. Download a copy, share it with friends, then read it together. sevenstories.com/blogs/352-re...

submitted 115 days ago • 15 comments

Seems like there may have been some kind of "share these queer/trans bookish accounts in solidarity" post. Hi, sorry you found me in this moment. Eventually, there will be something substantial here, but at the moment we're just trying to keep our heads above water.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

a collaboration between me and the glorious Kai Cheng Thom, featuring thoughts from a number of talented and wise writers who were kind enough to answer our questions. kaichengthom.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...

submitted 118 days ago • 11 comments

hi, it’s me, your friendly indie bookseller and audiobook narrator. libro.fm costs the same as an Audible subscription. an audiobook on Audible is the same audiobook on Libro. but a portion of your purchase supports the indie bookstore of your choice! you can even see our recommendations!

submitted 127 days ago • 7 comments

For those seeking a way to divest from Bezos, I would recommend that you stop using Amazon. For non-book items, try to shop locally. For books, switch your allegiance to the fabulous Bookshop.org. In both my personal and professional lives I've done so, and it's been great.

submitted 127 days ago • 35 comments

For audiobooks, libro.fm gets you out of the Bezosphere as well.

submitted 127 days ago • 5 comments

Hello again, new folks 👋🏻

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

For this upcoming anthology, in addition to open submissions, we've solicited stories from some incredible writers and artists and designers. i've had three? phone calls with @sharangbiswas.bsky.social about the solo rpg that he is working up, a genre both he and i have been obsessed with lately.

submitted 136 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote some good books you should own.

submitted 228 days ago • 21 comments

Are there any trans booksellers following me? It's Patterson Indie Bookseller Bonus season and I'd love to get a trans bookseller an extra $500 this year.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking for SFF by trans creators, my debut series is The Sacred Dark, a fantasy romance trilogy with trans, non-binary, and queer leads, set in a darkly magical world full of ghosts, witches, and mystery. :) Amazon: tinyurl.com/dzkwawhs Books page: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/

submitted 154 days ago • 2 comments

Apparently there's a thing of trans creators posting links to their work? I have a novel coming next year about a trans woman who teaches her lesbian mom how to be a witch. It's about queer generational trauma and messy gay families.

submitted 151 days ago • 6 comments

If trans people are posting their work here today, I’d like to share mine. I’ve written a novel about a freshly-out trans girl who discovers she’s also a magical girl. Chaos/hijinks ensue as she figures out what being a girl - magical & otherwise - is all about. Out later this year! magicariot.com

submitted 151 days ago • 7 comments

Apparently people are posting their trans #SFF stories at the moment so, uh, hi. This is me. I wrote this short story and it won an award in 2019. Come December, it will have been out for 5 years. The original publisher went out of business, but you can purchase it here for only $2. #amreading

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

if you want to read trans stories by a trans person (me). i wrote two about two totally different sides of trans masculinity: “Evan: A Remainder” is a cozy story about Evan coughing an entire skeleton out of his face and realizing … SPOILERS. it has a very good cat. reactormag.com/evan-a-remai...

submitted 154 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder that I have a new short story collection this year! If you liked the Trans Space Octopus, or if you don't know the Trans Space Octopus, or if you want to read about people turning into houseplants and non-houseplants - www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/p113/P...

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Really going to advise other trans women (and all trans folks, but she focuses primarily on us) to not seek out and read the E. Lily Yu substack. It's grotesque and hateful and nothing you haven't heard before. You don't need to read another bigot's brain-rotted screed comparing us to diseases.

submitted 154 days ago • 10 comments

Echoing Nico here, the newsletter is pure transphobic brain rot. It's not worth your time. There is no rational or scientific basis for transphobia. It's just bigotry. The field has numerous trans and nonbinary authors whose work would be a better use of your time. Trans siblings? I love you.

submitted 154 days ago • 8 comments

Have been back on survival mode a bit, but considering that substack post (of course it's on substack 🙄) I felt the need to come remind folks that trans authors writing SFF exist and are writing beautiful, fun, heartbreaking, funny, smart work.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

there was a new study published today in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US

submitted 157 days ago • 16 comments

Looking for a queer Halloween season read? 🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers 💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god 🦅 Weird birds 👼 Queers with wings and claws 🌲 Cursed forest 🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell Available here: a.co/d/bufFU4f

submitted 538 days ago • 13 comments

The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them

submitted 164 days ago • 40 comments

It's time again to plug this thing we do! Just $5 gets you our best issue yet! (Just don't tell the other issues we said that. They're sensitive and we love them all equally.) #writers #scifi #fantasy #anthology #fiction

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

www.instagram.com/p/C_9XP3ztwo... Wish that IG links actually showed previews, but this is a brilliant essay about what is missing from the conversation about "diversity in publishing"

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment