#roanna sylver

[thesylverlining]

It's my birthday!!

If you wanna help me celebrate, I'd love it if you checked out Any of:

🌙 My award-finalist audiobook edition of CHAMELEON MOON!

🧛 Interactive fiction (free to play first 3 chapters!) Gatsby-But-Queer-And-Vampires THE GREAT BATSBY!

✨SFF romance Interactive fiction (free to play ENTIRELY!) DAWNFALL from Choice of Games!

🌊The first (Free to read!) chapter of my new polyam romantic fantasy PORTRAIT OF THREE LOVERS AT SEA!

💜A Metric Crapton more queer, weird books and games!

If you can't buy, that's completely fine! Reviewing or boosting any of my stuff that you've liked, anything you feel like is wonderful too! THANK YOU! <3

[transbookoftheday]

💚 Trans Aro Books To Read For Aromantic Visibility Day 💚

("Godly Heathens" isn't out yet, but you can preorder it or request an ARC on NetGalley.)

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Roses Bracket !

Green Group

Round 1 Part 1 Poll 1

Rosie's drawing in an Art Nouveau style was made by RoAnna Sylver, Chameleon Moon's author, digital artist and colorist.

Submissions still open here

[pridebooks]

For the rest of June, everything RoAnna Sylver has on itch.io is pay what you want - including nothing!

This includes ebooks of the majority of their books and short stories!

As always, if you can reasonably pay, I encourage you to do so!

[the-final-sentence]

‘Bring on the wolves.’

Roanna Sylver, from “The Third Star”

[lgbtqreads]

Asexual Awareness Week Roundtable

Asexual Awareness Week Roundtable

Happy Asexual Awareness Week! I’m thrilled to be celebrating it with some great ace authors, who’ve gathered together for a roundtable moderated by author Rosiee Thor! I’ll let them take it away! *** Happy asexual awareness week! I love this week every year–not only is it an affirming celebration of people who share my identity, it’s also a great time to take a look at the growth we’ve seen in…

[book-quotes-and-moodboards]

“The only time it’s hopeless is when you’re dead! Long as you’re alive, you can get better—you can make it better!”

Chameleon Moon (by RoAnna Sylver)

[sewingpuff]

Finally had enough to get these books I've been wanting forever!!!! I'm not sure when I'll actually be able to read them but definitely going to make time soon.

[rosieethor]

Aromantic Books Let's Go!

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

Black Wings Beating by Alex London

This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor

Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria

Immoral Code by Lillian Clark

Tarnished are the Stars by Rosiee Thor

The Last 8 by Laura Pohl

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Take Me To Your Nerdy Leader by Hailey Gonzales

Being Ace edited by Madeline Dyer

Queerly Loving edited by G Benson and Astrid Ohletz

Common Bonds edited by Claudie Arseneault, C T Callahan, and RoAnna Sylver

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria

Godly Heathens by H. E. Edgmon

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

The Butterfly Assassin by Finn Longman

At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp

Switchback by Danika Stone

Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li

Awakenings by Claudie Arsenault

Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver

The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion by Dove Cooper

The Threads That Bind by Cedar McCloud

Not Your backup by C. B. lee

Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty by S. M. Pearce

Wander the Night by Sydney Cobb

Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride

The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Syncopation by Anna Zabo

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

The Loudest Silence by Sydney Langford

Lord of the Empty Isles by Jules Arbeaux

Our Deadly Designs by Kalyn Josephson

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

[the-bi-library]

Bi aspec books!

Books listed: 💕 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann 💕 The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl 💕 Thaw by Elyse Springer 💕 The Last 8 by Laura Pohl 💕 Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun 💕 Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh 💕 A Dance of Water and Air by Antonia Aquilante 💕 Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault 💕 Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland 💕 The Painted Crown by Megan Derr 💕 Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thorn 💕 Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller 💕 The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow 💕 Birthright by M.A. Vice 💕 Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver 💕 Baptism of Fire by Jessie Thomas 💕 Lost Names by A.N. Mouse 💕 Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Here is the goodreads list of these books.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Books for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

🦇 It's Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (February 18th-24th)! In an effort to #ReadQueerAllYear, here are a few books featuring aromantic characters you can add to your TBR!

💚 Little Thieves by Margaret Owen 🤍 The Bone Season - Samanta Shannon 🤍 Hullmetal Girls - Emily Skrutskie 🖤 Tarnished Are the Stars - Rosiee Thor 💚 Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel 🤍 The Reckless Kind - Carly Heath 🤍 First Test - Tamora Pierce 🖤 No More Heroes - Loren Rhoads 💚 This Golden Flame - Emily Victoria 🤍 Baker Thief - Claudie Arseneault 🤍 Immoral Code - Lillian Clark 🖤 Loveless - Alice Oseman 💚 The Last 8 - Laura Pohl 🤍 The Midnight Bargain - C.L. Polk 🤍 The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee 🖤 Common Bonds - Claudie Arseneault, C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver 💚 The Black Veins - Ashia Monet 🤍 Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky by Brianna Shrum 🤍 The Crow Rider - Kalyn Josephson 🖤 Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman 💚 Hazel's Theory of Evolution - Lisa Jenn Bigelow 🤍 Summer of Salt - Katrina Leno 🤍 The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang 🖤 Not Even Bones - Rebecca Schaeffer 💚 Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger 🤍 Rick - Alex Gino 🤍 Switchback by Danika Stone 🖤 Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe - Carlos Alberto Hernandez 💚 Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe 🤍 Their Troublesome Crush - Xan West 🤍 Every Bird a Prince - Jenn Reese 🖤 The Butterfly Assassin - Finn Longman 💚 Red Skies Falling - Alex London 🤍 When Villains Rise - Rebecca Schaeffer 🤍 The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia 🖤 Funeral Girl - Emma K. Ohland 💚 The Kindred - Alechia Dow 🤍 The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - Jen Ferguson 🤍 Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao 🖤 Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li 💚 This Dark Descent - Kalyn Josephson 🤍 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 🤍 Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White 🖤 Other People’s Butterflies by Cora Ruskin

Per @aroaessidhe: Little Thieves, The Kindred, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Gender Queer, (and I think The Bone Season?) have ace or demisexual MCs, not aromantic. also, a lot of the rest are side characters, not main characters.

Thank you, genuinely, so much, for this correction. I'm very sorry for the mistake. I create these guides between work assignments (I work from home, around the clock, trying to make ends meet in this mess of an economy) and didn't do my due diligence in double-checking every book. I think this started as an aro/ace list I was compiling and I tried to separate it into two guides. I apologize for the discrepancy vehemently and will strive to do better in the future. Thank you for catching my error.

[thesylverlining]

Coming This Halloween: CHAMELEON MOON, in glorious audio!

Pre-orders (with a crapton of bonuses!) open Now!

Yes, I am vibrating into another dimension and beyond excited to announce, the first book of the queer-AF rebelliously hopeful dystopian superhero epic Chameleon Moon series is here - for your ears, at last!

If you haven't heard of this Weird, Queer Indie SFF series, have some important points in meme form!

Funded on Kickstarter in under 48 hours, this audiobook edition features the incredible voice of Kyle Rocco East!

(And a special guest narrator! ........ Me. It's me. Yeah, I make sounds/songs as well as words!)

This baby can hold so much ear-goodness, including sixteen (16!!) hours of enhanced narration and original music including two full songs!

And we've got free bonuses, boy howdy! Every pre-order comes with:

CM-verse short stories "Runtime" and "Always Be You"

Narrated short story "Un-Dead" MP3 (Recommended to listen after reading CM!)

"What You Remember" and "Dream Sweet" song MP3s

All 6 character portrait phone wallpapers, seen above and below!

And that's all cool, but need some examples of said audio mastery? As you should!

So, you can listen to the ENTIRE PROLOGUE as a free preview, right here!

... And lastly, hi there. If you read this far, THANK YOU. If you reblog or like, THANK YOU. And oh boy, if you pre-order, THANK YOU FROM THE ACTUAL BOTTOM OF MY HEART. <3

This project has been a labor of utter love, but it HAS been a labor for both me and my incredible narration partner Kyle Rocco East, and I'm happy, relieved, and exhausted to have it finally UP AND DONE.

Halloween can't come fast enough.

(...More than usual, I mean.)

THANK YOU!

~ RoAnna Sylver

[transbookoftheday]

🧛 Trans Vampire Books 🧛

Can't get enough of What We Do In The Shadows? Read some trans vampire books!

A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.

In becoming a vampire, I’m less than a girl. And more. Or maybe I’m becoming what I always have been, deep inside. A blade. When nineteen-year-old Fin volunteers to take her secret love’s place in their village’s Finding, she is terrified. Those who are chosen at the Finding are whisked away to Castle Courtsheart, a vampire school where human students either succeed and become vampires, fail and spend the rest of their lives as human thralls…or they don’t survive long enough to become either. Fin is determined to forge a different path: learn how to kill the undead and get revenge for her mother, who was taken by the vampires years ago. But Courtsheart is as captivating as it is deadly, and Fin is quickly swept up in her new world and its inhabitants - particularly Gavron, her handsome and hostile vampire maker, whose blood is nothing short of intoxicating. As Fin begins to discover new aspects of her own identity and test her newfound powers, she stumbles across a string of murders that may be connected to a larger ritual - one with potentially lethal consequences for vampires and humans alike. Fin must uncover the truth and find the killer before she loses her life…or betrays her own heart.

ARC 1, IN WHICH: A cute punk-rock vampire and a disabled firefighter-turned-mall-cop with a dark past join forces to battle the forces of evil. Jude used to leap out of helicopters to rescue/protect people from terrifying infernos. Now, by day, he protects the local mall from rowdy teenagers who ride their skateboards inside. By night, he protects the the parking lot, and the rest of Portland, from undead, bloodsucking creatures of the darkness. Or would if he could find them. But he’s just about ready to give it up (living with PTSD and pain from the traumatic event that cost him a leg, a friend, and a lot more is hard enough), when something crashes into his life. And his window. It’s one of these creatures of the darkness - and he’s a lot less scary than expected. More cuddly, with dark fuzzy wings, and neon-bright hair. His name is Pixie, and he refuses to bite anyone. Assault/murder/draining fluids isn’t punk, even if being a vampire really kind of is. He’s very hungry by now, and the much bigger, meaner, deadlier vamps kick him around on the nightly. Jude would love to find and fight some actual undead bullies. And Pixie could use some help staying… ‘alive.’ Time to make a deal. Of course, life still sucks when you’re a vampire who refuses to suck blood. Fortunately, there’s a really interesting new barbecue restaurant in the mall, with an intriguing new recipe. (We hear that the secret ingredient is… love. No, really.)

Darren is your average half-human, half-fae trans teenager, busy figuring out his powers and puberty while trying to survive finals. When Vlad, a newly turned vampire, moves in with the witch down the street, he and Darren get off on the wrong foot. Darren is always one to give somebody a second chance, though, and as they become friends, he realizes Vlad is just lonely and struggling with his new powers. That’s something Darren can definitely relate to, and he’s happy to lend his support. But while he coaxes Vlad out of his shell, Darren ends up learning about Vlad’s past… and the danger Vlad is in. Darren only wants to help—help Vlad feel comfortable in his own skin and help him feel safe. He hadn’t planned on falling in love.

Book titles:

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Court of the Undying Seasons by A.M. Strickland

Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient Is Love. No, Really by RoAnna Sylver

Showers, Flowers, and Fangs by Aidan Wayne

[thedisabilitybookarchive]

Trans Day of Visibility

[ID: A poster. Large black text reading "Trans Day of Visibility" is in the centre. The background is a straight diagonal version of the Disability Pride flag. In the upper right corner, the logo for the Disability Book Archive. In the lower left corner, the Transgender Pride flag. /end]

[ID: The same poster. The flag and logo have shrunken slightly in size. The title has been removed, replaced with two book covers and some text. The first cover is for "A Shot in the Dark" by Victoria Lee and is in the upper left hand corner. Black text next to it reads "Fiction", "F/T!M", "Addiction", "Adult", "Romance", and "Additional Pansexual Rep". The second cover is for "Uncomfortable Labels" by Laura Kate Dale and is down the lower right side of the poster. Large black text next to it reads "Non-Fiction", "Memoir of a Gay Trans Woman", and "Autism". /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers and text have changed. The first cover is for Xan West's "Their Troublesome Crush". Large black text next to it reads "Novella, Ebook", "Autism, PTSD, Cane User, Depression", "Kink", "Romance, Erotica", and "Romantic Non-Sexual Relationship". The second cover is for RoAnna Sylver's "Stake Sauce: Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient Is Love. No, Really". Large black text next to it reads "Novel", "PTSD, Amputee, Prosthetic Leg", "Urban Fantasy, Paranormal", "Additional Aspec Rep", and "Vampires". /end]

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[22 Transgender Flag Emojis /end]

A small collection of books featuring disabled transgender characters in honour of Trans Day of Visibility!

I almost forgot.

I have been slacking on my holidays/important day posts so I am trying to make up for it. If there are any other upcoming days and/or themes you would like me to do, just say!

Books on this list:

'A Shot in the Dark'- Victoria Lee

'Uncomfortable Labels'- Laura Kate Dale

'Their Troublesome Crush'- Xan West

'Stake Sauce: Arc 1'- RoAnna Sylver

All of these books and more can be found on the Disability Book Archive.

Happy Browsing!

[ryttu3k]

Trans Rights Readathon book list! I've gone through my ridiculous TBR and pulled out… pretty sure everything that qualifies. I've also included a few recs for books with trans writers, protags/major characters, or both!

On TBR, owned

Aoki, Ryka - Light from Uncommon Stars (SFF, 372 pages)

Lake, Joss - Future Feeling (SFF, 294 pages)

Lemberg, RB - The Unbalancing (fantasy, 244 pages - hard copy)

Polydoros, Aden - The City Beautiful (YA fantasy, 462 pages)

Quills, Coffee - Blasted Research (SF, 288 pages)

Wilkes, Ally - All The White Spaces (horror, 358 pages)

On TBR, not owned

Angus, Callum - A Natural History of Transition (collection, 200 pages)

Candon, Emma Mieko - The Archive Undying (SF, 482 pages)

Dawson, Juno - Her Majesty's Royal Coven (fantasy, 452 pages)

Edgmon, HE - The Witch King (YA fantasy, 432 pages)

Fellman, Isaac - Dead Collections (fantasy romance, 256 pages)

Kelly, Anita - Love and Other Disasters (romance, 371 pages)

Lamb, Sacha - When The Angels Left The Old Country (YA fantasy, 400 pages)

Lukens, FT - In Deeper Waters (YA fantasy, 307 pages)

Mandelo, Lee - Summer Sons (gothic horror, 372 pages)

McLemore, Anna-Marie - Lakelore (YA fantasy, 289 pages)

McQuiston, Casey - One Last Stop (fantasy romance, 422 pages)

Pulley, Natasha - The Mars House (SF, 469 pages)

St Hogan, Carter - One or Several Deserts (collection, 206 pages)

Thomas, Morgan - Manywhere (collection, 209 pages)

Ones I've already read and am nudging others towards

Chambers, Becky - Monk & Robot

Chant, Austin - Peter Darling

Cipri, Nino - Finna; Defekt

Drayden, Nicky - The Prey of Gods

Hess, Al - World Running Down

Künsken, Derek - The House of Styx

Jamnia, Naseem - The Bruising of Qilwa

Jarboe, Julian K - Everyone On The Moon Is Essential Personnel

Lavery, Daniel M - Something That May Shock And Discredit You (part essays, part memoir. Originally published as Daniel Mallory Ortberg)

Lee, Yoon Ha - Phoenix Extravagant

Lemberg, RB - The Four Profound Weaves (one of the only stories I've read with older trans characters)

Kalsulke, Calvin - Several People Are Typing

Maxwell, Everina - Winter's Orbit

Stinzi, John Elizabeth - My Volcano (completely bonkers (complementary))

Sylver, RoAnna - Chameleon Moon series; Stake Sauce series

Tingle, Chuck - Camp Damascus (one of my top three books of last year!)

White, Andrew Joseph - Hell Followed With Us (one of my other top three books of last year!); The Spirit Bares Its Fangs

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Hi there, I have some books for you! The Trans Space Octopus Congregation by Bogi Takács; Pantomime by L.R. Lam; The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang; Stake Sauce Act One: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really! by RoAnna Sylver; The Unbalancing by RB Lemberg; To Stand in the Light by Kayla Bashe; Nine of Swords Reversed by Xan West; Under My Skin by AE Dooland; Green Toes by Avery Flinders; and a German one: Ich bin Linus: Wie ich der Mann wurde, der ich schon immer war by Linus Giese

Thank you for these submissions, I've added them to the list :)