#sffh

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Horror with Trans and/or Nonbinary MCs

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (Genderfluid, YA) The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco (YA) Hell Followed With Us and The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (YA) Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin  Tell Me I’m Worthless and Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt, by Alison Rumfitt Bonus; Coming in 2024: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin and The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo Double Bonus: These are all…

[dalestromberg]

Greetings fellow kids of Tumbr. I want to share gift links for my Medium reviews of a bunch of tRaum books.

The occasion: all tRaum titles, including my high fantasy MAEJ, are on sale for a dollar apiece on Itch through the end of the month: https://traumbooks.itch.io/

You should read them all. (The books. Not necessarily the reviews.)

1

A + E by Ryszard Merey

“Only when two hearts synchronise, becoming ready to risk vulnerability at the same time and at the right time, can young souls finally meet.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/a-e-a-review-f79fc11b0f1c?sk=0fbfbeb9c81654a0317a8aec96f37c9d

2

Airy Nothing by Clarissa Pattern

“…explores blurred boundaries — between female and male, between gay and hetero, between the mundane and the fae, and between theatre and real life.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/airy-nothing-a-review-a784ede6bafd?sk=54379d6058f7d5f736eb9ca2e0c05c4f

3

It Helps with the Blues by Bryan Cebulski

“…to desire to relate to someone can be to burden them — to be infatuated can be to instrumentalise another — to long for another human, that most natural of impulses, can be dehumanising.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/it-helps-with-the-blues-a-review-8d3864dc5f6e?sk=f3e3dbb1998a5aeb7a003667947c0f56

4

Corrupted Vessels by Briar Ripley Page

This “quick read with strong prose […] maps the psychology of queer characters enmeshed in extremist mysticism against a backdrop of mental illness and the occult.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/corrupted-vessels-a-review-d8002cb567e6?sk=8abc14a90f58b4ef64890bf5b829bf36

5

Noema by Dael Akkerman

The more we learn about Maya, “the closer we get to a picture of who she is: sometimes perceptible, sometimes oracular, sometimes murdered, sometimes a bird.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/noema-a-review-a9aabdea3a61?sk=e69e0446a03d2a78e5286274cacdd632

6

Query by Zilla Novikov

A “wickedly funny epistolary novella […] told entirely in the form of query letter after query letter” as well as an activist’s cri de coeur.

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/query-a-review-ac9227231ee0?sk=d184a7ace1a7922d9cfa3811138a59d5

7

Most Famous Short Film of All Time by Tucker Lieberman

“…a mélange of ideas in the best sense: not merely a jumble, but a philosophical corkboard bristling with a fantastical variety of pins, each connected to the other by a fractal web of coloured yarn.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/most-famous-short-film-of-all-time-a-review-f49998aa0631?sk=af2160f808928f4a82f2a07f11a46c17

8

Read and Then Burn This by Ryszard Merey

“No story quite grips me like one which I can imagine the author feeling a twinge of dread about releasing…”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/read-and-then-burn-this-a-review-e0f491283087?sk=fe76498d7abf06e4480d6743cdb3607d

9

Something’s Not Right by yves.

Stories “where the magical blends in to the humdrum, leaving you imbued with a mood of unease, or sombreness, or amusement, or half-smiling hope.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/somethings-not-right-a-review-6ab1363e694c?sk=e5e9f920029b96e175f7d0b54042a7b2

10

Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

A novel which “understands and subtly acknowledges this ambiguity of love. It is a tale of loving a creature whose manifestations are all illusions.”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/darknesses-a-review-a333e9291560?sk=317a73438ccaafe4a876e7bd464d060d

11

Love/Aggression by June Martin

“…a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters…”

Gift link: https://medium.com/@dale.stromberg/love-aggression-a-review-897ec31fbced?sk=2a4dd24477cab459c251b71001cb20dc

[artiodaktyl]

Tristan (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️♾️

[effusive-eschatologist]

I'm so excited to present the COVER REVEAL for my debut graphic novel, SN_33P'sCoolZine.pdf! It's the story of a spunky little AI who is making a punk zine to cope with grief for its creator. It's Adventure Time meets I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream!

You can pre-order it here: https://fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/sn_33pscoolzine-pdf-by-tenacity-plys

And if you want to support me and my small indie press, reblog me so the whole world can meet SN_33P!

[mandowifey]

Meant to post this the other day.

Here's a ref sheet I did of one of my self inserts, Harper!

(Currently shipping her with Quentin Beck cuz I'm a whore.)

[whatisdreampunk]

Come away, o human child.

[aroaessidhe]

ok but speaking of webcomics, I've been very out of touch with them in the last..... idk, 6 years or so. So if anyone has any recs let me know

[lucyfishwife]

SOooo. In the last 48 hours I have been to two events that involved standing up in a crowded room, clapping politely with a wineglass in my hand, listening to speeches etc.

Exhibit A: the Kitschies, a niche and wonderful SFFH awards ceremony, pub basement, published authors heckling delightfully, squishy awards having the winner's name frantically sewn on by the founder, getting pub-wine-drunk with MY PEOPLE (fabulous geeks). I drank wine with Lauren Beukes! Lavie Tidhar was there! I want to read ALL THE BOOKS!! Swag: an enamel pin badge commemorating the very last Kitschies ever 💔

Exhibit B: lovely husband's investment firm presenting this year's portfolio (a word I hate unless it's my friend's amazing art in physical format), veh veh nice wine but full of dull white dudes over 40 describing their unnecessary new apps as "sexy/funky/disruptive", also "a media". At one point I did Colin Robinson feeding-face at spouse. After 2 glasses of wine and a tempura prawn I went home gracefully. Swag: a clicky pen with a brand name, and further confirmation that only SFFH is sexy, funky, and disruptive, and wayyy too cool to describe itself thusly.

I mean there comes a point in life where you do just have to accept you belong in one group, even if you can cosplay being the other kind

[virtuallyleslie]

Genre Grapevine for September/October 2024

[katherine-villyard]

Signed Paperbacks!

I now have signed paperbacks in my store! Fair warning: I do ship internationally, but it's super expensive. I'm so sorry! I'm basically passing along the cost to you (perhaps rounded down--I'll eat the forty cents). I also didn't order a lot of author copies, so if it's more popular than I expected I might need to take the page down temporarily and order more!But: signed paperbacks.

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[lgbtqreads]

Better Know an Author: Kiersten White

Today on the site, I am absolutely thrilled to be chatting with powerhouse author Kiersten White, whose newest novel, Lucy Undying, releases tomorrow from Del Rey! Lucy Undying is gloriously lush and Gothic lit fic that travels between past and present (slash near future) telling the story of Dracula‘s Lucy Westenra, and before we get to my chat with the author, here’s a little more about the…

[artiodaktyl]

extracurriculars

[effusive-eschatologist]

SNEEP SNEEP SNEEP

[bootstrapparadoxed]

Hello writeblr! I'm looking for more people to follow because I want to tag people in writing games and generally participate more in the community. I would love to follow writers of SFFH, especially sci-fi and horror of all subgenres. Bonus points if you're queer and/or neurodivergent.

A bit about me:

I'm a twenty-something writer of sci-fi and horror; I'm queer and AuDHD. I also have a video essay youtube channel that I post on occasionally. My debut novel - a queer, existential space adventure titled Up the Entropic Hill - came out this year from an indie publisher. I post writing updates, book reviews, and random thoughts. You can find a link to my works here and intro to my current WIP here. I follow from my main, @casual-eumetazoa.

Reply, reblog, or like this post if you want another follower!

[whatisdreampunk]

Beware the smiling stranger.

[finnlongman]

I don't really read a lot of YA these days because it isn't really my thing anymore, but I saw your post about an annoying review and I'm here to say don't let it get you down! I'm aromantic and if I had read TBA when I was younger it would have been SUCH a comforting thing to finally read a YA book that wasn't focused on romance. And I'm sure that's true right now, with aromantics or those questioning finding your book and having a blast reading it because identifying with the protagonist is so much easier. Crush amatonormativity! Persomally I love to hear there's finally an aroace protagonist in YA out there ans I think it's super important <3

Thanks, this means a lot to me. This is a big part of why I wrote it: teen me was trying to tell a story that spoke to me because none of the ones I was finding on shelves were doing that. There are a lot more out there these days; I'm definitely not the only aroace author writing stories about people like me (here's a Bluesky starter park of aroace SFFH authors!) but there's still a need for so many more.

Although Isabel's identity becomes more explicit and obvious as the trilogy continues, one of the things I really wanted to do with The Butterfly Assassin was not write An AroAce Book™ that is about figuring out one's identity. Not because there's anything wrong with that (people need those stories!) but because that wasn't the story I wanted to tell. I wanted to write a book where the central relationships were platonic ones and nobody ever questioned that. The protagonist doesn't feel like there's something wrong with her (well, except that she's been poisoned, there's that). No one in the book seems to expect romance to be there, and the lack doesn't have to be explained.

Because we are more than what our lives don't contain, and because even people in romantic relationships (or who want them) have friends and colleagues and flatmates and family (bio or chosen), and those stories are just as worthy of being told, and not only as a subplot to be sidelined in favour of a central romance.