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Writer, wanderer, Hollywood trash. Author of things, including LAST SEEN LEAVING and TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN (out now!)

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Happy Monday Moods friends!! 💜🎶 It is now, well and truly, spooky season - cue wolf howling at full moon, witch cackling over boiling cauldron, and random door slowly creaking open… With Halloween just around the corner, we’ve got some of our favorite reads to help you get in the mood! This collection is perfect for our kiddos and any reader looking for wholesome frights and thrilling delights! 🎃👻🦇

• “The Witching Hour” by Jennifer Harris
• “The Cat’s Halloween” by Alison Murray
• “The Witch at Bittersweet End” by Talia Military
• “The Skeleton and the Cat” by Brandon James Scott
• “The Pumpkin Party” by Nick Butterworth
• “The Creepy Kid” by Caleb Roehrig
• “Bob the Vampire Snail” by Andrea Zuill

#indiebookstore #truckee #mondaymoods #spookyseason👻

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Schwule sollen keine MM Romance schreiben?

Darüber diskutiert ernsthaft die amerikanische Bookbubble gerade vehemment.
Und ich bin einfach nur sprachlos. Hierzulande kennt man ja Gatekeeper-Diskussionen darüber, wer queere Geschichten schreiben dürfen sollte. Diese finde ich in Teilen schon ziemlich grenzwertig.

Aber eine Diskussion, ob schwule Männer ernsthafte MM-Romance-Bücher schreiben „dürfen“, die schlägt für mich dem Fass den Boden aus.

Ehrlich gesagt finde ich es ziemlich absurd, wenn ausgerechnet bei einer Geschichte über die Liebe (oder die Lust) zwischen Männern plötzlich darüber diskutiert wird, ob Männer überhaupt die „richtige“ Perspektive dafür haben.

Natürlich haben wir die. Natürlich dürfen wir! Wir dürfen Geschichten schreiben, die auf unseren eigenen Erfahrungen beruhen – oder einfach Geschichten, die wir fühlen, die wir erzählen wollen.

Und nein: Nicht jede(r) muss das mögen! Nicht jede MM Romance muss für jeden queeren oder heterosexuellen Leser funktionieren. Aber aus „Das ist nicht mein Geschmack“ darf nicht „Du solltest das nicht schreiben dürfen“ werden.

Wir sind keine Störfaktoren in einem Genre, das sich mit unseren Geschichten beschäftigt. Ebenso wenig sind wir verpflichtet, unsere Geschichten so zu erzählen, dass sie ausschließlich einer bestimmten Zielgruppe gefallen.

Und wir müssen uns schon gar nicht dafür rechtfertigen, dass wir Lust darauf haben, schwule Liebesgeschichten zu schreiben.

MM Romance darf weibliche Fantasie sein. Sie darf aber genauso männliche queere Realität, Fantasie und Perspektive sein.

Aber Gatekeeping?
Nein, danke.

Wie seht ihr das?

P.S. In den Slides findet ihr einige MM Romances/Romantasies, die von schwulen Männern geschrieben worden sind.

#bookstagram #gaybookstagram #queerbooks #mmromance

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One thing about me... I'm going to request a STACK of 📚 on @netgalley when I don't get approved immediately 🙃😅😂. IYKYK. So, guess what I'm doing this week and next? You guessed right, a reading marathon 🏁.

The 6 books on my list up for review are:

🍯 Honey by Imani Thompson (@_imani_thompson_)
💦 Estela, Undrowning by René Peña-Govea (@renepenagovea)
🐯 Prodigal Tiger by Samantha Chong (@samjamtimtam)
🔥 Burn Down Master's House by Clay Cane (@claycane)
⚒️ The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer (@marissameyerauthor) & Tamara Moss (@writermoss)
🧟‍♀️ Creepy Kid by Caleb Roehrig (@calebroehrig)

Thank you to the authors, NetGalley, and the publishers for allowing me to review such interesting works!

@kensington.parties, @harpercollinschin, @randomhousebooks, and @penguinrandomhouse

#readmore #bookloversofinstagram #bookrecs #newbook #blackbookstagrammer

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Así debería sentirse el amor 🥰
¿Cuales faltaron?

#instatrend #booktrend #elamor #rojoblancoysangreazul #losjuegosdelhambre

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Autumnal reads can be anything from witchy romance to dark academia to football to general spooky season perfection. For the vibe readers out there, here’s a selection of some great fall reads, ideal for curling up with as the wind picks up, the leaves change, and pumpkin spice battles Apple cider for supremacy. I don’t know why my phone autocapitalized Apple, but it seems it’s made its choice! (I make the same choice. 🍎) #BookRecs #LGBTQReads

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🍂📚 This challenge is everywhere, and I finally caved! 🍁

Well, technically, I’ve already done a similar challenge featuring my own books, but I couldn’t resist joining in again! 🧡

And why have all the fun on my own?

This time, I invited not one, but TWO of my lovely book besties, Joanna and Kamila, to share their picks with me!

Three bookworms, our favorite autumn vibes, and plenty of bookish inspiration! 📖🤎
Swipe through our choices and tell us:

🍁 Which trope has your heart?

#FallBookChallenge #QueerBookstagram #AutumnReads #BookishBesties #QueerBooks

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No month is complete without staff picks for the young & young at heart! We’re covering pickles, pools, puns, and everything in between. See the list at the link in bio or stories!

#staffpicks #kidlit #tbrpile #readmore #shopsmall

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“Much like my teen years, this book is gay and filled with monsters...” -Caleb Roehrig

Finishing off this plethora of recommendations with something genuinely fun. The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig feels like a recommendation for all of my fellow millennials that grew up on Sarah Michelle Geller as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. It is silly and campy, but also dramatic and heartfelt… and yes, very gay.
This is one of the best paced novels I think I have ever read. Information and action are distributed alternately, so the plot itself never feels like it has any sort of lull. I also like the inclusion of flashbacks from various historical figures. They were interesting asides and I enjoyed how they helped to fill out the lore behind the Corrupter and the various factions for world building, without feeling like an exposition dump.
I think out of all of the recommendations I have left you with over the past couple weeks, The Fell of Dark is the one I would say is the most general. I could easily see almost any kind of reader enjoying this, because the quick pacing and sense of humor are just so entertaining.
My one piece of advice is that if you intend to read this, skip the glossary. It actually spoils some of the later events in the book, which is a major downer.

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Poe has spent his whole life wishing he could meet a ghost, but when he moves into a real-life haunted house, he discovers that communing with the other side might be a little more than he bargained for... 👻

This middle grade book is a heartfelt but page-turning exploration of grief, moving on, and finding one’s place in the world. 🖤

📖Creepy Kid by Caleb Roehrig

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looking for some friendly ghost stories for spooky season? here are a few mg/ya selections I loved!

Sheets (series) by Brenna Thummler
Ghost Twins (series) by Dian Curtis Regan
Creepy Kid by Caleb Roehrig

#books #middlegrade #youngadult #spookybooks #tbr

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Spooky Reads for Halloween Season

It’s spooky season so here’s a list of book recommendations across the horror genre spectrum: romance, mm romance, young adult, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, body horror, magic, eldritch, haunted house, monster romance, fairytale retelling.

These will scratch any itch you have this eerie season.

In no particular order:
1. Cabaret in Flames @hachepueyo 5⭐️
2. Eat the ones you love - @sarahgriffski 5⭐️
3. Someone you can build a nest in @john_wiswell 5⭐️
4. You Weren’t Meant To Be Human @ajwhiteauthor 5⭐️
5. House Of Frank @kaysynclairebooks Synclaire 5⭐️
6. Dearly Departed @booksovrbros 4.75⭐️ 3.75🌶️
7. Don’t Let The Forest In @paperfury 4.75⭐️
8. Saint Juniper’s Folly - Alex Crespo 4.25⭐️
9. Coffin Moon - Keith Rosson 4⭐️
10. The Haunting of William Thorn @benaldersonauthor 3.75⭐️
11. The Echoed Realm (The Chaos Cycle Duology) @a.j.vrana 4.5⭐️
12. The Hollow Gods (The Chaos Cycle Duology) - A.J. Vrana 3.75⭐️
13. Colin Gets Promoted And Dooms The World @markwaddellauthor 4.75⭐️
14. Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire @bydonmartin 4.25⭐️
15. A Witch’s Guide To Magical Innkeeping @sangumandanna Mandanna 4.75⭐️
16. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna 4.25⭐️
17. But Not Too Bold - Hache Pueyo 4.5⭐️
18. The Sea Witch (Salt & Sorcery Book 1) @evaleighauthor 4.5⭐️
19. Dot Slash Magic @lizshiptonauthor 4⭐️
20. Dead Girls Don’t Dream @nino_maraschino 4.5⭐️
21. The Keeper Of Lonely Spirits - E.M. Anderson 3.75⭐️
22. The Witch King - H.E. Edgmon 4⭐️
23. The Library of the Dead - T.L. Huchu 3.75⭐️
24. A Master of Djinn - P. Djéli Clark 4.25⭐️
25. The Taking of Jake Livingston - Ryan Douglass 4⭐️
26. Cemetery Boys @aidenschmaiden 3.75⭐️
27. Compound Fracture - @ajwhiteauthor 4.5⭐️
28. The Fell of Dark @calebroehrig 4.5⭐️
29. Rules for ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 4.5⭐️

#booktok #horror #halloween #spookyseason #bookrecs

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Sent off our absentee ballots today for the midterm elections.

#gaycouple #gayhusbands #voting #elections

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