I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that writing should be fun. I write a lot about queer kids. About sad queer kids. About mental health issues, particularly how they affect queer kids. And I love making the space for that. I love giving sad stories and characters for sad readers who may need them. To […]
A treatise on the nature and limits of women’s power in a patriarchal culture and the necessity of imagining a true emancipation Hannibal ante portas—Hannibal is at the gates. In autumn of 216 BCE, the Roman Republic is gripped by existential crisis following a disastrous defeat at Cannae at the hands of the Carthaginian general. […]
A formidable collection of elegies about environmental change and the loss of habitat The Place That Is Coming To Us, the latest collection of poems by accomplished poet J.D Smith, deals with what can be meaningfully said about the future of the environment and all its creatures, so many of whose kind will not be […]
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz on November 18, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Guy Shadowfade is dead, and Violet Thistlethwaite is out of a job. After a lifetime as the dark sorcerer’s right-hand […]
Forgotten voices echo, scattered hearts converge, Three souls seek belonging in history’s surge, Love transcends borders, time, and pain, A keeper of lost children finds purpose again. Illuminating the Forgotten: An Overview In an era when historical fiction often treads familiar ground, Sadeqa Johnson emerges with Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson, a meticulously […]
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An unsettling portrait of modern intimacy A meditation on infatuation and the complex power dynamics that characterize contemporary relationships, Gisela Fitzgerald’s Her Most Deadly Rival explores the thorny process of regaining identity and agency in the domestic sphere as chaos reigns in the wider world. Will it prove too much for even a self-described Queen […]
Loss has a way of shrinking our world. For Matilda “Tilly” Nightingale, grief transformed her from an avid reader into someone who couldn’t make it past a few sentences without the words blurring into meaninglessness. Six months after losing her fiancé Joe to illness, she receives an unexpected phone call from Book Lane, her local […]
Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads I always love a Katherine Center book, so I dropped everything to read The Shippers the moment I got my hands on it—and I’m happy to report that it absolutely delivered. Right from the author’s note, Center tells us exactly what kind of story this is going to be: […]
Synopsis: If you could heal your own body, what risks would you take? When a childhood accident reveals Betha has a talent for magic, her terrified family insist she must never use it, for in Tyr-en, sorcery attracts the death penalty. Brokered in marriage to an elderly lord, Betha must give up her dreams of […]