If your Pride TBR isn’t already bursting, here’s some urban fantasy, historical fiction, dystopian fiction, and short stories ranging from the contemporary to fantastical.
My Stories
indie books
Author Event
Join me for at the Potsdam Public Library for a discussion about my latest release, The Voice of Wild Places, a queer historical fiction following two long lost friends as they search the heart of Brazil for lost legend Percy Fawcett, and the mysterious city he was looking for.
I will also be speaking on independent publishing, researching aspects of queer identity and life in 1930, and bringing along artifacts from the era and artwork for the book. Free ebooks available for guests, and a limited number of signed paperbacks will be available for purchase.
I am so excited! And not at all nervous for my first in person event!
Mental Health May
May is for Mental Health Awareness, which is especially close to my heart. Here is a list of queer books to read not only this month, but all year.
Many, if not all, of my main characters are living with mental illness.
Sunday Memeday
They’re both riddled with illness and mental troubles tbh 🫶🏳️⚧️
The Voice of Wild Places is my queer historical fiction following two former childhood friends as they search for lost legend Percy Fawcett, and the city he was looking for.
The Rebel Foxes Audio is Wide !
The Rebel Foxes has been an Audible exclusive due to using their royalty share program to produce it, but no longer! The narrator, Paige Reisenfeld, has brought Rebel Foxes into her catalog. She will be distributing through major channels as well, you can find it soon after processing is complete.
It’s always been my goal to make my books accessible and pull away from Amazon, so I am incredibly happy about this. It’s beneficial to both of us, and at a perfect time. Audible has found more ways to screw over their narrators and authors, of course. In short, we get a smaller cut from royalties, while they bring in more AI. There are people far more knowledgeable than me that have explained it, Paige included.
The Voice of Wild Places Hardback
Hardbacks for the Kickstarter folks are finally here !
I am so pleased with the work Crossroad Art has put into the cover, I just want to tattoo that compass on my body somewhere.
There’s also inside beautiful art by Benedetta Massaro and maps done by me.
March and April Reads
Murder mysteries, monsters, magical mushroom houses that look suspiciously like … well. Don’t forget the rival wrestlers, and bug loving baronet quarreling with his smuggler prince.
I’ve read the entire Monstrous series already in ebook form, but the audiobooks are new to me and recently hit Hoopla (okay I’ve listened to the first one twice) and I finally got a paperback of Soul Eater so I read and annotated that. And this is actually my second listen (this year) of Secret Lives of Country Gentleman. The rest are new to me though, and I highly enjoyed them all.
Sunday Memeday
He’s a grumpy know it all vampire, who would ever love someone like that? A sassy star, that’s who. 🩸🌠
Judge That Cover
Sometimes Threads can be a gold mine, last week there was a show off your queer book cover trend popping off and I collected so many! Lots of indies here, but not all.
Iverbourne, Reprised
Pain had never frightened Novak, a fleeting sensation that only proved the existence of life. So long as there was pain, there was life. He believed there was a saying which echoed this belief. As it was above, so it was below.
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Yes, there are at least three other things I could, and should, be working on. However, the serotonin muses call for my Iverbourne loves, and so I have been deep within the reworked manuscript for a couple of days now.
But Noah, isn’t this being rereleased *next* year? Yes, and?
For those of you not familiar, my first book (and series) was a dark steampunk fantasy with queer fae, airship pirates, meddling gods, and a whole lot of found family. As it was my first series, it was incredibly unpolished and there is so much I wish I had done differently, or better. Looking back on it with years of experience under my belt, all I can do is shake my head and get to work.
And so, I’m doing just that. It will be condensed into two (possibly three) books, retitled, and reworked. Don’t worry, I’ll be back to VampStar soon, but for now I need my pirates.
This fella in particular is dear to my heart, his novella was the first gay book I wrote, and he goes through a world of love, hurt, and healing before finding peace.
Art by @princepeachie
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