queer books

The Rebel Foxes Audio is Wide !

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The audiobook cover of The Rebel Foxes by Noah Hawthorne, narrated by Paige Reisenfeld. The Rebel Foxes cover features a brown skinned woman with long curly blonde hair. She wears a leather jacket, tight pants, and a gas mask full of plants. She sprays magical green spray paint to the left and right across a stone corridor. She has a determined look on her face.

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.

March and April Reads

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A graphic with ebook and audiobook covers captioned March and April. Books listed are: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite. Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo. Soul Eater by Lily Mayne. Edin by Lily Mayne. The Rycke by Lily Mayne. Gloam by Lily Mayne. Wyn by Lily Mayne. False Comeback by Lily Mayne. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles. Shroom for Improvement by Jemma Croft. Under the Dragon Moon by Mawce Hanlin.

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.

Iverbourne, Chapter One

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An illustration of two men on a pirate ship flying through the sky. One has fair skin and long blonde hair, he holds onto a net and the hand of a Black man with shorter dark hair. They stare into each other's eyes, fond and curious.

The eccentric, soul touching music had turned the area before him into religious ground. He wanted to kneel, and watch. To listen. How could anyone dance, or do anything but listen?

🧭🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

Chapter One of the Gay Pirates is up on the Patreon! I have been having so much fun back with my emotional support characters.

*glances at them covered in trauma and blood*

So much fun. But hey, the found family is kicking off, so there’s that.

Art by @kislurysuje

SA Awareness Month

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A graphic with book covers, captioned I Am A Survivor. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angelina Boulley. Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour. The Luis Ortega Survival Club. Illusion by Nikole Knight. Matsdotter and Adrastus by Aelina Isaacs. The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards. Who Could Love you, Astor Price? by Amy Jane Lehan. The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore. Seaworthy by K.L. Noone.
A graphic with book covers, captioned I Am A Survivor. The Devourers by Indra Das. Exit, Pursued By a Bear by E.K. Johnston. The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows. Out of Nowhere by Roan Parrish. The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian. Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. A Bone in his Teeth by Kellen Graves.

April is SA Awareness Month, and I wanted to feature characters who have survived and healed from their traumas. There are a few here that are incredibly dear to me, and a few more recommended to me by friends.

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, and The Last Sun, are especially close to my heart.

Iverbourne, Reprised

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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.

⚔⚓🔥

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