Comics writer and artist ‘s CHICKEN HEART, a humorous story of the trans coming out experience, to Liz Frances at Street Noise, with Katie Fricas editing, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2025 (world).
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The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu (Sci-fi)
The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide (Historical Fantasy)
Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp (YA Thriller)
The Hunter’s Gambit by Ciel Pierlot (Dark Fantasy)
Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin (Mystery)
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)
Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells (YA)
Malice by Heather Walter
Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Today’s post is sponsored in honor of the upcoming paperback release of Sydney Taylor Honor book Going Bicoastal, coming May 27th from Wednesday Books!
The world is about to end. Again.
Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has been holed up in an abandoned bookstore in suburban New Jersey where she used to work, trading books for supplies with the few remaining survivors. It’s the one place left that feels safe to her.
Until she learns that another earth-shattering Storm is coming . . . and everything changes.
Enter Maeve, a prickly and potentially dangerous out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night. Though the two girls are immediately at odds, Maeve has what Liz needs—the skills to repair the dilapidated store before the next climate disaster strikes—and Liz reluctantly agrees to let her stay.
As the girls grow closer and undeniable feelings spring up between them, they realize that they face greater threats than the impending Storm. And when Maeve’s secrets and Liz’s inner demons come back to haunt them both, they find themselves fighting for their lives as their world crumbles around them.
Continue reading Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2025
These are all Adult fiction; YA will be posted separately.
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
Bonus: For books that cover multiple decades including the 80s, check out Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland, A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, and No Other World by Rahul Mehta
Sophie Black has clawed her way up from coffee runs to project manager at a top Seattle ad agency. She’s laser-focused on her career—until the CEO’s daughter, Ella Northwood, joins the team. Forced to work together on a high-stakes campaign, sparks fly as Sophie’s scrappy determination clashes with Ella’s polished privilege. But there’s more to both women than meets the eye, and, over late nights in the office, their assumptions about each other start to crumble.
When an impromptu hot tub session leads to a steamy night neither can forget, everything changes. The ice-cold chip on Sophie’s shoulder finally starts to melt, while Ella hopes that for the first time, someone might see beneath her trust-fund facade. But as the temperature in the office soars, a shocking revelation threatens to derail everything. Now Sophie and Ella must decide if their feelings are worth fighting for…
Buy it: Amazon
Continue reading Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances: January-June 2025
Today’s gift guide is for the DnD lovers out there! It’s a combination of books actually featuring DnD (or similar games, especially if they’re fictional) and books with DnD vibes (a popular rec Ask!), and even a preorder option if you want to bring some future joy to a fan!
This is the first in a series; the second is out as well.
Middle school is a dungeon… At least, that’s how Jess sees it.
Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to escape into the sprawling worlds of their own imaginations. The two friends have always loved making up stories, first with little kid games of make-believe, and more recently with the fantasy roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. When they play, Olivia runs the game as Dungeon Master and Jess is the solo party member, playing a take-no-prisoners, lone-wolf fighter of her own design named Sir Corius.
But when Olivia wants to add new players to their group, Jess finds herself struggling to share their game—and her best friend. Will their epic campaign withstand all this change, or has their adventure—and their friendship—finally come to an end?
For Part I, click here.
The Summer Love Strategy by Ray Stoeve (YA)
Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
Double Exposure by Chelsea Cameron
Mer Made by S.T. Lynn
Not Like Before by Lily Seabrooke and Jacqueline Ramsden
Bonus: Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia (YA) isn’t really a Romance by genre, but it does have a sweet f/f Romance develop in the story
Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week!
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter’s numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him.
Ann, his mother, who runs a women’s retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago banished from her mind the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter’s case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.
Continue reading Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2025
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore (Paranormal)
The Key by Jo Morgan Sloan (Contemporary)
Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander (Contemporary)
What it Looks Like by Matthew J. Metzger (Contemporary)
Coffee Boy (Contemporary) and Peter Darling (Fantasy) by Austin Chant
Bonus: Coming in 2025, check out A Hex for Hunger by Alistair Reeves (Fantasy) and A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander (Historical)
