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No Body, No Crime by Tess Sharpe
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch
The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto
The Long Con by Jenna Voris
Be Gay, Do Crimes ed. by Molly Llewellen and Kristel Buckley
Bonus: These are all Adult, but in YA, check out the Trust Me series by Mary Elizabeth Summer
Today on the site I’m delighted to offer a peek inside one of the best-named queer anthologies of all time, Be Gay, Do Crime ed. by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, which releases June 3rd from Dzanc Books! Here’s the gist:
A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi
A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she’s had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.
In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.
And here’s a bit more about the stories, as presented by its fabulous contributors!
Continue reading Inside an Anthology: Be Gay, Do Crime, ed. by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley
