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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!

Children’s

Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration)

Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim – she realises that you don’t need a costume to express who you really are…

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Fave Five: Adult Trans M/M Romance

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)

New Releases: December 2024

Robin’s Worlds by Rainie Oet (text) and Mathias Ball (illustration) (3rd)

A nonbinary child is whisked off on a spellbinding adventure for their birthday in this dazzling tale of friendship, community, and self-love.

It’s Robin’s eighth birthday and it seems like everyone has forgotten. But things take a sudden turn when the Cat-Headed Wanderer shows up and sweeps Robin away to a magical party in a fantastical treehouse. It’s a joyful celebration full of song, dance, and newfound friends, but Robin soon realizes there’s another reason they’ve been brought there. To uncover that reason, all Robin needs to do is walk through the half-open door in the back—but what lies beyond?

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January 2024 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

Author of LOVE AT 350 Lisa Peers‘s MOTOR CITY BABY, a sapphic romance about a woman’s efforts to save a club she managed—and where she fell in love—with a Detroit indie rock star in the ’90s, until the rock star dropped out of the industry and the woman’s life; a blowout benefit concert forces her to reckon with her past and find happily ever after where she least expects it, to Katy Nishimoto at Dial Press, by Frances Black at The Literary Counsel (world).

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