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sapphicbookclub:

Critical Hit

by Em Stevens

Kris Hess has more than enough on her plate. She’s taking care of her sick father, struggling to make deadlines with her art, and keeping up with the bills. There’s no room for dating unless it’s for the long haul, and Kris’s past experiences with women have left her full of doubts. Her relief comes from her weekly Dungeons and Dragons session with close friends. As Dungeon Master, this is one world she can actually control.

Lacey Jenkins is getting over heartbreak. She’s still full of resentment over her emotional vampire of an ex. The sole joy in her life comes from her little terrier, Barkley. Yep, she’s reached crazy dog lady status and she doesn’t care if you know it. But she knows the only way to move on is to start meeting new people, and her coworker offers her the perfect opportunity. Nice, easy, and no drama.

The adventuring brings these two women together at the game table. But can they find love in the real world, too? It’s a roll of the die…

Genres: contemporary, romance

Get the book from The Book Depository here!

Hey, @ruffboijuliaburnsides and @taibhsearachd, this sapphic D&D book looks like it might be your jam!

One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out.  You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk.  Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin.  Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.

The doorbell rings.

No side gates are left open.  You’re long past leaping over a fence.  Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths.  Clench your teeth.  Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.

This is how it ends for you.

“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.

Open the door.  Show us your face.

Walk into the light.

Michelle McNamara, I’ll Be Gone In the Dark, referring to the EAR/ONS rapist and murderer who was finally arrested today after a decades long search. (via booksandfirelight)

Hi! So I just finished reading Not Your Villain and I am so, so excited for book 3. Is there a set release date yet? I need to know when to start stalking my library / Amazon! 😊

authorcblee:

Hello! Thank you so much for sending me a message! I’m very excited that you’re excited. There is not a set release date yet but I will definitely post about it as soon as I know!

In the meantime, did you know there’s 10k of deleted and extended scenes available for Not Your Villain that you can download? Check it out! 🙂

Happy birthday to me!

The Upside of Unrequited and Leah on the Offbeat were presents from @lefaym. Carry On, Autoboyography and The Edge of the Abyss were from mum (bought by me as second hand and remainders). And the last eight Classic Library books were my present to myself. Low res picks because my laptop has died against and the tablet has a terrible camera.

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

shiraglassman:

Happy New Year from the stars of The Olive Conspiracy and the other Mangoverse books! If you’ve ever wanted to read fairy-tale adventures with ladies in love and Jewish characters–including the dragon–they would love to have you come and visit. It’s only $4! Pdf link in case you prefer that to Kindle.

Art by theloserfish. Reblog to wish your friends a sweet new year as well!

L’shana Tova!!!!

biandlesbianliterature:

Soft on Soft by Em Ali (which I received as an ARC with a different title, #FatGirlsInLove, that appears to be a working title) is an entirely unique story. It’s a romance between two fat sapphic women: Selena, a Black demisexual model, and June, the Arab-Persian, anxious make-up artist. Thanks to the profession of the two protagonists, Soft on Soft is full of diverse bodies being celebrated, colourful descriptions, flowers, and altogether vivid mental images.

Soft on Soft by Em Ali was reviewed @ The Lesbrary

Tor Publishing Issues a 4-Month E-Book Embargo on Libraries, Cites Retail Sale Concerns

jabberwockypie:

abraxis-and-anceline:

libraryadvocates:

Several library organizations and advocacy groups, including the American Library Association and ReadersFirst, have come out against Tor’s embargo. In a phone interview with io9, ALA president Loida Garcia Febo expressed her concerns that it could mean more trouble for libraries and their relationships with publishers, taking into account how hard they had to fight to get e-book access in the first place. She also said how unfortunate it is that the embargo is targeting sci-fi and fantasy readers, given how dedicated and passionate they are about the written word.

Tor. Y’all are a bunch of idiots. Don’t do this. If I can’t get your books at the library, the I just… won’t read them at all. Unless it’s an author I already follow. I only buy books if I know I’m going to love them, which means that I have to have already read them before, or be very familiar with the author. There are TWO authors I will buy without reading first. TWO. That’s not two authors published by Tor, that’s two total.

I don’t actually know anyone, at all, that buys books without having read them first or without having read a enough books by the author to take a chance. Don’t be stupid. This will hurt your sales way more than libraries would.

Also, congrats! You just guaranteed jump in the number of people pirating your books! Way to go, that’s totally what you were aiming for, right?

That was MY first thought upon reading this.

Authors urge readers to use the library rather than pirate books if they can’t afford to buy them.

If they’re not available at the library … what’s the logic here? Does Tor REALLY think people will just go “Ah, yes, I didn’t buy these books before because the library had them. Now that’s not an option, so I’ll definitely buy them.”?

People who were going to buy the books ANYWAY will just buy them the same as before.

People who wanted them from the library will either a) not read them or b) pirate them.  Or c) just decide to wait the four months and be Really Annoyed about it.

Regardless, it’s not going to generate more sales, and it’s going to hurt authors.

It’s going to hurt libraries. If people can’t get books they want from the library because the library can’t afford the license for the book, patrons will use their libraries less, because they’ll feel like they can’t rely on their libraires to have new books or books they want to read. At a time when libraires are getting their funding slashed everywhere, when people are raising ridiculous alternatives like Amazon taking over from libraries, this will do nothing but hurt.

Tor needs to look at things like the Baen Free Library and realise that restricting access is not going to drive up sales, it’s going to drive people away. Whereas making books available in as many mediums as possible, for affordable prices, will increase visibility and profits. I can’t tell you how many new books/authors I’ve found through libraries over my lifetime, but it’s been hundreds, and the ones I really love? I BUY. And without libraries, I wouldn’t have known they existed.

Tor Publishing Issues a 4-Month E-Book Embargo on Libraries, Cites Retail Sale Concerns