Deals and Steals in Queer Literature – 03/11/2025

Hello, wonderful readers! We’ve made it through another week. I hope you picked up plenty of books during last week’s Smashwords sale! But I still have a few more deals for you this week! Enjoy!

✨Books of the Week ✨

The Fae Realm Series

A dark forest background with the illustrated cover for each of the five books in the Fae Realm series overlaid. Each are done in art nuevou style with crescent frames, showing one characters prominently, including dueling charcter, characters holding swords and shields.

Series Books:

  1. The Blessing of the Equinox,

  2. The Wolf and the Warlock,

  3. The Broken Dragon,

  4. The Queen’s Shadow,

  5. The Horns of the Hunt

Kathryn Reynolds

Fantasy, Historical

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️

Represenation: Gay, Bi, Pan, Asexual, Aromantic, Trans fem, Lesbian, Non-binary

Welcome to The Fae Realm, where the dead walk, the Unseelie deal in contracts, and the dwarves are threatening civil war. An old, long-defeated evil is stirring, gathering strength once more, and it will take an unlikely group of heroes to thwart him – a kind witch; a dwarven outcast; a pair of star-crossed gay elves; and two very sassy old women.

Regular Price: $2.99 each

Amazon – Including Kindle Unlimited

Grab the books now before the sixth book releases this spring!

Silver Helix

Series: Silver Helix, Book 1

Cover for Silver Helix. A huge tower looms over a city scape with the main character standing at the bottom shown in a blue glow. Illustrated.

Xan van Rooyen

Science Fiction, Fantasy

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️

Representation: Non-binary, Bi, Asexual, Trans, Pan, Lesbian, Queer

On the surface, the city of HelsInc appears to have recovered from the war waged between humans and Ethereals, but beneath the scars, the city seethes. The remains of magic festers, causing mutations in human DNA which could give humans Ethereal power—not that the HelsInc government would ever let that happen. The Legion resists, ripping out their neurochips and protesting the mandatory gene therapy for humans with cryptomine in their DNA.

At only 19 years old, Omyn Talvinen isn’t ready to play parent to her kid brother, but with her mom in prison on trumped up charges and her deadbeat dad AWOL, she’s left with little choice. Forced to risk her freedom to pay the rent, Omyn finds herself at the mercy of a pair of cyborg soldiers when they catch her red-handed stealing nanites from a cyberware Salon. But the synths’ powers don’t work on Omyn, and they discover they all share a common memory that they must get to the root of. Wanted dead by the government, Omyn and the renegade soldiers turn to a rebel Legion group with dreams of resuscitating dead magic for help. With the clock-ticking for the synths, Zee-Five and Omyn are forced to confront the secrets of their past and a dark conspiracy that’ll shake the blood-soaked foundations of the city.

Discounted Price: 0.99 || Regular Price: $19.99

Amazon

Anthem for the Chemical Youth

Series: Silver Helix 1.5

Cover for Anthem for the Chemical Youth. Illustrated cover showing a dark cityscape and a huge tower looming over it.

Xan van Rooyen

Fantasy, Science Fiction

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️

Representation: Pan, Trans, Asexual, Non-binary, Queer, Lesbian

Set in the the same Ethereal universe as Silver Helix, to be read as a stand-alone or as a segue between Silver Helix and the forthcoming sequel. When Wraith witnesses first-hand the devastation synthetic magic can wreak on the innocent, he is forced to make a terrible decision: betray his family and everything he thought he stood for, or stand by while the city is sucked into another brutal war between humans and Ethereals.

Regular Price: $1.13

Amazon || Smashwords

Don’t forget to add the next book in the Silver Helix series—Shadow Ascension—to your tbr! Expected release: April 1st, 2025!

The Fealty of Monsters Volume 1

Cover for The Fealty of Monsters. Illystrated cover showing twisting vines and flowers, with insect wings and swords interspersed.

Series: The Fealty of Monsters #1

Ladz

Fantasy, Horror

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Representation: Gay, Lesbian, Non-binary, Queer, Sapphic

A gothic horror, grimdark fantasy retelling of the Russian Revolution in which a stealth vampire learns there's not much he won't do to stop a forever war between humans and vampires.

Discounted Price: $0.99 || Regular Price: $4.99

Itchio || Other Major Retailers

Thanks so much for another wonderful week in Queer Lit! If you have your own book, serial, comic, or zine you want to have featured here, don’t forget to check out the booking page to get on the list!

With Itchio becoming more popular, and authors organizing itchio bundles more frequently, we’ve added this as an option! We hope to make sure you can take full advantage of events where you can snag multiple books in one swoop!