February 4th – Deals and Steals for Queer Literature

Another week of amazing books and stories full of queer representation for less than $5.99. Are you an author and want to see your own book featured here? Check out the options here.

✨Book of the Week: ✨

Cover for Quincunx by Steph Shangraw. A medical caduseus with several dots over it with stylized font.

Quincunx

Steph Shangraw

Fantasy

Representation: Gender-fluid pansexual

Spice Levels: 🌶

Queer isekai! Paramedic Nathan woke up in a peaceful and unfamiliar world. New friends think they know a way home, via five sites that each give Nathan a new form and abilities. For some reason, though, two earlier newcomers really don't want Nathan to reach all five.

ScribbleHub || Book 1 Itch || Book 2 Itch || Book 3 Itch

Serial is always free!

Epub version on itch is normally $3-$5 per volume but all are free through Friday to celebrate Vol 3!


FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

Cover for Bloemetje by Amanda McNeil. A lone figure stands in a field of tulips against the mountains at sunset.

Bloemetje: A Queer, Decolonial, Space Fantasy Fairy Tale

Amanda McNeil

Fantasy, Science Fiction

Representation: Bisexual, Pansexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

A miniature girl, born from a tulip, leads humans and fairies to decolonize Venus while discovering her first love. Representation: pansexual, nonbinary, & sapphic. A portion of proceeds donated to the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, a Native American-led 501c3 nonprofit.

Amazon || Apple || B&N || Bookshop || Kobo || Other Major Retailers

Ebook: $4.99.


Cover for Tide Breaker's Curse by Ivy H. Marikova. Two sailboats are tossed violently in a storm at sea.

Tide Breaker's Curse

Ivy H. Marikova

Fantasy

Representation: Bisexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

When Zale Aboron meets charming Marea, he has more to fear than just his curse and the god who cast it.

Amazon

Ebook: $0.99


Cover for Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong. An illustrated tabby cat sits playfully next to a golden tea pot under a stylized, domed cut out.

Chai and Cat-tales

Lynn Strong

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Fantasy

Representation: Gay, Queer, Asexual, Questioning, Demisexual, Pansexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

Three cozy Middle Eastern fantasy novellas: The smart, funny, capable, asexual book-witch wins against the patriarchy; a little neurospicy kitten has big opinions in a big city; and a sweet anxious priest is so concerned to welcome everyone that he even makes a tiny feast for mice in the granary.

Amazon || B&N || Everand || Hoopla || Kobo || Overdrive || Queer Liberation Libary || Thalia || Vivlio

Ebook: $2.99


Cover for Journey Home by May Barros. Two witches fly through space towards a ringed planet, one riding a broom like a skateboard, the other a more traditional way.

Journey Home

May Barros

Fantasy

Representation: Queer, Aromantic, Asexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

Amara e Luiza are two witches in a queerplatonic relationship. When Luiza decides to embark on a journey throught the galaxy in search for the lost fortress of Laura, the Dragon Queen, she ends up finding more than she bargained for, while Amara follows her footsteps hoping it’s not too late.

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Ebook: $4.99


Cover for The Edge of the World by JD Rivers. Two adventurers stand on the edge of a cliff looking down ad a domed city beneath them set in the side of the cliff.

The Edge of a World

JD Rivers

Fantasy

Representation: Gay

Spice Levels: 🍭

A scholar on a journey. A monster in his veins. An unbending truth.

One wrong step and the monster in Otar’s veins kills.

When the monster slips his grasp—causing a tragic accident—Otar is ousted from the university, escaping execution under one condition: give back what the monster has taken.

His quest for a solution intwines him with the Ancients, a mysterious ancestor that left nothing behind but crumbling stones.

On his journey to a newly discovered ruin, he faces down slavers looking for easy money, and his former lover—who still makes his heart beat faster.

The excavation side is rich with secrets the ancients desperately tried to hide. Peeling them back layer-by-layer exposes not only who Otar is, but what is coming for the world.

Confronted with the truth, Otar must decide fast what he will sacrifice to save those he holds dear.

The Edge of a World is a Fantasy Sci-Fi story about self-discovery, destiny, and paving your own path.

featuring: fantasy world with an ancient civilization, second third chances at love, a scholar on a journey, queer characters

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Ebook: $3.99


A bright spider lily blooms in the ruins of a building while feathers fall from the sky.

Higanbana

Jake Vanguard

Fantasy, Contemporary

Representation: Gay

Spice Levels: 🌶

Nate has never known happiness, stuck in an abusive relationship and damned to work minimum-wage jobs. Until he meets Raziel, an angel wrongfully stripped of his grace and banished to life on Earth.

Will they save each other from their demons? Or will they drag each other deeper into Hell?

Amazon

Ebook: $2.99 or Kindle Unlimited


Cover for When They Came by Body Boye. A woman standing in the rubble checks over her shoulder to see several flying saucers above. Next to her, a crashed cop car is catching fire.

When They Came

Kody Boye

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Science Fiction

Representation: Bisexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

The world changed when aliens arrived. Now, six years later, one girl longs to join her community's civilian militia. What she doesn't realize is the act will change her life forever.

Amazon || Apple || YouTube (Audiobook)

FREE


Cover for the Potion Gardner by Arden Powell. Flowers, crystals, tea pots, potion bottles, and other related acoutrements adorn the cover surrounding two figures in silhouette sitting on a garden bench.

The Potion Gardener

Arden Powell

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Fantasy, Romance

Representation: Trans man, Non-binary

Spice Levels: 🌶

A low-stakes cozy fantasy romance with a nonbinary protagonist and a sapphic love interest. In which Florian, a wealthy layabout, flees London to take up residence in a witch’s garden shed. Farmer’s markets, HRT as magic potions, gender euphoria, and a lot of gardening.

Amazon

Ebook: $2.99


HORROR

Cover for Incorrect Eyes by Andromeda Ruins. Photo of an angel statue on a building. The angel is holding a wreath in their arms with their wings stretched wide.

Incorrect Eyes

Andromeda Ruins

Horror

Representation: Trans man, Queer

Spice Levels: 🍭

Incorrect Eyes is a psychological religious horror involving paranoia, angels with too many eyes, and the least mentally stable protagonist I've ever written. Please read with caution.

Itch || Amazon

Ebook: $0.99


Cover for The Dark Heart of Ilmoure by Cara N. Delandy. A woman in a lace up gown stands before a forboding and looming house.

Dark Heart of Ilmoure

Cara N. Delaney

Horror

Representation: Lesbian

Spice Levels: 🍭

Iris Grey returns to her hometown hoping to heal old wounds. Instead, she finds a cold welcome, and a family keeping secrets at every turn.

When Iris starts to dig deeper, she soon finds herself mired in a plot that threatens to swallow herself, the town, and the people she once loved.

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Ebook: $2.99


Cover for Coward by Ayrton Silva. A very large centiped crawls over the cover with stylized font.

Coward

Ayrton Silva

Fantasy, Horror

Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

A young woman embarks on a bloody journey of self-discovery after her village is saved from a monster by a dashing outsider.

Amazon

Ebook: 0.99 USD


ROMANCE

Cover for Have It All by Beverly Anne Michel. Silhouettes of several people dancing ballet, each silhouette a different color of the rainbow.

Have It All

Beverly Anne Michel

Romance, Contemporary

Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual

Spice Levels: 🍭

Liora King dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. She leaves her small hometown to pursue her dream, but she meets trouble along the way. That trouble's name is Penelope Reyes. Penelope is already one of the best in Chicago and the lead of the troupe Liora wishes to join. They butt heads every chance they get as they rival for the starring role in their troupe's performance of The Nutcracker. They continue to fight until slowly but surely they develop feelings for each other. Neither of them wants to admit their feelings. Liora and Penelope must learn to get over their anger and let themselves be happy.

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Ebook on Major Retailers: $2.99

Itch Ebook: Pay What You Want


Cover for Sentence for Life. A tattooed man leans against a beam with light and shadow partially masking his features.

Sentence for Life

Maxime Jaz

Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Erotica / Erotic Romance

Representation: Gay

Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

“Sometimes, we are in a place where we don’t want to be. And maybe, that place is the only place we should be after all.”

Theo knows he will become a star lawyer, like the one his Dad paid to keep him out of prison... he's wrong on both counts. He thinks the first day of jail is brutal; meeting his new cellmate redefines the word. Theo's world not only falls apart; it shrinks to the size smaller than a dorm bathroom he has to share with a man who doesn’t belong in his world.

Ryker is as strong as a fortress, one that he had to rebuild from the ruins of his own self. Serving the last year of his long sentence, he is terrified of having his freedom at arm's reach.

Ryker is everything Theo fears; Theo is everything Ryker loathes. But being locked up together in a tiny space is a powerful force sparking the fires of love, and neither of the men are prepared for the turmoil this raging inferno will unleash.

Are Ryker and Theo who they think they are? Or will new lives be born, like the phoenix etched in Ryker's skin, out of the fire of their love?

Amazon

Ebook: 3.25 USD or Kindle Unlimited


Cover for Violent Angel by Bianca Sommerland. A man with slicked back purple hair stares at the reader with bright lettering for the litle overtop.

Violent Angel (Pretty Broken Things Book One)

Bianca Sommerland

Thriller, Romance, Contemporary

Representation: Gay

Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

Survival can change a boy to a man.

Or a man to a killer.

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Ebook: $5.99


Cover for Love at the Rock Show by Katta Kis. Gradiant blue and green background with the Chariot Tarot Card and a concert ticket both show at the center. At the top, spotlights.

Love at the Rock Show

Katta Kis

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Romance, Contemporary

Representation: Pansexual

Spice Levels: 🌶🌶

A burnt-out former pop star

A sweet, broke psychic… who hates him

The festival tour that changes everything

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Ebook: 3.99


Cover for E8g: Compression. Four men stand next to each other at sunset with the last rays of sunlight reflecting through their silhouettes.

E85: Compression

Derain Collier

Romance, Contemporary, Erotica / Erotic Romance

Representation: Bisexual, Questioning

Spice Levels: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

Four car guys have life-altering discoveries about themselves and each other while navigating their own lives and building the fastest cars in the region.

Amazon

Ebook: $4.99 or Kindle Unlimited


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