January 28th – Deals and Steals for Queer Literature
Welcome to the very first Queer Books Weekly! Here you will find amazing stories featuring lgbtqia+ protagonists all priced $5.99 or less.
Book of the Week
Stars and Soil
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Representation: Lesbian
Genre: Fantasy
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
Ebook: $5.99
The prince demands Caitlin's hand, but an earl's daughter claims her heart. With power at court ever-shifting, rebellion roiling in the streets, and ancient evils lurking in the shadows, will Caitlin be a pawn or a queen in this dangerous game?
Paranormal / Urban Fantasy
Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really.
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Gay, Trans, Polysexual/Polyromantic
Spice Level: 🍭
eBook: $4.99
ARC 1, IN WHICH: A cute punk-rock vampire and a disabled firefighter-turned-mall-cop with a dark past join forces to battle evil. Of course, life still sucks when you're a vampire who refuses to suck blood. Fortunately, there's a really interesting new barbecue restaurant in the mall, with an intriguing new recipe. (We hear that the secret ingredient is... love. No, really.)
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
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Representation: Gay
Ebook: $4.99 or Kindle Unlimited
Vincent Barnes has suffered four years as a vampire, and they’ve been the most miserable years of his pathetic life. Too poor for black market blood, he feeds from sleeping humans to survive. He tries to never intrude on the same prey twice, but after a single delicious taste of a long-lost childhood neighbor, he can’t help returning for seconds. How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win and Wager is a slow-burn paranormal m/m romance full of laughter, angst, and thirsty pining.
Epic / High Fantasy
Awakenings
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Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Non-Binary, Transgender
Ebook: $3.99
Spice Level: 🍭
Itchio ($2.00)
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In which an optimist with countless failed apprenticeships, an anxious lizard artificer, and an amnesiac elf traverse a haunted world in a magical, sentient Wagon to unravel the mystery behind the elf’s missing memories (and play lots of board games). Awakenings is the first of nine novellas in a fantasy adventure wrapping the high stakes of epic fantasy in the warmth of cozy fantasy, all imbued with an aspec-focused queernormative world and strong platonic bonds.
Party of Fools
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Lesbian, Transgender
Spice Level: 🍭
eBook: $3.99
Ale's Well That Ends Well... What happens when a wayward immortal Emperor, a halfling metal bard, and a 60-year-old barbarian queen walk into a bar? They plan a worldwide food tour, of course! But first they have to escape the capital without being caught by the Captain of the Royal Guard, who's bent on protecting the Emperor from pesky rebels-rebels who may already be Emperor Vallora's new friends...
Colors of Magic
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Representation: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Bisexual
Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook: $3.99
Nine short stories offer a glimpse into life at different moments in the past of the world of Gaia, serving as a prequel for the Blades of the Goddess series. As magic pulses through the world in a spectrum of colors, how has it shaped the people of Gaia?
The Elf Who Would Become a Dragon
LJ Amber
Representation: Questioning
Spice Level: 🍭
FREE
A heartbreaking and heartwarming fantasy about rejection and belonging, power and consequence, and the cost of being ourselves. Follow Saphienne through her elven childhood into adulthood, and witness the struggles that made her who she would become. See her rise and fall, lose what she cherishes and find what matters, and in the end? Decide who she was for yourself.
Lucas
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Representation: Gay Trans
Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook: Regularly $2.99, discounted to FREE right now
Lucas arrives in Ember, CO, searching for a new life. When Veronica, a vampire, is sanctioned by the council to take his blood, a hidden legacy surfaces, and Lucas is thrust into a vampiric existence. Now, he must navigate a dangerous world, facing war and an unchangeable eternity. Will Lucas find the strength to embrace his future?
Science Fiction
Heart of the Covenant
S. L. Dove Cooper
eBook: $3.99
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual
Having applied to be an ambassador within the Galactic Covenant, Hedriar has relocated to Cerulean Station. There, she’ll be sharing her own culture and learning about the Covenant’s as part of an exchange programme between the two. Hedriar may not have the most detailed of plans of what, or even how, to share her culture. But she’ll figure it out, and along the way she’ll learn that what people value most may not be so different at the core. Heart of the Covenant is a cosy, low-stakes science fiction collection with a strong focus on slice-of-life narratives.
Secondhand Origin Stories
Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual, Non-binary, Queer, Asexual, Questioning
Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook: FREE / Pay What You Want
An outsider with superheroic ambitions. A near-invincible teen with infamous powers. A prodigy with treasonous technology. A frail girl with a family legacy. A supervillian with mysterious motives. And a family fractured by secrets…
Names in Their Blood
Representation: Lesbian, Bisexual, Non-binary, Queer, Asexual, Questioning
Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook $5.00
Itchio After a spring they barely survived, the superhero team the Sentinels, and their family, head to rural Minnesota for long awaited reunions and a chance to finally start to heal. But when they realize that genetically altered people have been going missing from the small town that houses the US's only full service hospital for genetically altered people they have to decide who they can trust- and fast, or thousands of people could die.
Heart of a Hero
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Representation: Gay
Spice Level: 🍭
To find the truth about himself, he needs to work with his enemy, but how far can he trust him?
Ebook: $0.99 until January 31st, Regularly $2.99
The Uncontinented Stars
Representation: Trans man, Queer Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook: $1.99
When celebrated Abelard Cousteau returns five years after his assumed death following an accident in deep space, he seeks out his former protégé, Noah Starbuck, to accompany him on his first post-resurrection assignment. The two xenozoologist are tasked with auditing the first batch of humanity's exoplanet research bases, but Abelard's attention is focused elsewhere—on the creature that allegedly caused his accident, the creature he and Noah studied as theory, the creature he now wants to kill. But as the mission unfolds, darker motives creep to the surface, just as Abelard's quest for revenge tugs too hard at arcane secrets of existence.
Cat/Mouse
Representation: Lesbian
Spice Level: 🍭
Ebook: $4.99 or free on Kindle Unlimited
Veteran bounty hunter Nadine picks up the job of a lifetime — fifty thousand credits just to capture an art thief — but one look at her beautiful target tells Nadine that her “simple” contract is about to get very complicated.
Romance
Here Comes Treble
London Price
Representation: Bisexual, Trans man
Spice Level: 🌶🌶
Ebook: Currently FREE, regularly $0.99
Colby's sister is tired of him ruining her friendships, so she makes a new rule: no hitting on her roommates. But if the roommate hits on him, that's a loophole, right? Grab this series starter now!
Thank you so much for being here for our VERY FIRST weekly post! I am so grateful for everyone here, both readers and authors! I hope you found some great new reads and new favorite authors! I’ll be back on the 31st to share the new release round up! It’s not too late to submit your own work for the January New Release round up.
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