Queer Lit Steals and Deals – March 25th, 2025

We are midway through the Trans Rights Readathon and the Trans Day of Visibility is quickly approaching. If you’re participating in the readathon, we wish you many five-star reads and a ton of happy endings! (Or dark endings, dark endings are fine if that’s what you are into!) This week we have a few bundles, too! If you haven’t heard, Itchio is were tons of queer authors are setting up shop and they have a cool feature that lets you bundle books together—especially when you want to have a sale on your whole backlist or want multiple authors to join you for a sale!

✨ BOOK OF THE WEEK ✨

TWINFLAME TALES: An Arjuiara Anthology

Two celestial beings embrace in dance, each wearing ornate clothing

Series: Twinflame Tales: Vol 1

Earth Priestess Arjuna

Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Cozy, Paranormal, Poetry, Dystopian, Contemporary, Horror

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Representation: Lesbian, Queer, Trans fem, Intersex

Earth Priestess Arjuna records her various lifetimes and escapades with her wife, Biblical Dragon Kiara. Some are harrowing, some are sweet, some are dynamic—but always there is the love, the faith, the authenticity. Will you bear witness to these these beautiful, bewitching, breathtaking TwinFlame Tales?

Price: Pay what you want!

Itchio || Archive of Our Own


Heart of a Hero

A man with large muscles crouches down as if ready to spring into action. Behind him is an illuminated city.

Niranjan

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Science Fiction

Spiciness / Heat Level: 🍭

Representation: Achillean, Bisexual, Gay

To uncover the truths about himself, he has to work with his enemy, but how far can he trust him? Heart of a Hero is a superhero adventure with a hero who’s ready to bend rules on occasion and a villain who’s every bit as bad as he claims to be. If you love superheroes, morally grey characters and enemies turned allies, you will love this novella. Buy Heart of a Hero today for a tale of love, loss, betrayal and new beginnings.

Discounted Price: $0.99 || Regular Price: $2.99

Itchio || Kobo || Amazon || Elsewhere


🎁 The Bundle Corner  🎁

Want to grab a ton of books at one low price all in one fell swoop? This week we have several bundles brought to you by authors wanting to discount all their books at once or by authors banding together to offer you a buffet! Each bundle listed contains plenty of queer stories at discount!

The Novella Bundle by Niranjan

A space background with shooting stars and seventeen book covers lined up, outlined in pink and blue. Only on Itch-io - 17 Novellas at only $25.99

A bundle of every novella Niranjan has written to date featuring queer characters!

Find it on Itchio! $25.99 for 17 novellas!

Books You Don’t Want To Miss:


Heat Without Light Full Series Bundle by David Hardie

A bundle containing all five books in this fantasy series about polyamorous furries decolonizing a fantasy world.

A banner with illustrations of several anthropomorphic animals aka furries with the words "heat without light full series bundle"

Somewhere out there is a great and terrible empire, so far away as to be from another world, but that is not what this story is about. This is the story of the people outside. The people who have found themselves for one reason or another shunned, ostracized, or escaping the clutches of this faraway empire. A group of people gather in the shadow of greatness and carve out a world for themselves. This bundle containts two gay, furry fantasy novels... so far. As the books are released, they will also be added to this bundle.

Get the bundle on Itchio! $5 for 5 books!

Books you Don’t Want to Miss:


The Books Meta Stole by Niranjan

A beautiful night sky background with shooting stars. Overlaid are 14 book covers outlined in blues and pinks. Text reads "Meta Stol emy books, so I'm putting them on sale 49% off"

These are the books that Meta stole to train their planet-destroying plagiarism machine. Most of them are queer. May it at least teach the AI what it means to be inclusive. (Since three books of my series are there, I've added the other two so you can get them all!)

Get the bundle on Itchio! 14 books for $29.99!

Books you don’t want to miss!


That’s it for this week! Next week we will have our New Release Round Up AND our Trans Day of Visibility list! Set your alarms, mark your calendars, and tell the world! You don’t want to miss it! Thanks so much! I hope you found your next favorite book!