Je Hyeon Sim 심제현 grampy radish: can we get a thread of sci-fi writers going? BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled authors to the front! we all need new reading material!! please alt text images and add links so we can buy from you

can we get a thread of sci-fi writers going? BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled authors to the front! we all need new reading material!! please alt text images and add links so we can buy from you

comics and books and web series! anything we can read!!

@johannamation.bsky.social has put together a number of lists of graphic novels! For example:

My response to the GR review-bomb debacle: Envy isn’t worth it. Jealousy isn’t worth it. Support BIPOC authors. Their success doesn’t take away from yours. I’ll be RTing BIPOC authors throughout the week. In the meantime, here’s a list I compiled to start with: bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

Graphic Novels by BIPOC authorsbookshop.org Graphic novels and comics made by BIPOC creators!

thank you for this joey!!

Jessica Conwell has been curating a huge list of trans authors across many genres, including sci-fi!

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

My own work leans more toward horror, but my main series is kind of sci-fi horror The Amelia Temple Series: Gay Nancy Drew meets The X-Files with a touch of Cthulhu! Beneath Strange Lights and Against Fearful Lies are available wherever books are sold; Book Three releases March 2025

The Amelia Temple Seriesmybook.to Visit Amazon's The Amelia Temple Series Page and shop for all The Amelia Temple Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Amelia Temple Series

I'm reading these now and loving them! 💜

I'm so glad!

thanks this is amazing

Gonna help everybody find their audience 💖🖤

I hope we can help people find a new favorite today

I recently had a new collection! A lot of queer/trans/intersex stories, also people turning into plants and the rental that drinks blood. Amazon: amzn.to/4bqelxq Bookshop dot org: bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate links)

I also have a database of ALL the intersex ownvoices books and it's sortable by genre! A great SFF book to start from it is The Unkindness of Ghosts by @riverssolomon.bsky.social! www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own...

Suddenly a database! All the intersex #ownvoices books | Bogi Reads the Worldwww.bogireadstheworld.com

thank you for this!!

turning into plants sounds very cool. thanks

Yay! Thank *you* for doing the thread!

Sooner rather than later!

I'm Jadzia Axelrod, I write comics and books about comics. GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR- tinyurl.com/galaxytps DC PRIDE: THE NEW GENERATION- tinyurl.com/pridetng THE DC BOOK OF PRIDE: tinyurl.com/DCbookofpride HAWKGIRL: ONCE UPON A GALAXY: tinyurl.com/hawkgirlouag

You do great work! 😁👍💜

Thank you!

high fantasy bdsm erotica from the perspective of a demon? Got some comments like they’ve never seen that perspective before. 20k words so far & being barefoot makes yiu better at magic? WIP , not for everyone archiveofourown.org/works/545338...

hope it finds its fans and progresses smoothly!

Thank you! the last couple weeks have made writing harder but I’m chipping away at the next chapter

I’m not a writer and it seems like such hard work, I’m always in awe

Im using this to loosen up !

The biggest trick for writing is “write down your idea and then edit it 100 times”

@sarahgailey.bsky.social 100%

yesss! tag a million people in!

Love Sarah Gailey’s books! Some of my absolute favorites. The Echo Wife chilled me to my bones but I couldn’t put it down until I finished it.

There are always tons of good suggestions on lists like this. One I quite liked and don't see as often as I think I should is Winter Tide (and sequel Deep Roots) by Ruthanna Emrys. (Set within HP Lovecraft mythos but addresses the pervasive bigotry he exhibited) www.ruthannaemrys.com

HOMEwww.ruthannaemrys.com

oh thank you!!

okay so if i have the energy I'll get to books later but i would like to start with a HEARTY recommendation for The Ground Itself, a ttrpg about how places change over time. it's not particularly genre locked, but it plays great for sci-fi settings everestpipkin.itch.io/the-ground-i...

The Ground Itself by Everest Pipkineverestpipkin.itch.io A world-building game about places over time

I'm mentioning it here even though it's not just something you can read but something you can play because i think we have this dynamic of putting our storytellers on pedestals, which can contribute to bad power dynamics. games like this return that power to us

this is a really beautiful way to think of it. thanks, nora 💜

of course! 💜 thanks for doing this

Repurposing this post because doing all of the alt-text on my phone would take me an hour.

I, uh. I guess this means me, now. My Deep Space Cargoist series features a badass pansexual young woman who gets caught in things that are WAY above her pay grade. Also, she's a space trucker. All three books are available from my website, jscartergilson.com Descriptions are in the alt text.

thank you! I’m gonna boost the original :)

Thank YOU! Any time I can get Inez in front of more people the better, especially with no other income at the moment.

💕

A plug for the short story world, where incredible work often goes unseen. I do a (mostly) daily rec thread as long as summer lasts, so here's a start? I pick stories that are free to read online but most of these authors have backlists (and if not, you're seeing the start of an amazing career)

Summer's come and this highschool teacher is, however briefly, free! Free to catch up on short fiction! For years I've done a summer thread of daily short story recs. Starting my first on bluesky with @kurellian.bsky.social's Saguaro Wedding in @smallwondersmag.com, which breathes pure Sonora.

Saguaro Wedding - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Might be said there never was no marriage between crow and cactus. Might be. But anyone telling you that’d be lying.

There’s a ton of new books about to come out that fit this criteria! Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio & Paulina Ganucheau I Shall Never Fall In Love by Hari Conner Eat Your Heart Out by Terry Blas & Matty Newton The Sunforge by Sasha Stronach Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall

Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris House of Frank by Kay Sinclair Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorae Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom A Quick & Easy Guide to Coming Out by Kristin Russo & Ravi Teixeira

Cursed Under London by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch Plus others like: The Rainbow of Television by Shayna Maci Warner Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglo Corpses, Fools & Monsters, The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay

thanks for the giant list!!

My side hustle is selling queer comics and books, so I just got a big stack of ARCs to read through :) I’ll add more as I get them!

you’re a wealth of knowledge! thank you for sharing!

Thank you for the thread!

Fareeha at fairly queer books has great recommendations on queer BIPOC comics. youtube.com/shorts/_i6rt...

October comic recs #spookyseason #comicsyoutube.com

@nkjemisin.bsky.social is amazing

I'm trans. This was also my little tribute to Lorca.

I was reminded of this poem I published a decade ago. I wrote it after a 7-day walk through the desert from Mexico to Tucson in solidarity with migrants. It was inspired by saguaro cacti on a ridge that I thought looked like watching sentinels & a saguaro in Tucson riddled with bullet holes. #poetry

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