✨ We're all shimmering over these amazing words from the awesome @annaleen.

See more, from the wonderful Dawn Vogel, Dani Finn, Minerva Cerridwen, and Andrew Hiller on the page; retail pre-order available now, early website orders up later this month!

We hope you'll join us to Dream the Deep. 🐙 https://atthisarts.com/product/dream-the-deep/

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I’m so happy to announce the release on 1 June of my lesbian romance novella “Lena and Miss Cawkwell”!

*Lena is enjoying the freedoms available on the Home Front during the Great War - running the post office and offering sexual solace to the lone wives. But a newcomer – suffragist Miss Cawkwell – upsets all Lena’s notions of what she wants. And the horrors of war eventually reach even this isolated haven.*

Pre-order: https://juliebozza.com/book/lena-and-miss-cawkwell/

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New month, new book thread! My first read of May was The Reinvented Detective, edited by Cat Rambo & Jennifer Brozek (narrated by Sierra Kline & Perry Daniels).

A beautifully diverse and inclusive collection of sci-fi mysteries.

Review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0cf78848-7d59-4310-91c0-b92890b9a852

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Ponyboy (Eliot Duncan) – I'm a sucker for atmospheric prose, and Ponyboy seemed to give prose that echoed the protagonist's own chaotic, drug scrambled perception of his world in Paris and Berlin. It can make it a confusing read at times, but I felt that very much kept you inside Ponyboy's head as he gets trapped in his cycle of drugs, booze and godawful relationship choices.

For as much as I enjoyed that, I felt it was lacking enough threads in the final act to tie the themes together. On it's own, it's strong. But set against a large number of tragic and self destructive queer stories, it was hard to see this standing out and offering something beyond a final movement past hopelessness and into recovery. In many ways, that mirrors stories that stem from the personal. But for a story that can be so evocative, I felt it had more to give in this current climate than what was said on the page.

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