We have another exciting event for the Locus Awards! Attend "The Author's Toolkit: Models, Strategies, and Strories" w/ #AudreyTWilliams, #TimMelodyPratt, #GailCarriger, & #AlexanderBoldizar

📚💙 Buy tickets here or in bio: https://locusmag.com/2025-locus-awards-weekend/

#LocusAwards

We have another exciting event for the Locus Awards! Attend "The Author's Toolkit: Models, Strategies, and Strories" w/ #AudreyTWilliams, #TimMelodyPratt, #GailCarriger, & #AlexanderBoldizar

📚💙 Buy tickets here or in bio: https://locusmag.com/2025-locus-awards-weekend/

#LocusAwards

We have another exciting event for the Locus Awards! Attend "The Author's Toolkit: Models, Strategies, and Strories" w/ #AudreyTWilliams, #TimMelodyPratt, #GailCarriger, & #AlexanderBoldizar

📚💙 Buy tickets here or in bio: https://locusmag.com/2025-locus-awards-weekend/

#LocusAwards

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Gail Carriger's Divinity 36: Tinkered Starsong, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3low5bcqwr22q

#KindleBookGiveaway #GailCarriger #Divinity36TinkeredStarsong

#AmQuerying #WritersCoffeeClub - Favorite character I've created.

That depends on whether you ask me as the author or as someone who'd be a fan of my work if I wasn't the creator. But let's go with the latter for now, cause it's more fun...

I could try to describe the man; I could say he's Hondo Ohnaka by way of #GailCarriger. But...I think he speaks best for himself.

#sheng #puer today, Honeybomb from #CrimsonLotusTea.

The #tbr pile behind has shrunk somewhat from yesterday. I finished book two in #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series around 2am (hello occasional insomnia) and now have begun book three, The Enforcer Enigma.

I rarely find werewolves interesting, presumably some Twilight related aversion, but I'll read anything Gail writes.

Today I read #TheSumageSolution by #gailcarriger.

A charming read as all her books are. But at first I was concerned that I was going to be a little disappointed. Not because of the quality of the writing, but without the quirky Victorian steampunk setting, I found myself wondering what the point of the story was. Not that any book needs a 'point', of course. So there's probably a better way to phrase what I was thinking, but I'm not sure what.

Then I hit page 273. And I didn't wonder any more.

Perhaps I was really questioning how this book was going to speak to me, personally. And I found it here. In the way he asks the question, in a completely natural manner. In the way she is happy to be a woman 'only with a cock'. It's not about how she is presenting, or what genitalia she was born with, but just what is.

I go forward now to the other books in the series with anticipation. I look forward to seeing how the societal upheaval she introduced into her Victorian past has grown into 'our' time.

(I was also amused by the fact the main character drinks #puer #tea and everyone else thinks it's awful.)

#books #lgbtq #review

Christmas #books! A biography of the late Queen by Gyles Brandreth from @micaeladawn and a lovely little edition of A Christmas Carol from our seven year old.

A re-read of the Dickens has been done already. Elizabeth is on the backburner at the moment as I've just started #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series.

My #tbr pile (ordered for stack stability, not priority) continues to grow delightfully. I don't think I'll need to buy any more this month!