"Stuck in an elevator together" is such a fun trope, but there aren't that many sapphic books with a scene like that.

So I put together a list of all the sapphic "trapped in an elevator" books I could find, including my latest novel Sparks and an all-time classic, Thirteen Hours, by Meghan O'Brien.

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Here's another quote from one of my favorite scenes in my new sapphic romance "Sparks" ⚡

They're definitely setting off sparks in this scene!

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Hell's Heart (Alexis Hall) – Billed as a "Sapphic Moby Dick in Space", Hell's Heart is also very much an irreverent retelling, steeped in anti-capitalism and trauma from mega churches. But it is also from someone who saw Melville's inherent homoeroticism and thought it would be suitably elevated with Ishmael being your average thirsty little trans girl sub and Ahab being an increasingly unhinged domme. And they ain't wrong.

Set in the storms of Jupiter's atmosphere where leviathans and wyrms fly through the turbulent storms. The corporate-indentured human civilisation in the outer solar system is reliant on the spermaceti from leviathans for fuel. And thus we join a crew of space whale hunters, flying through the storms of Jupiter to harpoon the beasts like the lonely whalers of Melville.

If you like to go in mostly blind, leave this here. I'm not going into (what I consider) spoilers but I am going to talk a bit more on the characters and world.

Alexis, mirroring the original, gives us detailed explanations of the creatures, the hunt and the broader world of corporations and competing money-hungry apocalypse-adoring churches (for those loving the odd meme reference, keep an eye out for a certain face-eating leopard god). Certainly when it comes to the religious/capitalist aspects I'm picking up hints of Pratchett or Adams in there which makes it very entertaining. We flip from this to our set piece action scenes of the hunt, and the regular subby narrator having a great time getting fucked, with a good balance to keep an entertaining pace.

The characters all seem to varying degrees tragic flies caught in the amber of their world, with our captain being the one person succeeding in breaking out of it through her self destructive quest against her mythical beast. While there are many I could mention, I feel that the captain is the most compelling. The extent to which she bubbles herself with everything that reinforces her own world view mirrors both the religious narrative but more-so speaks to our new obsession with sycophantic AI. Through her single minded pursuit and applying her force of personality on those around her, she alone escapes from the world that imprisons the rest of humanity. Instead, she has trapped herself in a prison of her own making. As a result, it is the hardest to escape from leading to... wait to I need to avoid spoilers for the 1851 original as well as this one? I mean, you know how that ends, right?

Last point: Sadly despite the cover and ample opportunity from the setting, there did not seem to be any tentacle fucking (unless I was distracted by the the technical details at that point). I'd actually say the cover doesn't capture the vibe or the creature very well (it's not a bad cover, but not the best choice for this story - the publisher should think again on that for the next edition).

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Read MOONFLOW by Bitter Karella if you love mushrooms and drugs and women and forests and cults and mushrooms and corpses and cats and women and gods and mushrooms and Gender and glitches and transwomen and corpses and blood and f*cking and mushrooms and mushrooms and mushrooms and...

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It's always really fun to see what readers highlight in one of my books.

Here's one of the popular highlights in "Sparks."

Did you guess which romance novel Willow is thinking of?

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Turns out my love scenes are getting longer and longer! At 6,717 words, the love scene in my new romance "Sparks" is the longest I've ever written.

I didn't plan it that way, but I guess you can't have a romance novel titled "Sparks" without setting off some sparks, right?

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