K.A. Doore

@kadoore
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sff author, shouter of queer books, she/they
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Autostraddle said terribly kind things about Even Though I Knew The End in their list of Best Queer Books of the year

There are 96 books on the list.
NINETY-SIX! Queer literary abundance is ours!

https://www.autostraddle.com/92-of-the-best-queer-books-of-2022/

92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022

Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.

Autostraddle

@kadoore Coming in January 2023, Hamlet, Prince of Robots. Most of the cast is queer, in particular Hamlet (an android) and Horatio are partners.

https://darusha.ca/book/hamlet-prince-of-robots/

Hamlet, Prince of Robots - M. Darusha Wehm

A beat-by-beat retelling, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.

M. Darusha Wehm
Scene:
Me, at 5am: Ok where was I in this WIP? Let's backtrack and make notes and then create a branching possibility tree for the narrative so I can figure out what comes next.
Child, at 6am: *interrupts*
Day: *whirlwinds*
Me, next day at 5am: Ok, where was I in this WIP? ...
repeat ad infinitem
I read 24 books this year and I really enjoyed all of them! (The pic includes only ones I have print copies for. I'm going to try to do a rec thread with all of them...bear with me, haven't done a thread on Mastodon before.) It was a great year for reading for me!
@mikechenwriter Every time I visit, it's even jankier.
Hey if you are an SFF writer or we know each other from other things and are on her plz speak up I haven’t figured out how to find people yet?
@catvalente I think mostly you put out a cup of coffee and hope it attracts writers
The unexpected consequence, tho, is that I've actually been reading more.
Something about the physicality of a book waiting for me on my nightstand, that I can carry around as the kids migrate through the house, that I can keep on my lap even if I'm not actively reading --
Ebooks have their place but it's not that.

After switching entirely to ebooks for a solid 5+ years, I started intentionally picking up physical books in November.

Ebooks are convenient and easy but I realized, even when I was reading, what my kids saw was their parent on their phone.

@kadoore I have five. 3 are re-releases, and two are 1st rel.

All of them feature LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent characters as their protagonists. One is a romance set in ancient Minoan Crete. The other four are a series set in early Western European Neolithic (5500BCE).

I don't have my release dates yet, but it'll be throughout the year. I'm waiting on technical stuff for 4 of them and finishing up the 5th.