Today, September 4, is Queer Your Bookshelf Day. Link goes to a list of participating ebooks on sale for 99 cents each, various genres, featuring characters who are trans, nonbinary, sapphic, gay, bi, poly, ace, aro, and more. Many are Amazon exclusives, but a good number are also available from other sellers.
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters is currently $1.99 in ebook form. It’s a collection of essays, edited by columnist and librarian Jessica P. Pryde, exploring romance in a media landscape where Happily Ever After has long been overwhelmingly white.[efn_note]And cis and het and capped with a Christian
Today (June 30, 2023), Romance Bookworms is hosting their quarterly list of a massive number of free romance and romance-adjacent ebooks, sorted by retailer (so non-Amazon readers don’t have to sort through a bazillion Amazon-exclusive books) and by category and labeled with keywords to help with your yea/nay right at the source. Even I, Hater
Since I didn’t stay offline as much as I should have and stumbled into Discourse, I’m going to go on record stating emphatically that no one owes you a relationship. No one owes you a debate about whether they owe you a relationship. No one owes you “closure” of the relationship they don’t owe you.
(Something went horribly wrong with this post yesterday that doesn’t appear to reproduce with copy-paste into a new post, so let’s try this again!) Kobo has had a subscription program in Canada and other countries for a while, and as of April 5, 2023, they’ve opened Kobo Plus to the US and UK, as well.
TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE This post is directed toward folks not themselves experiencing a mental health crisis, in hopes of increasing understanding of those who are. I’m putting all of it under the fold. If you’re fragile, don’t click it.