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🎉 August Queer Romance Club book pick - Dionysus in Wisconsin by EH Lupton 🎉
By a Mastodon author, @pretensesoup, it’s been shortlisted for the 2024 Lamba Literary Award in Gay Romance and the 2024 Midwest Book Award for fantasy.
Available on #Hoopla, #KoboPlus, all ebookstores and perhaps your library, or EH has kindly offered copies if access is difficult for you (DM her if so).
QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under #QueerRomanceClub and @queerromanceclub — CW for spoilers if going into details but general observations can be open.
No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc.
Please also feel free to tag EH in to your QRC post this month, and she’s open to Author Q&A so throw your questions her way.
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#QueerRomanceClub June voting suggestions — Pride theme
We’re “read gay, do crime” all year round, but for the June pick, I need suggestions of LGBTQ books specifically by LGBTQ authors, specifically in the Romance genre (the relationship is central to the plot and there’s a Happy Ever After).
I have TJ Alexander and Alexis Hall on my radar but I confess I don’t usually pay attention to authors, just books, so more suggestions appreciated (especially in the L and B zone)
Indie authors welcome, but must be widely available (no Amazon-only books).
More about QRC here:
Change of plans for July’s Queer Romance Club’s theme.
It was meant to be the award winners for the Lammy Awards (https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/) but they’ve moved to later in the year, so we’ll switch to August’s Cosy theme.
AKA can we find a cosy the coordinator of QRC actually likes 😂
Suggestions welcome. We’ve had a few books now where the queer romance has been a subplot rather than the major plot, so suggestions for just a straight-up cosy romance, no extra genre needed, would be great.
Apparently Direct Descendants (f/f romance) is a cosy horror, which frankly sounds like a walking contradiction, but I can add it to the vote.
More about the QRC here (TL;DR: we read books with queer romance in them, everyone welcome to join in)
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104
Side note, I HAVE liked a few cosies, in the fantasy genre:
- The House in the Cerulean Sea (but not the sequel)
- Sorcery and Small Magics — I might put this one on the voting list, but it’s the first in a trilogy so the romance is not resolved.
- Swordcrossed, a previous QRC pick.
And I’m sure I’ve read more that I enjoyed but forgot about quickly (as the nature of cosies for me)
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