The Immortal Gifts Podcast: Episode 4 https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/02/16/the-immortal-gifts-podcast-episode-4/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook #ImmortalGifts #podcast
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Today is Jack Kerouac birthday.
Before he became the voice of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a promising college football player. A broken leg ended his sports career — but the long recovery gave him time to read obsessively and begin writing the stories that would change American literature.
He later wrote On the Road in a burst of energy that became legendary: typing day and night on a single 120-foot scroll of paper.
Today at the NOAF blog,
@princejvstin.com
reviews BIRTH OF A DYNASTY: A Novel by Chinaza Bado
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-birth-of-dynasty-novel-by.html
Butch/Femme fiction books currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 05/13/25.
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You’re reading this because you want to see the wholesome green flag vampire husband… and his cats.
https://youtube.com/shorts/p0Na0HZHuo0?si=FuE1CHRO6gIFsTVd
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“In 2019, I went on a tour of Chernobyl. The Ukrainian guide who explained what led to the nuclear accident said something that stuck in my mind. “Americans grow up with the idea that questions lead to answers,” he said. “But Soviet citizens grew up with the idea that questions lead to trouble.”
Excerpt From
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
New thing! Immortal Gifts read-along! New chapters drop Fridays at 2pm ET. Chapter one is up!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KatherineVillyardBooks/posts/165936661?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Ream: https://reamstories.com/page/msgv9f2ca9955e/public(summary:msgv9f2ca9955e/mshm4hlp26b397/ebook)
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/post/Immortal-Gifts--The-Thing-About-F0F824LEMZ
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"Cutter's Deep" is my personal favorite but if you like creepy and unsettling horror, you really can't go wrong with any book or story from Ronald McGillvray. As far as I'm concerned, this is an empirical fact. 📚🙂👍
https://amazon.com/author/ronaldmcgillvray
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Curious how many folks get or would consider getting ebooks from itch.io?
Color commentary welcome in comments.
Boosts appreciated.
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Options: (choose one)
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Legends from Arctic Norway, by Regine Normann, is now available on Amazon and Lulu. Further platforms forthcoming (I'll update the linked page as the details become clear).
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/legends-from-arctic-norway
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“Gosh, the ending! THE ENDING!!! I laughed and I cried and never saw it coming!”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/the-manor
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My ebook is 99 cents in most places! If you’ve been on the fence about whether you want to buy what one of my critique partners called “a love letter to Judaism, but with vampires,” NOW IS THE TIME.
Also the vampire’s wife is bi/pan and has two mommies. Buy it for Pride!
https://books2read.com/immortalgifts
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finished reading The Man Who Died Twice 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Richard Osman.
More fun times with the crime-solving (& committing!) pensioners. The stakes are higher but doesn't feel so fresh. A bigger role for the inscrutable Bogdan is welcome. Laughs off some pretty substantial abuse of the justice system.
Butch/Femme Fiction Books: Apocalyptic/Dystopian.
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Ham-fisted construction is my favourite 😂
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“Katherine Villyard’s Immortal Gifts is a tender, layered, and unexpectedly intimate vampire novel that defies the genre’s usual brooding tropes.”
“It’s for the weird, the tender-hearted, the spiritually curious.”
https://literarytitan.com/2025/06/03/immortal-gifts/
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*** ALONE ***
“Whimsical Sunshine is an incredible story… Hands-down, the best one of the Whimsy series yet!”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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Out now!!
Save $1.25 and buy direct from Evernight Publishing.
https://www.evernightpublishing.com/her-cravings-mastered-by-suzy-shearer/
Can 51 year old Jessica allow one man to control her again?
Especially now she's come face-to-face with Aiden Dowling, 54—a confident, attractive Dom, who looks at her like an apex predator.
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On the day Nicola Griffith officially becomes the latest SFWA Grand Master, I review another of her Non-SF books. We are so lucky she is still with us, still inspiring us with great books. Long may that continue.
New sapphic audiobook review: Kiss of Seduction by Rawnie Sabor, narrated by Allie Shae
https://judeinthestars.com/2025/06/12/kiss-of-seduction-by-rawnie-sabor-narrated-by-allie-shae/
Video review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKzoL-VCAsR/
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Paru avec un peu de retard, mais ça y est 🥳
https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/agstm202464226
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04944680v1
Où un texte antique est (encore) sauvé de la disparition par les petites manies d'un intello carolingien (Florus)
La lettre aux moines d'un évêque Valérien (qu'on n'est pas sûr d'identifier par ailleurs) n'avait jamais été rééditée depuis 1612… et elle avait un petit trou. C'est réparé 🛠️
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finished reading Wifedom 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
by Anna Funder.
Biography of George Orwell's impressive wife, Eileen, and how he and his biographers erased her contribution from history. Masterfully shows how the infrastructure provided by women is kept invisible. The fictionalised sections made me uncomfortable, being based on so little source material - how much of herself has the author put into this? But that is the very point she is making about biography. Also: Orwell was a mysogynistic lecher.
Stressed? Feeling overwhelmed? Why not give your frazzled nerves a warm, literary hug and melt your worries away for a while? This week’s Butch/Femme Fiction Therapy Thursday theme: Secret Crush.
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Today's review is a novella by Rae Wilde, who has also published as Rae Knowles. "I Can Fix Her" is quite puzzling, more a fever dream scenario, but also fantasy and horror, and a revenge tale, maybe love story, take your pick. Good and recommended.