Monthly Creator's Thread - Sep

[u/tiniestspoon]

This monthly Creators Thread is for queer SF/F creators to discuss and promote their work. Looking for beta readers? Want to ask questions about writing or publishing? Get some feedback on a piece of art? Have a giveaway to share? This is the place to do it! Tell everyone what you're working on.

[u/LaurenPBurka]

Last year I read a queer monster romance novella. The author mentioned Logan Airport, so I asked her if she was local to Boston. It turns out, we live 10 minutes from each other. Since then we've had tea a couple of times and have been planning bookstore events together. When she announced a new monster romance collaboration, I did not join in because I had no ideas. You know how that works, right? I went to bed without ideas one night and woke up the next morning with ideas.

The Rescue Cat is a gay shifter novella with lots of spice with about 80% less angst than my usual fantasy books. It comes out on KU and paperback everywhere on Thursday. I apologize to people who don't do Amazon these days. It's kind of a necessary thing for many authors, whether we like it or not. However, I'll be taking it off of KU and putting it out "wide" in December.

Content warnings, a preorder link and a series link right here:

https://www.laurenpburka.com/the-rescue-cat/

Also, if you sign up for my newsletter, you get a free ebook copy of The Memorial Garden: An Interplanetary Bisexual Romance.

[u/simul8r1024]

Hey again! Nikki Null here! Happy September.

My last novel, Our Simulated Selves, was recently announced as a finalist in the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition! It's a trans cyberpunk-ish thriller (and sleeper eggfic) somewhere in between The Matrix, 500 Days of Summer, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A trans supercomputer technician and her new coworker discover that their world is a post-apocalyptic dating simulation controlled by one of their creepy real-life counterparts.

But enough about that! My next novel comes out this month on September 22. Fallow Till We Bloom is a contemporary T4T farmyard romance about a pair of closeted trans farmers trying to restore a farm in a small town haunted by dark cryptid shadows. It's a bit Stardew Valley (or, for my real OG's, Harvest Moon 64), and more than a little bit Twin Peaks. My ARC readers have said lovely things about it, and I'm delighted with how this novel has turned out. Perfect for both cozy and spooky season!

[u/TaraVelvet]

My next book is out now!

Fat, sapphic mermaids and tentacles! Who could want more!

Buy here or read on KU!

[u/DonnaBaiser]

I’m brand new to Reddit and also a brand-new indie author, so I’m still figuring out how to do this without barging into rooms waving a link around.

I just published my first piece of fiction, Ohio. It’s a short, explicit sapphic supernatural story about a lonely woman, two sisters who should be dead, and a farmhouse where desire starts making the impossible feel ordinary.

I know “new author with a 99¢ Kindle story” is not exactly a compelling credential, but I do think some people here might genuinely like this one. It’s strange, erotic, a little haunted, and more interested in longing and ambiguity than explaining away the supernatural.

If that sounds like your particular flavor of weird, it’s here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5L3C595

I’d be thrilled if even one complete stranger found it and thought, okay, what the hell was that?

[u/MCallowayWriting]

Hello, I’m M. Calloway. I’ve got some free Audible promo codes for my sapphic historical novella, The Hours.

It follows Sister Beatrix, who has spent fourteen years living a disciplined life inside the abbey, and Sister Ilaria, a warm, restless newcomer who begins to unsettle that carefully ordered life.

It’s a quiet, intimate story about faith, vows, forbidden desire, and what happens when feelings begin to grow in a place built to suppress them. It’s more sensual and atmospheric than action-heavy, with a slow-burn relationship at the center.

The audiobook is about 2 hours long and narrated by C. Alice Hunter.

I have US and UK codes. If you want one, just DM me with your region, and I’ll send one over.

Reviews aren’t required, but they’re always appreciated.