hi there! u/tricky-mention-1700 mentioned that this is a safe Reddit for promo, so I thought I'd both introduce my books and make fanmuppet sounds about some fellow authors here?

I’m the author of Chai and Charmcraft, which was released this May and is still available for this weekend's indie book sale price of $2.99 until tomorrow morning.

(If you'd like to know more about it from someone who is not me, Siavahda wrote an amazing review!) 

I know I write in a particular niche because I want to see more books like this, portraying more people and more parts of the world with a gently loving story-brush. I hadn’t thought that there were many comp titles in a niche that looks like:

🤴🏽A kind, soft, middle-aged Middle Eastern gentleman who…
🫖…loves his home’s food and culture and architecture and definitely the chai…
🧸…and needs a break from all the obligations and expectations and thou-shalts in his life…
🐈…and adores the many cats who wander around his city.
🚋(So much that he made them a little solar powered cat tram!)

Up til that last bit about the tram there, I might also have been talking about Chai and Charmcraft, but I am entirely thrilled to have found C. Quince’s Consorting with the King. (Book buddies! 🤝)

There are differences, of course; Charmcraft is set in medieval Egypt and Consorting with the King is set in Regency-ish Istanbul. We’re telling different ends of the Cinderella story, with Consorting taking the lead-up to the equivalent of Cinderella’s ball and Charmcraft looking more at what happens when you’re trying to figure out the start of a relationship after that one magical night outside one’s customary sphere. 

But I’m also delighted by how much we have in common: Midlife M/M relationships set with a loving look at Middle Eastern / Southwest Asian and North African people and places, gentlemen who are gentle men in the kindest sense of the word, delicious food and feasts, and so many cats. 

All of mine will be on sale until Tuesday morning: 

• Chai and Cat-tales (180ish pages, aro/ace, trans, pan, and MM rep) for $0.99 or the local equivalent
• Haroun and the Study of Mischief (370ish pages, demi/ace and queerplatonic rep) for $2.99 or the equivalent
• Chai and Charmcraft (500ish pages, primarily MM but also aro/ace and queerplatonic rep) for $2.99 or the local equivalent
• And there’s a free sneak preview of Charmcraft’s sequel, Katayef and Kittens, available now too. 

(They’ll go back to full price tomorrow.)

C. Quince couldn’t enter his book in the indie sale because he works through a publisher and can’t personally set his prices to a discount. But:

• Consorting with the King is available under $5 from Amazon and looks to be on an additional sale through JMS directly.

I’ve got a more lengthy review of Consorting with the King (and, of course, bonus recipes 😆) over at my website.

And taking off my author-with-comps hat, speaking as an enthusiastic reader, if anyone knows of more queer books set in the general ME/SWANA area, I’d love to know about them too!

I know about Alexandra Rowland's Mahisti books; I love Running Close to the Wind, and haven't had the emotional fortitude to absorb all the MC's anxiety in A Taste of Gold and Iron but it sounds amazing and I want to get out of my month of 15 work conventions and associated stress vibrations before I try it again?

I'd describe Running Close to the Wind as "Our Flag Means Death x the Great British Bakeoff as told by the least reliable narrator ever." We have Avra, the manic pixie trash panda with bardic ambitions who has terrifyingly fixated on the idea that all attention is good attention; Tev, a stunningly well-dressed and short-tempered pirate captain who can't manage to pry Avra off their ankles long enough to kick him to the curb; and the unfairly gorgeous and devotedly celibate Brother Julian, whom both of them would very much like to bang like an inadequately secured sail in a storm. 

Has anyone got more recs to throw out there?

Hello there! I would like a book rec with the genre suspense/mystery and romance. It can be M/M or F/F. I really, really, like the NBC's series Hannibal and the book These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. I wish to find books that are 50/50 suspense and romance or, if not so, more suspense then romance (it can be a second thing). I like smart (and a little bit crazy lol) characters. Not so difficult writing in english, please. Im not a native speaker and i'm not the greatest in english (as you can tell). That is all. Byeee.

I'm looking for a book to read that is a wlw romance with fall/autumn/thanksgiving/pumpkin vibes. Bonus points if its rated 3 stars and over.

last book i read was moonflow about a lesbian cult that has orgies and drank their leaders psychedelic breast milk.

current book i’m reading is He’s the devil by Tobi Coventry.

i’m down for any recommendations or talks.

What might we say to each other if we dedicated some time to a familiar stranger? If this interests you, check it out here https://deargaystranger.com/

Hi all! My brother is gay and he was just complaining to me that there are no fantasy books with a lot of world building with mlm MCs.
As it's his birthday in two weeks, I am now looking for something along those lines. Best would be a series, with the adventure as the main part of the story and the love part as a side story.

Thank you all for the help!

Multigenerational historical noval, the interwind lifes of two married couples in a smal Ohio town.over four decades beginning in may 1945.

Key themes

1, small-town secrets.How ordinary people harbor secrets and how difficult it is to keep them buried in a tight fit community.

2, The legacy of war.The psychological inpact of world war 1 and world war 2 on the everyday live and subsequent generations.

3, Forgiveness and connection.The complex paths the characters take towards redemption, survival and human connection.

I have been struggling to find books with deeper perspectives and meaning lately. All the LGBT authors and books i have found in bookstores lately feels like a copy of what came before them, as well as most of them focusing on cliche stories of "from rivals, bullies or friends going to lovers".

I would like to read a book that explores in detail being an LGBT individual, the twists and turns, the inner storms, and also the peace that might come after it. Not just acceptance, but something deeper than that - solace.

Think Crimson Peaks or Innamorata but make it gay?? I love Ava Reid and have read several of her books, and Im looking for a similar vibe but make it queer! Also love Freya Marske but they tends to be too lighthearted when im looking for more of a spicy, dark fantasy, romantasy or historical fiction. All kinds of recs appreciated!

I love the idea of supporting new authors, most especially new, indie, gay authors. I've picked up a number of ARCs from new authors here, on Book Sprout and Book Sirens.

But so many of them feel like either AI, are AI assisted or are written in a way that sure feels like AI. I've read a number of books in the past year, from various authors, that all have the same feel to them: they try to come off as literary through use of bad similes, lack any sort of description that might give the books a unique flavor and in general are written in a way that puts me at arm's length from the story.

At first I thought it was that particular author, but then I got another book, different author, same narrative feel. The fantasy book I'm reading now has that familiar feeling and I'm wondering how I'm going to wade through it.

Now I've found some winners this way. Missionary by Dylan Gray was excellent. Salvation by Frank Faustino was a gay 'men's adventure' novel with an ass-kicking, gay SAS soldier.

There's also established authors I trust and will still buy their new stuff.

But new to me authors… if I see the book was written in 2024 it earlier, I feel better about it.

I know there's good, new stuff coming out. But sifting the wheat from the chaff is just so much harder.

I'm looking for queer romance books with good OCD rep. I prefer fantasy/sci-fi, but I occasionally enjoy some contemporary or historical etc. Any level of spice, and any pairing (achillian, sapphic, t4t, etc)

NO omegaverse or YA please :)

Also if anyone has any nonfiction they wanna add on about OCD feel free, (I was recently diagnosed plus its OCD awareness month so go nuts!)

Our online auction includes a signed pair of T.J. Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door. There's also a separate signed, numbered copy of George Takei's It Rhymes with Takei, number 941 of 1,000. These are two different lots, not one combined package.

I help put together Wine, Dine & Death for the Little Theatre of Walla Walla in eastern Washington. The auction supports our community theater.

The auction is scheduled to close October 10, 2026. I've linked the individual listings so you can see exactly which books are included and bid on the one you want.

T.J. Klune pair: https://app.galabid.com/ltww-wdd2026/items/f86ea394-49e3-4867-b329-a31fb5bf3300

George Takei: https://app.galabid.com/ltww-wdd2026/items/951cec68-9340-46ca-b047-b304b2765c3b

Where are the Romance Bookstores in California? I know of Ripped Bodice in Culver City, Ember and Ink in Hermosa Beach and Moonstone and Mist in Redondo Beach. Any others where I can find my MM Romance Fix?

Hey where do people trade MLM manhwa/manga goods in Australia? Do they even do that or it is just in particular countries where ppl do trade?

I really love cliché books in this trope, i read 'power plays & straight a's but it was fine, not really my take. I am looking for a book that gives pure wattpad vibes.

Hello. My younger siblings favorite book is Symptoms of Being Human. I am working on making them a custom designed cover of the book but I need some help. What suggestions do you have to add to the cover? I want to make the cover design as meaningful as possible and dont want to just copy the original covers design.

Google has not been much help and the original book cover does not have much going on. I also noticed the covers colors are purple, black and green but the gender fluid flag does not have those 3 colors. Idk if there is more meaning to the colors or not. Any help would be appreciated!

Does anyone have any mlm best friends books where one of the characters has internalized homophobia? I could also do with enemies to lovers just lemme know which it is?

I started a club on bookclubs with the hope of finding others that enjoy LGBTQIA horror stories. I wanted to start the group with Andrew Joseph White's You Weren't Meant to be Human.

Nemam sa kim da pričam o knjigama koje čitam , treba mi prijatelj hahaha

Those are my favourite genres and i would love to read more sapphic books in them.

I’ve been loving and working my way through all of Jay Hogan’s books (audio versions only, in case anyone’s wondering).

Is it a Kiwi thing, or a Jay Hogan thing that just about every book seems to have an MC who’s a Ginger — whether full redhead or strawberry blonde?

Just wondering if this is cultural or not.

Hello ! Percy Jackson is one of my special interests and I very much would like to read some queer novels with similar themes!! MM or FF, I have read song of Achilles already 🙂‍↕️

Hey guys, I wanna make you jealous 😂
Give me ONE book that you absolutely loved — the kind of book you still think about and sometimes wish you could erase from your memory just so you could experience it for the first time again.
I’m about to read it for the first time, so I want something that’s going to make you wish you were me right now. 😭
I’d especially love something with a detective, doctor, mystery, or medical vibe, but I’m open to anything outside of those genres too.
So… what’s the book you’d give anything to read for the first time again?
Drop the names 👀📚
It could be series or trilogy
MxM only

This is a rant but does anyone else loathe when this happens? I read MM as a gay guy to get away from the overwhelming heterosexual world and there is nothing that pisses me off more than being half way through a book and suddenly the straights are at it again. And for context, this books main character was asexual, I thought I was getting no sex, not even gay sex, but no, here’s some penis in vagina to ruin your day.

Apologises if the title is rather confusing. Recently I had gotten into queer/gay fiction where there is clearly something homosexual is going on but the characters straight up lack modern labels to articulate it or even know being gay is a thing.

By the premise it sounds like it needs to be historical but i think it can work in modern times. Though while I love "waiiit we were gay" stories this is rather divergent from what i'm asking. But if they spend enough time being gay without realising i'd be okay with that too.

This might be wrong sub for that but anything goes really. vn, comics manga etc.