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January New Releases in Queer Literature

The first month of 2025 is over, and it’s been a month, to say the least. But here at QBW, we celebrate queer literature and refuse to stop, no matter what. Here are some awesome queer stories that came out this month.


Blade of Castrial

Blade of Castrial cover. Flowers adorning a sword among a pile of thorns. IN the background, magical portal / archway.

Author: Niranjan

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Release Date: January 31st, 2025

Genre: Fantasy

Representation: Bisexual

When Lucian is made Blade of Castrial, the second highest position in Castrial, next only to the King, it’s the culmination of an impossible dream. But when the Shield of Castrial is killed and all clues point to his lover and best friend, Alaric, Lucian has to make an impossible choice.

Kofi || Amazon || Kobo || Apple || B&N || Google Play || Everand || Smashwords

Ebook: $0.99


The Uncontinented Stars

Cover for The Uncontinented Stars. A blue planet with a chart overlaid and a black sky

Author: Haden Cross

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Release Date: January 21st, 2025

Genre: Science Fiction

Representation: Queer trans man narrator; main cast also includes a queer trans woman, a butch lesbian, and two queer men.

A queer, science-fiction re-imagining of Moby-Dick. When celebrated xenozoologist Abelard Cousteau returns five years after his assumed death following an accident in deep space, he seeks out his former protégé, Noah Starbuck, to accompany him on his first post-resurrection assignment. The two of them are tasked with auditing the first batch of humanity's exoplanet research bases, but Abelard's attention is focused elsewhere—on the creature that allegedly caused his accident, the creature he and Noah studied as theory, the creature he now wants to kill.

Content Warnings: Animal death/cruelty, body horror, medical content, psychosis, colonization, emotional abuse, transphobia

Itch || Amazon || Kobo || Other Retailers

Ebook: $1.99


Europa University: Admissions

Author: Cori Catchthorne

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Release Date: January 6th, 2025

Genre: Erotic kinky science fantasy web serial

Representation: Polyamorous nebularomantic pansexual-disaster sweet submissive trans man / charismatic quietly bloodthirsty queer trans man (with other pairings to come)

Privileged, polyamorous trans ingenue Emile Devigne is just starting at Europa University when he meets Cylus Keene, a young man with a shadowed past trying to secure a better future for himself and his twin, Cynthia. And even more entanglements await Emile on Europa…

Updates every other Monday!

Content Warnings: Enthusiastic yet dubious consent, eroticizing knives/blood, hypnosis/mindfuckery, BDSM

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Lillith of Endings: Otherworldly Anarchist, Book 1

Cover for Lilith of Endings: Otherworldly Anarchist, Book 1. Two characters drawn in anime style duel with magic. One is on the ground but aiming a blast of fire magic upward at the other who is being knocked back by it.

Author: Dreamer's Riot

Genre: Fantasy, Isekai, Portal Fantasy

Release date: January 21st, 2025

Representation (Series): Lesbian, trans masc, trans femme, polyam, just about everything

Annie Beckett, a teacher and biologist, wakes up in as Lillith. In a new world and a new body. She remains brilliant, fierce, and sapphic: three traits women are not allowed in the monarchy she has found herself in. But she had the fire to fight corruption on Earth, and that fire was reborn with her.

Content Warnings: Sensitive Content, Abuse, Suicidal ideation, mentions of (but not depiction of) sexual assault, Graphic Violence

Amazon || Royal Road

Ebook: $4.99


Cat/Mouse

Cover for Cat/Mouse by Eliza Mares. Lines of binary code run across at an angle while the title and author name are overlaid.

Author: Eliza Mares

Genre: Science fiction

Release date: January 14th, 2025

Representation: Nadine and Ulu'zah (love interest) are both lesbians. Nadine is a woman of color.

Veteran bounty hunter Nadine picks up the job of a lifetime — fifty thousand credits just to capture an art thief — but one look at her beautiful target tells Nadine that her “simple” contract is about to get very complicated.

Content Warnings: blood, violence, foul language

Amazon (Kindle Unlimited)

Ebook: $4.99


Stories from the Deep (The Chronicles of Nerezia 4)

Illustrated cover for Stories from the Deep. A giant Kraken flails it's tenticles in the water. At the center is an adventurerer looking rather beleagured.

Author: Claudie Arseneault

Genre: High Fantasy

Release date: January 9th, 2025

Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Non-Binary

In which the Wagon crew runs afoul of the kraken and must piece together the Fragments’ mysteries to escape it.

Content Warnings: Shipwreck

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Ebook: $3.99


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