Weekly Deals and Steals in Queer Lit – February 25th, 2025
Another week of awesome queer literature at affordable prices delivered straight to your inbox! Thanks so much for all the support of this little newsletter and of the authors we have featured! We also don’t want you to miss out if you’re a sapphic reader—tomorrow is the Year of Queer Lit Sapphic Stuff Your Kindle Event with dozens of sapphic books on sale!
While waiting for tomorrow, you should check out the books we have here today, including some amazing scholarly work, sexy paranormal serials, and a fairy tale told in verse!
✨ Book of the Week ✨
Trans/Rad/Fem
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Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Transfeminism
Spice Level: “Well, it’s a spicy book, but not for reasons of sex…” – Talia Bhatt
Representation: Trans Lesbian
This series of essays aims to reconstruct and reintroduce the radical feminist framework that its misbegotten inheritors seem determined to forget and in doing so boldly makes the claim that transfeminism, far from being antagonistic to radical feminism, is in fact its direct descendant. It shows how a comprehensive social theory of transsexual oppression flows almost naturally from radical feminist precepts and dares to declare that a materialist, radical transfeminism is the way forward to seize the foundations of patriarchy at the root.
Ebook: $5.99
Grace of Sorcerers
Urban Fantasy
Representation: Trans, Lesbian
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶
A lesbian warlock summons an ancient, beautiful demon in her quest to avenge her mother. Rep: Trans women, lesbians, Chinese characters, Turkish character Spice level on a scale of candy to 5 peppers: 3 peppers Link to a cover file for your work:
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Ebook: $4.99
PS: If you enjoy Maria Ying’s work, there is currently an Itchio bundle—Monsters, Mecha and Greek Myth—for Maria Ying’s novel The Hades Calculus as well as multiple authorized / official fan works, including a full color art book!
Gender Vampires Collection
Inilia Chayre
Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Representation: Trans, Lesbian
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
This is a series of short stories about lesbian vampires and their trans partner(s). Lots of focus will be on the intimacy between all parties involved, which may or may not include sex.
Free
Heaven and Hell Came Crashing Down Around Us
Inilia Chayre
Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy
Representation: Lesbian
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
When a young woman is faced with a medical bill for an immediate treatment she has no hope of paying, she turns to a tome her old friend gave her and summons a demon to make a deal. But is that really the end of the contract? Or will she find something more?
Free
Song of the Dryads
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Fantasy
Representation: Trans
Spice Level: 🌶🌶
Gayle is a lonely man. A strong and well respected one, but alone nonetheless. He decides to put this strength to good use and investigate a string of suspicious hunter deaths. Each case reeked of foul play from more experienced hunters, numerous newbies going missing after going on request to gather materials from the forest with them. He ventures in, the determination to save who he can overriding his fear.
Bianca, the new girl in the forest, has a dark secret that she can't let a single Dryad in their secluded sequoia grotto know. They all love and respect her, but she worries that kindness could disappear all in a matter of seconds. Dryads are known for their affinity to nature, so she strives to make herself indispensable by helping everyone out. They saved her from being alone, and she can't tell them why or she may lose the community she so desperately wanted all along.
Ebook: $1
PS: Baily Saxon is one of the authors included in the Monsters, Mecha and Greek Myth Bundle!
Cheerleaders from Planet X
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Science Fiction
Representation: Lesbian
Spice Level: 🍭
A tongue-in-cheek cross between Marvel comics and Space Invaders, CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X is a zany, quirky and snark-filled send-up of just about every sci-fi trope known to humankind—with 100% more lesbians.
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Ebook: $3.99
Failure to Communicate
Kaia Sønderby
Science Fiction
Representation: Biromantic, Lesbian
Spice Level: 🍭
As the autistic head of the Carpathia’s Xeno-Liaison department, Xandri has become an expert in peaceful first contacts and convincing sapient species to join the Starsystems’ Alliance. The Anmerilli, however, are as xenophobic as they come… and they are developing a powerful weapon that caught both the attention of the Alliance and their bitter enemies. This time, Xandri’s mission is wrought with politics and the consequences of failure may well be genocide for the Anmerilli.
Ebook: $2.99
The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion
S. L. Dove Cooper
Fantasy, Poetry, Cozy
Representation: Aromantic, Asexual, Sapphic
Spice Level: 🍭
Marian never wanted to get married, but then Marian's father promises he'll force her to wed the first beggar to arrive at the palace gates in a fit of pique. Edel only came to strengthen political ties, but she finds herself drawn to the haughty girl and determines to save her. This sapphic, queerplatonic retelling of King Thrushbeard is told in free verse.
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Ebook: $4.99
Stars and Soil
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Representation: Lesbian, Non-binary
Spice Level: 🌶🌶🌶
The prince demands Caitlin's hand, but an earl's daughter claims her heart. With power at court ever-shifting, rebellion roiling in the streets, and ancient evils lurking in the shadows, will Caitlin be a pawn or a queen in this dangerous game of revolution and love?
Itchio || Kobo || Amazon || Elsewhere
Ebook: $0.99 – Regularly $5.99. On sale through 2/26/2025 as part of the Year of Queer Lit Sapphic Stuff Your Kindle Event.
ARC CORNER
“ARCs” are “Advanced Reader Copies.” ARC copies of books are usually given out for free ahead of release! These authors are currently looking for readers who would like to read their books before anyone else and leave an honest review on book or retailer websites. You don’t have to be a professional book reviewer to be an ARC reader. If you can leave 3 or 4 sentences on a website, you can be an ARC reader! You get a free book, and you help out a queer author!
Riyati Rivals
Contemporary, Fantasy
Spice Levels: 🌶🌶
Representation: Asexual, Demisexual, Lesbian
Scheduled Release: May 2025
What would you sacrifice to alter an already guaranteed future?
The new school year has begun in the quiet town of Opal Pines, and with it, new problems for Kylie and Jordan: Kylie’s mother barely lets her out of sight, and Jordan’s new friend makes it clear he’s no fan of Kylie. Even their older selves are at odds with each other: Siani refuses to intervene in the events to come; meanwhile, Rotanu is not sure the ends justify the means needed to get there. To make matters even worse, a familiar woman from the June kidnapping is back and wants Kylie’s head.
What happens when the past is painful and still seeks vengeance, the present is lonely, and the future uncertain? Riyati Rivals is the second book of a new adult/adult contemporary, low dark fantasy series that seeks to explore themes of identity, legacy, the greater good, and finding your own path in life. The Riyati series includes multiple first person perspectives and multiple queer characters (currently including demisexual/romantic and lesbian representation with more to come in future books), set in the modern day United States.
ARC readers will also be provided with a complimentary copy of the first book, Riyati Rebirth.
Shades of Spring
Niranjan
Fantasy
Representation: Queer
Spice Level: 🌶
Scheduled Release: May 2025
A dangerous prophecy, the survival of a whole world at stake.
A prophecy spoken by the Halvard Seer before his death warns of the end of the world, one which will come to pass unless the Halvard, Cailern, and Wizards can work together to prevent it. But the Halvard and Cailern had never seen eye to eye and the Halvard Chief, Leymon, has a past with the Cailern queen, Sylvania, that he cannot let go of.
Sylvania and her husband, Bresson have kept the Cailern united for years, but when they receive a message from the wizards, their hard won peace is about to end. Worse, secrets that Sylvania has kept for years are in danger of coming to light, threatening the foundations of their peace with the Halvard.
When creatures from the prophecy attack and fatally injure Bresson, only Leymon has the power to save him. But can he let go of past hurts and betrayals to save him or will he risk the fragile alliance with the Cailern and condemn the world to destruction?
Shades of Spring is an epic fantasy novel and the first in the Shades of Spring series. If you like world ending stakes, magic, mysterious prophecies, hidden identities, flawed characters and emotional conflicts, you will enjoy this book.
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I hope you found your next favorite read and filled your TBR with some amazing queer literature! We’ll be back here again on the last day of February with our New Release Round-Up.
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