My novels, the quick and casual overview

One might even call it "the silly version"

Another year, another new social media platform, amirite? Having deleted my Twitter some time ago (because of Musk being a douche), and having lately cut down my Meta involvement by a good deal (because of Zuck being a douche), I have gotten more involved on Bluesky. (Add me there!)

Since the majority of the people I’ve connected with there so far are new friends and do not know much about my writing, I put together this quick-and-casual, social-media-thread version of an intro to my novels. Probably many of you on this platform don’t know all that much about my books either, so I’ll post it here too—even though this informal register does come across as silly and irreverent on Proper, Journalistic, Literary Substack. Hey—if you don’t already know I can be silly and irreverent, and if that’s going to be a problem, then it’s best you find out now.

(My books, however, are quite properly written and edited. I am conversant in Chicago Manual of Style and earned a master’s in linguistics. I contain multitudes.)

On to the books!

Ballad for Jasmine Town: trans m / bi f, queer side characters, fictional island country in our modern day, town is beautiful but doomed, ’90s music nostalgia, lots of fae

Lava Red Feather Blue: m/m, queer side characters, same world as Ballad for Jasmine Town, prince awoken after 200 years by guy wielding magic irresponsibly, whoops, fae chaos as result

Sage and King: m/m (one bi), Merthur-inspired though not Arthuriana, high fantasy novella, plant magic, reluctant king / powerful magician

All the Better Part of Me: bi m / gay m, contemporary romance (not fantasy), friends-to-lovers, OMG they were roommates, Seattle and London settings, ’80s music nostalgia (set in modern day), soap-opera-level relationship drama

The Goblins of Bellwater: goblins and other fae in a Washington State forest, small-town relationship drama, family curses, creepiness, no queerness particularly so this one’s safe to send to your homophobic relatives as long as they don’t mind the creepiness

Persephone’s Orchard and its two sequels (Underworld’s Daughter and Immortal’s Spring): many pairings over course of the trilogy, some queer, especially since some characters can remember past lives in which they were other genders or sexualities, lots o’ Greek myth, reincarnation, glowy Underworld coolness, immortality, some details I don’t think aged well but its heart is in the right place

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They are all published by a wonderful, woman-owned, Canadian small press, Central Avenue Publishing, and ought to be available most places online that you might think to buy books. If any of the synopses strike your fancy, click through and read the first few chapters for free (scroll down on the book’s webpage). And if any of them would be right up the alley of some friend of yours, please forward this post to them!