Sapphic boss/employee romance (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #18)
Check out this list of 15 recommended sapphic boss/employee romance novels, including books by Milena McKay, EJ Noyes, and Anna Stone.
Sapphic Book Bingo 2023
Sapphic coffee shop romance (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #17)
Check out the list of 15 recommended sapphic coffee shop romance novels, including books by KC Luck, Monica McCallan, and Rachel Lacey.
Sapphic book with a Person of Color on the cover (Book Unicorn #8)
This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo features sapphic books with a Person of Color on the cover.
Not only are People of Color still underrepresented in sapphic fiction, it’s still relatively rare to find People of Color represented on covers, even in books featuring Characters of Color.
Sapphic low-angst romance (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #16)
After last week’s category featured 15 high-angst romances, this week, it’s time for sapphic low-angst romance novels! A low-angst romance is feel-good book that feels like a warm hug. It’s more on the light-hearted side, without a lot of relationship drama. The main characters usually don’t have a traumatic past.
Angsty sapphic romance (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #15)
This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category features angsty sapphic romance novels.
An angsty or high-angst romance is a book in which the author puts the characters (and the readers) through the emotional wringer.
When it comes to romance novels, “angst” usually means that the characters are going through inner turmoil and painful emotions such as longing, dread, fear, pain, and insecurity. There might be trauma and heartbreak before they characters finally get their happily ever after.
New sapphic author (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #14)
I’m always trying to help out new sapphic authors who are just getting started or who aren’t very well-known yet, so for this week’s category of the Sapphic Book Bingo, please read a book written by a new or new-to-you author.
For the sake of the book bingo, “new author” means someone who has written no more than two novel-length books (not counting shorter works) at the time you read their book.
Sapphic book with a stunning or unusual cover (Book Unicorn #7)
For this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo, read a sapphic book with a cover that is stunning, unusual, or stands out in some way.
Of course, “stunning” is a very subjective term, and what stands out to one person might be considered nothing special by another. So for this category, just go by whatever cover you think is amazing or unusual in some way.
I picked the books I recommend for this category either because they won a GCLS Tee Corinne Award for Outstanding Cover Design or because they were among the top 10 favorite covers voted on by readers in my Facebook group.
Sapphic book with a same-sex wedding (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #13)
It’s been 8 years since the US Supreme Court has struck down all bans on same-sex marriage, legalizing it in all US states. That’s why this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category celebrates sapphic books with a same-sex wedding.
The wedding needs to play an important role in the book, so it can’t be just the two main characters getting married in the last chapter or epilogue.
Sapphic book with an immigrant or expat character (Book Unicorn #6)
This month’s Book Unicorn category of the Sapphic Book Bingo features sapphic books with a main character who’s either an immigrant or an expat.
Both expats and immigrants are people who left their native country and now live elsewhere. The difference between an immigrant and an expat is that immigrants move from the country of their birth to another country to live there permanently, while expats (expatriates) have relocated abroad only temporarily.
But sometimes, the situation changes, so someone can start out as an expat and then stay permanently, as it happened in my novel Shaken to the Core.
Sapphic book with a Pride scene
June is Pride Month–a month to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community–so for this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo, read a sapphic book in which the main character attends a Pride parade or another Pride event.