I Heart SapphFic best of the best winner (Sapphic Book Bingo #6)
For this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo square, read an I Heart SapphFic “best of the best” winner–from best enemies-to-lovers romance to best time travel and other fun categories.
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Catfishing in the sapphic fiction community
How AC Adams aka Adam Gaffen deceived readers and fellow writers.
For a while now, I had intended to write a blog post about how important it is to respect your readers and your community, with the first and most important point being to not lie and pretend you’re someone you’re not.
It turns out I now need to write an entire blog post just about that topic, because an author within our community has lied and deceived readers, fellow authors, and the rest of the community in a way that is inexcusable.
Let me start at the beginning to give you a better idea of what happened and why I’m posting about it.
Co-authored sapphic book (Sapphic Book Bingo 2023 #5)
This week’s category of the Sapphic Book Bingo features co-authored sapphic books, meaning books that have been written as a collaboration of at least two writers.
It can’t be an anthology in which each author worked on their story independently or a book that uses two different pen names of the same author on the cover.
Most of the time, both authors names will be on the cover, but sometimes, the authors also create a pen name that they use for their co-authored books, so you might have to do a bit of research to find out which books have really been created by two (or more) different authors.
Sapphic book that is out of your comfort zone (Sapphic Book Bingo #10)
For this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category, read a sapphic book that is a bit—or a lot—out of your reading comfort zone.
It can be a genre or subgenre you don’t usually read, a trope or topic you normally avoid, or a format you don’t usually read. If you stick to reading novels most of the time, you could try a short story, a biography/memoir, poetry, nonfiction, or a graphic novel. If you normally read ebooks, you could read a paperback or try an audiobook. If you mostly read contemporary romances, you could try a historical romance, a paranormal romance, a mystery, or book of another genre.
If there’s a certain point of view that you usually avoid, you could search out a book written from that point of view for this category–that’s what I might be doing.
Below, I’ll give you some resources and suggestions.
Nonbinary character (Book Unicorn #7)
It’s Nonbinary Awareness Week, so what better time to celebrate books with nonbinary characters?
Nonbinary people still don’t get to see themselves represented in books, but there are some great books featuring nonbinary protagonists.
What does nonbinary mean?
Nonbinary is an umbrella term for gender identities that fall outside of the gender binary. Nonbinary people—sometimes called Enby (from NB)—don’t identify as male or female (at least not exclusively or all the time).
Under that umbrella fall a wide range of experiences: Some nonbinary people don’t feel they have a gender, while others move back and forth between feeling male and feeling female or have two genders at the same time. Check out the Nonbinary Wiki for more details on different nonbinary identities.