As part of our Pride month celebrations, we decided that we weren’t going to write any posts for this blog. So, instead, we decided to hand it over to you guys! This first guest post is from Emma and features her favourite underrated books, so dive right in!
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Guest Post: My Prologue
Another exciting guest post to help celebrate a book release today! K.D. Edwards’ The Hourglass Throne, the third book in the Tarot Sequence, is out now and K.D. very kindly wrote us a post about how he first came up with the idea of the series.
So, get yourself comfortable, and have a read!
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Guest Post: How My Daughter and My Main Character Brought Me Out of the Closet at the Age of 42
We’re very excited today to be helping Katryn Bury celebrate her debut day with this post! Katryn’s book, Drew Leclair Gets a Clue, is out right now and we cannot wait to get to it. Katryn was lovely enough to write us this post, about coming out later in life, and how writing Drew Leclair helped her do it. If you’re still waiting on your copy to arrive, give this post a read in the meantime!
And if you haven’t yet got yourself a copy, you can do so right here!
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Guest Post: Being Queer is Not The Most Interesting Thing About Me
Another day, another guest post, as the poets say. Or maybe they don’t, but they should do from now on. Which is to say we have already hosted a number of very talented people on the blog, and you can read all the previous guest posts here.
Today though we have for you an essay by Candas Jane Dorsey, whose newest book – What’s the Matter with Mary Jane? – comes out tomorrow (October 19th). And you will actually learn a thing or two not only about Dorsey, but about the book itself as well by reading it, so enjoy!
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Guest Post: Amara Lynn’s Mask Series, a Food Tour
Today’s guest post is a very fun one, with Amara Lynn taking over our blog to lead us all on a tour of the real life locations in California that appear in their Mask series. Complete with pictures! So don’t let us keep you, dive right in, and let us know just how hungry you feel afterwards…
And if you want to know more about the series, check out Amara’s website. They’re also running a giveaway of the series (US only), that you can enter here.
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Guest Post: LGBT Identities in Second-World Fantasy
Today’s post marks the beginning of our guest post series! We started having guest post slots way back when we celebrated our one year anniversary on here, but recently we’ve figured, why not expand that? So here we are!
This post is written by Anya Leigh Josephs, author of the upcoming Queen of All (9th June), and is a fascinating look at just what goes into fantasy worldbuilding, particularly the language used to describe your LGBT characters.
So, get yourself some lunch (or a coffee/tea/other hot beverage, depending on your time zone), and have a read of this!
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Guest Post: Writing Comics with Cait
This is the last of our celebratory guest posts – but not the least! We figured five is a very nice number & were super lucky to get five amazing people to write for us. Today’s post is by Lou. We’ve met on book twitter, which seems to bee the place to meet interesting & talented people, doesn’t it. She’s an aspiring author and believe me, y’all really want her to land a book deal! Meanwhile, you can read a webcomic she cowrites with an illustrator friend. Or follow her on twitter.
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Guest Post: Found Family and LGBT in the Periphery
Charlotte lowkey makes fun of me for this, but if she let me, I probably would turn this blog into a shrine for Kayla. I’m just a big fan of her work, okay guys? And not without reasons, because everything she already published is amazing.
Anyway, I guess it comes as no surprise then that I asked her to write something for Reads Rainbow’s anniversary. And if you’ve read either of her books, you know that found family is a bit of a signature trope for her. So enjoy!
You can follow Kayla Ancrum on twitter (and you should, because she’s hilarious) & read our interview with her for some more content!
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Guest Post: Expanding the Possibilities of Fantasy: LGBTQ Representation in Malinda Lo’s Books
Today I’m very excited to host another dear friend on our blog! I’ve known Amrita for about four years and can honestly tell she’s one of the most talented writers & poets I have ever met. So you can imagine how happy I was when she agreed to write about something close to her heart.
You can find some of Amrita’s writing here or just go ahead and follow her on twitter.
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Guest Post: The Many Coming Outs of Gabriela Martins
We’re here two days after our blog anniversary with another guest post & we’re hoping you are all still in the mood to celebrate with us.
Today, we have an essay by Gabriela Martins. I met her around a year ago, I think, thanks to the book twitter community & being friends with her has been amazing. That’s why I was thrilled when she agreed to writing something for our blog!
You can follow Gabhi on twitter @ gabhimartins or visit her writer’s website: gabrielawrites.com.
And hey, we actually interviewed her a few weeks back!
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Guest Post: I’m Bi so I’m Greedy (For More)
Exactly one year ago today, we started this blog. (Yeah, the time’s flown by for us as well!) And because it’s our first blogiversary, we wanted to do a little thing to celebrate that. So, for the next ten days or so, we’re hosting a series of guest bloggers, to talk about whatever topic they choose (LGBT-related, obviously), and then finishing up with a post by us, as an extra thank you for all the support you’ve shown us.
(Because, in case it wasn’t clear, we wouldn’t be doing this without that support.)
Our first guest is Shri, who blogs over at sunandchai (go follow if you don’t already!) and is on twitter @sunandchai.
