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# New Releases: September 30, 2025

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Fave Five

# Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror, 2025 Edition, Part I

October 3, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

*The Faceless Thing We Adore* by Hester Steel

*We Are Always Tender With Our Dead* by Eric LaRocca

*Moonflow* by Bitter Karella

*You Weren’t Meant to Be Human* by Andrew Joseph White

*Blood on Her Tongue* by Johanna van Veen

Bonus: These are all novels, but for short stories, check out *Teenage Girls Can Be Demons* by Hailey Piper

Fave Five

# Fave Five: Queer Fiction Set in the 1960s

October 2, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

*Shoot the Moon* by Isa Arsén

*A Single Man* by Christopher Isherwood

*The Salvage* by Anbara Salam

*These Heathens* by Mia McKenzie

*The Safekeep* by Yael van der Wouden

Bonus: Coming in 2026, *Heap Earth Upon It* by Chloe Michelle Howarth

A Single ManAnbara SalamChristopher IsherwoodIsa ArsenMia McKenzieShoot the MoonThe SalvageThese Heathens

Happy Holigays

# Happy LGBTQ History Month 2025!

October 1, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Happy LGBT History Month! We are, of course, celebrating as we celebrate everything over here – with books! Specifically, with both fiction and nonfiction that pay tribute to LGBT history.

### Fiction
### Middle Grade
### *Alice Austen Lived Here* by Alex Gino

Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They’re nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam’s family is very cool with it… as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do their homework, and try not to antagonize their teachers too much.

The teacher-respect thing is hard when it comes to Sam’s history class, because their teacher seems to believe that only Dead Straight Cis White Men are responsible for history. When Sam’s home borough of Staten Island opens up a contest for a new statue, Sam finds the perfect non-DSCWM subject: photographer Alice Austen, whose house has been turned into a museum, and who lived with a female partner for decades.

Soon, Sam’s project isn’t just about winning the contest. It’s about discovering a rich queer history that Sam’s a part of — a queer history that no longer needs to be quiet, as long as there are kids like Sam and TJ to stand up for it.

**Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon**

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Deal Announcements

# September 2025 Deal Announcements

September 30, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

### Adult Fiction

Author of MY SHARE OF THE BODY Devon Capizzi‘s RUGGERS, following a women’s college rugby team in New England through the eyes of a single player who is facing a crossroads as a battered shoulder threatens to keep her out for the season and pushes her to begin searching for a life off the field; a portrait of a brutal sport that explores queer friendship, desire, social identity, community, and athleticism, to Pilar Garcia-Brown at Dutton, at auction, by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world).

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American GolemAmy SpaldingAn Olympic FlameApocalypse BrosEmme LundErin JonesGabrielle KornGwendolyn KisteHenry HokeJess H. GutierrezRachel KitchRuggersShelly Jay ShoreThe First Girl in HellThe Forest BleedsThe King of Aloe VeraTom RyanTomas MonizZachary Sergi

Cover Reveal

# Exclusive Cover Reveal: *Time-Tripping Over You* by Brennon Lane

September 29, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for *Time-Tripping Over You* by Brennon Lane, a queer, trans YA Romance with Sci-Fi elements and aroace rep releasing March 10, 2026 from Page Street YA! Here’s the story:

**In this slow-burn queer trans romance, two college students team up to stop the time traveling episodes forcing them to relive their pasts**

College freshman Silas Turner is a scientific anomaly. Thrown back in time uncontrollably, he’s forced into his pre-transition body for hours to days at a time, reliving random events in his past. Why? Every cell in his astrophysics major brain is straining to figure it out. But the “time trips” just keep on coming, disrupting Silas’s life, and he’s certain he’s a one-of-a-kind phenomenon—until brash, guitar-playing Jude Forrester barges into his life, exhibiting the same symptoms.

He claims a future version of Silas visited him, and that, according to future-Silas, they’re meant to help each other stop the time trips. If working together can really lead to finding a cure, Silas can handle Jude’s tortured-artist attitude; Jude can humor Silas’s nerdy obsession with the stars.

As they get closer to a solution, they grow closer to each other. But Jude is still grieving an old connection that broke his heart, and he can’t help but wonder if changing the past might save himself and Silas a lot of heartache. Amidst cataclysmic consequences, Silas and Jude must face the cosmic circumstances that brought them together if they hope to protect their timeline—and the future they seem destined to share.

**And here’s the trippy cover by Emma Hardy!**

**Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | B&N**

> Brennon Lane is a Black, queer, trans author who can’t seem to stop creating characters whose stories beg to be told. Writing exclusively in the LGBTQ+ genre, he hopes to offer the younger queer community the diverse representation in media that he always sought. *Time-Tripping Over You* is his debut novel.

Debut NovelEmma HardyMarch 2026 ReleasesPage StreetRomanceSci-Fi RomanceTime TravelTime-Tripping Over YouTransTransgenderYAYoung Adult

Fave Five

# Fave Five: New Queer YA Horror, 2025 Edition

September 26, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Surprise, it’s actually six! I do what I want.

For 2024 titles, click here.

*If We Survive This* by Racquel Marie

*The Dead of Summer* by Ryan La Sala

*Hollow* by Taylor Grothe

*Empty Heaven* by Freddie Kölsch

*Season of Fear* by Emily Cooper

*He’s So Possessed with Me* by Corey Liu

Corey LiuEmily CooperEmpty HeavenFreddie KölschHe's So Possessed with MeHollowHorrorIf We Survive ThisRacquel MarieRyan La SalaSeason of FearTaylor GrotheThe Dead of SummerYoung Adult

Fave Five

# Fave Five: Queer Adult Romance with Autumnal Vibes

September 24, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

*Love at First Fright* by Nadia El-Fassi (bi4bi M/F)

*Rules for Ghosting* by Shelly Jay Shore (trans M/M)

*Learning Curves* by Rachel Lacey (F/F)

*The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy* by Roan Parrish (M/X)

*The Lone Wolf Cafe* by Sydney Wilder (F/F)

Learning CurvesLove At First FrightNadia El-FassiRachel LaceyRoan ParrishRomanceRules for GhostingShelly Jay ShoreSydney WilderThe (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar LovejoyThe Lone Wolf Cafe

New Releases

# New Releases: September 23, 2025

September 23, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

### Middle Grade
### *The Court of the Dead* by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro

**New York Times #1 best-selling authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro collaborate again on a new adventure in which Nico di Angelo teams up with his half-sister Hazel Levesque to protect . . . monsters?**

Nico di Angelo is feeling antsy. It’s been almost three months since he and his boyfriend, Will Solace, returned to Camp Half-Blood from their journey to Tartarus, and there hasn’t been a demigod quest or a conflict with monsters in all that time. So, when Nico’s half-sister, Hazel Levesque, asks him and Will to join her at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast, he shadow-jumps at the chance to get away and do something.

In her Iris-message, Hazel had said that she needed the boys’ help with an “issue” with some “new guests.” What she didn’t say was that she’s providing a haven for a group of monsters who escaped the Underworld! Apparently, the self-proclaimed “mythics” learned from Nico and Will themselves that they have options and don’t have to be evil. But their integration into the Roman demigod camp isn’t exactly going smoothly.

As Nico and Will endeavor to build bridges between the refugees and the demigod campers, the mythics start disappearing from camp, one by one. A mysterious dark force is at work, and its plan is to punish all monsters for their past crimes. Things only get worse when Hazel learns that she is closely connected to that force . . .

**Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | Old Town Books**

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Fave Five

# Fave Five: LGBTQ Enemies-to-Lovers, a Guest Post from *Try Your Worst* author Chatham Greenfield

September 22, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

**Today on the site, I’m delighted to have a guest author writing the Fave Five: Chatham Greenfield, author of *Try Your Worst*, which comes out tomorrow! Before we get to Chatham’s recs of Fave Five: Queer Enemies-to-Lovers YA Books, here’s a note from the author:**

I would say that there’s nothing I love more than enemies-to-lovers romances, but I would be lying. I love one thing more: *queer* enemies-to-lovers romances.

When I was writing *Try Your Worst*, I was fortunate to have so many amazing queer enemies-to-lovers YA novels to turn to. There’s just something special about seeing two people realize that the line between hatred and love is blurring, only for it to dissipate completely.

From sprawling soccer fields, to high school journalism programs, to sweaty summer camps, queer YA certainly brings the angst-turned-swooning. Here are just five of my recent favorites.

*Wish You Weren’t Here* by Erin Baldwin

This sapphic romance marries enemies-to-lovers with one of my other favorite tropes: forced proximity. Two rivals are forced to share a cabin at summer camp and the results are, like everything Baldwin writes, laugh out loud hilarious.

*Canto Contigo* by Jonny Garza Villa

I’m such a fan of the way Jonny Garza Villa balances pain with lightness, and this book is no exception. This rivalry-turned-romance is set on the backdrop of Mariachi competitions and it’s so satisfying to watch the love interests find their harmony.

*We Got the Beat* by Jenna Miller

In *We Got the Beat*, Miller takes enemies-to-lovers back a step and serves up a delicious friends-to-rivals-to-lovers romance. As a fat lesbian who was a journalism nerd in high school, I felt so seen by this sweet story.

*Caught in a Bad Fauxmance* by Elle Gonzalez Rose

It’s got fake dating, it’s got family hijinx, AND it has the signature Elle Gonzalez Rose heartfelt humor. *Caught in a Bad Fauxmance* is a delectable hat trick of an enemies-to-lovers romance that’s near impossible to put down.

*You Don’t Have a Shot* by Racquel Marie

No one writes teenage angst quite like Racquel Marie does. The banter and tender moments are plentiful in this one, and it’s fun to watch the characters come together on the backdrop of a heated soccer rivalry.

> **Chatham Greenfield** is a young adult author born and raised in Florida, which is why their stories often take place in humid seaside towns. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, they were selected as a fellow in the inaugural class of LitUp by Reese’s Book Club. You can find them wherever there’s air conditioning, wrapped up in a blanket, reading a gay love story. Connect with Chatham @chatgreenfield on socials and at chatgreenfield.com.

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Fave Five

# Fave Five: Queer Botanical Creepfests

September 19, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

You know what I mean.

*Don’t Let the Forest In* and *Hazelthorn* by CG Drews (YA)

*Tripping Arcadia* by Kit Mayquist

*A Botanical Daughter* by Noah Medlock

*Such Pretty Flowers* by K.L. Cerra

*Moonflow* by Bitter Karella

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