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I just finished In Spite of You by Patrick Lenton
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/in-spite-of-you-1
I took one look at Mr Sultry Eyes on the cover and thought it was going to be traumatic literary fiction — in actual fact, it’s a perfectly lovely gay […]
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I can recommend the Cursed series by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch if you like lightly comedic fantasy with your m/m romance.
And The Blanchard Twins series by R.O. Thorp for well-done cosy murder mystery with a really nice queer romance […]
Would anyone like to take over the coordination of Queer Romance Club for 2026?
If not, I shall let it go into abeyance (though happy to use the group/hashtag to share what we’ve been reading) 😊
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I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…).
The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer […]
[Queer Romance Club October - All of Us Murderers mild spoilers]
As prophesied, I read it one big binge last night.
I really enjoyed it, it’s fast paced with lots of plot - in fact, the romance plot is almost subplot, in that they reconcile relatively easily once they start communicating with […]
(I forgot to mention it’s not out till October 7)
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Two men in suits fleeing from a creepy Gothic mansion, done in a slightly garish pulp fiction style. One of the men has dark, very messy hair and is dishevelled, the other looks much neater. The title, All of Us Murderers, is in a large and kind of 70s font in yellow (to match the yellow light shining menacingly in the windows of the mansion). The tagline across the top reads “love. Hate. Secrets. It’s in the blood.”
🏳️🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club OCTOBER selection — All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles 📖 🏳️🌈
WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE?
When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative's remote Gothic manor, he is horrified to find all the people he least wants to see in the […]
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🏳️🌈 📖 October Queer Romance Club - seeking suggestions 📖 🏳️🌈
October’s theme is paranormal/Halloween reads. I’ll put the vote out over the weekend.
I have a few of ideas already:
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles (m/m, historical, Gothic, something unnatural lurks…)
The Most Unusual […]
🏳️🌈 📖 Queer Romance Club 📖 🏳️🌈
The new group to follow and use is here:
@queerromanceclub
(Probably best to unfollow or even block the old group; as I understand it, it may become used for spamming)
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Queer Romance Club September selection — Mise En Place by Nikki Woolfolk
OK.
I really hate being negative about an indie book, so I’ll keep it short.
Based on the blurb and review, I was really looking forward to this, but it wasn’t for me. I found the writing choppy, the plotline very uneven […]
The striking cover of Mise En Death. We’ve got an overhead view of a restaurant dinner plate. Chocolate powder and chocolate bits have been used to make the outline of a skull. The bowls of two bronze-hued spoons make the eyes (the handles run straight down side-by-side, strengthening the skull look). The title is written in the forehead area of the skull, with the Death in red like a raspberry sauce, the only non-earth-tone in the picture. It’s very well done.
🏳️🌈 📖 September Queer Romance Club selection - Mise En Death by Nikki Woolfolk 📖 🏳️🌈
I’m looking forward to this one, it sounds delightful 😊 Alt-history steampunk
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A gourmet airship banquet takes dinner—and murder—to the next level.
For Alex LeBeau […]
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📖 🏳️🌈 Soliciting suggestions for September’s Queer Romance Club read 🏳️🌈 📖
I set the theme as mystery/suspense and now I can’t for the life of me remember which book or books I was thinking of for that.
But an example within the subgenre is Alexis Hall’s Murder Most Actual, which we read […]
Cover of Loser of the Year. The title in very large font, above the top half of a woman’s face (photograph, not illustration). She is white with brown hair and eyes, and looks like she’d be smiling if we could see her mouth. She’s looking upwards at the title quizzically.
📖 🏳️🌈 Queer Romance Club August selection - Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd 🏳️🌈 📖
Shortlisted in the f/f romance category of the Lammy Awards
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An enemies-to-lovers, opposites attract lesbian romance about daring to take a risk, even if it burns you.
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Here’s the shortlist in the three specifically romance categories of the Lammy awards
GAY ROMANCE
It Takes Three To Tango // Jem Wendel. Larking About Press
Our Own Light // Logan Sage Adams. Self-published
Outside the Wire // William Leet. Flashpoint […]
I will speak in the general sense though (very mild spoilers):
A major problem for me with this style of modern historical is that it wants it both ways - sympathetic leads with modern progressive attitudes, relationships and freedoms, but historical obstacles.
So this book ignores the social […]
Queer Reading Club - July - Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend (aka More Than a Best Friend
It was available immediately from my library, so I’m commenting early — I’ll probably read at least one of others on the voting list, and might talk about it later in the month.
This one is cosplaying as […]
The Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend cover. Two cartoony girls in pretty ball dresses, holding hands. There’s a group of purple tinged silhouettes in the lighter purple background like a crowd scene at a ball.
This is the More Than A Best Friend cover. It’s the same as the Don’t Want You cover, but the font is larger and sans serif, it’s zoomed in a little, and the purple shades are darker.
Queer Romance Club July selection - Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma Alban
Aka More Than a Best Friend.
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A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their […]
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Change of plans for July’s Queer Romance Club’s theme.
It was meant to be the award winners for the Lammy Awards (https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/ but they’ve moved to later in the year, so we’ll switch to August’s Cosy theme.
AKA can we find a cosy the coordinator of QRC actually likes 😂 […]
[#QueerRomanceClub June selection — Navigational Entanglements — minor spoilers to end]
#QueerRomanceClub June selection— Navigational Entanglements
I do like a novella (I resent paying upper-end novel prices for novellas, but that’s a different story), and I especially like Aliette de […]
Covers of Uses of a illicit Art and its follow up Use of Myriad Arts
Covers of Domesticated Magic and Little Wolf and the Witch
@Priyajsridhar thank you for hosting #writephant
#selfPromo and since it was a #Pride theme…
… I write fantasy with LGBTQ romance.
The Uses of Illicit Art — m/m romance, trans character, bi character, ace character
Little Wolf and the Witch — m/m romance […]
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Book cover, a little hard to describe. Title in large green font at the top, with a pink flower-like but also person-like figure in the centre, over two large multi-coloured stylised animals, a rooster and a snake (most likely representing the clans in the book) facing each other, and before them is a grasshopper like spaceship
Queer Romance Club June selection — Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Since we had a tie (what a surprise 😊), I’ve deployed my tie-breaker for go for the f/f SF as the official pick (feel free to let us know what you think of any of the others […]
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#QueerRomanceClub June voting suggestions — Pride theme
We’re “read gay, do crime” all year round, but for the June pick, I need suggestions of LGBTQ books specifically by LGBTQ authors, specifically in the Romance genre (the relationship is central to the plot and there’s a Happy Ever After) […]
[May Queer Romance Club - The Keeper of Lonely Spirits - spoilers to end]
I haven't yet gotten past the first chapter, but I can say from personal experience that a major fracture is not something you just bounce back from, at least not as an adult. Mine was a shoulder, but that arm was more or […]
The cover of the ebook of the Keeper of Lonely Spirits. It’s predominately green, which is an illustration of a yellow-flower-covered hill, with a little house and cemetery perched on top. The sky is dark blue and starry. The title is in large yellow capitals across the whole cover.
MAY selection for the Queer Romance Club — The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by EM Anderson
I can’t say this SOUNDS much like a cosy fantasy romance — I’m looking forward to it anyway but I think I should stop being quite so trusting of certain book lists 😂
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Looking for recommendations for the Queer Romance Club May read. May’s theme is Fantasy.
Please note recommendations do have to be both queer, in any iteration, and a Romance aka the relationship is a central component of the plotline, with a happy ever after (or happy for now) ending.
I have […]
[Queer Romance Club April — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell - spoilers to end of book]
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Well, I did intend to thoughtfully post something after each part, but instead, I’ll just give it a ✅ for Staying Up Late to Read Another Chapter and a ✅ ✅ for […]
[Queer Romance Club April — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell - mild spoilers to end of Part 1]
Queer Romance Club — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
Very mild spoilers to end of part 1, but I know some readers don’t want even very mild spoilers, so into the secret-sauce box it goes…
I’m […]
Two male silhouettes, heads and upper bodies only, taking up half the page each, filled with starscapes anbove evocative “alien planet’ landscapes. The two silhouettes face each other over the large blueish title.
APRIL selection for the Queer* Romance Club — Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
As is fairly standard for QRC, the voting ended in a tie, so I’ve deployed my coordinator tie-breaker to go for Ocean’s Echo (the one I would have voted for, if I took part in the […]
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Soliciting suggestions for Science Fiction genre books for the Queer Romance Club April read. Let me know your favourites and I’ll add them to the poll 😊
Indie authors welcome, but please no Amazon-only books.
Also note they do need to be queer Romance with a capital Q. For example, Some […]
George saying “surely God loves how we are made. So I would expect he would understood”. This is an argument raised, among others, by utilitarian Jeremy Bentham — but he didn’t publish the argument, just wrote it privately.
Some supercilious guy is announcing his father is the 4th baronet of Cholmondeley the liar
I ran out of characters in the main post, wanted to say how much I loved this image, of Charlotte tasting her mother’s cooking: it shows her happiness, and the explosion of flavours around her
Queer Romance Club March — I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
I buzzed through it last year, and took my time on the re-read. My first impression was that it was sweet, but the romantic plot lines were mash-ups of Austen — I don’t want to say derivative […]
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