Happy weekend!
Saturdays are when we curate all the sapphic book news and queer happenings of the week into one convenient location. Think of it as your personal reading directory! After all, we know the weekend is when so many of us are able to unwind for a minute and want to get lost in a good woman loving woman book. What could be better?
In today’s post, you’ll find cheerful LGBTQ+ news stories to combat all the negative ones bombarding our screens.
Sapphic author Ursula Whitcher shares a Caturday photo of an adorable ginger cat!
One of the things we love about the weekly lesfic author selfie is getting to know the personality behind the words. Check out the picture of Harmony Noble with the book Healing Hearts.
Finally, scroll to the bottom of the post to see more photos of a fall Massachusetts tradition that TB and Miranda look forward to each year!
Before we get to today’s post, it’s time to reveal the identity of this week’s Guess the Author!
Every week we provide five clues about a sapphic author. On Saturday, we reveal the author’s identity.
Before we unveil this week’s author, here are all 5 clues in case you missed them:
1. My first published stories were under the pen name Aunt Fanny, and appeared in anthologies alongside those of Radclyffe, Karen Kallmaker, Therese Szymanski, Lynn Ames, and Bliss.
2. In pre-GPS days, I was the get-away driver for an amateur fruit thief. I’d pull over to an orchard and leave the engine running. While she nicked fallen and low-hanging fruit, I’d pull out a roadmap, extend it across the windshield, and look lost.
3. I had to do a lot of research for my newest book. Query: can you write off a strap-on, blindfold, and spanking paddle on your taxes?
4. I spent a year traveling around the United States in an RV before meeting my wife and settling down.
5. Although I write sizzling, spicy, Sapphic smut, my first prize-winning book (Goldie, 2015) was for middle-grade readers.
Now it’s time to reveal their name. Drum roll please…
This week’s author is Genta Sebastian!
Check out The Devil’s Playground, Genta Sebastian’s new release!
Spicy Sapphic Smut in a BDSM Club for Magical Beings
Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets … unless she’s on the devil’s feckless list and her boss wants results, then she better hustle.
Ordered to find her own replacement, Satan sends his irresistible seductress and soulless minion to a BDSM club for magicals called The Devil’s Playground. But who will Lola recommend for the job? Magda, the sex goddess submissive, or her butch Dom Deborah, aka Sigrid the Proud? Maybe Mistress Shade, an imperial vampire, or the mysterious one-eyed Baroness? Perhaps one of her greatest rivals of all time, Freyja of the north?
Zenobia, leader of The Devil’s Playground, however, is off-limits. An unexpected reunion with the woman who, seventeen centuries ago, turned her from men to Sapphic sex, makes Lola accept the invitation from modern-day Master Zen to explore her submissive side, reexamine her life, make new choices, and dare hope for a future.
But the provocative temptress is living on borrowed time; can the staff family of The Devil’s Playground save Lola’s job, life, and even her soul?
Get The Devil’s Playground here.
Genta Sebastian’s bio:
Genta Sebastian runs with scissors, always laughs without shame, sometimes writes naked, and dreams big. She started life as a child, and against her own advice, swiftly attained adulthood. Full grown adulting, however, proved to lie just outside her skill set and beyond her ken. Instead, she’s enjoyed being an elementary school teacher, crochet artiste, amateur community theater player, master teacher, criminally wicked cookie baker, professional storyteller, Christmas stocking needle-pointer, an okay parent, cool grandparent, and epic great-grandparent. And along the way, she also found time to become a published, award-winning author.
Visit Genta Sebastian’s website.
Monday kicks off a fresh Guess the Author game!
NEED A BOOK FOR THE WEEKEND?
If you’re looking for something to read this weekend, below you’ll find 26 books on sale.
Need more choices? Check out the BookFinder, which has more than 7,840 books for you to choose from, ranging from steamy sapphic romance books, ice queen wlw romances, lesfic audiobooks, queer superheroes, best friends to lovers lesbian romances and so much more!
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Without further ado, let’s get to all the weekly queer news!
No matter what happens in these difficult times, TB and Miranda remain committed to bringing you good news from the queer community. While it’s important to stay informed, it’s also vital not to lose sight of all the kindness in the world. Below are the happy queer stories that made us smile this week. They’re queer news links worth clicking!
Alex Consani on being the first trans model to walk the Victoria’s Secret runway: “It’s really impactful” — Wonderful!
In A Hilarious Turn of Events, The Onion Now Owns Alex Jones’ Infowars — We have to admit, we thought this was simply an Onion headline before it sunk in!
Pedro Pascal’s sweet moment with trans sister Lux at Gladiator II premiere goes viral — We all need peeps like this in our lives!
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to Fellow Democrats: Don’t Throw Trans People Under the Bus — Thanks for saying this!
He saw Republicans attacking schools. Now this gay teen is Utah’s youngest elected official — Congrats!
Meet Kosmas! Kosmas loves it when I’m writing. Keyboards make the best pillows! Submitted by Ursula Whitcher, a sapphic author.
Please note, sale prices may change without notice, so please check the price before clicking a buy button. International prices may vary.
Some of the books are only on sale on November 16, 2024.
