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Gabriele | QueerBookdom 🐌
@queerbookdom.bsky.social
Reader, blogger, writer, AI hater, chronic overthinker.

Queer white Italian islander (they/he) with a penchant for horror, queerness and their intersection.

📍 a Mediterranean island.

https://queerbookdom.wordpress.com/

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To followers old and new, an introduction of my "little" self:

Hi 👀!

I am Gabriele, a queer "Italian" islander who loves books and queerness in all their facets. I write and read in all genres and ages. I am a Gemini, a chronic overthinker, etc...

I hope to meet new people and find old friends 💚.
This sounds so gooooooood 🤯! I need it.
#DVPARTY day 6 new WIP!

Losely based on Fame: In the mid-80s with Live Aid rising and AIDS looming, a shy gay teen in London and a bold bi singer in New York connect through a music mag ad. As they chase fame and trade letters, they fight for identity and love in a time that fears both.
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#DVPARTY Day 4 memes: Two cats. Four amber eyes. They stare at me. My mind immediately floods with images of countless others watching: classmates, random people on the street, Julie. Every time their hateful, disgusted gazes fixed on me, I longed to sink into the ground and disappear.
#YA #LGBT #CR
October 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#DVPARTY day 4 a sweet one: I whirl around, my wet Vans almost sliding on the floor, trying to get as far from that beast as possible—and tumble straight into two strong arms.
I jerk back. A boy my age stands in front of me, his dark brown face framed by cornrows, eyes wide and locked on mine.
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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EVERYTHING GETS CANCELED is about rumors and what it means for a 17yo singer to crash from viral fame to cancellation. Here’s the article that kicks off my story—and the opening lines of Chapter One Fight or Flight!
#DVPARTY #YA #LGBT #CR #demi
October 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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#DVPARTY day 2! Want to meet Brent? Here’s his (sort-of 😂) Pokémon card—and Jeremiah’s, the football star he bumps into in a cat café… and slowly falls for (because we’ll… demi).
#YA #LGBT #CR #demi
October 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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🖤One false rumor. 17yo Brent’s singing career is wrecked…
🤍His escape: Amsterdam—until his bond with a closeted football star sparks gossip
💜As the press closes in, he anonymously drops a track that goes viral
🩶Now he risks outing the boy he loves for a comeback

#preDV #YA #CR #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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One rumor wrecks his career
One boy makes him feel safe
One song could ruin them both

When gossip won’t quit, 17yo Brent drops an anonymous track. But the world connects it to the closeted football star at his side—and redemption might out the boy he’s falling for

🖤🤍💜🩶

#preDV #YA #CR #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Let’s kick off #DVPARTY! Meet Brent, my demi, sassy, canceled teen singer hiding in Amsterdam + Jeremiah, a closeted soccer—uh, football—star. Their meetcut? A cat café. Add gossip (think Kit Connor) about a secret romance. Brent is furious. So he drops a song—anonymously. It blows up. Ai… #YA #LGBT
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🤩🤩🤩!
Let’s kick off #DVPARTY! Meet Brent, my demi, sassy, canceled teen singer hiding in Amsterdam + Jeremiah, a closeted soccer—uh, football—star. Their meetcut? A cat café. Add gossip (think Kit Connor) about a secret romance. Brent is furious. So he drops a song—anonymously. It blows up. Ai… #YA #LGBT
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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What if the only boy who makes you feel safe is the one you could destroy?

Canceled in the US, demi singer Brent hides in Amsterdam. But one anonymous song going viral could out the closeted football star he’s falling for.

Think: LOVE, SIMON x RADIO SILENCE x IF THIS GETS OUT
#preDV #YA #CR #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Take a canceled 17yo singer
Add a setting in Amsterdam

+A closeted football star
+A meetcute in a cat café
x Rumors swirling about the two…

The result: an anonymous viral song that could redeem the singer—but out the boy he’s falling for.

#preDV #CR #YA #LGBT
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"Pre-ordering is inherently a hopeful, forward-looking action that declares that we will survive, and there will be wonderful books for us to read when we do."

My latest newsletter is about why book pre-orders help to make you more of a citizen of the book world:

buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature
Recently on Bluesky, I was shouting as usual about Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel that comes out in about a month. (It's about a young trans woman...
buttondown.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Does anyone own a Raskog cart? My friend wants to buy one to move food around from her kitchen to the dining room.
July 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Unpopular opinion: I am not watching season four of Ted Lasso without Jamie.
July 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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yippee! 🌟
April 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted
June 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Promotional art for @ajbarlowe.bsky.social novella "Doors Windows" available for pre-order ✨🌞
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#asexualrep #promotionalart #Queerbook #romancebook #romanlandia 🌈📚
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Counting down 30 days of PRIDEful comics! These are my personal choices and in NO WAY is this meant to be some complete list or ranking. I also refrained from choosing more than a few Marvel or DC books because they get enough spotlight. Enjoy!
June 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I am baffled, but especially appalled by the fact that, in 2025, John Boyne still gets read.

He is a passionate follower of the TERF witch. Is this not a known fact?
June 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Picky Eater Test:
June 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Watched Sinners. Loved it. Now, I need a spin-off with the Indigenous vampire hunters (prominent queer representation included, please).
June 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I wish for the year in which queer releases will surpass allocishetero ones.
#books
May 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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COVER REVEAL!! My YA cozy romantasy about a fairy and an agent of misfortune competing for a magical mentorship, Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, comes out 2/3/2026 from Feiwel & Friends. Art by peach.pod, design by Meg Sayre! Preorder now!!
bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
May 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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📣Authors
Does someone has tips on aging up a STORY? I want to make sure my GN is very YA and not MG 😅
Help deeply appreciated!
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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GAZE UPON THE SPLENDOR

My UK publisher @titanbooks.bsky.social has unveiled their cover for my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it's sparklewonderful. ✨😻💖
April 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM