Thank you so much! I am also having nerdly raptures about the additive filtration system on the indiestorygeek.com website -- you can pick multiple genres and multiple types of representation and you get an AND result, not an OR result!

(tucks away the MLIS-and-webstuff hat but eeeee)

And indiestorygeek.com/story/10573

Maybe I should add book links hahaha whoops I blame the antihistamines

indiestorygeek.com/story/9746

Categories that might fit either (shorthand 4 space):
This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty
Writing the Future We Need: Asexual or Aromantic Rep
WTFWN: Disability Rep by a disabled author
WTFWN: LGBTQ+ Rep
WTFWN: Mental Health Rep
Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Rep by a Neurodivergent author

@turkeycleverness.bsky.social - you and I seem to have related book likes! I'm writing a fantasy version of Tel-Bastet where humans and catfolk heavily inspired by the ancient Egyptian cat-headed art live side by side... but the fur flies when the dogfolk come to town. lynnstrong.com/books/haroun

And they'll print 5x8s on cream up to 700ish pages, so surely I can restrain myself to fewer than 100 pages of recipes, lore, and backmatter... (I say while furtively hiding the paperback of Haroun under a pillow)

There's a novella called Forego Quest attached to the end of the Dragon's Banker that does this in a fantasy setting, starting with strict avoidance of shadowy corners or any barmaids with unusual colors of hair and/or violet eyes :D

Wrapping it up: Cozy fantasy books for sale, usually under $5. This one lasts until Nov. 30: books.bookfunnel.com/cozyfantasyn...

The ever amazing Laura Greenwood will also be hosting a 99 cents Black Friday cozy booksale, but since it's not available yet I can't link to it. Stay tuned for later!

Next up: hey #romancelandia and #lgbtqia readers, FaRoSociety has a collection of free LGBTQIA fantasy romances! This one expires on Nov. 14, so this is the last full week to browse. 💙📚🌈

books.bookfunnel.com/farooctober2...

100% absolutely. I am through the conference swamp but have been working from 5 am to 7 pm on the editing I didn't get done during the week and need to post the promos I may not get a newsletter done in time to post before they run out of time and that would be Bad and uh about to post a bunch?

So, uh, literally 30 seconds after I found the forum hack to force it to activate, my Win10 computer forgot what electricity was. So I spent 6 hours I didn't have to spare getting set up on an emergency backup Win11. I am seriously wondering how I got cursed.

I was supposed to be attending 11, including one this weekend and three simultaneously on October 30. I have not even logged into this weekend's self-publishing convention thanks to multi day migraine...

(The reason I knew to ask this? I'd walked away from my keyboard in grad school and come back to my laptop's screen display being at a 90 degree rotation to the keyboard. I (a) learned to read sideways and (b) needed several days to figure out how to undo it.)