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korranews:

A new novel series about Kyoshi has been announced! The first book in the “epic YA saga”, The Rise of Kyoshi, is hitting shelves in July 2019!!

This is a big surprise and a very welcome one at that! The author is F.C. Yee with Mike DiMartino consulting, and the series will tentatively be (for now) two books long, and cover, as the title suggests, the rise of the Earth Kingdom Avatar we all know and love, with this synopsis to go on so far:

“The first of two novels based on Kyoshi, The Rise of Kyoshi maps her journey from a girl of humble origins to the merciless pursuer of justice who is still feared and admired centuries after she became the Avatar.”

The senior vice president of the publisher for the books had this to say:

“Bringing Kyoshi’s previously untold story to life in original novels will be a major pop culture event, not only for fans of the show, but also for readers hungry for a new epic YA saga. The Rise of Kyoshi has all the hallmarks of what YA readers love — bold storytelling set in a rich landscape with a strong heroine at the forefront!”

This is a really cool development for the franchise and will hopefully open up the avenue for more books about different time periods and characters from the world of Avatar, something we’ve been asking for for a long time!

The Rise of Kyoshi is 336 pages long, it’s coming out in July 2019, and it can be preordered here.

via Entertainment Weekly

Showers, Flowers, and Fangs: YA novel now up for pre-order!

justsayins:

justsayins:

Darren is your average half-human, half-fae trans teenager, busy figuring out his powers and puberty while trying to survive finals. When Vlad, a newly turned vampire, moves in with the witch down the street, he and Darren get off on the wrong foot. Darren is always one to give somebody a second chance, though, and as they become friends, he realizes Vlad is just lonely and struggling with his new powers. That’s something Darren can definitely relate to, and he’s happy to lend his support. But while he coaxes Vlad out of his shell, Darren ends up learning about Vlad’s past… and the danger Vlad is in. Darren only wants to help—help Vlad feel comfortable in his own skin and help him feel safe.

He hadn’t planned on falling in love.

Available now for pre-order at Harmony Ink Press! Click the link to read the excerpt, or check it out under the cut below. Cover reveal coming soon.

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Even better, Harmony Ink is having a sale right now! The paperback is 30% off AND if you buy it you get the ebook for FREE. Reserve your copy today!

The Queen’s Thief Timeline

whocalledhimannux:

I realized as I sat down to write some fic that I needed a real timeline for this series. I haven’t been involved in the online fandom for very long, so it’s quite possible others have one this before, but I love picking through things like this, so I made my own. I’m posting it on tumblr in case anyone else would be interested!

The Thief is the only book that’s tightly plotted to the point where I can actually name almost every day in the book; for the others I’m using significant events +the next day or +two days later or what have you. If a day is given with a + it means I have concrete proof of when the next thing happens, either because the narration or a character says something like “the next morning” or “two weeks later.” If there’s a ~ it means I’m guessing, and I give reasons for my estimate. A lot of the travel in Queen of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings is estimated, but it is very consistent.

In cases where large chunks of time pass with only a few scenes described in detail (like the timeline of battles in the war, or Sounis’s time as a slave), I’ve focused more of my attention on the bigger-picture stuff and skipped over the smaller scenes.

As an aside: in the course of compiling this, I may have unsnarled some of the things that bugged me about the timing of Costis/Ornon’s arrival(s) in the Mede Empire. It might be pure speculation, but if it’s not, then the timing and the textual clues are actually extremely clever and I am left, once again, marveling at MWT’s foreshadowing. Everything that initially made me think “that seems weird” or “this is just being handwaved/forgotten about” in KoA, CoA, and the first part of TaT would turn out to have been either foreshadowing or the neat conclusion of a previous book’s political intrigue.

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shiraglassman:

The Alpennia books by Heather Rose Jones are everything I wanted when I was a teenager and I’m so happy they exist now–19th century costume drama fantasy taking place in a tiny imaginary country near France, Switzerland, and Italy, starring a bunch of lesbians who do magic or swordfight and also featuring bi women and a trans guy. The books are full of political intrigue, pretty clothing, all types of relationships between women from romantic to friendship to rival princesses.

In the first book, Daughter of Mystery (review), a young mystic is forced into close proximity with her godfather’s crossdressing bodyguard girl when he leaves his entire fortune to her on condition that she retains the bodyguard as her own until they both reach the age of majority. That’s them in the top pic. By the third book, the mystic has literally founded a women’s college.

The second book, The Mystic Marriage (review) is about a middle-aged social butterfly who falls for a young demisexual alchemist (in purple.) This is a story of wildly contrasting personalities coming together while creating magic rocks, and introduces Sephardic Jews, a trans man, and a woman whose parents are from Ethiopia into the cast, all of whom also appear in the next book too.

Mother of Souls is the third book, focusing on both the above couples plus detailing new adventures of the Ethiopian-Italian woman who has a few relationships with other bi women while trying to navigate the complex worlds of both magic and Alpennian society. I can’t wait until she finds her permanent female partner in a future book (according to the author) so that I can hire art of her and that woman together to add to this art series.

Each book features a different threat to Alpennian national safety, and truth and light and rescue can only come from sapphics with magical powers (which we already knew, right?)

They’re a little pricey, but thoroughly worth it. If you can afford to get all three at the same time, the publisher @bellabooks has the eBook bundle for $23.95. Otherwise, here they are on Amazon; if you’d rather try the library, my local branch has had very good luck getting them after I fill out a request form, and if yours isn’t, consider borrowing them through interlibrary loan (ILL)–look at all the libraries that have the first book, for example. This is the series. They are fabulous books, each one long and complete and thorough and full of women in love, and I’d really like to help spread the word about them because I know far more people are looking for magical lesbians (and lesbians with swords) than have found them–so reblogs are appreciated.

Artwork above by @aroaessidhe on commission.

These books are AMAZING and are my absolute favorite PLEASE READ THEM

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

botanyshitposts:

hmmmm okay i really want to talk about the session i was at at the conference that discussed how venus fly traps evolved from sundews but im not sure if i remember it correctly. all the data from that symposium + more is published in this new book reviewing all the modern work on carnivorous plants called Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution. now on one hand, its incredibly fascinating stuff and id love to have my own copy. on the other hand, its $100 and im poor. on another other hand, my library at school has a copy and i can wait to talk about it. unless i want my own copy to add to my expanding aesthetically pleasing collection of botany books. and ill need to wait a month to talk about it. and it’s a fairly long textbook for the price, some 500 pages, which really isnt bad. and i love them. and i have a job so like i wont die immediately. and i got some money for my birthday. but its still 10 hours worth of work. but maybe its worth it. and its really new research. an

good lord the table of contents alone is 15 pages long

i had to order my textbooks for school anyway so i may or may not have indulged and just lumped it in with all the other expensive books i had to buy……..supplemented with some money i got from work/for my birthday….worth it? we’ll soon find out

when i get it ill use it to verify the stuff i remember from the conference and make a post on how we think venus fly traps evolved

she’s here lads…..my new prized possession

angryjewishsuggestion:

hazel2468:

angryjewishsuggestion:

me, creating my 500th angry jewish character: if the media is too much of a coward to do it, I’ll fucking do it

*Creates one badass Jewish werewolf* No… Not enough…

*Creates an entire massive, successful space empire based heavily on Judaism, fuck with antisemitic tropes and turns them around, writes a detailed wedding scene that’s basically just my cousin’s wedding from last month, makes all the main characters badass AND linked to their faith* ah hhhh yes perfect

hey? hey buddy? hey pal? hey friend? I fucking love you and that holy shit

…so where am I buying this book? Asking for a friend me.

Random warning, but…if you’re reading Dreadnought and Sovereign, be prepared to get angry. Like, holy fucking jesus I’ve had to put down the books multiple times just to get my blood pressure back under control.

gg April Daniels. You’ve managed to move my dislike for terfs into incandescent rage.

(The books are really good, just….yeah. Be prepared to set aside a lot of cooldown time if shit like that triggers anger problems.)