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What happens when a man who wants to surrender meets a Dominant who refuses to let surrender become disappearance?

The Bastian Protocols is about authority, submission, ritual, accountability, desire, and the complicated comfort of being told exactly where you belong.

Start with Part 1. Link in bio.

#HouseofIntegritas #BastianProtocols #QueerFiction #SerialFiction #LeatherCulture

What happens when a man who wants to surrender meets a Dominant who refuses to let surrender become disappearance?

The Bastian Protocols is about authority, submission, ritual, accountability, desire, and the complicated comfort of being told exactly where you belong.

Start with Part 1. Link in bio.

#HouseofIntegritas #BastianProtocols #QueerFiction #SerialFiction #LeatherCulture

What happens when a man who wants to surrender meets a Dominant who refuses to let surrender become disappearance?

The Bastian Protocols is about authority, submission, ritual, accountability, desire, and the complicated comfort of being told exactly where you belong.

Start with Part 1. Link in bio.

#HouseofIntegritas #BastianProtocols #QueerFiction #SerialFiction #LeatherCulture

What happens when a man who wants to surrender meets a Dominant who refuses to let surrender become disappearance?

The Bastian Protocols is about authority, submission, ritual, accountability, desire, and the complicated comfort of being told exactly where you belong.

Start with Part 1. Link in bio.

#HouseofIntegritas #BastianProtocols #QueerFiction #SerialFiction #LeatherCulture

It’s 05:00 and I’m tip-toeing to the skip with bin bags full of stuff wearing a grubby old tracksuit. My girlfriend Dani suggested bringing stuff home to charity shop it, but I don’t think anyone will want a well used tea spoon from Tenby, a souvenir of a 1970s holiday. The company are going to take this skip away, and next weekend I’ll drive back and fill it up again. What a time to be alive.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-trans-woman-stays-home-in-old-south-wales-2748e228e585?sk=88e0431e1662098a5834e38657f2485c

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #SerialFiction

It’s late and my memory is fading
So late that I cannot recall
The reason for touching my pen to paper
To record this latest downfall
In the street below a shout echoes
A blurry swift noise of the night...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/its-late-a-poem-527be25f0208

#LGBTQ #Poetry #Fiction #QueerPoetry #QueerFiction

Cover reveal by Drawulan for my Ream series coming soon! Superhumans living free after containment, finding their way together in the aftermath. 💖

Ready to do intros in the comments for curious folks!

#hopepunk #queerfiction #serialfiction #originalfiction #specfic

She Is Here—Still Here!

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UK: Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells | WH Smith

Tuesday is traditionally book-launch day. Today She Is Here has been out three months but as a small book from a small, independent press known for its anarchist leanings (see two of my favourites from their merch offerings, below) you might not have seen it reviewed in the usual places. (I didn’t go on tour, and did only two book events—one in person right here in Seattle, and one virtual for City Lights in San Francisco.)

Both events were great, and PM Press are very happy because sales have, by their lights, been unexpectedly strong. (Yay!) But I know there are more people out there who might enjoy the book if only they knew about it.

Some might enjoy what Gary Wolfe in his Locus review characterises as the four “good short but stabby poems.” Some might prefer the essays—including epistolary criticism such as “TheWomen You Didn’t See,” which is my analysis of how Tiptree’s identity shaped her short fiction. But what I’m really keen on getting readers to discover are the four pieces of my short fiction—particularly the original novella, Many Things in Dumnet. Why should you seek them out? Well, here I’m going to quote Wolfe again to save me the embarrassment of praising myself:

More than half the book consists of the four fiction selections. The shortest is “Glimmer”… a showpiece for Griffith’s lyrical prose, as a woman (who describes herself as “a cripple”) is transformed as she travels through time and space – “pulsing, lengthening, cooling, a cord stretched past the horizon along which she slides like a bead.” “Down the Path of the Sun”, one of Griffith’s earliest stories, is a grim but powerful postapocalyptic, postplague account of the narrator’s attempts to protect her sister in a violent, desperately diminished world. Both “Cold Wind” and “Many Things in Dumnet” are rare Griffith fantasy stories. “Cold Wind”, which begins in a women’s bar in contemporary Seattle, explores the complex relationships of predator and prey, as both the narrator and the strange woman she meets there both turn out to be not quite what they seem. “Many Things in Dumnet” is set in what appears to be a fantasy version of Griffith’s early medieval Britain, in which a musician, Anya Reine, arrives in Dumnet, “most southwesterly of the kingdoms of Albion,” and quickly lands a gig at a tavern – only to be warned that no one is allowed to perform without the approval of Macalla, who at first appears to be a local crime boss. But Macalla turns out to be far more than that, and so does Anya. Aided by totemic figures such as a silver fox, she eventually finds herself defending the kingdom from the predations of Macalla’s “wodebreath.” Apart from its supernatural fireworks and its convincing portrayal of a haunted medieval setting, the story also serves as a moving paean to the power of music…

Those who follow me on Patreon know quite a bit about Dumnet—it’s part of an SFnal alt-history set in a ninth-century Dumnonia (Cornwall and Devon) in which, over four hundred years earlier, the Fall of Rome coincided with the Fall of Something Nasty From the Sky and utterly changed the trajectories of every civilisation on earth. (I’m choosing my words carefully here.) But as that novel isn’t actually written yet, this novella is presented as a fantasy—the best way for it to make sense as a standalone. And having now written it and read part of it aloud that way, I remembered just how much enjoy writing fantasy: I can feel myself changing my mind. I think I will turn the novel into a a big-ol’ sword-swangin’ alt-history science-fantasy! Full of all those delicious tropes that writing realism (whether historical fiction, crime fiction, contemporary fiction about fighting ableism, science fiction), doesn’t always allow for: Music can save the world! Sex can save the world! Violence can be a good and useful and even, y’know, kind of cool thing! Lather everything in love and lust and loss and longing! And lesbians. And villains—eeeeeevil villains who can be defeated by lusty lesbians who love to sing! Fighting to save the whole fucking *world*!!! Oh, yep now that sounds exciting…

Er, anyway, my point is that if you like novels such as Spear, Hild, Menewood, and Ammonite, you will like this novella. So do me and PM Press and perhaps yourself a favour and go read “Many Things in Dumnet”—only to be found in She Is Here.

To whet your appetite, here are a few nice things people have said about the book:

• “Beyond having an astute way with words, [Griffith] speaks with an emphatic, take-no-prisoners clarity. Griffith plays brilliantly to this strength in her new collection She Is Here.”— Eric Olson, Seattle Times
  
• “Fresh work from [one] of the greats in the queer literary canon! This new book contains essays, poems, art, and stories. Griffith can indeed do it all.” — Autostraddle on She Is Here
  
• “Griffith’s sharp and uncompromising voice comes across clearly in the nonfiction and the interview, but the important news for Griffith’s readers lies in the four short fiction pieces, especially an excellent novella, ‘Many Things in Dumnet’, which is original to the volume [and] serves as a moving paean to the power of music … She is Here is a revealing and rewarding self-portrait of one of our most important—and most outspoken—voices.” —Gary Wolfe, Locus
  
• “A winning survey of Griffith’s work.” — Reactor on She Is Here
  
• “The collection starts with the most shocking piece, Griffith’s ‘A Writer’s Manifesto.’ I was thrilled to hear Griffith read it aloud. ‘I want to write a novel that invades you,’ Griffith said. ‘I want to control what you think and feel, to put you right there, right then, killing and being killed, f—king and being f—ked, cooking and starving, drinking and thinking, barely surviving and absolutely thriving. I want to give you a life you’ve never had and change the one you live.’ From a lesser writer, these few sentences would sound arrogant, even egotistical. As it is, the manifesto is intense and…a little frightening. For Griffith, it’s a distillation of what she wants to do (and what she does) in all of her fiction. She is Here is an excellent and deeply personal introduction to both Griffith’s writing and her perspective on writing.” — Chaitna Deshmukh, The Daily

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We were introduced at a mutual friend’s birthday party in mid-February, a cramped affair in a student flat adorned with balloons overflowing into a clinical blue corridor.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-first-girl-a-lesbian-awakening-c8a078e59cd7

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #SapphicFiction #QueerAwakening

“It was easy to feel insignificant, here in this grand room built by a long-lost civilization, with a mysterious and deadly adversary commanding em to vanish, but Horace had not chosen this adventure to abandon it. E may not be skilled, but e was stubborn and dedicated, and not so easy to get rid of.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/02/it-was-easy-to-feel-insignificant-here-in-this-grand-room-built-by-a-long-lost-civilization-with-a-mysterious-and-deadly-adversary-commanding-em-to-vanish-but-horace-had-not-chosen-this-adventure/

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If whimsy, queer communities, justice & delightful language is what you're looking for in a poetry collection, Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE is now up on Netgalley. Netgalley users can download it here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/605077

Small presses can't exist without reviewers. We sincerely thank you all.

#bookreview #bookreviewer #netgalley #reviewcopy #poetry #poetrycollection #canadianauthor #canlit #canadianliterature #sciencefiction #queerfiction #speculativefiction #speculativepoetry #bookstodon

#scribesandmakers Day 28: Shameless self-promotion!

For Love of a Konbini Idol

I have no shame about this. I got over it. And you don't need to have any shame reading it today. It's free so you can still take part in #BlackoutFriday

Join Ume & her family as their relationships develop. In a creepy world where “love” never dies
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At: https://www.pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025

Artist: https://bsky.app/profile/maisart.bsky.social

Tags: #KonbiniIdol #LGBTQ #LightNovel #ParanormalRomance #QueerFiction #Romance #Sapphic #SapphicRomance #Yuri #Queer #Yokai

#LesFicFri Dance

File 69: What Happened at the Mayoiga (ファイル: シックスナイン)

Taken from my 1st serious attempt at R18. It still reads reasonably well even though I didn't use beta readers back then. It's okay as stand-alone smut, but you need to have read "Otherside Picnic" to fully understand the characters' motivations.

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=16680127

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@lesfic #UraPi #OthersidePicnic #裏世界ピクニック #QueerFiction #FanFic #FanFiction

https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/better-than-expected/

Is Better Than Expected better than expected? ABSOLUTELY!! If in doubt, check out my review!!

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https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/better-than-expected/

Is Better Than Expected better than expected? ABSOLUTELY!! If in doubt, check out my review!!

#HaleyCass #IndieAuthor #NewRelease #OutToday #CompanionBook #WhenYouLeastExpectIt #KindleUnlimited #novella #queerromance #SapphicMigration #BookReviews #bookstodon #SapphFic #SapphicBooks #SapphicFiction #Lesfic #WLW #LesbianFiction #queerfiction #LGBTQBooks

https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/better-than-expected/

Is Better Than Expected better than expected? ABSOLUTELY!! If in doubt, check out my review!!

#HaleyCass #IndieAuthor #NewRelease #OutToday #CompanionBook #WhenYouLeastExpectIt #KindleUnlimited #novella #queerromance #SapphicMigration #BookReviews #bookstodon #SapphFic #SapphicBooks #SapphicFiction #Lesfic #WLW #LesbianFiction #queerfiction #LGBTQBooks

https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2022/11/08/better-than-expected/

Is Better Than Expected better than expected? ABSOLUTELY!! If in doubt, check out my review!!

#HaleyCass #IndieAuthor #NewRelease #OutToday #CompanionBook #WhenYouLeastExpectIt #KindleUnlimited #novella #queerromance #SapphicMigration #BookReviews #bookstodon #SapphFic #SapphicBooks #SapphicFiction #Lesfic #WLW #LesbianFiction #queerfiction #LGBTQBooks