Pretty sure this post will go nowhere because I haven't been on in ages so... IF YOU REBLOG THIS, message me and I'll give you an ebook copy of my TRANS M/M VAMPIRE NOVELLA*
Anyways...
Guides For Dating Vampires Hardcover Special Editions are HERE! (for now)
They have sexy jacket art by @houdabelgharbi (as seen below) and romantic cover art by @oblivionsdream (as seen here), sprayed edges, bookend art, and a full-color illustration inserted inside each book, as well as all the bonus content and free shorts I've written for the characters printed at the back of the books!
You can order your own set at my kickstarter!
You can also grab a discounted set of the ebooks and/or fandom goodies if you don't collect physical books.
* Up to the first 50 people who contact me, though I'm not expecting that many frankly. Just gotta disclaimer it in case.
These books are fucking PHENOMENAL and are some of my favorite portrayals of vampires I have yet seen. I devoured these books and highly recommend them if you’re looking for a fun, queer romance that you can sink your teeth into (HA). Also, the art is GORGEOUS so it’s a simple all around win.
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Pretty sure this post will go nowhere because I haven't been on in ages so... IF YOU REBLOG THIS, message me and I'll give you an ebook copy of my TRANS M/M VAMPIRE NOVELLA*
Anyways...
Guides For Dating Vampires Hardcover Special Editions are HERE! (for now)
They have sexy jacket art by @houdabelgharbi (as seen below) and romantic cover art by @oblivionsdream (as seen here), sprayed edges, bookend art, and a full-color illustration inserted inside each book, as well as all the bonus content and free shorts I've written for the characters printed at the back of the books!
You can order your own set at my kickstarter!
You can also grab a discounted set of the ebooks and/or fandom goodies if you don't collect physical books.
* Up to the first 50 people who contact me, though I'm not expecting that many frankly. Just gotta disclaimer it in case.
I'm so thrilled to announce that four out of our five stretch goals have been met!
They include...
❤️ Each book gets its own full page of art inserted into the book at the point where it's relevant, illustrated by Atlas Schmidt.
❤️ A character illustration by Cerys will be added to the back of the laminated quote bookmarks, which EVERY reward tier will now receive.
❤️ Every artist who worked on this special edition gets a bonus! (The exact amount will depend on how much funding the project gets in full.)
❤️ Header art will be added to the books! These pieces will alternate between POV chapters.
Do you think we can hit $13k more in funding (that's about 130 orders) in the next 8 days to reach the final art addition?! (I might even throw in prints of this new art for all orders if we make it 😈 )
Share the kickstarter with your bookish friends to help us get a second set of illustrated full-color inner art pages! (Pst, I'm still giving out novella ebooks to people who reblog!)
Pretty sure this post will go nowhere because I haven't been on in ages so... IF YOU REBLOG THIS, message me and I'll give you an ebook copy of my TRANS M/M VAMPIRE NOVELLA*
Anyways...
Guides For Dating Vampires Hardcover Special Editions are HERE! (for now)
They have sexy jacket art by @houdabelgharbi (as seen below) and romantic cover art by @oblivionsdream (as seen here), sprayed edges, bookend art, and a full-color illustration inserted inside each book, as well as all the bonus content and free shorts I've written for the characters printed at the back of the books!
You can order your own set at my kickstarter!
You can also grab a discounted set of the ebooks and/or fandom goodies if you don't collect physical books.
* Up to the first 50 people who contact me, though I'm not expecting that many frankly. Just gotta disclaimer it in case.
Pretty sure this post will go nowhere because I haven't been on in ages so... IF YOU REBLOG THIS, message me and I'll give you an ebook copy of my TRANS M/M VAMPIRE NOVELLA*
Anyways...
Guides For Dating Vampires Hardcover Special Editions are HERE! (for now)
They have sexy jacket art by @houdabelgharbi (as seen below) and romantic cover art by @oblivionsdream (as seen here), sprayed edges, bookend art, and a full-color illustration inserted inside each book, as well as all the bonus content and free shorts I've written for the characters printed at the back of the books!
You can order your own set at my kickstarter!
You can also grab a discounted set of the ebooks and/or fandom goodies if you don't collect physical books.
* Up to the first 50 people who contact me, though I'm not expecting that many frankly. Just gotta disclaimer it in case.
Pretty sure this post will go nowhere because I haven't been on in ages so... IF YOU REBLOG THIS, message me and I'll give you an ebook copy of my TRANS M/M VAMPIRE NOVELLA*
Anyways...
Guides For Dating Vampires Hardcover Special Editions are HERE! (for now)
They have sexy jacket art by @houdabelgharbi (as seen below) and romantic cover art by @oblivionsdream (as seen here), sprayed edges, bookend art, and a full-color illustration inserted inside each book, as well as all the bonus content and free shorts I've written for the characters printed at the back of the books!
You can order your own set at my kickstarter!
You can also grab a discounted set of the ebooks and/or fandom goodies if you don't collect physical books.
* Up to the first 50 people who contact me, though I'm not expecting that many frankly. Just gotta disclaimer it in case.
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Get ready to dive into a fantastic world of flying ships, found family, and pirate heists as you follow Edward through the Atlantic Skies onboard the Vulturnus.
Maddox and Diego from the Stars and the Stage, drawn by @thistlearts
Guess what's coming out NEXT WEEK?!
(Hint: it's the new prequel novella for the Guides for Dating Vampires series, the Stars and the Stage!)
While we're waiting for the third main series book, I'm so excited to bring you this wonderful, fierce second chance couple who comes back together like a thousand fireworks after ten years apart. For a little sneak peak at who they are as a couple, check out this snippet from the first chapter that shows a bit of their teenage relationship before their breakup…
Once Diego's safety had been his arms, clutching them close when they lost a lead role in drama club or holding them back when the nastier kids had insulted them for their heritage—as though many of their ancestors hadn’t lived in California longer than any of these preppy white families—with whispers that this wasn’t the time, that vengeance would be sweeter if it couldn’t be traced back to them. He had been the safe haven who’d helped them paint everything from dicks on the expensive leather of those bullies’ sports cars to the elaborate stage sets that only he and Diego truly appreciated.
His were the screams that had echoed their own across the school halls and the hands that had pressed them against the lockers with every ravaging kiss, the only person who avidly agreed with them that the highs and lows of their teenage love was a thing the whole world had to play audience to.
He had been the boy who never tried to tame their fire, but always managed to stoke it in a better direction.
Then he’d torn that protection down in one terrible night.
(For one more week, you can still pre-order the ebook for only 99 cents!)
Maddox and Diego from the Stars and the Stage, drawn by @thistlearts
Guess what's coming out NEXT WEEK?!
(Hint: it's the new prequel novella for the Guides for Dating Vampires series, the Stars and the Stage!)
While we're waiting for the third main series book, I'm so excited to bring you this wonderful, fierce second chance couple who comes back together like a thousand fireworks after ten years apart. For a little sneak peak at who they are as a couple, check out this snippet from the first chapter that shows a bit of their teenage relationship before their breakup…
Once Diego's safety had been his arms, clutching them close when they lost a lead role in drama club or holding them back when the nastier kids had insulted them for their heritage—as though many of their ancestors hadn’t lived in California longer than any of these preppy white families—with whispers that this wasn’t the time, that vengeance would be sweeter if it couldn’t be traced back to them. He had been the safe haven who’d helped them paint everything from dicks on the expensive leather of those bullies’ sports cars to the elaborate stage sets that only he and Diego truly appreciated.
His were the screams that had echoed their own across the school halls and the hands that had pressed them against the lockers with every ravaging kiss, the only person who avidly agreed with them that the highs and lows of their teenage love was a thing the whole world had to play audience to.
He had been the boy who never tried to tame their fire, but always managed to stoke it in a better direction.
Then he’d torn that protection down in one terrible night.
(For one more week, you can still pre-order the ebook for only 99 cents!)
this book has the ace rep of my dreams. aro/ace & demisexual, about finding yourself and your identity, while falling in love with a vigilante determined to atone for his youth and protect his vampire family
did i mention the lead is an ace-spec, fanfic writing scientist (says the ace fanfic writing scientist?) this book came for my throat. i loved it.
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No it doesn’t. You are confusing a tagline with a blurb. The tagline is designed for maximum impact with minimum words. It is designed purely to get you to look at the blurb. I have never seen a tagline like this without an easily available blurb, either by googling the book or, even more often these days, the tagline itself being a link to the blurb.
It’s the single most obvious marketing tactic there is, they are not trying to hide it or obscure what they are doing in the slightest because the point is literally to drive traffic to the blurb which is the real hook, and it is almost universally used and has been for over a decade. Taglines for books were common even before the internet existed.
I honestly don’t understand how a person who reads commonly enough to actually be impacted by something like this wouldn’t understand this. My only conclusion is that most people complaining like this don’t read commonly and don’t search for books outside of recommendations from friends. It just makes you look foolish when you say things like this.
It’s also hurting small time and indie authors who are not well enough established to rely on word of mouth trying to attract an audience. They need punchy taglines to get people to consider their book enough to look at the blurb. This is especially true of authors who’s books are heavily focused on themes that traditional publishers think “don’t sell well”, like basically every minority theme or issue ever.
It’s not a coincidence that the tweet mocking these taglines specifically mentions bisexuality. This type of criticism is often specifically targeted at minority themes and authors, like it is in this case.
If you want books by and about minorites you gotta stop undercutting them and poisoning general opinion against everything that isn’t marketed with all the expertise and resources of a major publishing house. Not everyone has the resources or expertise to focus test tag lines.
If “bisexual druids in space” doesn’t sound interesting to you on its own, you probably won’t be interested in the longer blurb that gives you details about the bisexual druids in space, either. You can just keep scrolling at that point, with no harm done to anyone, and go about your life. The tagline is there for people who might be interested in reading about bisexuals, druids, and space.
If “bisexual druids in space” does catch your attention, the tagline has done exactly what it’s supposed to, which is get you to–get this–go look at the longer blurb to find out more info. It’s not “lacking information,” its sole goal is to get you interested enough to go learn more.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: people who say shit like in the OP aren’t going to be happy until we authors just start posting the full text of our books in a single tumblr post. Though then I suppose they’ll harass us over the posts being too long instead, because being an artist means you’re free game to harass in the minds of…like, half of tumblr, to be honest.
(Personally, “bisexual druids in space” sounds like a kickass premise. Is this real? Someone tell me it’s real. Send me a link. I want it.)
Because people are reblogging this with tags like "but I see authors who only have taglines and no blurbs anywhere!!"
And I'm sorry, but friends, if an author has a professional sales page (ie Amazon, goodreads, etc) and does not have a full blurb (probably with a line of metadata) then you don't want to buy their book anyway.
They clearly didn't do the barest minimum to figure out what publishing standards are and don't read actual books themselves. Just skip them and find one of the other 98% of books out there that has a blurb, because most of the published books you're seeing taglines for do.
No it doesn’t. You are confusing a tagline with a blurb. The tagline is designed for maximum impact with minimum words. It is designed purely to get you to look at the blurb. I have never seen a tagline like this without an easily available blurb, either by googling the book or, even more often these days, the tagline itself being a link to the blurb.
It’s the single most obvious marketing tactic there is, they are not trying to hide it or obscure what they are doing in the slightest because the point is literally to drive traffic to the blurb which is the real hook, and it is almost universally used and has been for over a decade. Taglines for books were common even before the internet existed.
I honestly don’t understand how a person who reads commonly enough to actually be impacted by something like this wouldn’t understand this. My only conclusion is that most people complaining like this don’t read commonly and don’t search for books outside of recommendations from friends. It just makes you look foolish when you say things like this.
It’s also hurting small time and indie authors who are not well enough established to rely on word of mouth trying to attract an audience. They need punchy taglines to get people to consider their book enough to look at the blurb. This is especially true of authors who’s books are heavily focused on themes that traditional publishers think “don’t sell well”, like basically every minority theme or issue ever.
It’s not a coincidence that the tweet mocking these taglines specifically mentions bisexuality. This type of criticism is often specifically targeted at minority themes and authors, like it is in this case.
If you want books by and about minorites you gotta stop undercutting them and poisoning general opinion against everything that isn’t marketed with all the expertise and resources of a major publishing house. Not everyone has the resources or expertise to focus test tag lines.
If “bisexual druids in space” doesn’t sound interesting to you on its own, you probably won’t be interested in the longer blurb that gives you details about the bisexual druids in space, either. You can just keep scrolling at that point, with no harm done to anyone, and go about your life. The tagline is there for people who might be interested in reading about bisexuals, druids, and space.
If “bisexual druids in space” does catch your attention, the tagline has done exactly what it’s supposed to, which is get you to–get this–go look at the longer blurb to find out more info. It’s not “lacking information,” its sole goal is to get you interested enough to go learn more.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: people who say shit like in the OP aren’t going to be happy until we authors just start posting the full text of our books in a single tumblr post. Though then I suppose they’ll harass us over the posts being too long instead, because being an artist means you’re free game to harass in the minds of…like, half of tumblr, to be honest.
(Personally, “bisexual druids in space” sounds like a kickass premise. Is this real? Someone tell me it’s real. Send me a link. I want it.)
"This was religion, he thought—this was the way his god smiled on him, not in a cathedral of people who thought less of him for who he loved, but here beneath a willow, tangled in another man, giving away a piece of his life in a chorus of little moans. Love and sacrifice and desire and exaltation all wrapped into one."
-D. N. Bryn, How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love
Like yeah, I'll never have a pain-free day in the future. I will experience pain every day for the rest of my life. But! I also will laugh with my family. I will create beautiful things. I will share beautiful moments with my partner. I will experience the bands that I love releasing new music. Things will get worse and maybe get better and it really sucks that I hurt so much but there is still so much good waiting for me. And I'm really glad that I'm still here to see it.
imo it’s fine to ask what the purpose of a sex scene is in a story IN THAT, BEAR WITH ME, it’s valid to ask what the purpose of any scene is, in an exploratory, curious kind of way. what are we learning, what’s being conveyed, what are the vibes, how is the writer using this, etc.
however it is silly to act like the act of putting sex in a story is a dangerous last-resort option that should never be done casually, in the same way that it would be silly to be like “did this story NEED a scene where they wash dishes together, did they HAVE to be washing dishes”. people sometimes wash dishes! and you can use that cooperative activity to convey loads and loads of things about them, or maybe the framework of dishwashing isn’t really relevant but the scene still works because you needed the characters to be alone together after the dinner scene. or maybe it’s just a scene where we take a little breather and enjoy watching these two people being close to each other. you see the comparison I am making here.
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I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.
And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!
As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!
Updated: 12/08/2023
Articles
The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012
Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017
Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018
Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004
Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020
Books
Fiction:
10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac
Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor
A Mango-Shaped Hole, Wendy Mass
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd
A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin
A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman
Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon
Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray
Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack
Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee
Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer
Clean, Amy Reed
Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert
Crazy, Benjamin Lebert
Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo
Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe
The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin
The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix
Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington
Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood
Fresh, Margot Wood
Harmony, London Price
Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley
Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers
How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby
I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork
The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora
In the Ring, Sierra Isley
Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao
Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe
Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore
Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss
Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry
The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu
Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans
Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
One For All, Lillie Lainoff
On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan
Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee
The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan
The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox
Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner
Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby
Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M
Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo
Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood
Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]
The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes
The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani
Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos
Top Ten, Katie Cotugno
Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon
Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan
We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson
The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf
The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew
Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron
Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio
Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai
Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon
Graphic Novels:
Constellations, Kate Glasheen
The Golden Hour, Niki Smith
Magazines: Anthologies and Articles:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg
Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.
Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett
Manga:
Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga
Non-Fiction:
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage
A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson
Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.
The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican
Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel
Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang
Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai
Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred
Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare
Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall
The Minority body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton
The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar
Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline
The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong
Picture Books:
Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha
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For sure! And might I humbly suggest my own work? Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites has multiple main and side characters with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
The main arc of Nathan, a deaf, disabled werewolf, is about not only coming to terms with his new disabilities, but finding support and validation through community, physical aids and compassionate medical care.
The fact that he gets to smooch the neurodivergent mad scientist vampire who also has chronic pain and migraines is the other main arc 😅
(Ursula is also revealed to have physical impairments and needs that require her to have a care taker, but we’ll get into that more in the next book.)
I have six books out and all of them have multiple main characters with disability rep (as will most of my future books until the end of time), along with disabling mental illness rep.
Stronger Still: all the above, plus chronic fatigue and chronic illness.
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager: Vincent has had chronic depression and fatigue on and off for much of his life, and though he doesn't experience it directly much during the book, it's had a massive effect on how he views the world and himself.
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love: chronic pain and autism.
I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.
And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!
As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!
Updated: 12/08/2023
Articles
The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012
Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017
Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018
Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004
Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020
Books
Fiction:
10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac
Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor
A Mango-Shaped Hole, Wendy Mass
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd
A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin
A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman
Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon
Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray
Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack
Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee
Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer
Clean, Amy Reed
Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert
Crazy, Benjamin Lebert
Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo
Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe
The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin
The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix
Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington
Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood
Fresh, Margot Wood
Harmony, London Price
Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley
Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers
How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby
I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork
The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora
In the Ring, Sierra Isley
Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao
Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe
Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore
Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss
Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry
The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu
Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans
Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
One For All, Lillie Lainoff
On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan
Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee
The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan
The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox
Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner
Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby
Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M
Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo
Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood
Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]
The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes
The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani
Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos
Top Ten, Katie Cotugno
Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon
Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan
We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson
The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf
The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew
Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron
Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio
Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai
Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon
Graphic Novels:
Constellations, Kate Glasheen
The Golden Hour, Niki Smith
Magazines: Anthologies and Articles:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg
Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.
Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett
Manga:
Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga
Non-Fiction:
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage
A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson
Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.
The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican
Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel
Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang
Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai
Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred
Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare
Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall
The Minority body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton
The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar
Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline
The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong
Picture Books:
Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha
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For sure! And might I humbly suggest my own work? Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites has multiple main and side characters with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
The main arc of Nathan, a deaf, disabled werewolf, is about not only coming to terms with his new disabilities, but finding support and validation through community, physical aids and compassionate medical care.
The fact that he gets to smooch the neurodivergent mad scientist vampire who also has chronic pain and migraines is the other main arc 😅
(Ursula is also revealed to have physical impairments and needs that require her to have a care taker, but we’ll get into that more in the next book.)
I have six books out and all of them have multiple main characters with disability rep (as will most of my future books until the end of time), along with disabling mental illness rep.
Stronger Still: all the above, plus chronic fatigue and chronic illness.
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager: Vincent has had chronic depression and fatigue on and off for much of his life, and though he doesn't experience it directly much during the book, it's had a massive effect on how he views the world and himself.
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love: chronic pain and autism.
