#hal schrieve

fanart of hal schrieve's comic "vivian's ghost." possibly one of the best comics I've ever read. go read it!

These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a graphic novel, check out Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

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Fawn and Silver share nearly coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life. Rachel is a bisexual teen, who has secretly been turned vampire and who is contending with the fact that her mom is a notorious vampire slayer. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood. But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers. Fawn’s Blood is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Taking the queer-coded villain and flipping it on its’ head, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.

Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist.

The librarian and critically acclaimed author of Out of Salem puts a pulpy spin on vampire fiction, and bites back at anti-trans moral panic.

Fawn and Silver share nearly everything: coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life.

Meanwhile in Seattle, Rachel's relationship to her girlfriend and her membership in her mother's vampire-slaying vigilante group is thrown into question when she's bitten by her mother's nemesis and awakes with a craving for blood. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood.

But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers.

Happy Exo-versary! 🚀I Was a Teenage Exocolonist came out one year ago, and I want to celebrate by recommending some books I think the main characters would love.

Book titles:

Sol: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Cal: Taproot by Keezy Young

Anemone: Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz

Marz: TJ Powar Has Something To Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo

Dys: How to Get over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve (comes out October 3, 2023)

Tangent: Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai

Tammy: The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill

Nomi: Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender

Rex: So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

Vace: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Vivian's Ghost by Hal Schrieve - pages 119-121

New Young Adult Releases! (October 3rd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Voice Upstairs by Laura E. Weymouth

Kween by Vichet Chum

Up in Flames by Hailey Alcaraz

Beholder by Ryan La Sala

Love in Wonderland by Abiola Bello

And Don't Look Back by Rebecca Barrow

The Homecoming War by Addie Woolridge

The Scarlet Alchemist by Kylie Lee Baker

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

Plan A by Deb Caletti

The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert

A Twisted Tale Anthology by Various

The Spells We Cast by Jason June

How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Before the Devil Knows You're Here by Autumn Krause

All the Things We Never Said by Yasmin Rahman

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn & Love Dunn

The Glass Scientists: Volume 1 by S.H. Cotugno & Sabrina Cotugno

New Sequels:

Silence & Shadows (Blood & Moonline #2) by Erin Beaty

Prince of Thorns & Nightmares (Princes #2) by Linsey Miller

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It’s gonna hurt your feelings and tweak your dick, it’s hot shit