The march of time continues and we are all swept along in it's wake! I continue to age and I have a request of you on the commemoration of my birth.

If you read one or both of these:

It'd be a huge help to me if you could give them a review on Itch, Gumroad, or even Amazon! It doesn't have to be on the site where you got the book. Any of those would be fine. It doesn't have to be along, or in depth. Even a single sentence would do. It doesn't have to be a super duper max out positive review. The algorithm just promotes titles with reviews.

Help an indie out?

Dear readers,

Welcome to the Tumblr blog for The Glimpser series.

I'm Salsa, a queer Australian writer of big feelings and lewd dealings.

I am currently writing book 1 of The Glimpser—an immersive fantasy series featuring territory politics, queer and poly romances, and a dual-timeline narrative.

I also like to encourage others to write.

When I'm not writing, I am a freelance book editor who loves em-dashes. AI will have to pry my favourite punctuation from my cold, dead hands. This blog and everything I create is an AI-free zone.

You might know me from fandom and fanfiction spaces, but I wanted to create a blog specifically for the book series I'm writing. I'll share more on that in a separate post.

For now, this is just a quick hello.

I go by

✨My Lady Elsewhere✨ on Fable

In celebration of the Pride Month, I want to recommend my favorite classical Turkish author Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar. He was an author who started his craft back in the Ottoman Empire times. His books are funny and thought-provoking. He wrote about tradition vs. modernity, science over superstition, etc. with so much wit and heart that his books are still relatable to this day. Even though officially he's not recognized as "queer" in our history texts, he lived together for 22 years with his "very good male friend" Miralay Hulusi Bey. Their house was located at a very hard to reach high place part of an island, walls surrounding it. It is known that when he wasn't writing, Gürpınar spent his time making jams and crocheting. His writing is also very feminist. Many of his female characters are smart and witty and they are trying to get out of the strict gender roles that was pushed onto them even more so back in the Ottoman Empire. (Of course they are the products of their time and can't compare to our current understanding of feminism, but he was way ahead of his time.)

The translations into English I could find were of A Marriage Under A Comet and Ghoulyabânî, both are highly recommended by me! (It's difficult for me to find a non-Amazon link that's global, but of course please support local libraries and local bookstores if you can! These are for reference!)

[Plain Text: Queer Question of the Week]

June is going to be a busy month for me, and it's all about the explorers. There will be an event at my local library including a reading, a historical research discussion focusing on what it was like to be queer back then, and I'll be signing books.

Also, the audiobook for The Voice of Wild Places will be out in June ! It's almost complete, and I have been absolutely loving Sam Stark's narration. Stay tuned for a sample 🎧🏳️‍⚧️