#queer authors

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✨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 🎧🏳️‍⚧️

Been busy with school so this project’s taken a back burner at the moment..

Hopefully you love the J-JAMS as much as I do!!

Wondering what we’ve been working on? Wonder no longer! We’ll be back with our next crowdfunding campaign on March 30th to launch these two short story collections!!

Ducks in a Row and Duxxx in a Row feature short stories we’ve previously published only on our website or Patreon, all from the first three years we were in operation. All the stories in Ducks in a Row are from our general imprint – 22 of them, to be exact – and all the stories from Duxxx in a Row are in our explicit imprint – 19 spicy tales for you.

During our upcoming Kickstarter campaign, you’ll be able to buy one or both, and a small selection of related merchandise featuring the gorgeous cover art by artist and graphic designer Pallas Perilous and a new dux by Alessa Riel – including our first-ever dux enamel pin.

Follow our pre-launch to make sure you’re among the first to hear when our campaign goes live on March 30th 2026!

It's so good. It's queer and mystical and topical and anticolonial and it's just so good.