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Book of the Month - September 2025 - Our Wives Under the Sea

Our book for September is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (2022). Horror/supernatural.

Our Wives Under the Sea is the debut novel by Julia Armfield, a story about Miri and her wife Leah, a deep-sea researcher who returns home changed after a catastrophic submarine mission. The novel explores themes of grief, loss, and the unsettling feeling of a loved one slipping away, blending elements of horror, gothic fiction, and realism. As Miri tries to understand what happened to Leah in the deep ocean, she grapples with the possibility that her wife is not the same person she was before the expedition.

#September 2025 #Our Wives Under the Sea #lesbian author #lesbian literature #lesbian art

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For Sappho’s Sake is finally open for preorder 👩‍❤️‍👩

This anthology is a 104-page collection of short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art from 23 lesbian contributors—created for every lesbian who was, every lesbian who is, and every lesbian who will be.

Preordering helps fund the bulk print run, which keeps costs lower and makes it possible to set aside copies for community distribution. Orders will be shipped between the end of April and beginning of May.

There’s a sliding scale for physical copies ($7–$20) and digital copies ($1–$10), plus an option to contribute toward copies for lesbians who can’t afford one.

If you’d like a copy or want to support the project, send me a dm!

Hey y’all. Sorry I have been neglecting this blog over the past 2 months. I have a lot of health stuff going on currently (going in for my first oncology appt this week, yaaaay 😒) so I’ve been preoccupied. I’ll try to get last months and this months books posted soon!

As always, thanks for following along!

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Book of the Month - September 2025 - Our Wives Under the Sea

Our book for September is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (2022). Horror/supernatural.

Our Wives Under the Sea is the debut novel by Julia Armfield, a story about Miri and her wife Leah, a deep-sea researcher who returns home changed after a catastrophic submarine mission. The novel explores themes of grief, loss, and the unsettling feeling of a loved one slipping away, blending elements of horror, gothic fiction, and realism. As Miri tries to understand what happened to Leah in the deep ocean, she grapples with the possibility that her wife is not the same person she was before the expedition.

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Book of the Month - September 2025 - Our Wives Under the Sea

Our book for September is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (2022). Horror/supernatural.

Our Wives Under the Sea is the debut novel by Julia Armfield, a story about Miri and her wife Leah, a deep-sea researcher who returns home changed after a catastrophic submarine mission. The novel explores themes of grief, loss, and the unsettling feeling of a loved one slipping away, blending elements of horror, gothic fiction, and realism. As Miri tries to understand what happened to Leah in the deep ocean, she grapples with the possibility that her wife is not the same person she was before the expedition.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

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Book of the Month - July 2025 - A Wolf in Stone

July’s book of the month is A Wolf in Stone by Jane Fletcher (lesbian). Fantasy genre. 2024.

Sorry again for this being later in the month. My health isn’t doing any better currently and time gets away from me. I considered skipping July, but it’s Jane Fletcher and I know there’s always a call for lesbian fantasy, so here we are.

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High level politics in the Kavillian empire is a dirty, dangerous game—a game Cassie knows well. As a member of an ambitious imperial family, she has been tutored from birth to play a leading role in the contest for power. Yet even she is caught out when a murderer raises the stakes. Meanwhile her lover, Arian, has problems of her own. Life in the upper strata of Kavillian society is so very different from the honor-based culture of her homeland. She despises the unending, ruthless cycle of intrigue, blackmail, and deception that Cassie views as normal—regrettable sometimes, but more often a source of entertainment. Nor can she accept Cassie’s willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to advance her family’s position. Arian’s determination to stay true to her own moral code will be put to the test if she is to save their relationship, and Cassie’s life.

#lesbian literature #lesbian art #lesbian author #A Wolf in Stone #Jane Fletcher #fantasy

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Book of the Month - June 2025 - Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story

June 2025’s book is Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story. Biographical.

“Dot Wilkinson is the greatest female catcher ever to play softball. A bold, pioneering athlete, she refused to let others define her and instead defined herself. Her story is an inspiration to people everywhere.” — Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion for Equality

It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive.

The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it.

Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate , told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.

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Book of the Month - June 2025 - Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story

June 2025’s book is Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story. Biographical.

“Dot Wilkinson is the greatest female catcher ever to play softball. A bold, pioneering athlete, she refused to let others define her and instead defined herself. Her story is an inspiration to people everywhere.” — Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion for Equality

It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive.

The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it.

Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate , told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.

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Book of the Month - May 2025 - The Grass Widow by Nanci Little

This month’s book is The Grass Widow by Nanci Little. Published in 1996. Historical fiction, Western, historical romance.

Aidan Blackstone has nothing. A thousand miles from home, sent to the frontier by a family that doesn't want her back, her only hope for survival is distant relatives who say they'll take her in. As a familiar civilization fades into the distance, she is nineteen, unmarried and pregnant, and has no reason to think that the year 1876 won't be her last. But she's not met at the Washburn, Kansas, train station by the Bodett family. Only the daughter, Jocelyn, is there to greet her. Aidan finds herself bound for the Bodett farm, where influenza has wiped out the rest of the family, leaving young Joss in perilous financial straits and their only source of food and shelter at risk. Joss, in her brother's clothes and severely lacking in social graces, has no time to mollycoddle a pampered, pregnant New England lady. It's work or starve, literally. There are no servants, no laborers - just a failing farm, impending winter and the two of them to face it together. The Grass Widow showcases the ingenuity, determination and courage of women's frontier spirits in a passionate, sensuous love story. Originally published in 1996, Nanci Little's wonderfully detailed and researched novel picks up with the generation of women where Patience and Sarah left off.

(I am so sorry this is being posted so late! I’ve had a lot of medical stuff come up over the past month and just haven’t had the time/mental energy to post. This book is one of my suggestions for the book list, so I’ve been very excited to read it. Really enjoying it so far but, as a born and raised rural Kansan, the accent the author tries to write for Joss is…not correct, haha.)

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I was really glad that everyone in the book group ended up liking this one, since it was one of my suggestions. I love historical fiction anyway, but this being set in Kansas was super interesting for us. As someone born and raised in rural Kansas, I do have to complain about the accent the author tries to get across. It’s not quite right, but I think that’s always the case when trying to translate an accent to the page.

The end of the book also takes a bit of a turn, and the author seems to try and throw all of her ideas in there at once without extending the page count. Other than those two things, this one was a hit with everyone.

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Book of the Month - June 2025 - Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story

June 2025’s book is Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story. Biographical.

“Dot Wilkinson is the greatest female catcher ever to play softball. A bold, pioneering athlete, she refused to let others define her and instead defined herself. Her story is an inspiration to people everywhere.” — Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion for Equality

It’s not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women’s softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933–1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth—over a century—although any of these things by itself would be impressive.

The magic of Dot’s story is in the details. It’s the tale of a childhood spent in poverty, an indomitable, unbreakable spirit, a determination to be the very best to play whatever sport she undertook, the independence to live her personal life on her own terms, and her tremendous success at all of it.

Over more than a decade of countless conversations and interviews, Dot shared all of it with her dear friend, author Lynn Ames. Dot held nothing back. Out at the Plate , told through the lens of Dot and Lynn’s friendship, is the story of a forgotten era in women’s history and sports, and one extraordinary woman’s place at the center of it all.

#june 2025 #Out at the Plate: the Dot Wilkinson Story #lesbian literature #lesbian author #lesbian history #LGBT history

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Book of the Month - May 2025 - The Grass Widow by Nanci Little

This month’s book is The Grass Widow by Nanci Little. Published in 1996. Historical fiction, Western, historical romance.

Aidan Blackstone has nothing. A thousand miles from home, sent to the frontier by a family that doesn't want her back, her only hope for survival is distant relatives who say they'll take her in. As a familiar civilization fades into the distance, she is nineteen, unmarried and pregnant, and has no reason to think that the year 1876 won't be her last. But she's not met at the Washburn, Kansas, train station by the Bodett family. Only the daughter, Jocelyn, is there to greet her. Aidan finds herself bound for the Bodett farm, where influenza has wiped out the rest of the family, leaving young Joss in perilous financial straits and their only source of food and shelter at risk. Joss, in her brother's clothes and severely lacking in social graces, has no time to mollycoddle a pampered, pregnant New England lady. It's work or starve, literally. There are no servants, no laborers - just a failing farm, impending winter and the two of them to face it together. The Grass Widow showcases the ingenuity, determination and courage of women's frontier spirits in a passionate, sensuous love story. Originally published in 1996, Nanci Little's wonderfully detailed and researched novel picks up with the generation of women where Patience and Sarah left off.

(I am so sorry this is being posted so late! I’ve had a lot of medical stuff come up over the past month and just haven’t had the time/mental energy to post. This book is one of my suggestions for the book list, so I’ve been very excited to read it. Really enjoying it so far but, as a born and raised rural Kansan, the accent the author tries to write for Joss is…not correct, haha.)

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Book of the Month - May 2025 - The Grass Widow by Nanci Little

This month’s book is The Grass Widow by Nanci Little. Published in 1996. Historical fiction, Western, historical romance.

Aidan Blackstone has nothing. A thousand miles from home, sent to the frontier by a family that doesn't want her back, her only hope for survival is distant relatives who say they'll take her in. As a familiar civilization fades into the distance, she is nineteen, unmarried and pregnant, and has no reason to think that the year 1876 won't be her last. But she's not met at the Washburn, Kansas, train station by the Bodett family. Only the daughter, Jocelyn, is there to greet her. Aidan finds herself bound for the Bodett farm, where influenza has wiped out the rest of the family, leaving young Joss in perilous financial straits and their only source of food and shelter at risk. Joss, in her brother's clothes and severely lacking in social graces, has no time to mollycoddle a pampered, pregnant New England lady. It's work or starve, literally. There are no servants, no laborers - just a failing farm, impending winter and the two of them to face it together. The Grass Widow showcases the ingenuity, determination and courage of women's frontier spirits in a passionate, sensuous love story. Originally published in 1996, Nanci Little's wonderfully detailed and researched novel picks up with the generation of women where Patience and Sarah left off.

(I am so sorry this is being posted so late! I’ve had a lot of medical stuff come up over the past month and just haven’t had the time/mental energy to post. This book is one of my suggestions for the book list, so I’ve been very excited to read it. Really enjoying it so far but, as a born and raised rural Kansan, the accent the author tries to write for Joss is…not correct, haha.)

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