If you’re at GCLS this year, here’s where you can find me! 💙 #sapphicbooks

With as awful as the last several months have been, I forgot to show you my new dragon! 🐉

On the last day of Disability Pride Month, I’m here to remind you, as a fantasy author with multiple disabilities, the idea that disabled people can’t be in fantasy is silly (and harmful). Both main characters of my Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons series have disabilities… (1/2)

During one of the weeks I was offline for mental health reasons, Goddess of the Sea (Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons: Book 2) was featured in the Sapphic Book Bingo category: books set on a ship or boat! 💙 You can find more sapphic nautical books on @jaeauthor.bsky.social’s website! 💙

Goddess of the Sea and Pirates of Aletharia were featured in I Heart SapphFic’s Fantasy week! 🖤 Aletharia is the high fantasy world where the Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons series takes place. It’s inspired in part by our own history, though it’s different in…a few ways. (1/3)

Happy Pride! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Pirates of Aletharia was one of the featured books in last week’s IHS Reading Challenge category: Ocean/Sea! 💙 Much of this book (and the series itself) takes place on the Azure Sea. The Azure Sea is both the warmest and most beautiful sea in Aletharia. I’d say it’s the most dangerous, but… (1/2)

April is Autism Acceptance Month, which means it’s time (almost past time) for my annual reminder that autistic people come in all shapes and sizes—including that of a dragon-riding surgeon. 🖤🐉🖤 Emilia Drakon, the protagonist of my Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons series, is autistic (like me)… (1/2)

Every year, I try to say a little about why lesbian visibility is so important to me—as a lesbian and as a lesbian author. I’m not exactly in the state of mind that I like to be in when I talk about these things, but I’m going to try, anyway. 🧡 (1/3)

Goddess of the Sea (Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons: Book 2) was featured in last week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category: tattooed main character! 💙 I once joked that I’m incapable of writing a character without tattoos. Rose had one. Kara had a few. Maria has a ton. The closest I’ve come is Em, but… 1/2

Happy Sapphic Visibility Day from this very sapphic lesbian who writes very sapphic fantasy! 💜

I’m excited to share that Pirates of Aletharia (Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons: Book 1) won the 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award in LGBTQ+ Fiction! This makes, I believe, the fourth literary award it’s won. 💙 It was also a finalist in Fantasy! I’m beyond grateful. 💙

From “Of course I’d kill you,” to this. 💙 For the #lesficfri theme, “risk.”

The Assassins of Light (Creatures of Darkness: Book 3) is featured in this week’s IHS Reading Challenge category, which includes books set in Canada! If you’ve read this series, you know Rose and Kara do a lot of traveling in it. One of several places they end up is Canada. (1/2)

I finally made some book cards for Sapphic Book Bingo! (In my defense, I’ve been sick for AGES.) If you’re participating, here are some categories Pirates of Aletharia & Goddess of the Sea fit! 💙 (The dragons would absolutely be offended by us calling them “pets,” but…I think they count. 😅) (1/3)

I stopped to get oranges on the way home from ReadOUT and saw a baby alligator. *BABY* alligator. 💚

I’m home from ReadOUT & already missing everyone. 💙 This was such an incredible weekend. It’s always great to talk about books & writing—& queer books, specifically—but more than that, being together in this moment filled me with more hope than I’ve felt in a while. I love this community so much.💙

If you’re at ReadOUT this weekend, here’s where you can find me! 💙 P.S. — I’m operating on about two hours of sleep, so fingers crossed my brain still works! 😅

Nymeth was a perfectly normal dragon-mother. 😅 For the #lesficfri theme, “run.”

If anyone was surprised by my feelings on this, I’d have to assume they’d never read my books—because what did they think Catherine represented? King Eldric? The Assassins of Light? (1/2)

The holidays can be a tough time for a lot of us, but…books make everything better, right? 💚 I hope you all have a lovely week! (2/2) #SapphicBooksAreGifts

This holiday season, SASS and GCLS are celebrating sapphic books with #SapphicBooksAreGifts, which is awesome for many reasons—not least of all because I require some form of coercion in order to market my books. 😅 (1/2)

I really enjoyed doing this interview with I Heart SapphFic several weeks back about Goddess of the Sea! 💙 I was having a bit of a scary flare-up at the time, and my mind wasn’t at its clearest. So, I MIGHT have dropped more hints about The Dragon Child than intended. (1/2)

I’ve been having a pretty rough time lately, BUT during that time, Goddess of the Sea reached a happy little milestone!💙 It now has over 500 reviews & ratings on Amazon! (And almost 200 on Audible!) I know I’ve said this a few times now, but I’ve never been more terrified to release a book… (1/2)

Goddess of the Sea is featured in this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category, “Comforting the other character after a nightmare.” 💙 If you’ve read the book, you know this is a particularly significant scene for Em and Maria, so I thought I’d say a few words about it. (1/4)

The only time Maria’s okay with being wrong is when it leads to Em teaching her something. 💚 This one’s for the #lesficfri theme, “chill.”

I need someone to stop me from adding the entire new Florence + The Machine album to my Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons playlist. 🖤 I’ve already added these two because they fit TOO perfectly, but I’m attempting to resist the rest. (It’s long enough already. 😅) (1/2)

Maria has some strong feelings about “obedient” sailors. 😅 Well, it’s late, due to migraines and spooky activities, but this one’s for the #lesficfri theme, “afraid.” 🖤

Goddess of the Sea (Lesbians, Pirates, & Dragons: Book 2) is featured in this week’s I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge category, “Forced Proximity.” 💙 Because as Judith says in Book 1, a pirate ship is “smaller than any town, smaller than any island.”

Pirates of Aletharia is featured in this week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category, “Who hurt you?” 💙 I have a habit of writing sapphic characters who are really protective of each other, so some variation of this tends to show up in a lot of my books. (I can confirm it’s in Goddess of the Sea, as well!💙)