Queerly Beloved

With Gumroad up to some questionable stuff recently (rumored interest in NFTs, possible farming of user email addresses to create Twitter accounts, other possible privacy violations), a lot of people who have published through them are choosing to take their works elsewhere. PayHip and itch.io seem to be primary candidates for self-publishing options that aren't Amazon.

Since moving to a new publisher is pretty much always rough, and independent authors tend to have a bit of an uphill battle getting noticed in any case, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to give a shout out to some of your favorites! Are any of your favorite self-published creators moving to a different host? Do they already have their work available on a different site? Please, tell us about them in the comments!

A kind soul on Tumblr has offered to buy folks copies of shiraglassman's books! Folks who have been here a while may remember my June giveaway of Knit One, Girl Two, Shira's incredibly popular (and super-duper adorable) contemporary romance between two Jewish women; now you have a chance to get not only a free copy of that, but of everything else in Shira Glassman's catalogue!

If you want to know about any of her titles, just comment here and I can gush at you for a while 😉 Her most recent release is "Gifts of Spring", a short romance between a trans woman mage and a Jewish acrobat, previously available in (IIRC) the Queerly Loving anthology.

Check out the details right over here. If you have any trouble requesting things from that generous soul, let me know and I'll do my best to help get things sorted!

Phew, okay! I've got our community tags up. Or, well, as many as I can think of, at any rate. I'm sure there's a bunch I missed, and fandom tags in particular I'll have to add as we go.

Anyone who wants to is welcome to look over the tag list and request that I add something to it, especially if it's something I missed. This was just everything I could come up with off the top of my head, and while it covers a lot of stuff, I know I'm not perfect and didn't think of everything or everyone. Please also let me know if you spot any spelling mistakes or typos; I'm still not entirely used to the keyboard on my new laptop, which will account for some slipups, but definitely not all of them.

Let's see here, what else. Oh! CW is short for Content Warning, and warns for types of content that people might not want to deal with or, in the case of NSFW (literally: Not Safe For Work), is the type of thing they might get in trouble for having a record of on a work computer. Media is for reviews and shoutouts about various forms of media that have representation of us, good and bad. Everything else should be fairly self-explanatory, I think.

Since Dreamwidth has a tag limit of 1000 for free accounts (1500 for paid, 2000 for premium paid), there may come a time when I have to combine some lesser-used tags in order to preserve some more-used tags. We've still got close to 900 tags to go before reaching the free account limit, though, so I'm pretty sure we'll be okay for a while.

Thanks to everyone who's joined so far, and if you have any feedback, I would be very interested in it!

Edit: It looks like I have tags hidden somehow at the moment? Lemme go take a look around, see how I need to fix that.

Edit 2: Apparently all unused tags were marked as "private" in the tag management thing. There's probably a better way to fix that, but it's late and I'm tired, so my current workaround is: Literally tag this post with every single tag available. (For the record, I tried doing that and then untagging everything, but the tags went right back to being private, so that shortcut is a no-go.)