Congratulations to all the bisexual nominees in the 29th annual Lambda Literary Awards!!

Bisexual Fiction

Bisexual Nonfiction

Also congratulations to the bisexual authors with works nominated in other categories, including:

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Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect… Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew. Hunter Blair’s been the coolest one in the room since elementary school. Until recently, her biggest worry in the world was which of the girls in her cell phone to call on a Saturday night. But it’s not long before Samantha sparks a fire in Hunter that has her questioning her old habits and longing for new ones. Isn’t it a bad idea to fall for one of your best friends? Samantha and Hunter are about to find out.

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To paraphrase Shakespeare in Love - “You see - comedy, love, and a bit with a dog. That’s what they want.” I laughed, I cried and I fell in love.

My ratings ;)

Sometimes wrong is extra right. Mallory Spencer is in charge. As the face of Soho Savvy, the advertising firm she owns with her three best friends, it’s important that she’s poised, polished, and put together. However, as she watches her friends couple up and settle down, she wonders about her own happily ever after. One thing’s for sure. It’s not going to happen with that blue-eyed bartender from Showplace. It’s irritatingly clear they couldn’t be more wrong for each other … or have more chemistry. Hope Sanders wants nothing more than to keep her head down and craft a better life for herself running everyone’s favorite nightspot. That means ignoring the groupies that flock to the bar to stare at her all night. However, an uptight brunette has snagged Hope’s attention and she knows a challenge when she sees it.

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Midnight Chocolate for everyone! Melissa Brayden did it again *bows down to the queen*, this was the perfect ending for the trilogy, Mallory finally found her perfect companion, thank you. This story was so well written, I’m craving for more.

My rating ;)

Romance Release - First Position by Melissa Brayden

First Position is a very sweet and sometimes soul-crushing enemies-to-lovers F/F romance about ballet dancers.

Do I need to continue my review? I feel like that should be enough to make up your mind!

Okay, I’ll go on, since there are plenty of great things to gush about here.

Dual POV, we jump into the heads of Ana and Natalie. Ana comes from a family of famous ballet dancers and dedicates herself to perfecting her technique at the cost of a social life and her own physical well-being. She has worked so hard to get the principal role in a show…only to find she’s sharing it with Natalie, a dancer plucked from the other side of the country who loves to try new methods of expression and doesn’t seem to take ballet too seriously. Needless to say, friction sparks between them immediately.

While Ana hides the extent of her physical injury from everyone, Natalie is busy dealing with her new life and her long-distance girlfriend. The two women start with very different narratives, but they find their stories collide into each other more and more until they can’t stand being apart. By the end, you can’t believe this couple ever hated each other.

The writing is so beautiful throughout the book - flirty banter, gorgeous kissing scenes, warm realizations of trust, understated emotional moments. Plenty of funny moments and quips too. And I adored the side characters.

The book isn’t all tender and pretty - a very dark incident occurs at around the 75-80% mark, one that I wish had been expanded on more as the resolution felt rushed. But it is still a moment that caught me by surprise and left me incredibly worried for these two characters I had come to care significantly for.

First Position is overall very great, definitely a huge must for fans of ballet and F/F!

***e-ARC provided by NetGalley***

“First Position” by Melissa Brayden is available for purchase.

I understand that a lot of people loved Clexa, but I promise you, there are much better, much more romantic wlw stories out there

Just because it unfortunately isn’t on TV, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Let me, an advanced level gay, tell you about books:

Keep reading

Here is a list of 2017 ya books with lgbt themes!

Need some fresh LGBTQIA things to get invested in, learn about and watch?

This is Cece and she is listing a long list of LGBTQIA+ books being released in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-YRVR-KvE

Anything from Ash is good but her ABC’s Of LGBT series is amazing and in this video she is teaching you about Greygender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Amt3YOkNes

Bria Bea is keeping it real AF with some Facts about LGBT+ youth of color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPzFEu8URDw

Jack and Ben are talking about their experiences traveling as an LGBT couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmyd5xE3-s

A TED talk from Jenni and Lisa about what it’s like to be LGBTQIA+ around the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivfJJh9y1UI

5 LGBT+ Badasses from history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-PHDh95WM

I hope these are fun and informative if you needed something fresh to watch and learn. Also add your own if you love a video and want to share it, add to this list!

The Double Life

Summary:Best friends, Sidney and Dayna, have been successful at everything. At being wives, mothers, and upwardly mobile professionals. But there’s one thing in which they fail to succeed: fighting their forbidden Sapphic love for one another. What happens when the pull of desire becomes too strong to resist? What happens when the love that soothes and sates has the power to destroy the life you live? The Double Life takes us on the journey of living in two worlds: The first borne out of societal expectations and the second driven by an intensity and hunger so strong it’s nearly debilitating.

Notes: I really enjoyed this book. It wasn’t the best thing I’ve ever read, but it is well worth the read.

Carry the One: A Novel by Carol Anshaw (via oddismycopilot)

Arousing, inspiring, bawdy, bold, and heartfelt, Dear John, I Love Jane is an engrossing reflection of a new era of female sexuality.

Lucky in the Corner: A Novel by Carol Anshaw (via oddismycopilot)

“You can argue that it’s a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It’s the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It’s the chasm between being invited to a colleague’s wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her left hand every time she wrote with it. Nowadays, if a teacher did that, she’s probably be arrested for child abuse. The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently.

It’s also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed.

After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?” ― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

a message sent to me from someone who bought The Narrows on etsy. getting me all teary… (via thisisthenarrows)

Vanessa. [ Sing You Home ] (via sweepmeoffmyfeet)

Affinity by Sarah Waters  (via dontforgetthesalt)

My book was released a year ago today! If you haven’t picked up a copy, it’s always available on Amazon! 

Lesbian Fiction Books

If you would like more options here is a link to a website I got these from: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/16326.Lesbian_teen_fiction

These are just the ones from that list that I looked up and thought were very cute <3 Happy reading!

Finished a book called Twixt by Sarah Diemer, it’s fantastic! If anyone out there likes dark fantasy and some girl/girl pairing, I totally recommend this book to you.

Huntress(The Thirty Blessings)- Malinda Lo (via i-want-to-beleaf)