Other people write and make cool stuff, you might like some of it. Links are not endorsements. The categories are specific but the order from there is random. Focusing on stuff by queer and/or marginalized people.
Indie Books
Indie Story Geek is a place to highlight amazing indie books, whether they are self-published, web serials, or published by small presses. Anyone can submit a story for review. When reviewers submit their review, they can optionally include a link back to their full review on their own blog.
BBNYA (Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award) is an annual Indie book award hosted and judged completely by book bloggers from all over the world!
Indie Authors
AK Faulkner is the author of the Inheritance series of contemporary fantasy novels, which begins with Jack of Thorns. AK lives just outside of London, England, with a charismatic Corgi and a violent three-legged cat. AK is agender, demisexual, and demiromantic. Any pronouns will suffice, though she/they/he are preferred.
Caledonia Fife writes great fiction, tells great jokes, and makes terrible food. 2 outta 3’s not bad.
D.N. Bryn is a queer, disabled author of speculative fiction and fantasy romance.
Kara Jorgensen is a queer, nonbinary oddball with a penchant for all things morbid, strange, or crafty. While in college, she discovered she no longer wanted to be Victor Frankenstein but Mary Shelley and eventually ended up with degrees in biology and English.
Trudie Skies is a non-binary British author based in North East England, though they have been living inside fantasy worlds ever since they discovered books, and they refuse to return to reality. Within Trudie’s daydreams you’ll find SPFBO and BBNYA finalist The Thirteenth Hour, a gaslamp fantasy described as obnoxiously British and best read with a cup of tea.
Misc. Author Websites
Seanan McGuire is the author of the October Daye urban fantasies, the InCryptid urban fantasies, and several other works both stand-alone and in trilogies or duologies. In case that wasn't enough, she also writes under the pseudonym "Mira Grant." For details on her work as Mira, check out MiraGrant.com.
Alexis Hall (whatever pronouns) does not like writing biographies or talking about himself in the third person. She lives in southeast England with their extensive collection of hats and four angry duckchildren.
C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winning novel The Midnight Bargain, which was a Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award finalist.
Caitlin Starling is the nationally bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence (2021), Last to Leave the Room (2023), and the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead (2019). She’s always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.
Chloe Gong is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Secret Shanghai novels, as well as the Flesh and False Gods trilogy.
Everina Maxwell is the author of Winter’s Orbit, a queer romantic space opera about a diplomat who enters into an arranged marriage to save his planet.
Fonda Lee is the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of the Green Bone Saga, (Orbit), Untethered Sky (Tordotcom), the Exo series (Scholastic), and Zeroboxer (Flux).
Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.)
Laura E. Weymouth is a Canadian living in America, and the sixth consecutive generation of her family to immigrate from one country to another. Born and raised in the Niagara region of Ontario, she now lives at the edge of the woods in western New York along with her husband, three wild-hearted daughters, an unruly garden, and a menagerie of animal friends
Nicole Kornher-Stace lives in New Paltz, NY, with her family. Her books include the adult SFF thriller Firebreak, often comped with Ready Player One but more accurately described as “if a big splashy action movie had a baby with a Rage Against the Machine album;” the Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp and its sequel Latchkey, which are about a far-future postapocalyptic ghosthunter, the ghost of a near-future supersoldier, and their adventures in the underworld; and the middle-grade space adventure Jillian vs. Parasite Planet, in which an 11-year-old girl with anxiety has to team up with a sentient nanobot swarm against a planet full of deadly mind-controlling parasites.
Rachel Smythe is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the #1 WEBTOON phenomenon Lore Olympus.
Tracy Deonn is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author of the Legendborn Cycle.
Vanessa Len is an internationally bestselling Australian author and educational editor. Her first novel, Only a Monster, won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and has been translated into nine languages.
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