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Austin Chant

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Genre

Romance, Gay and Lesbian, Fantasy

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Diana Wynne Jones, P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde

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S. A. Chant, a.k.a. Austin Chant, is a bitter millennial, a decent chef, and a queer, trans writer of romance and speculative fiction. He runs the Speculation Postcard Club, in which subscribers get a short story in the mail each month. He lives in Seattle with a cat who was recently described as a 'gooey cryptid.'

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Average rating: 4.0 · 15,800 ratings · 3,672 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Darling 4.05 avg rating — 11,705 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coffee Boy 3.75 avg rating — 3,184 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caroline's Heart 4.21 avg rating — 858 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magic & Mayhem: Fiction and Essays Celebrating LGBTQA Romance by Nicole Kimberling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda Jean (Goodreads Author), Samantha Derr 3.76 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silver & Gold by Amanda Jean (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Austin Chant (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Helena Maeve (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horseshoe 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Illustrated Spanish edition of Peter Darling coming soon!

Hello everyone! Very excited to share that Peter Darling will be released in Spanish *with pictures* from Zona Abisal Ediciones later this spring (release date + preorders TBA soon). For now, peep the gorgeous cover and you can follow the publisher on Bluesky and Instagram @abisaled for updates :) Read more of this blog post »

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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

by Matt Bell (Goodreads Author)

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Quotes by Austin Chant (?)

“Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

tags: growing-up

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“What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

tags: alone, queer, transgender

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“Dreamers are always welcome here, whatever their reasons.”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

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January Book of the Month Poll Open

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

13 votes, 25.5%

Truth in the Dark by Amy Lane

11 votes, 21.6%

Beauty and His Beast by Bey Deckard

8 votes, 15.7%

Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz

5 votes, 9.8%

Once Upon a Rainbow, Volume One by Mickie B. Ashling

4 votes, 7.8%

The Girl Prince and Her Princess by Q. Kelly

3 votes, 5.9%

Laurent and the Beast by K.A. Merikan

2 votes, 3.9%

Waycaller by D.J. McPhee

2 votes, 3.9%

Fairy tales: traditional stories retold for gay men by Peter Cashorali

2 votes, 3.9%

The Beauty's Brother by Leon Hart

1 vote, 2.0%

Red Hood: The Hunt by Erik Schubach

0 votes, 0.0%

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“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: humor, humour, lying, salvation

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“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode, the opposite. I like writers who deal with ambiguities, biased viewpoint and subjective truth; I like the writing to be clean but everything behind the writing to be complex. I like to feel that there are things going on in the spaces and behind the lines.”
― S.U. Pacat

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“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.”
― Diana Wynne Jones

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