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Austin Chant

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Romance, Gay and Lesbian, Fantasy

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

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December 2010

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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 · 15,721 ratings · 3,660 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Darling 4.05 avg rating — 11,642 ratings — published 2017 — 14 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
	Coffee Boy 3.76 avg rating — 3,169 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 — 857 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 3.75 avg rating — 130 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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Peter Darling is getting a Rainbow Crate special edition!

Peter Darling is a featured book in Rainbow Crate's July box - if you're not familiar with them, Rainbow Crate is a book subscription box that does gorgeous special editions. This version of Peter Darling is a hardback with a new illustrated dust jacket and sprayed edges designed by Olyfrogg, watercolor endpapers by Matthew Spencer, and a foil hardcase designed by Cho. All the artists did an incre Read more of this blog post »

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Austin Chant finished reading Imaro (Imaro #1) by Charles R. Saunders	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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Austin Chant finished reading The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger	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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Austin Chant wants to read Uninhabited: Science Fiction and the Decolonial by Ben Woodard	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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Austin Chant wants to read Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western (Postwestern Horizons) by Kerry Fine	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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Austin Chant wants to read Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas	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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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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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%

51 total votes

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

tags: happily-ever-after, love

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

tags: romantic

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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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