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Austin Chant

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Romance, Gay and Lesbian, Fantasy

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Diana Wynne Jones, C.J. Cherryh, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee

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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 speculative fiction. He lives in Seattle with his partner Sara and two fiendish cats.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 16,358 ratings · 3,822 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Darling 4.05 avg rating — 12,146 ratings — published 2017 — 16 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 3.75 avg rating — 3,262 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 4.20 avg rating — 893 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 3.72 avg rating — 131 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
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Preorders open for the Spanish edition of Peter Darling!

Hi all! Preorders just went live for Zona Abisal's fully illustrated Spanish edition of Peter Darling, which comes out on April 10! The preorder campaign runs from now until March 31. The first printing also comes with two postcards and a bookmark.

Preorder link here! There's also an illustrated excerpt of the prologue :)

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The Iliad

by Homer

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Warmly, The Wild

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Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #3)

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“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?”
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tags: alone, queer, transgender

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“Dreamers are always welcome here, whatever their reasons.”
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Widdershins - Jordan L. Hawk (Historical Fantasy)

12 votes 16.9%

Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling (Fantasy)

11 votes 15.5%

Unmasked by the Marquess - Cat Sebastian (Historical Fiction)

10 votes 14.1%

Wild - Meghan O'Brien (Urban Fantasy )

9 votes 12.7%

The Queen of Ieflaria - Effie Calvin (Fantasy)

7 votes 9.9%

Daughter of Mystery - Heather Rose Jones (Historical Fantasy)

7 votes 9.9%

Soufflés at Sunrise - M.J. O'Shea (Contemporary)

5 votes 7.0%

Peter Darling - Austin Chant (Fantasy)

4 votes 5.6%

Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden (Contemporary)

4 votes 5.6%

Behind These Doors - Jude Lucens (Historical Fiction)

2 votes 2.8%

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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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