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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 · 16,264 ratings · 3,803 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Darling 4.05 avg rating — 12,063 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 — 3,251 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 — 889 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
	Peter Darling - Spanish Edition by Austin Chant (Goodreads Author), Ariadna Soler (Translator), Marlene Acevedo (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 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
	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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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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Kill All Wizards (The Barbaric Ledgers, #1)

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Dune (Dune, #1)

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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

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“What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?”
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“Dreamers are always welcome here, whatever their reasons.”
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Peter Darling by Austin Chant

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Truth in the Dark by Amy Lane

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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

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The Beauty's Brother by Leon Hart

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Red Hood: The Hunt by Erik Schubach

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“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
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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.”
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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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