Novae Caelum

So as a trans ace person who writes about a trans ace (space) wizard, can I be JKR’s arch nemesis?

My bi king x genderfluid princess fantasy romance The King’s Weaver went viral 4 times in a few weeks and sold out 5, I just rush ordered for more, I’m shuffling schedules to get the sequel out asap because I haven’t cover revealed and have orders THANK YOU YOU’RE MAKING THIS GENDERFLUID AUTHOR CRY

New books I am so excited. I don't know where to start. The King's Weaver by @novaecaelum.bsky.social & Go Luck Yourself by @sararaaschbooks.com 🌈 💚

Happy #TransDayofVisibility!

Favorite books with trans rep this year:
1) Stars and Green Magicks by @novaecaelum.bsky.social
2) Charlie Lavender and the Origin of Everything by @carsonpatrickbowie.bsky.social
3) Pride Street Mysteries series by @thorncoyle.bsky.social

How about you?
#booksky

And by dismantled I mean, question everything. Why is our gendered and binary western society the way it is when humans and nature have never been binary? Why does that seem normal and natural to so many of us? What is actually going on in lived humanity, and going on in systems of oppression?

I had another comment that if the patriarchy didn’t exist, we’d be a matriarchy and better for it.

But that’s swapping one imperfect system for another. Any system that puts any gender above others and excludes those outside the binary is still only good for one group.

It all must be dismantled.

I just passed 750,000 words written so far in The Stars and Green Magics series (halfway into Book 8). That’s 750,000 words of genderfluid kings ruling kingdoms and sapphic rival princesses and trans man space mages.✨I started serializing this in 2021 as I wrote it. Hi 2021 me, thank you. ❤️

Oh thanks so much! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! 💖

My 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ romantasy with a princess who disguises as a man to take down her unwanted betrothed (but the bi king falls for her as a man, and she has a genderfluid awakening) went viral this week on Tiktok, and I sold out of books twice and working on the third time. Trans books matter. 📚The King's Weaver

Working on a new thing tonight, something I haven't really talked about before, a novella about trans angels fighting and loving and saving each other against a long cosmic war. Rereading my first draft right now and feeling this in my soul. (It'll be out when it's out, this one's therapy ❤️)

This was a slow day 😅

I'm trying to get better about mixing more fun and relaxation into my super jammed schedule, though. It does help, a lot

Today I:

- Plotted out a bunch of Book 8 in my queer/enby/trans space fantasy series
- Defeated foes in BG3 (after like 20 tries, god I was stuck)
- Packed and shipped 10 book orders
- Proofed and posted an early access ebook to Bookfunnel & Patreon
- Watched 3 Andromeda episodes
- Wrote this post

I'm not saying that I *accidentally* dropped the last few chapters of The Second Ruler: Part Two and it's now all bingeable on my patron place, all 600 digital super queer pages of it (but also, it is 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨)

I'm seven chonky books deep in my queer space fantasy series and the fantasy is fantasying hard and the resonance is hitting and there is *nothing* like pulling together threads you've been weaving for years into this book's finale. Absolutely nothing. (I say this every book. It's true every time.)

Escape Pod 979: Steadyboi After the Apocalypse You trudge through another wasteland town, sticking to the narrow roads, trying not to make the potholes deeper or the dust clouds thicker, but it’s hard when you’re a hulking robot built for a war…

As tempting as the jolly, candy-like emergency depressurization button may be, please don't press it; instead, press the button that launches you into this week's story, "Steadyboi After the Apocalypse" by @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social! That'll be better for everyone, especially the maintenance staff.

P.S. This isn't a post about policing language so much as--think about who the language talks to? There's a lot of good alternatives. Would trans men feel at home if you say it? Would nonbinary folx? All of that.

I think that might still be too gendered, alas (I always hear that as "women")

And if you haven't read any trans or nonbinary books this year, maybe pick up a few? Bump them to the top of your tbrs. Then blast them to the world to show that trans and nonbinary readers have a space in the book world, too.

Entertainment is where society changes, we've seen this again and again and again. If we want to create a more inclusive world, we've gotta do it in the escapism spaces, too. We HAVE to.

The amount of times I get "ew" on my posts is...disheartening.
The amount of times I get "omg how did I not know these books existed???" is wonderful--but also shows the issue.

I think this is SO important so I'll say it again: feature queer and trans books ALONGSIDE cishet books. Because there's a divide right now where cishet readers often will think queer and trans is not for them, and then queer and trans Booktok gets relegated to the sidelines.

Many of us trans and nonbinary folx have grown up with little or no positive self-rep in what we read, we really don't buy the excuse that you can't enjoy it if you don't identity. We read and watch movies too.

Have queer and trans authors do takeovers or bring them in for interviews. Reach out. Ask us for ARCs. Talk about nonbinary and trans books alongside cishet books. SQUEE about these books, too!

And INDIE books too, because a lot of the most progressive and inclusive queer stories are happening in indie spaces, but queer book spaces are overwhelmingly trad.

Can we get more inclusive? Instead of saying "girlies," use something gender neutral like "readers" or "book friends." Make a point to feature and review books by queer and trans authors about queer and trans main characters.

And yet the readers are there. They are hungry, they will come in the deluge--but so many don't know that there's even a place for them in the reader community at all, they truly don't.

I've been heavily on Booktok and Bookstagram for over two years with hundreds (thousands?) of hours spent across several accounts and I haven't seen more than a handful of popular trans or nonbinary booktokers who aren't also authors. (And still very few authors, too.)

Yes, there are more trans and nonbinary books these days, but even on Booktok and Bookstagram, these books tend to be buried under the popular books--which, with very few exceptions, all feature cishet pairings.

I write sapphic and trans and nonbinary books and one of the things I've heard consistently over the last year from so many readers is that they haven't read in years--or at all--because they didn't see books with their own rep in them. And maybe felt books weren't for them.

I'm not gonna caveat this with things about spaces for women (that's all valid, it is), but I want to look at: while the US is bent on excluding trans and nonbinary folx, how can we get more gender inclusive in our escapism spaces? That's what we all need right now.