tRaum Books

Of course! <33

Definitely!! <3

This looks relevant to my interests ;3 I'll have to snag a copy from @kithbooks.bsky.social <3

A Summer with the Immortal by Paris Vivian Why are the telephone-lilies wilting? (Verdantland Trilogy #1)

Hello! 😁 I’m a SFF author with 3 books out:
• Sci-fantasy about a bio student finding out what’s poisoning some phone-lilies (ft. f/f, autistic rep, and an anti-centrism message + currently in a bundle!) 🪴

parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal
kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal

Cat/Mouse: An Allied Space novella by Eliza Mares A bounty hunter, an art thief, and a dangerous game...

Hello!!! I self-pubbed a sci-fi novella last year (linked). It's got bounty hunting, art heisting, and lots of gay yearning.

elizamares.itch.io/catmouse-an-...

All of Dale's stories are impeccably written and very cool.

The cover of Melancholic Parables, showing a shattered teacup mirrored by a line-drawn bull against a white background. The text of the title and author name fades into defocus. Cover image copyright © 2022 by Rachel A. Rosen.

The cover image for Dale Stromberg’s novel Gyre. The title and author name are written in swoopy cursive script. In the centre is a painting of a violin which has been smashed; the two damaged sides of the violin body resemble the outlines of faces, one shaped like an adult; the other, a child. Cover design copyright © 2024 by Rachel A. Rosen

I indie-pubbed a short literary novel GYRE and a flash prose collection MELANCHOLIC PARABLES.
dalestromberg.jimdofree.com/fiction/gyre/
dalestromberg.jimdofree.com/fiction/mela...

I can get you epubs or pdfs of any of these if you like.

kith in print Brave and unflinching, Like Blood on a Dog’s Teeth comes gracious and asking; Nivik has loved and they’ve lived, and it’s time to take stock. From youth to adulthood, from lost pup to collared, these ...

Hi! My name is Nivik and I was recently published through Kith Books for a work of queer poetry called "Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth". I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

The book can be found through Kith Books here:

www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/dogst...

Thank you for your consideration.

Highly recommend this for anyone who enjoys a book where the reading experience completely & utterly CONSUMES you🤯This is a linguistic feast.
traumbooks.com/maej/

Boosting this!! Any small queer/trans presses with submissions open or readers who have suggestions?

Ahh, thanks! Our submissions won't be open for quite some time ;;--;; but we'd def click with such a story! <3

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5 💀s for OUR LORD, THE Worm by Richard Beauchamp.

Full review is up on my Goodreads

This was a horror novella I enjoyed a lot, and became our connection for EUSECT! ❣️❣️A party goes horribly off the rails...!

Bez is one of the most thorough reviewers I've come across...! If you are an indie author who hasn't been reviewed by them yet, I highly recommend dropping a link to your work below. 🔽🔽👀

Bez Reviews Independent Books #10: Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies tRaum Books has their 1st poetry collection, an anthology of 10+ years of work by Never Angeline Nørth. What is Black Hole Science Is Filled With Apologies, &and why is this field of outer spac…

My latest review is of @traumbooks.bsky.social 's Black Hole Science Is Filled With Apologies: norbezdoes.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/b...

brib – Norbez Jones (Call me Bez) Posts about brib written by Norbez Jones aka Bez

You can read some of my reviews here: norbezdoes.wordpress.com/tag/brib/

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

I've read antifeminist and conservative works to write my essays. They were tediously repetitive, poorly written, and insufferably smug, utterly sure in the infallibility of their own worldview as axiomatic. Mocking the idea that people held different views was often passed off as an argument.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

<3 <3333333333!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An alternative cover for Never Angeline North's poetry (??) collection, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. A black and white family picture. Two children, a mother, who is being held by a bear. Book released by tRaum Books. BLACK HOLE SCIENCE is a hybrid poetry/flash collection of absurd and touching and cartoonish and sometimes disturbing pieces that span almost a decade of North's writing.

"I am letting the sun set in me
finally because I am too tired
of holding it up."
Never's poetry is the mood of right now. Read for yourself:
traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

I am referring to a literary horror book by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin, called FLEISCHEREI.

FLEISCHEREI is such an excellent story book that somebody stole my copy. I did get to read it first so I can attest to its greatness.

this is not a difficult concept if you equally value all human life. children in countries outside the imperial core don’t deserve to be murdered.

Renaming the DoD to the Department of War is perhaps the most honest thing Trump has ever done.

Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi: 9781644214053 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Winner, ALA ALEX Award An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic storytelling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in pho...

This is a good time to read WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM, an excellent anthology of comics about the Iranian resistance movement edited by Marjane Satrapi.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/755488...

Can confirm that FLEISCHEREI is excellent. 🥩🥩

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An illustration of two little girls looking out their bedroom window at a giant snake. Cover for Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies, a hybrid poetry collection by Never Angeline North, with poems collected from over a decade. Cover designed by author. Book released by tRaum Books.

"I could not have asked for more from a collection of stories and poems. I was so pleased." We are so happy people are enjoying Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies!!!
Check it out for yourself here:
traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

5 weird writing pet peeves:

- most adverbs
- chapter 1 lore dumps
- showing in one sentence and then in the next sentence telling the same thing
- unintended anachronisms
- tumblr-poisoned prose

5 weird writing pet peeves:

- someone's voice rising "an octave" or (god help us) "several octaves" without the aid of Autotune

- "disinterested" when you mean "uninterested"

- refusal or inability to use the pluperfect

- first-person narrators with plain vanilla voices

- dangling participles

4 weird writing pet peeves

- “quirked a brow” (unless it’s Spock)
- “based on my reading of the DSM entry” depictions of neurodivergence
- transparent or beige prose
- characters who would not use “therapy speak” using it OR characters who absolutely would use it not using it jst bc it’s “uncool”