today I started reading "Death on the Down Beat: An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection", a novel from the British Library Crime Classics colleection. it is constructed as a epistolary novel, which makes for an interesting change to "normal" crime novels.
https://shop.bl.uk/products/death-on-the-down-beat-an-orchestral-fantasy-of-detection
#RandomBookClub #2025reads #cozycrime #musicinliterature #fedibooks #bookstodon
#English #BookClub to be at #Goth Shop #Nyctophilia in #Hamburg, Germany. Here are the infos about it by Krista (I am not organizing the book club with her, I just want to share this).
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#readingcommunity
Let me tell you about #RandomBookClub and feel free to join the fun, using the hashtag. Tell us what you are currently reading, how you like it and if you would recommend it. You can also share your reviews.
Please boost. Thanks.
Decided to open the #RandomBookClub for any day of the week:
Read any book you like, any time. Fiction or nonfiction, all genres are welcome. On any day of the week, talk about the current book(s) you are reading, using the hashtag. What do you like about it. What not? Do you have a nice quote, or anything else to share about it?
Feel free to use the hashtag, follow it and join the fun. Please boost this. Thanks. 
#RandomBookClub
Read any book you like, any time. Fiction or nonfiction, all genres are welcome.
On Wednesdays, talk about the current book(s) you are reading, using the hashtag. What do you like about it? What not? Do you have a nice quote, or anything else to share about it?
Follow-up on this: Here is an article that explains what you can do as an author if your works have been used by Meta (without your consent) to train AI:
https://societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/the-libgen-data-set-what-authors-can-do/
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Today is #IndieBookDay
(More about this: https://www.indiebookday.de/english/ )
If you are looking for #SapphicRomance, here is a recommendation: Ylva Publishing publishes lesbian books in a variety of genres, for instance contemporary, historical, SFF, mysteries and more.
https://dev.ylva-publishing.com/
oh, I was told that Mark wouldn't want us to be able to read Sarah's book, “Careless People”. So of course I bought it, I'll read it, and am happy to lend it to my friends 
https://nextcloud.harvestntech.fr/s/9Yq7NLifcaosrgA?path=%2FCensured%20elsewhere
#bookrecommendation wanted
I am looking for #gothic (horror) novels by contemporary authors. I don't care if the setting is historical (for instance Regency, Victorian or Edwardian) or contemporary.
I am NOT looking for generic horror, but books with a gothic horror feeling.
I already have some books on my wish list, but I'd love to get more recommendations.
Bonus points if the story has queerness.
If you have published such a book yourself, tell me about it.
Reminder for the #writingcommunity
February 26 (Wednesday) is "Tell A Fairy Tale Day". So if you have written a fairy tale or a fairy tale adaption, if you have a favourite fairy tale or anything else to share about fairy tales, the upcoming Wednesday is a good opportunity for that. 
Freue mich schon: in zwei Tagen erscheint endlich "Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen" von Ingo Dachwitz @roofjoke@mamot.fr und Sven Hilbig! #DigitalerKolonialismus #FediBooks
(comment on Digitaler Kolonialismus)
Typischer Ablauf wenn ich aktuell vor dem Fantasy-Regal stehe:
1. Buch bekommt meine Aufmerksamkeit
2. Tom schaut Klappentext an
3. Irgendwas wie: "Sie ist die Auserwählte, er der düstere Krieger, der sie beschützen muss – doch ihre verbotene Liebe könnte alles zerstören."
4. Tom: oh noch ein #Romantasy Buch 
Farbschnitt darf natürlich nicht fehlen.
Freut mich echt für alle, die das Genre mögen, aber bald müsste der Markt doch gesättigt sein? :D
#selfpromosaturday
Free ebook.
I am doing a give away: The Queer Romance novella "A Fundraiser Concert with the Demonettes". You can download the ebook as a epub or PDF for free here:
https://bit.ly/Demonettes
The link leads to my Dropbox. For the download, it is not necessary to sign up or log in there.
Give away:
I did an AU #fanfiction, later left the fandom for reasons and turned the fanfiction into original fiction, because the story had the potential for this.
It’s a short novella called „A Fundraiser Concert With The Demonettes“ and it is a wholesome queer romance. Both characters are on the #acespectrum and one of them is #agender.
You can download it here for free as an e-book (epub or PDF):
https://bit.ly/Demonettes
(Link leads to my Dropbox)
#writingcommunity #writing #fedibooks
If you are interested in book trends, this video may be interesting, in which Alyssa Matesic analyzes the current interests of literature agents:
"Top Trending Book Genres for 2025"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrOezGSjj4
What came as a surprise to me:
After the trend of Romantasy, Fantasy and Romance weren't in the top spots on the list anymore, instead YA and LGBTIAQ* fiction.
Yeah for queer fiction!
I feel that. In my case, this includes writing wholesome queer romance (not only reading it).
Kay Claire shared this meme on Tumblr and wrote: "How I feel nowadays (you gotta find a way to cope)."
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Just finished. It’s a book of many things and none of them: about Palestine, about theatre, about resistance, resilience, about family and about a very very annoying self-centred woman. It started slow, but in the end I found myself I couldn’t stop reading. Like Hamlet’s father, this book will keep haunting me, in any future art or activism. And maybe, that was the whole point of the book: to enter your art, like a ghost.
