​The Rainbow Space Magic virtual convention is this weekend, October 3rd and 4th. This convention is always a lot of fun with so many great authors participating in panel discussions and reading from their work. On Sunday, October 4th, I'll be joining a panel discussion about finding writing communities despite constraints and then doing a reading (I think from To Love the Dragon King, but I still need to figure that out...) later in the afternoon.

There's still time to join us. RSM is a free virtual convention, and you can register here. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope I'll see you there!

Across the country, laws and policies of censorship and book banning are making it harder for libraries and schools to provide access to books. Arkansas’s Act 372 is one example of such a law. It created new restrictions surrounding materials made available to minors and placed significant pressure on librarians and libraries over what they can offer by prohibiting books that are deemed “harmful.” The consequence of violating the law is jail time, and “harmful” is left undefined, leaving bare shelves in libraries for fear of persecution. The ACLU of Arkansas has challenged those restrictions on First Amendment grounds.

The government should not be able to decide for everyone what they can read, nor should the government be able to tell every parent what their child is allowed to read. I believe librarians should be able to do their jobs. I believe parents should be able to make choices for their own families. And I believe young people deserve the opportunity to discover books that challenge them, comfort them, educate them, and make them feel seen or less alone. 

As an author—and especially an author of LGBTQ romance—I believe in the freedom to read and that the people banning the books are never the good guys. So I’ve joined with a group of authors to publish an anthology to support the ACLU’s efforts. This two volume anthology is a collection of swoony, spicy scenes from previously published works, and you can find my contribution—a scene from To Love the Dragon King—in volume 2.

Both volumes are available in ebook, paperback, and special edition paperback, and you can find links to them all here. 

August slipped away from us somehow... I mostly reread again this month, listening to those rereads on audio as I walked or cleaned or did a bunch of other stuff that probably contributed to my not knowing where the month went. But I did read a few new books that I enjoyed: 
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The Dragon's Devotion was first published nine years ago this month, so I decided the ebook should be on sale this month. This is the first dragon shifter romance I wrote and the fifth book in the Chronicles of Tournai (with some connections to the Dragons of Ivria series as well, though I wasn't planning those books at all when I wrote this one!). Despite being part of a series, it stands alone really well, so you can jump in here if you haven't read the earlier Tournai books yet. 

Find The Dragon's Devotion for $2.99 wherever you get your ebooks.

​It's time for the big August Narratess indie book sale! There are so many fantasy, sci fi, and horror books on sale, including The Prince's Consort, which is $1.99 (or equivalent in other currencies) wherever you get your ebooks. Find The Prince's Consort here, and check out all the sale books at indiebook.sale.

Both books in the Elemental Magicae series are on sale through August 31st! A Dance of Water and Air is $1.99 and A Harmony of Fire and Earth is $2.99 wherever you buy your ebooks, so this is a great time to grab the complete series if you haven't read them yet! Find them both here.​

July was another busy month, and as the month went on, my brain decided it mostly just wanted to re-listen to books while I exercised or cleaned or did laundry and didn't let me finish the new books I tried to start. Fingers crossed August is different. Here are a few books I did finish:
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I meant to share these book recs a couple of weeks ago, but everything got away from me. I'm sharing them anyway because July isn't the only month to read these books.

It's Nonbinary Awareness Week, so I thought I would share some books I've enjoyed with nonbinary main characters:
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​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes going over the sentence limit!). Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your TBR. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ.

To Know a Dragon Spy is out in the world now! Yay! This second book in the Dragons of Ivria series is a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers-ish romance that ties up some loose ends from the first books (and creates a couple more for book 3...). I've been sharing some snippets from Dragon Spy, and this one picks up right after the last one.