Thanks so much to Fangirlish for including Lessons in Magic and Disaster on their list of the best fantasy books this August!

Fangirlish

The 12 Best Fantasy Books of August 2025

Gods, royals, magicians, and more populate the best fantasy books of August 2025. Here's what we're most excited to read this month.

OMG it's here! I just received a box of incredibly beautiful author copies of my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming 8/19/25 🥰 A young trans witch teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic. It's about families, queer survival, and learning to see clearly the people you love most 💝

Trans March!

Hey hey HEY! I just updated the official Writers With Drinks site with info on *two* upcoming shows:

Writers With Drinks spoken word variety show, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders

Writers With Drinks is a San Francisco-based spoken word variety show, featuring literary fiction, poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, erot...

Yes, it looks like a site I hand-coded in 2003. Shut up! But please come to these shows and tell all yr friends! <3

Thank you SO MUCH for helping this local SF trans nerd who is facing housing insecurity. Alas, her situation has not gotten better as we'd hoped. I hate to ask again, but if you could spare a few bucks, it would really mean a lot. 💝 https://www.gofundme.com/f/trans-women-seeking-help-with-rent-living-expenses

"Heartfelt and heart-wrenching in the best ways, this novel is about grief and belonging, recovery, healing, and love... Highly recommended, like the most comforting of hugs from a loved one at a difficult time." So grateful for this incredibly generous review for LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER from @Lynne M. Thomas 🏳‍🌈🦄🚀 💝

Book review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster | Confessions of a Curator, Editor, Geek

Sue Ann Carwell was an early Prince protegée. He found her in 1978 and decided he was going to make her a star. But by then, this teenage girl had already been at the heart of the Minneapolis music scene for years. I asked her about the origins of Minneapolis funk:

The Origins of Prince and the Minneapolis Sound, according to Sue Ann Carwell

Thank you for reading my newsletter! If you’d like more of my writing, I have a novel coming out in August called Lessons in Magic and Disaster. ...

So stoked that the CBC chose my YA novel Victories Greater Than Death as one of their recommended kids' books for Pride Month!

ABC Pride

This unique online bibliography, created June 2025, features the best of new and backlist books from CBC publishers celebrating Pride Month.

(Also so happy to see @npub1lnp5...swhg A.R. Carpetta, @Terry J. Benton-Walker, HE Edgmon and Kate Bornstein on there!)

Heck yeah! I love Bustle's list of the best books to look out for this summer — so many great reads here. And I'm utterly, fabulously stonked that they included Lessons in Magic and Disaster. 💘💝💖

Best New Books Of Summer 2025

I love this new addition to Clarion Alley in SF