Today on this last day of Aromantic Awareness Week, I’m talking about my own books because hi! I’m an arospec indie author.

In this video, I basically talk a little bit about what you can expect of the books (YMMV on whether you consider some points spoilers) and what you can expect of the representation in the books.

If any of the books has caught your fancy, here are some handydandy links to save you looking them up.

The Shimmering Prayer of Sûkiurâq: https://books2read.com/shimmering-prayer
Sea Foam and Silence: https://books2read.com/sfs-boxset
The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion: https://books2read.com/thrushbeard
A Promise Broken: https://books2read.com/promise-broken

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It’s Day 6 of Aromantic Awareness Week and the generalised book mentions continue! The idea behind this section is that I take commonly requested genres or tropes and list books that /also/ contain aromantic characters (in prominent roles).

There’s a grand total of 12 books I’m covering in this section.

Covered in this video are:
Scifi
Pre-2014 aro-coded rep
Books coming in 2020

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It’s Day 5 of Aromantic Awareness Week and it’s time for some more generalised book mentions. The idea behind this section is that I take commonly requested genres or tropes and list books that /also/ contain aromantic characters (in prominent roles).

There’s a grand total of 12 books I’m covering in this section, but you’ll quickly see why I’m grumbling about the amount of aromantic representation currently out there. (Short version: We need more.)

Covered in this video are:
Aromance (i.e. romance tropes but with aromantic leads)
Contemporary YA
Fantasy

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It’s Day 4 of Aromantic Awareness Week and it’s time to shake things up a bit! Now that I’ve shared with you all my personal favourites, it’s time to ask “But how can you find aromantic characters yourself? Where do you look? What do you look for?”

Thankfully, there are plenty of awesome resources out there to help you find exactly the book for you!

From Claudie Arseneault’s amazing AroAceDatabase to curated lists, finding aromantic recommendations are only a search string away!

Some links to get you started:

The Aromantic and Asexual Character Database: http://claudiearseneault.com/?page_id=1320
Coolcurrybooks’ way more entertaining slides than mine: https://coolcurrybooks.tumblr.com/post/188955491878/aromantic-science-fiction-and-fantasy-ive-been (This is part of a series about queer characters in SFF) She also has a database with lots of queer SFF in general: https://queersff.theillustratedpage.net/

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Day 3 of Aromantic Awareness Week brings us to the section of go-to recommendations that I don’t (yet) have print copies of, so it’s time for a lovely slideshow!

Let me share with you yet more amazing aro representation in books and maybe you’ll find a book to love yourself as well!

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It’s Day 2 of Aromantic Awareness Week and today I’ll be talking about some of my favourite aromantic characters in fiction! Today’s video covers the books that I have print editions of, so I can wave around shiny books and generally geek out as I discuss why I love these books so much and why I think you should check them out!

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It’s Aro Awareness Week 2020! I’m kicking off the week in style with a general discussion about aromantic characters in fiction and what to expect of this week of special AroAwarenessWeek videos tackling some of the books with aro representation!

But not in this video! Oh, no. In this video I really am just rambling about the state of representation in general, what some of the pitfalls are and what to expect of the next six days.

Come join me and maybe you’ll find some of your new favourite representation!

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Surprise book review time!

Title: Belle Révolte

Author: Linsey Miller

Pages: 384

Summary: Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.

Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.

Emilie and Annette swap lives—Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician’s assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives.

But when their nation instigates a frivolous war, Emilie and Annette must work together to help the rebellion end a war that is based on lies.

Disclaimer: I received an e-ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

CW: Violence, murder, gore, medical neglect, abuse, classism, family deaths, drowning

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