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This advertisement is for Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them. Cover art by Irene Huang.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters…all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen’s private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Leaving their lives isn’t so easy.
But after an assassin takes Reyna hostage, she decides she’s thoroughly done risking her life for a self-centered queen. What follows is a cozy tale of mishaps, mysteries, and a murderous queen throwing the realm’s biggest temper tantrum.
#can't spell treason without tea#a pirate's life for tea#rebecca thorne#new books#booklr#tbr#cozy romance#irene huang
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Absolutely insane how lesbians be having they eyes fucked up in every single book I read abt them.
We got artifical/mechanical eyes! We got glowing eyes! We got swapping your eyes with a person who completed a death ritual for you!
#just finished reading This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca thorne#p good so far ngl#but the eye stuff is legit like#gearbreakers too#sapphics and eyes and smth smth#tlt#the locked tomb#gearbreakers#godslayers#this gilded abyss#rebecca thorne
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Her book releases tomorrow, May 7 2024. It’s a Library Reads pick for the month of May, will be on display tables in every airport bookstore, and she’s being sent on 17-day book tour all across the U.S. by the publisher (Tor!).
She’s also my girlfriend, and I’m incredibly proud of her for relentlessly pursuing her dream—and more, for sharing every scrap of information she learns about all varieties of publishing and writing with anyone who has interest, trying to help every author to pursue their own dreams.
Like she said: Keep at it! You never know when the lightning strike of success will hit, but you can keep setting up fields and field of lightning rods. :)
(Also go buy her book. It’s sapphic and cozy and has dragons and puns. What more could you want 😂 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250333292/cantspelltreasonwithouttea )
#writing#books#fantasy books#romantasy#lgbtqia#writeblr#rebecca thorne#can’t spell treason without tea#yes I’m trying to make this reach as many people as possible#I read her threads post on my own and almost teared up I’m so proud and happy for her
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Did you guys see the cover of my new book?? Comes out June 6th, 2023. Arcane x Bioshock, set on a Titanic-like submarine.
Enemies to lovers.
A soldier protecting a princess.
"I'd die for you."
"I'd kill for you."
Cait/Vi vibes.
A ship of passengers slowly turning violent.
WHUMP.
And... there's spice. >.>
Please go preorder my book I'm really nervous no one will like it. All my readers right now are of the cozy variety, but you guys are going to swoon over these lesbians, I promise.
EDIT: Summary below!
A soldier and a princess have to band together to survive when passengers on their ship begin massacring each other. Only problem is, the women are exes, and they hate each other.
#this gilded abyss#rebecca thorne#fantasy#horror#fantasy horror#nautical horror#whump#sapphic#lgbt representation#w|w#arcane#bioshock#titanic#art deco
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Fave Five: Books for Fans of Our Flag Means Death
In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens (YA)
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (YA)
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa (YA, audiobook narrated by Vico Ortiz)
A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Bonus: Coming in June and July 2024, respectively, check out Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland and Peregrine Seas by R.C. Ballad
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#A Pirate&039;s Life for Tea#Alexandra Rowland#Austin Chant#F.T. Lukens#Gabe Cole Novoa#Maggie Tokuda-Hall#Our Flag Means Death#Peregrine Seas#Peter Darling#Pirates#Rebecca Thorne#Running Close to the Wind#The Wicked Bargain
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2023 reads / storygraph
The Day Death Stopped
NA contemporary fantasy
in a world with witches - most of whom have random insignificant powers - one per generation is the Zaro, the magical leader with almost endless power, until the power was born into two people
Claire is perfectly happy being a stage magician, pretending to be a normal witch, while the other is raised to be the next Zaro - but when he casts a spell to stop death (entirely, in the worst kind of way) to ‘protect her’ she has to get involved
nonlinear storytelling, quirky omniscient narrator, footnotes
ace MC
#The Day Death Stopped#Rebecca Thorne#I enjoyed this!#I wanna say the stylisation of the narrative isn’t quite at the level of quirkiness to for me to not notice the somewhat flimsiness of the#magic/worldbuilding - like it’s very clear it’s supposed to be a somewhat silly precedent but i got a bit distracted thinking about the#implications of things#also felt like the jumping around and pacing and backstory bits got a bit too jumbly in the middle#it could have been a bit more succinct in some areas of the narrative?#also feel like the characters being a bit older would have helped with the stylisation?#it was fun tho!#asexual books#(mostly briefly mentioned; MC and kinda-antagonist are exes but on her end it's mostly platonic for most of the narrative & end)#also ooh the thing about her brother made me feel an emotion#aroaessidhe 2023 reads
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#the real reason i baked a cake 😂#can’t spell treason without tea#rebecca thorne#books#bookedit#bookblr#bookstagram#cosy fantasy#queer fantasy#queer books#sapphic#sapphic books#sapphic fantasy#lesbian#my edits
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Eventually.
Rebecca Thorne, from Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea
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This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
Seriously such a good book!! Sapphic bioshock aka the best!
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“Run away with me, the mage had said, her eyes alight. You like tea. I like books. Let’s open a shop somewhere remote and forget the world exists.”
-Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
#bookshelf#books#reading#book blog#Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea#Rebecca Thorne#bookish quotes#book quotes
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Okay. This was irresistible! The cozy fantasy vibes, the sweet endearing sapphic romance, and just the overwhelming kindness that just radiated through this book. I absolutely loved this.
Kianthe is the mage of ages and is in love with Reyna, a guard for a quite evil queen. They decide to run away together and find the perfect middle of nowhere town. They get to work opening their tea shop and bookstore, not yet knowing how attached to this town they would become or the difference they would make.
This has plant magic and earth magic, dragons and dragon eggs, and a very loveable griffin. Not to mention the utter calmness this book brought me with its wonderful townspeople and solvable problems.
I can't recommend this enough!
Out May 7, 2024!
Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!
#book#bookish#books#bookworm#currently reading#book review#read#bookblogger#reading#fantasy#cozy books#cozy reads#cozy fantasy#cant spell Treason without tea#rebecca thorne#lgbtq+#lgbtq books
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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!
Rakesfall by @adamantine
They met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. Later, in a demon-haunted wood, an act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey through the ages. As they reincarnate ever deeper into the future, a truth emerges: Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell.
Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste
In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.
Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body and wears your skin. Welcome to Camp Resolution, a queer conversion center where everyone leaves a different person. In 1995, seven queer teens were abandoned here by their parents, but survived. Sixteen years later, they’re scarred and broken, but back to face an evil that threatens the world.
Kinning by Nisi Shawl
In this alternate history where barkcloth airships soar and former colonies claim freedom from imperialist tyrants, the identity of the island of Everfair still wavers. Victorious in the wake of the Great War, a new threat looms. Can Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope for anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces within and without?
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by @rebeccathornewrites
Can one of the Queen’s private guard and the most powerful mage in existence leave their lives behind to settle down in their new bookshop that serves tea? This cozy fantasy is steeped in sapphic romance and nestled on the edge of dragon country.
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.
Now available in paperback!
The Archive Undying by @emcandon
This is a story about misplaced faith, complicated love, so much self-loathing, and yeah—giant robots. Plugged into his AI god when its apocalyptic corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to things. Unending life’s tough when intimacy is somehow scarier even than either of the warring police states set on turning you into a weapon or the rogue undead mecha-fragment of your old god that wants to eat you.
Now available in paperback!
The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen
A dazzling historical mystery that dives into the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, emerging in the gay bars of the city. It’s a whirlpool of missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos in 1952 San Francisco.
Now available in paperback!
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#the archive undying#emma mieko candon#the bell in the fog#lev ac rosen#can't spell treason without tea#rebecca thorne#the fragile threads of power#v e schwab#cuckoo#gretchen felker-martin#kinning#nisi shawl#running close to the wind#alexandra rowland#rakesfall#vajra chandrasekera#tor books#tor publishing group#bramble romance#nightfire books#forge books#bramble#tordotcom publishing#tdcp#lgbtqia+#gay reads#tbr#new books
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Been a little MIA recently, but here’s the tea on my latest LGBT reads…
As You Walk On By by Julian Winters ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A sweet tribute to the power (and importance) of queer friend groups. (But did we really need another version of the Breakfast Club?)
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This cozy fantasy owes an (obvious) debt to Legends and Lattes. But I do respect that the romantic leads are older sapphics who model healthy relationship communication alongside the magical hijinx!
And I’ve been lucky enough to receive a few highly-anticipated ARCs! Since the pub date is closest, I’m cracking open one of the reads I’m most excited for in ‘24: Alison Cochrun’s third novel: Here We Go Again. (My queer little English teacher heart is glowing…)
XOXO
EJ
#lgbt reads#queer lit#book recs#as you walk on by#julian winters#mlm#gay#nonbinary#sapphic#wlw#can’t spell treason without tea#rebecca thorne#lesbian#fantasy#cozy fantasy#here we go again#alison cochrun#romcom
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A major publisher bought my cozy fantasy series!!
https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-serves-up-cant-spell-treason-without-tea-by-thorne
I’m beyond excited to finally announce that Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea and its sequels will be republished by Tor. TOR. I may have died and gone to heaven.
For anyone unfamiliar, this is Travis Baldree’s publisher too! Legends & Lattes. :D
THANK YOU for everyone who’s been a member of this journey. I am over the moon excited about this!!
#can't spell treason without tea#rebecca thorne#tomes and tea#a pirate's life for tea#kianthe and reyna#cozy fantasy
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Fave Five: Queer Cozy Fantasy
The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill (MG GN)
Tell Me How it Ends by Quinton Li
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
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#Can&039;t Spell Treason Without Tea#Kay O&039;Neill#Legends & Lattes#Rebecca Thorne#T.J. Klune#The House in the Cerulean Sea#The Tea Dragon Society#Travis Baldree
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🪻Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea🪻 by Rebecca Thorne
This book wasn't my favorite, but I wasn't really expecting it to be. I actually liked it more than I thought I would. To be honest the point of reading this was to get to book two, which looks really, really good.
The main characters were fun but I feel like I was thrown into the story and expected to already be attached to them. I did like Reyna and Kianthe, but I would have been more invested in them if the book included the beginnings of their relationship, rather then just referencing back to it a few times for the sake of context.
I wish Wylan and Feo had been in the story more. I was excited because at one point it seemed like they were going to be, but then all of the stuff with the queen happened, and then the book was over. I was excited to see their relationship develop. I hope they appear in book two.
The highlight of the book was the dragons. Their magic is so insanely cool. And the humor was very entertaining!
I would give this book somewhere between three and four stars. I am very much looking forward to book two!
#treason and tea#book review#bookblr#can’t spell treason without tea#rebecca thorne#cozy fantasy#sapphic books#lgbt books#dragons
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