Happy Pride to all of our beautiful LGBTQIA2S+ friends, we hope you spent some time celebrating your wonderful self and continue to do so all year round! We have an extremely exciting, hilarious, sincere, and thought-provoking episode for you this week. We are celebrating some of our favourite queer authors and books with a full cast of queer bookish creators, who nearest and dearest to all of our hearts. Please make sure to check out all of our guests on all of their socials and send them all the love you can muster. You can send us a DM or comment on our Instagram @booksonthebrainpodcast! You can also send us an email: booksonthebrainpod@gmail.comWe upload weekly on Wednesdays, and you can find us individually Deirdre (she/her) @deirdrerosemorgan on Instagram & TikTok, Danielle (she/her) @d.j.books on Instagram and TikTok, and Carli (she/they) @carlirokochy on Instagram and @libraryofcarli on TikTok.
Bridge (she/her): @bridgelikesbooks (TikTok/ Instagram)
Greg (he/they): @gregslibrary (Instagram/YouTube) @justgreggy (TikTok)
Cait (she/they): @caitsbooks (Instagram/TikTok/YouTube)
Kati (they/them): @kati.reads.books (Instagram/TikTok)
Jaysen (he/him): @ezeekat (Instagram/TikTok/YouTube)
Need a rec? Here are all the authors we mentioned:
Casey McQuiston, Marino Tamaki, Melinda Lo, Aiden Thomas, Karen Callendar, Adam Silvera, Mason Deaver, Victoria Schwab, Heather Walter, Alexandria Bellefleur, Becky Albertalli, Anna-Marie McLemore, Leah Johnson, Sophie Gonzalez, Adiba Jaigirdar, David Levithan, Alex Sanchez, Steven Salvatore, Isaac Fitzsimmons, Jason June, Alice Oseman, Alison Bechdel, Roxanne Gay
Current Reads:
Deirdre: The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies) by K.J. Charles
Carli: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Greg: How to be Remy Cameron
Danielle: Neon Gods by Katee Robert
Kati: Burn It All Down by Nicolas DiDomizio
Cait: The Off-Campus series, The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Jaysen: The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon, The Girl From The Sea by Molly Ostertag
Bridge: The Fabulous Zed Watson! By Basil Silvester and Kevin Silvester
Tik Tok accounts mentioned:
@jennaslitpicks
Seagull guy: @aarynskelly