Author: lalanquist

Hi there! My name is Leland Ashford Lanquist, your friendly neighborhood trans man and author. Out of a dream for more & better transgender media representation, I started this neat blog right here. It’s still an egg just starting to hatch, so please help me take good care of it by reading and engaging with my content via comments or social media!

To the Flame by A. E. Ross

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I’ll admit, if you told me back when I started this blog that I’d be talking about monsterfucking, I probably wouldn’t have believed you, but I just read To the Flame by A. E. Ross, and some things need to be said. This paranormal cryptid romance is about a college guy named Emerson (he/him) who… Continue reading To the Flame by A. E. Ross

In Your Face: An Extremely Shallow Dive into the Marketing of Trans Books

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How we classify identity in books, how SEO makes trans books easy to find (but also ends up "shoving identity in the readers' faces"), and how pressures to meet the needs of broad audiences can impact representation in books. AKA: Far too long a post for such a surface level exploration of the marketing of transgender books.