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Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies by tRaum Books by Never Angeline Nørth || I was in the place you go when you are dead.

Sorry, had to repost cause forgot the alt text >_<< ALSO! Since we just released BLACK HOLE SCIENCE, that is not discounted, but it is included in the bundle if you buy all of our ebooks~~❣️❣️
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A screenshot of tRaum Books' Itch Io landing page. The ebooks are all discounted at 50% off, until the end of March.

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It's Read an eBook March, so we've got all of our ebooks on sale--or buy them all in a big ol' bundle and get them all! <3
This sale will go on until the end of March~~ 📚👀📚

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Aaaand for anyone avoiding Itch, the same 50% off sale is going on at Payhip (but they sadly do not offer bundles.) Still, a great place to grab a few tittles to round out a trans Readathon list!
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for all the Trans Rights Readathon participants still making their lists 👀

it's a good time to read the incredible trans surrealist novel love / aggression by June Martin

both also have political intrigue plots that split the difference between "history is a Rube Goldberg machine of stupid coincidences" and "oops, all scheming viziers"

both have major characters who are trans in kind of a plot incidental way that isn't confirmed until later in the story & isn't central to the character's arc AND ALSO trans in a way that's still extremely important to their psychology, relationships, etc. tough balancing act, nice to see it.

Any of these books, including my own, would be a great pick-- but I especially want to talk up MAEJ! It and Hiron Ennes's WORKS OF VERMIN are hands down my favorite secondary world fantasy doorstoppers of this decade. I'm picky as hell about fantasy doorstoppers.

a + e (Spring) by tRaum Books by R Merey || My God, help me survive this deadly love.

A + E is a manic and lil problematic slice o' life with two ???? kids trying to survive a year of late-90s high school.
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Read and Then Burn This (Fall) by tRaum Books It does no good to be good.

The two other SEASONS stories are available for free on ITCH (and Wake Up! will also be available as a free ebook once it is out!) Read and then Burn This follows a young dancer who can't ignore the toxic attentions of a middle-aged compulsive liar. traumbooks.itch.io/read-and-the...

Wake Up! ARC signup Hello! This is a sign-up form to become an ARC reader and reviewer for the novella Wake Up!, by R. Merey. Wake Up! is about 118 pages long. It is a somewhat experimental (?) thriller (??) about a tran...

I'm really proud of this story, because I think the interplay between the two characters is quite interesting, as is the way things unfold in general. Also, fwiw, the characters are ace (or, ace-implied) and sex is not a tension. You can check out a free ARC copy: forms.gle/ccFwx9t7zxJv...

A white-ish background with amorphous blurred and glitched figures, featuring a cowgirl, a cat skull, a barbed wire heart, and a galloping horse. In the foreground is a mahjong tile with blood coming out of it and slashes. This somewhat Lynchian story follows the unlikely relationship between a trans lesbian tattoo artist and a compulsive gambler. Wake Up! by R Merey, is the winter novella of the SEASONS series.

Also, at the end of this month, we are quietly releasing Wake Up!, the winter book of R Merey's SEASONS novellas! This is a trans-noir literary(ish) gambling thriller, which sounds ultra-niche, but if you like short, fast, weird, and unpredictable, check it out!! 🀄
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🪸🐙🐳Thanks, Paul!!!

Demon Engine was one of my best reads of 2025. Highly recommend it.

Many of the others look cool too.

Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies by tRaum Books by Never Angeline Nørth || I was in the place you go when you are dead.

Sorry, had to repost cause forgot the alt text >_<< ALSO! Since we just released BLACK HOLE SCIENCE, that is not discounted, but it is included in the bundle if you buy all of our ebooks~~❣️❣️
traumbooks.itch.io/black-hole-s...

A screenshot of tRaum Books' Itch Io landing page. The ebooks are all discounted at 50% off, until the end of March.

‪
It's Read an eBook March, so we've got all of our ebooks on sale--or buy them all in a big ol' bundle and get them all! <3
This sale will go on until the end of March~~ 📚👀📚

traumbooks.itch.io

Sama’a standing atop the rubble of her home after it was bombed by Israel. She is wearing a black hijab, a black and white hooded sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, denim pants, smiling and holding a peace sign.

Sama’a standing in a bombed out building surrounded by rubble and dirt, holding her 5 month old daughter, Talia. She is wearing a Black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, and black pants. Baby Talia is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a white headband with a bow.

Sama’a taking a selfie in front of a red sheeted wall. She is smiling, wearing a black hijab and a white Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, holding baby Talia in her arm, who is swaddled in a white blanket and wearing a white headband with a bow. At her hip is 3 year old Julia, wearing a green and blue plaid dress with a white collar, smiling with her dark hair pulled up into pigtails.

Sama’a stands on a road amid bombed out buildings, rubble, and trash, holding the hand of her three year old daughter Julia. Sama’a is wearing an all black hijab and pantsuit. Julia is wearing a denim dress and a blue puffy coat.

I am not a beggar. I am a human being who had everything stolen — my home, my safety, and my children’s peace.

When I ask for help, I am claiming my right to live with dignity, not to be buried alive under poverty, cold, and silence.

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

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One week to go!

I'm also very happy to meet a writer whose style and ethos embodies what we are trying to do here. <33333333333

I'm so happy you're officially on the roster!!! <3 This book is honestly just perfect for our lineup 🥹🥹🔥❣️

Yooooo big news!

I’ve officially signed a contract for my novel THE LIVING COPY with @traumbooks.bsky.social!!!

THE LIVING COPY tells the story of a young woman traversing the haunted places of Pennsylvania and seeing ghosts — while being told ghost stories by an AI bot of her dead grandmother.

Yup---THE LIVING COPY by @alessandrostardust.bsky.social is going to be our fall release and we are so, so excited for it!! This is a gorgeous (and experimental!) story by an author whose voice and style we really admire. <3

Post by @bryszket · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 6  ❤️ 5 · Wake Up! · Heyyy this is an announcement of the next installment of the novella series, SEASONS. WAKE UP! is the winter novella and all my books deal with queer and trans themes, b…

finally, the trans mahjong noir you've all been waiting for

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A gouache painting of a canine mouth, focus on teeth. Dominant colors are red, black, pus, and bone. Cover for C.L. Methvin's horror collection, EUSECT. This is an eclectic collection of flash and then longer short stories, covering a wide range of horror themes. In some cases, extreme horror/splatterpunk. Cover art by Dusty Ray. Interior collage art by Florian S. Fauna.

"This is a good pick if you're looking for something to make you flinch... I think it's my favorite horror anthology thus far." We live for reviews like this!! Thank you. ❣️ If you've got a horror itch, check out our collection, EUSECT, by @hypetaph.bsky.social

This is still ongoing - the hearing has been postponed until June. Please share and please donate - trans people and sex workers deserve to have families.

ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!

Please help my friend Kazem, he receives so few donations and is in desperation need.

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