This is the final list of titles in my collab with Swords & Sapphics blog.

I’ve greatly enjoyed featuring these all new-to-me indie authors—including and especially S&S host Rachel Bowdler. This collection is varied. Please check out some of these titles.

And please check back for my interview with Ivy and Rach on their podcast. We’re recording this month and I’ll let you know when it airs.

(The links below go to the authors’ websites or Goodreads.)

Jen’s 2024 Diversify Your Romance Challenge Swords & Sapphics Collab

📚Set abroad

Along for the Ride by Rachel Bowdler
Road trip around Europe - Germany, Italy, France, Prague

Best Friends' Promise by Issy Waldrom & Mackenzie Sutton
Set in Australia

The Gunrunner and Her Hound by Maria Ying
Set in Hong Kong

The Flourishing, Just Stu, and Mending Bones by Merlina Garance
Set in UK

📚Muslim main character

A Huntress Of The Night: In Cold Embrace and
Prey For The Devil: In Cold Embrace by Gwen Leonhard
Set in a fantasy City called 'Herzkirch' with strong German influences / Sapphic Trans POV MC can't get over her ex, has a crush on the nun

Literary Footnotes by Joel Glover, Gwen Leonhard
Second story is set unspecified country that could be: Mogadishu, Sarajevo, Arkansas / Short Story Anthology with the themes of Footnotes

📚A monster romance

She who Earned her Wings (Stars, Hearts and Dreams, Book 1) and
Breaker of Fates (Broken Song Verse 1) by Vaela Denarr and Micah Iannandrea
Dark fantasy with W/M/M romantic subplot, Trans and Enby Authors

A Strip of Velvet by Rien Gray
Bisexual protagonist, genderfluid monster love interest, paranormal romance, trans author.

Alder King Spring by Talia Greer
Demisexual and bisexual rep. Fantasy/monster romance Beauty and the Beast retelling by a bisexual author.